title: Long-term maintenance of growth hormone secretion in perifused rat anterior pituitary cells.
abstract: We studied the effect of rat growth hormone-releasing factor-(1-43) acid, rGRF(1-43)OH, on the long-term secretion of rat growth hormone (rGH) in dispersed primary cultured cells of rat anterior pituitaries over a period of 7 days or longer. Results of the perifusion assay show that freshly dispersed cells secrete more rGH than 4-day-old redispersed cells (P less than 0.05), that a stabilization period ranging from 4 to 24 h allows a greater production of rGH per day than longer periods (P less than 0.05) and that the working concentrations of rGRF-(1-43)OH and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) that insured the best responsiveness and longer viability are 50 pM and 10-1000 nM, respectively. Under these conditions, the cells continued secreting rGH after 42 days of perifusion, and 315 milligrams of rGH was produced over that period.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D046508:Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D015232:Dinoprostone; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000378:metabolism*; D013007:Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000494:pharmacology; D010477:Perfusion; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D011458:Prostaglandins E / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011458:Prostaglandins E; C045269:somatotropin releasing hormone (1-43); D013006:Growth Hormone; D013007:Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone; D015232:Dinoprostone