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Thyroid-stimulating hormone, the catecholamine isoproterenol, and prostaglandins E1 and E2, all substances known to increase cAMP concentration in thyroid tissue, accelerate the formation of follicular cavities in explanted thyroid of 15-day-old rat foetuses. Dibutyryl-cAMP added to the medium, but not sodium fluoride, also stimulates the folliculogenesis. Since fluoride stimulates membrane adenylate cyclase but does not increase the intracellular cAMP level, these results show that cAMP is involved as a second messenger in the activation of foetal thyroid morphogenesis induced by hormones. They indicate also that the thyroid gland of the foetal rat is capable of responding to hormonal stimulation as early as the 15th day of pregnancy; this implies that on day 15, the foetal thyroid possesses receptors not only for the thyroid-stimulating hormone, but also for catecholamines and prostaglandins.
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Pic, P., Remy, L., Mazzella, E. et al. Cyclic AMP as the second hormonal messenger in the in vitro folliculogenesis of the foetal thyroid gland of the rat. Cell Tissue Res. 232, 65–77 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00222374
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