AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 2 153-L159, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Type II pneumocyte hypertrophy without activation of surfactant biosynthesis after partial pneumonectomy

B. D. Uhal and M. D. Etter
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey 17033.

Hypertrophic and normotrophic type II pneumocytes were isolated from pneumonectomized adult rats by unit gravity (1 g) sedimentation or by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). In vivo or in vitro, hypertrophic cells incorporated significantly more 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine or tritiated thymidine into acid-insoluble material than did normotrophic cells. By FACS analysis of cell subpopulations isolated by 1 g, > 97% of normotrophic cells had G0-phase DNA content. In contrast, the cell cycle distribution of hypertrophic cells was 75% G1, 5% S, and 20% G2/M phases. Rates of incorporation of tritiated choline into total cellular phosphatidylcholine (PC) were identical in type II cells isolated from normal or pneumonectomized rats. The intracellular contents of disaturated phosphatidylcholine (DSPC) and total PC, as well as the ratio of these two lipids, were the same in hypertrophic and normotrophic cells from pneumonectomized rats and in cells isolated from normal rats. No significant difference was observed in the rate at which hypertrophic or normotrophic cells incorporated choline into DSPC. These results demonstrate that type II pneumocyte hypertrophy after pneumonectomy reflects balanced cell growth secondary to cell cycle progression in vivo. The data also indicate that epithelial cell hypertrophy after pneumonectomy, in contrast to that which develops after more acute lung injury, occurs without activation of surfactant biosynthesis or storage.

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