Cargando…

TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS

No definite conclusions relative to the etiology of toxemia of pregnancy in the rabbit can be drawn from the evidence obtained to date, but certain findings are suggestive and will be investigated further in future studies. These findings suggest that the disorder in the rabbit is a generic variatio...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Greene, Harry S. N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1938
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2180318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19870727
_version_ 1782145523591938048
author Greene, Harry S. N.
author_facet Greene, Harry S. N.
author_sort Greene, Harry S. N.
collection PubMed
description No definite conclusions relative to the etiology of toxemia of pregnancy in the rabbit can be drawn from the evidence obtained to date, but certain findings are suggestive and will be investigated further in future studies. These findings suggest that the disorder in the rabbit is a generic variation of eclampsia in man. The incidence, clinical manifestations and pathological lesions indicate that the disorder is of hypophyseal origin and that the association with pregnancy is due to altered activity of that gland in the terminal stages of gestation. Hereditary factors related to race and certain constitutional variations were associated with increased susceptibility, but their expression was apparently dependent upon environmental conditions. The association of widespread reproductive disturbances with the outbreak of toxemia suggests a causal relation, and it is assumed that the endocrine imbalance was a primary factor in their genesis and was induced by changed environmental conditions. The general response of the population was manifest in functional disturbances which were of minor severity in normal groups and were expressed as toxemia in inherently susceptible animals.
format Text
id pubmed-2180318
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 1938
publisher The Rockefeller University Press
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-21803182008-04-18 TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS Greene, Harry S. N. J Exp Med Article No definite conclusions relative to the etiology of toxemia of pregnancy in the rabbit can be drawn from the evidence obtained to date, but certain findings are suggestive and will be investigated further in future studies. These findings suggest that the disorder in the rabbit is a generic variation of eclampsia in man. The incidence, clinical manifestations and pathological lesions indicate that the disorder is of hypophyseal origin and that the association with pregnancy is due to altered activity of that gland in the terminal stages of gestation. Hereditary factors related to race and certain constitutional variations were associated with increased susceptibility, but their expression was apparently dependent upon environmental conditions. The association of widespread reproductive disturbances with the outbreak of toxemia suggests a causal relation, and it is assumed that the endocrine imbalance was a primary factor in their genesis and was induced by changed environmental conditions. The general response of the population was manifest in functional disturbances which were of minor severity in normal groups and were expressed as toxemia in inherently susceptible animals. The Rockefeller University Press 1938-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2180318/ /pubmed/19870727 Text en Copyright © Copyright, 1938, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Greene, Harry S. N.
TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS
title TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS
title_full TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS
title_fullStr TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS
title_full_unstemmed TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS
title_short TOXEMIA OF PREGNANCY IN THE RABBIT : II. ETIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO HEREDITARY FACTORS
title_sort toxemia of pregnancy in the rabbit : ii. etiological considerations with especial reference to hereditary factors
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2180318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19870727
work_keys_str_mv AT greeneharrysn toxemiaofpregnancyintherabbitiietiologicalconsiderationswithespecialreferencetohereditaryfactors