scholarly journals Evaluation of a sensitive, in vitro bioassay for chicken thyroid stimulating hormone using FRTL-5 cells, a rat thyroid cell line

1998 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Iwasawa ◽  
Y. Watanabe ◽  
H. Kobayashi ◽  
K. Sho ◽  
Y. Kondo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
In Vitro Bioassay ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
Rat Thyroid ◽  
Stimulating Hormone

scholarly journals Thyroid-stimulating hormone stimulates increases in inositol phosphates as well as cyclic AMP in the FRTL-5 rat thyroid cell line

1987 ◽  
Vol 247 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
J B Field ◽  
P A Ealey ◽  
N J Marshall ◽  
S Cockcroft
Keyword(s):  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Cell Line ◽  
Inositol Phosphates ◽  
Inositol Phosphate ◽  
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
Rat Thyroid ◽  
Stimulating Hormone

Studies were conducted to determine whether thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH; thyrotropin), a hormone known to increase cytosol concentrations of cyclic AMP, also stimulates the formation of inositol phosphates in thyroid cells. TSH and noradrenaline both stimulated [3H]inositol phosphate formation in a concentration-dependent manner in the rat thyroid cell line, FRTL-5 cells, which had been prelabelled with [3H]inositol. The threshold concentration of TSH required to stimulate inositol phosphate formation was more than 20 munits/ml, which is approx. 10(3)-fold greater than that required for cyclic AMP accumulation and growth in these cells. We also demonstrate that membranes prepared from FRTL-5 cells possess a guanine nucleotide-activatable polyphosphoinositide phosphodiesterase, which suggests that activation of inositide metabolism in these cells may be coupled to receptors by the G-protein, Gp. Our findings suggest that two second-messenger systems exist to mediate the action of TSH in the thyroid.

scholarly journals Identification of Genes in a Thyroid Cell Line Regulated by Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH)

1999 ◽  
Vol 54 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 578-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minho Shong ◽  
Yong-Jin Kim ◽  
Yongmun Choi ◽  
O-Yu Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Differential Display ◽  
Northern Blot ◽  
Blot Analysis ◽  
Northern Blot Analysis ◽  
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
Rat Thyroid ◽  
Stimulating Hormone

Abstract Differential Display (DD) PCR, Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), Rat Thyrocytes (FR TL5 cells) Differential display (DD) PCR (Liang and Pardee, 1992) is a recently described technique to identify genes whose expression has changed during a biological process. We used this method to detect genes thyroid stimulating hormone-dependently regulated in a rat thyroid cell line, because thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is the most important hormone for cell proliferation and differentiation including prehormonal proteins secretion in thyrocytes (Kim and Arvan. 1991: Kim and Arvan, 1993). Following DD-PCR experimentation, thyroid stimu­ lating hormone -dependently regulated gene fragments of 15 species were obtained. The genes were used as molecular probes in Northern blot analysis and then sequenced. Two of the clones (#123 and #205) were up-regulated and two more (#107 and #111) were down-regulated thyroid stimulating hormone-dependently in the thyroid cells, as demonstrated by Northern blot analysis. Following partial sequencing, each of the clones #107, #111 and #205 were shown to be homologues of the apoptosis-related gene, aldolase A, and a-2 collagen (IV), respectively, while clone #123 showed no homology with known genes. These findings suggest that the four genes mentioned above may have an a important physiological function in the thyrocytes, which is thyroid stimulating hormone-dependently up-/down-regulated.

