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It has been shown that the thymus can be regenerated in intact old rats by implanting s.c. a stable analogue of LHRH. Old male rats were given s.c. implants of osmotic pumps containing a solution in citrate buffer of the analogue which was given at a rate of 1 µg/h for 28 days. Some animals were given pumps containing buffer alone, and another group of rats was orchidectomized. The animals were killed after 28 days and the tissues weighed and taken for histology. Serum testosterone was measured by radioimmunoassay.
Sham-treated rats had small fatty thymuses, which were poorly organized with a very narrow band of cortex. Animals treated with the analogue of LHRH and those which had been orchidectomized had relatively large thymuses which were multi-lobed in drug-treated rats, and atrophied accessory sex organs. The testes were grossly atrophied in analogue-treated rats. Histologically, the thymus looked healthy, having a wide, thymocyte-filled cortex and a clearly defined corticomedullary junction. Serum testosterone concentrations were similar in orchidectomized and analogue-treated rats.
It is concluded that it is possible to regenerate the thymus in old rats treated with an analogue of LHRH, but the effect is accompanied by chemical castration. It is also clear that the old pituitary gland is susceptible to the desensitizing action of an LHRH analogue.
J. Endocr. (1987) 112, 345–350
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