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  • Title: Corticosterone, 18-OH-deoxycorticosterone, deoxycorticosterone and aldosterone secretion in tissue culture of foetal rat adrenals in the presence and the absence of ACTH.
    Author: Salmenperä M, Kahri AI.
    Journal: Acta Endocrinol (Copenh); 1976 Dec; 83(4):781-93. PubMed ID: 186998.
    Abstract:
    A method for simultaneous analysis of the main corticosteroids secreted by the rat adrenal is described. Purification is performed using previously established steps involving dichloromethane extraction, ethanol-cyclo-hexane partition and Sephadex-LH-20 column chromatography. Deoxycorticosterone and aldosterone are then quantitated with radioimmunoassay and corticosterone and 18-hydroxy-deoxycorticosterone with gas liquid chromatography as their 0-methyloxime=trimethylsilyl ethers. The coefficient of variation of the method for these steroids in concentrations found in the tissue culture of feotal rat adrenals varies between 3.9-10.9 %. The secretion of these steroids in the tissue culture of foetal rat adrenals is studied. The steroid secretory pattern is correlated with a differentiation stage of the cultures as detected by electron microscopy. The initial secretory activity declines considerably after 15 days of cultivation to a low level. This is the case also with respect to aldosterone although the cortical cell population changed from the mixed population of the differentiated (zona fasciculata-like) and undifferentiated (zona glomerulosa-like) cells to homogenous undifferentiated growth. Addition of ACTH increased deoxycorticosterone secretion rapidly. Corticosterone, 18-hydroxy-deoxycorticosterone and aldosterone secretion was observed only after the differentiation of the cells (especially changes in their mitochondrial compartment) was evident morphologically.
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