title: Hormonal secretion by adult pituitary cells in culture.
abstract: Cells isolated from 24 autopsied adult human pituitary glands by enzymatic dissociation and Percoll density gradient methods were maintained in culture for up to 10 months. Using rabbit antisera specific for individual pituitary hormones and immunoperoxidase staining, we found a large number of cultured pituitary cells to react positively to growth hormone, prolactin, adrenocorticotropin, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, and thyrotropin immunoreactions. Electron microscopic examination of cultured pituitary cells demonstrated the occurrence of secretory granules in cytoplasm characteristic of in vivo human pituitary cells. The hormone secretion in culture by these pituitary cells was confirmed by the detection of prolactin, thyrotropin, and follicle-stimulating hormone in the culture medium by radioimmunoassay.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Surrey Memorial Hospital, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: S U
authors.initials: SU
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000032:analysis; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002470:Cell Survival; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000032:analysis; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010908:Pituitary Hormones, Anterior / Q000378:metabolism*; D011388:Prolactin / Q000032:analysis; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013972:Thyrotropin / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D010908:Pituitary Hormones, Anterior; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; D011388:Prolactin; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone; D013972:Thyrotropin; D013006:Growth Hormone