Thyroid hormone secretion is more sensitive than thyroid cyclic AMP accumulation to stimulation with LATS in mice in vitro and in vivo

1984 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ikeda ◽  
S.-C. Chiu ◽  
N. Kuzuya ◽  
H. Uchimura ◽  
S. Nagataki
1991 ◽  
Vol 261 (2) ◽  
pp. E227-E232 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Schroder-van der Elst ◽  
D. van der Heide ◽  
J. Kohrle

In vitro, the synthetic flavonoid EMD 21388 appears to be a potent inhibitor of thyroxine (T4) 5'-deiodinase and diminishes binding of T4 to transthyretin. In this study, in vivo effects of long-term administration of EMD 21388 on thyroid hormone production and metabolism were investigated. Intact male rats received EMD 21388 (20 mumol.kg body wt-1.rat-1.day-1) for 14 days. [125I]T4 and 3,5,3'-[131I]triiodotyronine (T3) were infused continuously and intravenously in a double-isotope protocol for the last 10 and 7 days, respectively. EMD 21388 decreased plasma thyroid hormone concentrations, but thyrotropin levels in plasma and pituitary did not change. Plasma clearance rates for T4 and T3 increased. Thyroidal T4 secretion was diminished, but T3 secretion was elevated. Extrathyroidal T3 production by 5'-deiodination was lower. T4 concentrations were markedly lower in all tissues investigated. Total tissue T3 was lower in brown adipose tissue, brain, cerebellum, and pituitary, tissues that express the type II 5'-deiodinase isozyme due to decreased local T3 production. Most tissues showed increased tissue/plasma ratios for T4 and T3. These results indicate that this flavonoid diminished T4 and increased T3 secretion by the thyroid, probably in analogy with other natural flavonoids, by interference with one or several steps between iodide uptake, organification, and hormone synthesis.


1979 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Field ◽  
Andrew Dekker ◽  
Gail Titus ◽  
Mary Eleanor Kerins ◽  
William Worden ◽  
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1975 ◽  
Vol 229 (5) ◽  
pp. 1387-1392 ◽  
Author(s):  
GM Rodgers ◽  
JW Fisher ◽  
WJ George

The regional distribution of cyclic AMP in the kidney was determined following erythropoietic stimulation with hypoxia and cobalt. Following these stimuli, increases in renal cyclic AMP concentrations were restricted to the cortex. The basis for this localization in the case of cobalt treatment was found to reside in the stimulation of renal cortical adenylate cyclase activity in vitro by concentrations of cobalt similar to those found in vivo. The level of cobalt in the cortex after cobalt treatment was found to approach 500 mumol/kg of tissue, whereas no detectable levels of cobalt were found in the renal medulla. Additionally, other agents such as parathyroid hormone and lactic acid, that are known to lack stimulatory effects on medullary adenylate cyclase, were found to stimulate the cortical enzyme. This stimulation of renal cortical adenylate cyclase correlates with enhanced erythropoiesis as demonstrated by increased radiolabeled iron incorporation into erythrocytes. These results support previous reports which suggest that renal cortical cyclic AMP mediates erythropoietin production in response to erythropoietically active agents.


1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (11) ◽  
pp. 913-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. McNeill ◽  
Lawrence D. Muschek ◽  
Theodore M. Brody

Pretreatment with triiodothyronine (T3) greatly enhanced the epinephrine-induced increase in rat cardiac phosphorylase a. T3 treatment, however, did not increase the level of adenosine-3′,5′-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in rat heart. T3 treatment also did not increase the activity of rat heart adenyl cyclase or change the sensitivity of the enzyme to epinephrine when activity was determined in vitro. It is suggested that if thyroid hormone affects the activity of adenyl cyclase in vivo the effect is lost in the preparation of the enzyme for assay in vitro.


