Responses In Vitro of Human Thyroid Cells to Thyrotrophin and Dibutyryl Cyclic amp

1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 29P-30P
Author(s):  
S. P. Bidey ◽  
P. Marsden ◽  
C. G. McKerron ◽  
J. Anderson
1977 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. BIDEY ◽  
P. MARSDEN ◽  
J. ANDERSON ◽  
C. G. McKERRON ◽  
H. BERRY

SUMMARY Follicular cells isolated from normal human thyroid tissue have been cultured for up to 140 h with bovine thyrotrophin (TSH) or dibutyryl cyclic AMP (DBcAMP). Both compounds induced marked reorganization of the cells into three-dimensional follicular structures, whilst non-supplemented cells assumed a monolayer form. Cultures treated initially with TSH or DBcAMP showed a greater iodide uptake capacity, in comparison with unsupplemented cultures, in which iodide uptake was markedly diminished after 24 h. The release of tri-iodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) into the medium was determined by radioimmunoassay. Both TSH- and DBcAMP-treated cells showed a significant increase in iodothyronine output compared with unsupplemented control cells. In contrast to the 'classical' TSH-induced depression of the T4:T3 ratio in vivo, an increase in the ratio was observed for both TSH- and DBcAMP-supplemented cells in vitro. The ratio was also significantly greater after TSH than after DBcAMP, and possible implications of this finding are discussed.


1982 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 165-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre P. Roger ◽  
Anouk Hotimsky ◽  
Colette Moreau ◽  
Jacques E. Dumont

1976 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1042-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Bidey ◽  
Philip Marsden ◽  
Hedley Berry ◽  
John Anderson ◽  
Colin McKerron

1984 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-NP ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Bidey ◽  
L. Chiovato ◽  
A. Day ◽  
M. Turmaine ◽  
R. P. Gould ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The cyclic AMP response to bovine TSH was characterized in a strain of rat thyroid follicular cells (FRTL-5) maintained in continuous culture. Significant stimulation of intracellular cyclic AMP was attained at a TSH dose of 5 μu./ml. Cyclic AMP accumulation continued to increase, at higher TSH doses, with no evidence for attainment of a maximum level at the highest dose tested (5 mu./ml). The precision of TSH measurement was better than 10% over the range 50–5000 μu./ml, comparing favourably with that observed with analogous assays based on human cells, tissue slices or membrane preparations. Using sequential subcultures of FRTL-5 cells, the between-assay variation in response to a single dose of a standard preparation of bovine TSH (53/11; 370 μu./ml) was of the order of 20% which compared favourably with the between-assay variation observed with different cultures of human thyroid cells. Prolongation of the incubation of FRTL-5 cells with TSH to 3 h revealed a progressive increase in the extracellular accumulation of cyclic AMP. Addition of TSH to resting FRTL-5 cells resulted in a stimulation of inorganic iodide uptake with pronounced bell-shaped dose–response characteristics. Thus a maximum uptake was observed at a TSH dose of 100 μu./ml with a significant reduction at higher doses. Acute stimulation of cells with TSH (100 μu./ml) resulted in a rapid and marked alteration in cell morphology, with evidence of cellular retraction and surface ruffling. J. Endocr. (1984) 101, 269–276


1981 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 370-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Bidey ◽  
Nicholas J. Marshall ◽  
Roger P. Ekins

Abstract. The cyclic AMP response to thyrotrophin (TSH) has been investigated in cells prepared from human thyroid tissue obtained during surgery for sub-total laryngectomy, and maintained under in vitro conditions as primary monolayer cultures. When cells were incubated with 1.0 mU TSH/ml, a maximal level of intracellular cyclic AMP was reached after 20 min of incubation in the presence of 0.5 mm 3-isobutyl-1-methyl xanthine (MIX). This level of cyclic AMP was sustained for at least 2 h. Half-maximal stimulation of cyclic AMP was produced by TSH doses of between 1 and 5 mU/ml. In a study of a series of eight groups of monolayer cultures, each derived from a single, different thyroid gland, the mean stimulation of cyclic AMP given by 50 mU TSH/ml was 37.8-fold greater than in non-stimulated cell monolayers. Significant stimulation to 50 μU TSH/ml was observed in some monolayers and the precision of measurement of TSH was better than 15% over the TSH dose range 0.2–1.0 mU/ml. The magnitude of the cyclic AMP response to TSH was unaffected by the presence in the incubation medium of 20% (v/v) normal human serum. A cyclic AMP response to TSH was still demonstrable in cells that had been maintained for a period of 22 days in monolayer culture, although the response was reduced in comparison with that given by 4–5 day old cultures.


