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Prolactin immunostaining in combination with thymidine autoradiography was used to characterize changes in the DNA-synthesizing activity of lactotrophs in primary monolayer cultures of the rat anterior pituitary gland treated for 3 days with thyroliberin (TRH), somatostatin (SRIF) and bromocriptine (CB 154). The number of lactotrophs labelled with3H-thymidine within the total pool of labeled pituitary cells was used to estimate DNA synthesis in prolactin-producing cells. TRH (10 ng/ml) stimulated DNA synthesis in the whole population of cultured cells but not in lactotrophs. TRH only weakly counteracted the noticeable inhibitory effect of CB 154 (0.75 μM/l) on thymidine incorporation into lactotrophs. SRIF (20 ng/ml) inhibited DNA synthesis in lactotrophs to a lesser extent than CB 154. The combination of methods used in this paper may be useful for studying the selective effects of regulators on the proliferative activity of various pituitary cell types in vivo and in culture.
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Komolov, I.S., Fedotov, V.P., Rappay, G. et al. DNA synthesis in lactotrophs of primary rat anterior pituitary cell cultures. Histochemistry 82, 497–500 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02450486
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