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Abstract:
We studied the effects of cortisol and triiodothyronine (T3) on 20-day fetal rat lung cell cultures. Cortisol enhanced the production of surfactant-associated saturated phosphatidylcholine while T3 did not. However, T3 potentiated the cortisol effect. We observed that T3 enhanced the response of cultures enriched with alveolar type H cells to fibroblast-pneumonocyte factor (FPF). Intracellular cAMP was increased by exposure of these cultures to FPF, and T3 potentiated this increase. Unlike cortisol, T3 had no effect on production of FPF by fetal lung fibroblasts, as determined by bioassay of fractions of fibroblast-conditioned medium partially purified by column chromatography. The time course of cortisol action on mixed (fibroblast/epithelial) cultures was in keeping with the proposed mechanism: glucocorticoid induction of FPF in fibroblasts, followed by FPF induction of cAMP in epithelia and, finally, by enhanced production of saturated phosphatidylcholine. Thus, glucocorticoid acting on mesenchyme and thyroid hormone acting on epithelium have a synergistic effect on expression of differentiated epithelial function.
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