Effects of DNA and prostaglandin synthesis inhibitors on the stimulation of bone resorption by epidermal growth factor in fetal rat long-bone cultures.
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- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in JCI Insight
- Vol. 77 (6), 1897-1902
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci112517
Abstract
We examined two inhibitors of DNA synthesis, hydroxyurea (HU) and aphidicholin (APC), and two inhibitors of prostaglandin cyclooxygenase, indomethacin and flufenamic acid, for their effects on the resorptive responses of fetal rat long-bone cultures to epidermal growth factor (EGF) and parathyroid hormone (PTH). As we have previously found, HU decreased unstimulated 45Ca release but had little effect on the resorptive response to PTH. HU also did not block resorption stimulated by EGF. Addition of the cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin, did not alter the resorptive responses of unstimulated or PTH-treated cultures in either the presence or absence of HU or the resorptive response of bones cultured with EGF alone. However, indomethacin completely blocked the resorptive response to EGF of bones that were cultured with HU. The effects of indomethacin on EGF-mediated resorption in HU-treated cultures appeared to be related to an inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis since flufenamic acid had similar effects. However, the effects of HU on the resorptive response to EGF may not have resulted solely from its inhibitory action on DNA synthesis since APC, in the absence of cyclooxygenase inhibitors, completely blocked EGF-mediated resorption without significantly affecting the response to PTH. These results demonstrate that the mechanisms regulating PTH- and EGF-mediated resorption in fetal rat long-bone cultures differ, and imply that a component of EGF-mediated resorption in these cultures is dependent on sustained DNA synthesis.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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