Abstract
1. Exposure of rats to environmental-stress conditions of hypobaria, hypoxia and cold did not alter the activity of hepatic delta-aminolaevulinate synthetase. 2. Induction of the enzyme by diethoxycarbonyldihydrocollidine was inhibited when the rats were exposed to hypobaria before or during the treatment with the drug but not after the initial phase when the process of induction was initiated. Neither increased concentration of the drug nor the time of induction had any effect on the inhibition under hypobaria. 3. A period of 12-24h of pre-exposure to hypobaria gave the maximum inhibition, and on longer exposure the inhibitory effect was decreased. 4. The inhibition was not a permanent effect and could be substantially reversed in 12h of withdrawal to ambient pressure. 5. Inhibition of induction was found under hypobaria and hypoxia, but not on exposure to cold. This suggests a specific effect of lack of O(2) rather than a general effect of stress. 6. It appears possible that alteration of concentration of endogenous adenine nucleotides may control the process of diethoxycarbonyldihydrocollidine-mediated induction of delta-aminolaevulinate synthetase, since treatment with ATP, cyclic AMP or theophylline produced inhibition similar to that under hypobaria and hypoxia.
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