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The effect of phorbol ester pretreatment on rat (r) GH release induced by GH-releasing factor (GRF) or 8-bromo-cyclic (c)AMP was investigated using rat pituitary cells cultured in monolayers. Pretreatment with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) for 3 h significantly suppressed the rGH release induced by GRF, but not that by 8-bromo-cAMP 20 h later; this suppressive effect of TPA was concentration-dependent from 8 to 160 nmol/l, and complete suppression was observed after pretreatment with 80–160 nmol TPA/l. Production of cAMP by pituitary cells stimulated with GRF was similarly attenuated in TPA-pretreated cells. The rGH responsiveness to GRF of these cells was fully recovered on prolonged culture (40 h), suggesting that the inhibitory effect of TPA is reversible.

In contrast, pretreatment with GRF (5 nmol/l) resulted in suppression of the rGH response to subsequent exposure to GRF (5 nmol/l) or 8-bromo-cAMP (10 mmol/l), but not to TPA. These observations suggest that pretreatment with TPA modifies the rGH response to GRF at steps before the formation of cAMP.

J. Endocr. (1988) 118, 423–428