Parathyroid hormone co-stimulation of hepatocyte proliferation is sensitive to protein kinase A and calcium channel inhibitors

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
George G. Skouteris

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) mobilises calcium in the hepatocyte, an effect which is abolished by verapamil and staurosporine. In our study parathyroid hormone was shown to act additively to dHGF in inducing hepatocyte DNA synthesis. It is also shown that PTH induced the production of inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate (IP3) and c-fos expression at early times in culture. Co-incubation of PTH and dHGF with a c-fos antisense oligodeoxynucleotide inhibited hepatocyte DNA synthesis, indicating that the additive effect of PTH is correlated with the induction of c-fos. H-89, a PKA specific inhibitor, inhibited the PTH effect on IP3 production as well as the PTH effect on hepatocyte DNA synthesis. Verapamil and staurosporine also inhibited the PTH effect in dHGF-induced DNA synthesis. Therefore it is suggested that PKA mediated at a great extent the co-stimulatory effects of PTH on hepatocyte proliferation via IP3 production.

1988 ◽  
Vol 117 (4_Suppl) ◽  
pp. S176
Author(s):  
K.-D. SCHLÜTER ◽  
M. RIEMER ◽  
E. WINGENDER ◽  
H. MAYER

1977 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 761-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
G L Smith

Multiplication-stimulating activity (MSA), a protein which stimulates DNA synthesis and growth of chicken embryo fibroblasts, was purified from serum-free medium conditioned by the growth of a rat liver cell line. Purified MSA was shown to rapidly stimulate ouabain-sensitive Na+, K+-ATPase activity as measured by both enzyme assay and rate of 86Rubidium uptake. Labeled ouabain binding was also shown to increase after stimulation of quiescent cells by serum or purified MSA. Conditions which interfere with the ability of the cells to accumulate potassium, such as the presence of the specific inhibitor, ouabain; incubation in potassium-free medium; or the presence of the potassium ionophore, valinomycin, were all demonstrated to inhibit the stimulation of DNA synthesis by serum or purified MSA. These results suggest that an early event in the stimulation of DNA synthesis by purified MSA is an activation of membrane Na+, K+-ATPase with a resulting accumulation of potassium ions inside the cell.


1982 ◽  
Vol 243 (6) ◽  
pp. E499-E504
Author(s):  
N. S. Krieger ◽  
P. H. Stern

The cardiotonic agent amrinone has been postulated to directly affect Na-Ca exchange. Because stimulated bone resorption has been proposed to require Na-Ca exchange, we examined the effects of amrinone on bone. Amrinone inhibited release of Ca from neonatal mouse calvaria in organ culture stimulated by parathyroid hormone (PTH), 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin d3, or prostaglandin E2. Inhibition was dose dependent and maximal at 2 X 10(-4) M. The effect of amrinone differed from the inhibitory effects of calcitonin, ouabain, or nigericin in that 1) 6-h exposure to amrinone alone prevented the effect of subsequently added PTH; 2) amrinone was only partially effective if added after resorption was initiated by 24-h treatment with PTH; 3) coincubation with amrinone and PTH during the first 48 h of culture allowed for a response to PTH after amrinone was removed; no such protection by a stimulator occurred with ouabain or nigericin. Also submaximal concentrations of amrinone plus calcitonin, ouabain, or nigericin gave greater than additive inhibition of Ca release. Amrinone had no effect on basal bone cAMP or on the acute stimulation of cAMP by PTH. The results suggest that amrinone could have a more direct interaction with the pathway involved in stimulated bone resorption than the other inhibitors.


1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. Kellar ◽  
B. L. Evatt ◽  
C. R. McGrath ◽  
R. B. Ramsey

Liquid cultures of bone marrow cells enriched for megakaryocytes were assayed for incorporation of 3H-thymidine (3H-TdR) into acid-precipitable cell digests to determine the effect of thrombopoietin on DNA synthesis. As previously described, thrombopoietin was prepared by ammonium sulfate fractionation of pooled plasma obtained from thrombocytopenic rabbits. A control fraction was prepared from normal rabbit plasma. The thrombopoietic activity of these fractions was determined in vivo with normal rabbits as assay animals and the rate of incorporation of 75Se-selenomethionine into newly formed platelets as an index of thrombopoietic activity of the infused material. Guinea pig megakaryocytes were purified using bovine serum albumin gradients. Bone marrow cultures containing 1.5-3.0x104 cells and 31%-71% megakaryocytes were incubated 18 h in modified Dulbecco’s MEM containing 10% of the concentrated plasma fractions from either thrombocytopenic or normal rabbits. In other control cultures, 0.9% NaCl was substituted for the plasma fractions. 3H-TdR incorporation was measured after cells were incubated for 3 h with 1 μCi/ml. The protein fraction containing thrombopoietin-stimulating activity caused a 25%-31% increase in 3H-TdR incorporation over that in cultures which were incubated with the similar fraction from normal plasma and a 29% increase over the activity in control cultures to which 0.9% NaCl had been added. These data suggest that thrombopoietin stimulates DNA synthesis in megakaryocytes and that this tecnique may be useful in assaying thrombopoietin in vitro.


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