Proliferation of adult rat hepatocytes in primary cultures induced by platelet-derived growth factor is potentiated by phenylephrine

Japanese Journal of Pharmacology
M Kimura, M Ogihara

Abstract

We investigated whether or not proliferation of adult rat hepatocytes induced by platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is affected by alpha1-adrenoceptor agonists such as phenylephrine during the early and late phases of primary culture. Adult rat hepatocytes underwent significant DNA synthesis after culture with 10 ng/ml of PDGF for 2 hr at a low cell density (3.3 x 10(4) cells/cm2). Under these culture conditions, the number of nuclei increased significantly during the 3.5-hr culture period. Hepatocyte DNA synthesis and proliferation induced by 10 ng/ml of PDGF decreased slightly as a result of increasing the initial plating density. An alpha1-adrenoceptor agonist, phenylephrine (10(-6) and 10(-5) M), alone did not affect hepatocyte DNA synthesis and proliferation, but markedly potentiated PDGF-induced hepatocyte DNA synthesis and proliferation. The phenylephrine effect was mimicked by phorbol myristate acetate (10(-7) M), but not by ionomycin (10(-5) M). The mitogenic effects of PDGF were almost completely blocked by treating hepatocytes with genistein (5 x 10(-6) M), U-73122 (3 x 10(-6) M), sphingosine (10(-5) M), wortmannin (10(-7) M) and rapamycin (10 ng/ml). These results demonstrate that PDGF can induce the proliferatio...Continue Reading

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