[Effect of thyrocalcitonin on the recovery processes in adrenaline lesion of the myocardium]. / Vliianie tirokal'tsitonina na protsessy vosstanovleniia pri adrenalinovom porazhenii miokarda

Administration of thyrocalcitonine (TCT) in doses of 0.1 and 1 Un/kg for 14 days prevented the development of myocarditis in rats receiving epinephrine (3 mg/kg) for 4 days reduced the death rate among the animals, increased their body weight and normalized the electrolytes composition in the heart. Given in a dose of 10 Un/kg the drug produced a less pronounced positive effect on the study values in the animals with experimentally-produced epinephrine lesion of the heart. According to the authors this may be occasioned by an intensified secretion of the parathyroid hormone in response to a multiple introduction of large TCT doses to the animals.