Regulation of major histocompatibility complex class II antigen expression by the FRTL-5 rat thyroid cell line

1987 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Weetman ◽  
C. Green ◽  
L. K. Borysiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Major Histocompatibility Complex ◽  
Cell Line ◽  
Antigen Expression ◽  
Class Ii ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
Histocompatibility Complex ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
Rat Thyroid ◽  
Class Ii Antigen ◽  
Γ Interferon

ABSTRACT We have used the continuously growing FRTL-5 rat thyroid cell line to examine the regulation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II (or la) antigen expression. Of the various stimuli investigated, only the supernatant from activated T cells or recombinant γ-interferon induced Ia expression. All Ia-inducing activity was removed from the T cell supernatant by acid dialysis, suggesting that γ-interferon is the single critical mediator for class II antigen expression. Its action was not TSH dependent but expression of class II antigens increased from the G0-G1 to the S and G2 phases of the cell cycle, so that TSH enhanced Ia expression by its action on cell division. Other agents including lectins, hormones, epidermal growth factor, a calcium ionophore and a phorbol ester did not induce Ia expression. Substances known to inhibit murine macrophage Ia expression (cortisol, prostaglandin E2 and 5-hydroxytryptamine) had no effect on FRTL-5 Ia expression. The use of this thyroid cell line has permitted direct examination of modulators in the absence of any possible effects from contaminating non-thyroid cells present in primary cultures and the results suggest that, of the agents tested, only γ-interferon has significance in the context of Ia antigen expression by the thyroid. J. Endocr. (1987) 115, 481–487

Adhesion molecule expression by the FRTL-5 rat thyroid cell line

1991 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Tandon ◽  
C. Dinsdale ◽  
T. Tamatani ◽  
M. Miyasaka ◽  
A. P. Weetman
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Adhesion Molecule ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
Intercellular Adhesion Molecule ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
Lymphocyte Function ◽  
Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1 ◽  
Thyroid Cells ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
Rat Thyroid

ABSTRACT We have examined the expression and function of rat CD54, a homologue of human intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), by the continuously growing rat thyroid cell line FRTL-5. Approximately 10% of FRTL-5 cells express CD54 under basal conditions and this is not influenced by thyrotrophin. Expression of CD54 is increased by cytokines (γ-interferon, tumour necrosis factor, interleukin-1) and by an activator of C-kinase, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. Blocking ICAM-1 with a monoclonal antibody directed against this molecule significantly (P <0·01) reduced the binding of splenic lymphocytes to FRTL-5 cells but inhibition was consistently greater (P <0·01) in the presence of antibodies against a rat homologue of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1, the receptor on T cells for ICAM-1. In no case was complete blocking of cluster formation observed. These results show that a pure line of rat thyroid cells can express an ICAM-1 homologue and this is directly enhanced by cytokines. Expression of this homologue is partially responsible for lymphocyte adhesion to thyroid cells, which is likely to be a major event in T cell recognition of thyroid antigens in autoimmune thyroiditis. Journal of Endocrinology (1991) 130, 451–456

High-efficient Nonviral Transfection of the Rat Thyroid Cell Line FRTL-5

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 897-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Klagge ◽  
K. Krause ◽  
K. Müller ◽  
J. Haag ◽  
D. Fuhrer
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
High Efficient ◽  
Nonviral Transfection ◽  
Rat Thyroid

Differential effects of interleukin 1α and 1β on cultured human and rat thyroid epithelial cells

1990 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Å. Krogh Rasmussen ◽  
L. Kayser ◽  
K. Bech ◽  
U. Feldt-Rasmussen ◽  
H. Perrild ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Line ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
Cell System ◽  
Human Thyroid ◽  
Thyroid Cell ◽  
Camp Production ◽  
Thyroid Cells ◽  
Thyroid Cell Line ◽  
Interleukin 1Α ◽  
Rat Thyroid

Abstract The effects of human recombinant interleukin 1α (20 pg/1-2 μg/l) and 1β (200 pg/1-20 μg/l) on two systems of thyroid cells have been compared. The thyroglobulin and cAMP secretion and the DNA content of human thyroid cells cultured in monolayer and of continuously grown rat thyroid cells, Fischer rat thyroid cell line have been studied. The growth of the rat thyroid cell line was inhibited by interleukin 1β (20 ng/1-20 μg/l), but not by interleukin 1α. None of the cytokines changed the cAMP production of the rat thyroid cells. In contrast, both cAMP production and thyroglobulin secretion were inhibited dose-dependently by the cytokines in human thyroid cells in secondary cultures. These results caution the interpretation and extrapolation of changes induced by interleukin 1 from one cell system to the other.

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