PMID: 2107101Feb 26, 1990Paper

Cycle-related LHRH responsiveness of superfused pituitary cells in a Phenol red free medium

FEBS Letters
J L O'Conner, T A Kellom

Abstract

Anterior pituitary cell cultures are frequently used in studying the control of gonadotropin secretion. Historically, many (if not most) of these studies have been performed in the presence of Phenol red as a pH indicator. Phenol red preparations, because of their potential estrogenic activity, may have influenced the results of previous studies defining the relative luteinizing hormone releasing hormone responsiveness of rat anterior pituitary-cells derived from various stages of the estrous cycle. We therefore felt it of interest to investigate this possibility by repeating our previous cycle-related superfusion studies [(1988) Life Sci. 42, 61-72] in the absence of these Phenol red preparations. Comparisons of data obtained in the presence or absence of Phenol red revealed cells derived from late proestrous (19.00) and cultured in the absence of Phenol red continued to evidence the highest LH responsiveness. However, diestrous 1 08.00 cells cultured in the absence of Phenol red were lower in responsiveness than previously observed in the presence of the substance and the responsiveness of proestrous 08.00 and 15.00 in the presence was lower in comparison to the same stages in the absence of Phenol red. The results suggest th...Continue Reading

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