1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1651-1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sixtus Hynie ◽  
Jiří Smrt

3'-Oleolyl-2,3-dihydroxypropyl-AMP, 3'-stearoyl-2,3-dihydroxypropyl-AMP, octadecyl-AMP and palmitamidoethyl-AMP inhibited in comparison with adenosine or fatty acids much stronger the lipolysis in rat epididymal fat pads in vitro stimulated by isoproterenol, theophylline and dibutyryl cyclic AMP. The inhibition of the effects of the two latter drugs suggest that the described effect is caused not only by the inhibition of the cyclic AMP production but also by the inhibition of its effect on the following steps in process of lipolysis.


1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Francesca Mattioli ◽  
Marianna Angiola ◽  
Laura Fazzuoli ◽  
Francesco Razzetta ◽  
Antonietta Martelli

Although primary cultures of human thyroid cells are used for endocrinological and toxicological studies, until now no attention has been paid toward verifying whether the hormonal conditions to which the gland was exposed in vivo prior to surgery could influence in vitro responses. Our findings suggest that the hormonal situation in vivo cannot be used as a predictive indicator of triiodothyronine and thyroxine release and/or S-phase frequency in vitro, either with or without the addition of bovine thyrotropin.


Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 1518
Author(s):  
Maria Qatato ◽  
Vaishnavi Venugopalan ◽  
Alaa Al-Hashimi ◽  
Maren Rehders ◽  
Aaron D. Valentine ◽  
...  

Trace amine-associated receptor 1 (rodent Taar1/human TAAR1) is a G protein-coupled receptor that is mainly recognized for its functions in neuromodulation. Previous in vitro studies suggested that Taar1 may signal from intracellular compartments. However, we have shown Taar1 to localize apically and on ciliary extensions in rodent thyrocytes, suggesting that at least in the thyroid, Taar1 may signal from the cilia at the apical plasma membrane domain of thyrocytes in situ, where it is exposed to the content of the follicle lumen containing putative Taar1 ligands. This study was designed to explore mouse Taar1 (mTaar1) trafficking, heterologously expressed in human and rat thyroid cell lines in order to establish an in vitro system in which Taar1 signaling from the cell surface can be studied in future. The results showed that chimeric mTaar1-EGFP traffics to the apical cell surface and localizes particularly to spherical structures of polarized thyroid cells, procilia, and primary cilia upon serum-starvation. Moreover, mTaar1-EGFP appears to form high molecular mass forms, possibly homodimers and tetramers, in stably expressing human thyroid cell lines. However, only monomeric mTaar1-EGFP was cell surface biotinylated in polarized human thyrocytes. In polarized rat thyrocytes, mTaar1-EGFP is retained in the endoplasmic reticulum, while cilia were reached by mTaar1-EGFP transiently co-expressed in combination with an HA-tagged construct of the related mTaar5. We conclude that Taar1 trafficking to cilia depends on their integrity. The results further suggest that an in vitro cell model was established that recapitulates Taar1 trafficking in thyrocytes in situ, in principle, and will enable studying Taar1 signaling in future, thus extending our general understanding of its potential significance for thyroid autoregulation.


1976 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
RÉGINE PICON

SUMMARY Testosterone secretion by foetal rat testes (13½–21½ days of gestation) explanted for 3 days in a synthetic medium was measured every 24 h by radioimmunoassay. During the first day of explantation, the foetal testis produced, respectively, 1013 ± 132, 8734 ± 1118, 9179 ± 2185 and 3886 ± 309 (s.e.m.) pg/testis when explanted at 14½, 16½, 18½ and 21½ days respectively. Testosterone production by 13½-day-old testes was not detectable on the first day of culture, but appeared on subsequent days. Daily testosterone secretion increased on the 2nd and 3rd days of culture in 14½-day-old testes and decreased in older stages. These results suggest that the functional differentiation of the testis is independent of stimulatory factors like gonadotrophins. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP was found to stimulate testosterone production significantly from 14½ days of gestation onwards.


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