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This study aimed to examine the influence of acute tissue hypoxygenation on the expression of immediate early genes in different rat tissues. To this end male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed to 0.1% carbon monoxide for 0.5, 1 and 6 h or to 9% oxygen for 6 h and mRNA levels for c-jun, c-fos, c-myc and EGR-1 were assayed by RNase protection in hearts, kidneys, livers and lungs. We found that hypoxia increased c-jun mRNA levels between twofold (lung) and eightfold (liver) in all organs examined; c-fos mRNA increased between threefold (lung) and 20-fold (heart); c-myc mRNA increased between twofold (lung) and sixfold (heart); and EGR-1 mRNA increased between twofold (lung) and sixfold (heart). Our findings suggest that acute tissue hypoxygenation is a general stimulus of the expression of immediate early genes in vivo. With regard to the sensitivity to hypoxia, organ differences appear to exist in that the lung is rather insensitive, whilst the heart is rather sensitive.
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Received: 25 February 1997 / Received after revision: 17 June 1997 / Accepted: 19 June 1997
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Gess, B., Wolf, K., Pfeifer, M. et al. In vivo carbon monoxide exposure and hypoxic hypoxia stimulate immediate early gene expression. Pflügers Arch 434, 568–574 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004240050437
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004240050437