Role of Cyclic AMP in Proliferation of Lung Tissue in Organ Culture
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Experimental Lung Research
- Vol. 15 (4) , 527-535
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01902148909069616
Abstract
The role of cyclic AMP in cell proliferation and division has been the subject of study by a number of investigators in the past 30 years, but the argument of whether cyclic AMP is a negative or a positive regulator has not been settled. We studied the effect of cyclic AMP on proliferation of normal and postpneumonectomized lung tissues in young adult rats by measuring the incorporation of tritiated thymidine into lung DNA in organ culture. In normal lung tissues the incorporation of [3H]thymidine was increased by exogenous dibutyryl cyclic AMP, or by isoproterenol or forskolin to stimulate adenylate cyclase, or by caffeine, which inhibits cAMP phosphodiesterase. The effect of isporoterenol, but not forskolin, was abolished by the beta-adenergic blocking agent propranolol. The effect of caffeine on [3H]thymidine incorporation was further enhanced in normal lung tissues in the presence of dibutyryl cyclic AMP and in postpneumonectomized lung tissues. Imidazole, a cAMP phosphodiesterase stimulator, also increased [3H]thymidine incorporation in culture but the effect was not magnified in the presence of exogenous dibutyryl cyclic AMP, nor in postpneumonectomized lung tissues. The data suggest that cyclic AMP acts as a positive regulator in proliferation of lung tissues.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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