Abstract
The role of the pineal gland and adrenocorticosteroids in circadian rhythmicity of immune function was investigated in Sprague-Dawley rats that either had been pinealectomized (PX) or had undergone superior cervical ganglionectomy (SCGX), which functionally denervates the pineal. For both experiments, conducted between August and October, rats were entrained to a 10-h light:14-h dark cycle and fed ad libitum. The circadian rhythm in monocytes (ANOVA, p less than .01 for Control + Sham + PX samples) tended to parallel that of plasma corticosteroid levels (ANOVA, p less than .01) with the peak during early dark and the nadir at early light. In comparison, suppressor/cytotoxic T cells and B cells tended to be more frequent during early light with minimum levels during early dark (ANOVA, p less than .05 and .01, respectively, for Control + Sham + PX samples). Natural killer (NK) activity in control animals varied significantly (ANOVA, p less than .05) over the light:dark cycle with peak activity during early dark in the SCGX experiment, but was only slightly elevated during late dark in the PX experiment. PX animals exhibited increased frequency of NK cells, but only in samples collected during the day (t test, p less than .05). Th...Continue Reading
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