Presence of ACTH-Potentiating Factors in Rat Anterior Pituitary Glands

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High molecular weight ACTH fractions, obtained through gel filtration of boiled rat anterior pituitary extract, induced a marked increase in corticosterone production from isolated rat adrenal cells in the presence of low concentrations of ACTH-(1-24). This indicates the presence of heat-stable factors augmenting the steroidogenic action of ACTH in the rat anterior pituitary. We also noted that these factors potentiated the activity not only of ACTH-(1-24) but also of ACTH-(1–18). The ACTH-potentiating factors in rat anterior pituitary extract are possibly present in heterogeneous forms according to their molecular weights (8,000, 10,000 and 15,000), their mobility in ion-exchange chromatography and their content in RIA-ACTH activity. Of these three forms, the former comigrated with biological ACTH activity. The remaining two forms were free of it. Since the effect of potentiating factors on modified ACTH-(1–19), shown to be less susceptible to proteolytic degradation than ACTH-(l-24), was similar to the effect on ACTH-(1-24), it is suggested that potentiation was not due to an inhibition of ACTH proteolysis.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): HRE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Horm Res Paediatr

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1663-2818

Title: Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1663-2818

ISSN (Electronic): 1663-2826

Publication date Subscription-year: 1981

Publication date (Print): 1981

Publication date (Electronic): 25 November 2008

Volume: 14

Issue: 3

Pages: 155-164

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^aSecond Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka; ^bDepartment of Internal Medicine, Itami Municipal Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

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Publisher ID: 179383 Other ID: Horm Res 1981;14:155–164

DOI: 10.1159/000179383

PubMed ID: 6269973

SO-VID: 0b139100-df62-4535-948d-acbe0af3ce6f

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Date received : 11 November 1980

Date accepted : 30 March 1981

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Pages: 10

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