Different processes implied in thyroid hormonogenesis (thyroglobulin, thyroperoxidase and hydrogen peroxide generating system expressions) and their regulation by TSH and iodide have been studied using porcine thyroid cells cultured in porous bottomed chambers. This system allowed to reproduce the functional bipolarity. Cells form a tight and polarized monolayer. Both apical and basolateral poles of epithelial cells were independently accessible and the cell layer separated two compartments which can contain different media. A major polarized secretion of thyroglobulin into the apical compartment was observed; it was increased in the presence of TSH as well as the thyroglobulin synthesis and mRNA level. These TSH effects were the consequence of adenylcyclase stimulation. Active transport of iodide, iodination of thyroglobulin and hormonosynthesis took place only in the presence of TSH. These steps occurred at the apical pole of cells. In the culture chamber system, thyroglobulin was weakly iodinated (6 atoms of iodide per mole of thyroglobulin; in vivo up to 40 atoms per mole) but hormonogenesis efficiency was close to this one observed in vivo (40%). Iodide concentrations higher than 0.5 µM daily added to the basal medium inhibited iodination of thyroglobulin and hormonosynthesis. Some components contained in culture media were inhibitors for iodination when they were present in the apical medium such as vitamins, amino acids and phenol red. The culture system appears to be interesting for pharmacological and toxicological studies.
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Chabaud, O., Gruffat, D., Venot, N. et al. Hormonogenesis in thyroid cells cultured on porous bottom chambers. Cell Biol Toxicol 8, 9–17 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130506
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