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Effects of thyroid hormones on liver binding sites for human growth hormone, as studied in the rat.

Abstract：

:Several weeks after thyroidectomy (T), female rats stopped growing, and their pituitary GH content had decreased to less than 2--3% of the values found for age-matched controls (C). The liver membranes of such animals were explored with human GH (hGH). It was found that in the severely hypothyroid T rat, the number, but not the affinity, of the lactogenic binding sites was markedly reduced. Treatment of these rats for 3 weeks with 1.75 micrograms or T4 or 0.5 micrograms T3/100 g body weight/day restored growth, increased pituitary GH content and restored the number of liver lactogenic binding sites were practically to normal. As regards the lactogenic binding sites, similar results were obtained when the severely hypothyroid rats were treated with a much lower T4 dose (0.2 microgram/100 g/day): this dose was clearly growth promoting, and restored to normal both the low circulating GH levels and the pituitary PRL content of the severely hypothyroid rat. The changes in plasma PRL were not clear. The lactogenic binding sites on liver membranes from rats which were both thyroidectomized and hypophysectomized were decreased in number. Treatment with 0.5 microgram T3/100 g/day for 30 days (but not for 12 days) resulted in an increase in the number of lactogenic binding sites, though it did not affect growth or the undetectable plasma GH levels. The effect on the lactogenic binding sites was less marked than in T rats with an intact pituitary. It would appear that minute amounts of thyroid hormones are needed for maintenance of liver lactogenic binding sites; it is possible that this not only occurs through mechanism(s) which involve the pituitary, but also through others which do not. The possible role of these receptors in growth processes is not yet clearly understood.

journal_name

Clin Endocrinol (Oxf)

journal_title

Clinical endocrinology

authors

Duran-Garcia S,Gomez-Nieto J,Fouchereau-Peron M,Padron VF,Obregon MJ,Morreale de Escobar G,Escobar del Rey F

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2265.1979.tb03075.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1979-09-01 00:00:00

pages

275-90

issue

eissn

0300-0664

issn

1365-2265

journal_volume

pub_type

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Effects of thyroid hormones on liver binding sites for human growth hormone, as studied in the rat.