title: Characteristics of the isoprenaline stimulated proliferative response of rat submaxillary gland.
abstract: A simple stochastic model has been developed to determine the cell cycle kinetics of the isoprenaline stimulated proliferative response in rat acinar cells. The response was measured experimentally, using 3H-TdR labelling of interphase cells and cumulative collections of mitotic cells with vincristine. The rise and fall of the fraction of labelled interphase cells and of metaphase cells is expressed by the product of the proliferative fraction and a difference of probability distributions. The probability statements of the model were formulated and then compared by an iterative fitting procedure to experimental data to obtain estimates of the model parameters. The model when fitted to the combined fraction labelled interphase (FLIW) and fraction metaphase (FMWa) waves gave a mean Gis transit time of 21-2 hr, mean Gis +S transit time of 27-0 hr, and mean Gis + S + G2 transit time of 35-8 hr for a single injection of isoprenaline, where Gis is the initiation to S phase time. When successive injections of isoprenaline were given at intervals of 24 and 28 hr the corresponding values after the third injection were 12-4 hr, 20-8 hr and 25-7 hr respectively. The variance of the Gis phase dropped from 18-1 to 1-3 while the other variances remained unchanged. The estimated proliferative fraction was 0-24 after a single injection of isoprenaline, and 0.31 after three injections of the drug. Independently determined values of the proliferative fraction, obtained from repeated 3H-TdR injections, were 0-21 and 0-36 respectively.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D004247:DNA / Q000096:biosynthesis; D005260:Female; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D051381:Rats; D013268:Stimulation, Chemical; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D013363:Submandibular Gland / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D007545:Isoproterenol