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  • Title: Dexamethasone inversely regulates DNA synthesis and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNA levels in cultured rat hepatocytes: interactions with insulin, glucagon, and transforming growth factor beta 1.
    Author: Thoresen GH, Refsnes M, Dajani OF, Johansen EJ, Christoffersen T.
    Journal: Pharmacol Toxicol; 1995 Mar; 76(3):163-70. PubMed ID: 7617540.
    Abstract:
    In hepatocytes, glucocorticoids control the expression of several genes and exert significant, but complex, regulation of the proliferation. To shed more light on the growth responses to glucocorticoids in these cells, we treated adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture with dexamethasone, in various combinations with other hormones (insulin, glucagon, transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1)), and examined the relationship between the effects on the DNA synthesis and the mRNA level of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, a gene typically expressed in differentiated hepatocytes. Insulin exhibited the previously observed suppressing effect on the glucocorticoid-induced phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNA level, and also reversed growth-inhibitory effects of the glucocorticoid. Dexamethasone and glucagon (via cAMP) acted strongly synergistically both in enhancing the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase expression and inhibiting the growth, the inhibitory effect of glucagon on DNA synthesis being totally dependent on dexamethasone. The effects of dexamethasone plus glucagon on both the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase mRNA abundance and the DNA synthesis were partially counteracted by insulin. Dexamethasone is permissive for a promoting effect of TGF beta 1 on phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase expression, and was found to increase the maximal inhibitory effect of (but reduced the sensitivity to) TGF beta 1 on the DNA synthesis. The results indicate that there is an inverse glucocorticoid-induced regulation of the DNA synthesis and the expression of a liver-typical gene.
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