1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 21-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Usuki

The effect of Tokishakuyakusan (TS) on rat corpora lutea was examined in vivo and in vitro. In an in vivo study, TS stimulated cyclic adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) accumulation and steroidogenesis by corpora lutea, induced by PMS and hCG. In an incubation study, TS increased cyclic AMP accumulation and progesterone secretion. These results suggest that TS stimulates the corpora lutea to produce progestins via the mediation of cyclic AMP.


1985 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Ahrén

Abstract. The effects of various α-adrenoceptor agonists and antagonists on blood radioiodine levels were studied in mice pre-treated with 125I and thyroxine. The non-selective α-adrenoceptor agonist noradrenaline and the selective α1-adrenoceptor agonist phenylephrine both enhanced blood radioiodine levels. Noradrenaline was more potent than phenylephrine. Contrary, the selective α2-adrenoceptor agonist clonidine depressed basal levels of blood radioiodine. The non-selective α-adrenoceptor antagonist phentolamine and the selective α1-adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin both inhibited the noradrenaline-induced elevation of radioiodine levels, whereas the α2-adrenoceptor antagonist yohimbine had no such effect, except at a high dose level. All three α-adrenoceptor agonists, noradrenaline, phenylephrine and clonidine, inhibited the radioiodine response to TSH. In addition, TSH-induced increase in radioiodine levels was inhibited by prazosin, whereas yohimbine had no effect. Phentolamine inhibited the radioiodine response to TSH when given 2 h prior to TSH, whereas when given 15 min prior to TSH the response to TSH was potentiated by Phentolamine. It is concluded, that under in vivo conditions in the mouse, α1-adrenoceptor activation stimulates basal thyroid hormone secretion and inhibits TSH-induced thyroid hormone secretion. Further, α2-adrenoceptor activation inhibits basal thyroid hormone secretion. In addition, TSH-induced thyroid hormone secretion is inhibited by α1-adrenoceptor antagonism. Thus, α-adrenoceptors induce both stimulatory and inhibitory effects of thyroid function.


1993 ◽  
Vol 129 (6) ◽  
pp. 489-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kjær

Secretion of the anterior pituitary hormones adrenocorticotropin (ACTH), β-endorphin and prolactin (PRL) is complex and involves a variety of factors. This review focuses on the involvement of arginine-vasopressin (AVP) in neuroendocrine regulation of these anterior pituitary hormones with special reference to receptor involvement, mode of action and origin of AVP. Arginine-vasopressin may act via at least two types of receptors: V1− and V2−receptors, where the pituitary V1−receptor is designated V1b. The mode of action of AVP may be mediating, i.e. anterior pituitary hormone secretion is transmitted via release of AVP, or the mode of action may be permissive, i.e. the presence of AVP at a low and constant level is required for anterior pituitary hormones to be stimulated. Under in vivo conditions, the AVP-induced release of ACTH and β-endorphin is mainly mediated via activation of hypothalamic V1− receptors, which subsequently leads to the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone. Under in vitro conditions, the AVP-stimulated release of ACTH and β-endorphin is mediated via pituitary V1b− receptors. The mode of action of AVP in the ACTH and β-endorphin response to stress and to histamine, which is involved in stress-induced secretion of anterior pituitary hormones, is mediating (utilizing V1− receptors) as well as permissive (utilizing mainly V1− but also V2−receptors). The AVP-induced release of PRL under in vivo conditions is conveyed mainly via activation of V1−receptors but V2−receptors and probably additional receptor(s) may also play a role. In stress- and histamine induced PRL secretion the role of AVP is both mediating (utilizing V1 −receptors) and permissive (utilizing both V1− and V2− receptors). Arginine-vasopressin may be a candidate for the PRL-releasing factor recently identified in the posterior pituitary gland. Arginine-vasopressin of both magno- and parvocellular origin may be involved in the regulation of anterior pituitary hormone secretion and may reach the corticotrophs and the lactotrophs via three main routes: the peripheral circulation, the long pituitary portal vessels or the short pituitary portal vessels.


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