Effect of thrombin on proliferation, contraction and prostaglandin production of rat glomerular mesangial cells in culture.
Effect of thrombin on proliferation, contraction and prostaglandin production of rat glomerular mesangial cells in culture.
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凝血酶对培养的大鼠肾小球系膜细胞增殖、收缩和前列腺素产生的影响。
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
T. Groom
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作者:
C. Albrightson;P. Nambi;B. Zabko;G. Dytko;T. Groom
The effect of thrombin on mesangial cell function was investigated. Thrombin caused a dose-dependent increase in [3H] thymidine incorporation (EC50 = 0.36 +/- 0.09 U/ml), intracellular calcium [(Ca++)i] mobilization (EC50 = 1.9 +/- 0.5 U/ml) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production (EC50 = 0.25 +/- 0.02 U/ml) in rat glomerular mesangial cells. These effects were blocked by the thrombin inhibitor, hirudin (KB = 10.4 +/- 0.2 nM). The role of (Ca++)i mobilization and arachidonate metabolism in thrombin-stimulated proliferation was tested by the addition of the calcium channel blocker, nifedipine, and the cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin, to mesangial cell cultures. Indomethacin, at doses that completely inhibited the thrombin-mediated production of PGE2, had no significant effect on proliferation. The Ca++ channel blocker, nifedipine, inhibited both PGE2 production and [3H] thymidine incorporation in a dose-dependent fashion, but only at concentrations considered nonspecific. In addition to its effects on PGE2, thymidine incorporation and Ca++ mobilization, thrombin caused mesangial cell contraction as determined by a substrate distortion technique. This effect was not inhibited by indomethacin. These results indicate that thrombin can alter mesangial cell function in vitro.