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Endocrinology, Vol 116, 180-188, Copyright © 1985 by Endocrine Society

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Hormonal regulation of somatomedin secretion by fetal rat hepatocytes in primary culture

RA Richman, MR Benedict, JR Florini and BA Toly

To determine which hormones might regulate somatomedin secretion in the fetus, we measured somatomedin levels in conditioned medium from primary cultures of fetal rat hepatocytes. We employed a bioassay [( 3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA of chick embryo fibroblasts), a displacement assay [competition for binding of radiolabeled multiplication-stimulating activity (rat insulin-like growth factor II) to the somatomedin-binding protein] for total somatomedin, and the RIA for somatomedin-C. Epidermal growth factor and dexamethasone were the most active hormones tested; total somatomedin levels were 2-3 times above control levels. Rat GH was much less stimulatory. Human placental lactogen, glucagon, and insulin had little or no effect. Stimulation of somatomedin secretion by both epidermal growth factor and dexamethasone was time and dose dependent. The maximal response occurred at 48 h at a concentration of about 1 X 10(-7) M of either hormone. In the bioassay, stimulation by epidermal growth factor, but not dexamethasone, was detected. The steroid enhanced the secretion of an inhibitor that completely masked the mitogenic activity of the increased somatomedin levels. The somatomedin secreted by fetal hepatocytes exhibited immunological cross-reactivity with human somatomedin-C, but the levels were 500-fold less than those measured by our displacement assay. This suggests that the predominant fetal rat somatomedin is not somatomedin- C. We conclude that epidermal growth factor and dexamethasone, but not GH or placental lactogen, stimulated the secretion by fetal hepatocytes of a somatomedin which resembled multiplication-stimulating activity.


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