Precocious development of cytochrome P-450 in neonatal rat liver after glucocorticoid treatment.
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ABSTRACT: Intraperitoneal injection of neonatal rats with glucocorticoid hormones causes precocious development of hepatic cytochrome P-450. Glucagon injection fails to stimulate this cytochrome P-450 development. Adult liver cytochrome P-450 is less responsive to glucocorticoid stimulation than is that of neonatal rat liver. Adrenalectomy of prematurely delivered neonatal animals prevents the early postnatal development of cytochrome P-450. Glucocorticoids failed to increase cytochrome P-450 concentrations in foetal rat liver. These findings imply that, although glucocorticoids are mandatory regulatory factors controlling cytochrome P-450 development, they are not themselves the 'trigger' initiating onset of that development.
SUBMITTER: Leakey JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1161253 | biostudies-other | 1979 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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