Effects of glucocorticoids on fetal rat bone collagen synthesis in vitro.
Effects of glucocorticoids on fetal rat bone collagen synthesis in vitro.
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糖皮质激素对体外胎鼠骨胶原合成的影响。
作者:
J. Dietrich;E. Canalis;D. Maina;L. Raisz
Effects of glucocorticoids on bone collagen synthesis were examined in organ cultures. Fetal rat calvaria were incubated with [3H]proline during the last 2 h of culture; [3H] proline incorporation into collagenase-digestible (CDP) and noncollagen protein (NCP) was measured using purified bacterial collagenase. Cortisol (0.03-3 μM) increased incorporation of label after 24 h, although CDP was affected more than NCP. Cortisol did not alter collagen synthesis in freshly explanted bones cultured for 3 h. The stimulatory effect was seen at high and low concentrations of unlabeled proline and was not associated with increased incorporation of [3H]thymidine into DNA or [3H]uridine into RNA; release of labeled collagen from bone to medium was unaffected by cortisol. Dexamethasone (9α-fluoro- 11β,17α,21-trihydroxy- 16α-methylpregna- l,4-diene-3,20-dione; 1 nM), corticosterone, and cortexolone (17α,21-dihydroxy-4-pregnene- 3,20-dione; 0.1 μM) increased collagen synthesis after 24 h; epicortisol (11α,17α,21-trihydro...