Abstract
Weanling, young adult and adult male rats received 7 daily intramuscular injections of cortisone acetate. The cortisonetreated and similar control animals received intraperitoneal injections of glycine-2-14C immediately after the last cortisone injection. All animals were sacrificed 24 hr after the isotope injections. Urine samples were collected from each group of control and cortisonetreated rats throughout the experiment. Incorporation of labeled glycine into total skin collagen, mature skin collagen and total femur collagen was decreased in each of the 3 age groups of cortisone-treated rats. Urinary hydroxyproline excretion was markedly decreased in cortisone-treated weanling rats and less decreased in cortisone-treated young adult and adult rats. It was concluded that the most probable explanation of these and other data, including tissue free glycine contents, is that cortisone in the quantity administered in the present study primarily decreases synthesis and does not increase degradation of collag...
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