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  • Title: Evidence that autoregulation of prolactin production does not occur at the pituitary level.
    Author: Vician L, Lieberman ME, Gorski J.
    Journal: Endocrinology; 1982 Mar; 110(3):722-6. PubMed ID: 6895725.
    Abstract:
    PRL production in primary cultures of rat pituitary cells was examined for evidence of autoregulation. The kinetics of PRL accumulation in the culture medium were linear (r = 0.993) over a 20-fold range of PRL concentrations (85-1800 ng/ml). The addition of 0.01-1000 ng/ml biologically active ovine PRL for 2 h had no effect on the rate of secretion or the intracellular levels of PRL. The functional integrity of the cells was verified by the demonstration that estradiol (10(-8) M) caused a 3-fold increase in both PRL synthesis and secretion. Ergocryptine (10(-8) M) inhibited PRL secretion by 57% (P less than 0.001), and this response was modulated by pretreatment with estradiol. Increasing concentrations of endogenously secreted PRL did not detectably alter the rate of incorporation of [35S]methionine into cellular PRL in control or ergocryptine-treated cells for up to 8 h. These results indicate that autoregulation of PRL does not operate directly at the level of the pituitary.
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