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Effects of thyrotropin and thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins on gangliosides labelling of human thyroid cultured pathological cells

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Gangiiosides are known to play an important role in different cell processes. We have investigated the effect of TSH on [14C] glucosamine incorporation into gangiiosides of cultured pathological cells isolated from colloid nodular goiter, follicular adenoma, and toxic adenoma. The effect of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) has also been similarly studied on primary cultures from colloid nodular goiter and from porcine thyroid cells. Immunoglobulins were purified from sera of Graves’ disease patients. Cells were cultured with or without either stimulator and labelled with [14C] glucosamine during 24 h. Total lipid extracts were fractionated on DEAE Sephadex A 25. Eluted gangiiosides were analysed by thin layer chromatography, detected by autoradiography and scraped off for radioactivity measurement. Radioactivity was related to the free cholesterol content. The ganglioside pattern of human thyroid cells in primary cultures is found to vary and to closely reflect the ganglioside pattern of the corresponding gland. No ganglioside pattern could be related to a specific thyroid disorder. When cells are treated with TSH, the amount of [14C] glucosamine incorporated in total gangliosides varies according to diseases. The radioactivity incorporated in gangliosides from colloid nodular goiter cells is not similarly affected by TSH and TSI. In porcine thyroid cells, TSH and TSI have the same effect on glucosamine incorporation into gangliosides. Thus it appears that TSH and TSI may differently affect the gangliosides labelling according to the origin of the thyroid cells.

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  1. Laboratoires de Thyroïdologie et de, C.H.U., Institut de Pathologie, B-4000, Sart-Tilman par Liège 1, Liège, Belgium

    J. Etienne-Decerf &  R. Winand

  2. Biochimie des Lipides, C.H.U., Institut de Pathologie, B-4000, Sart-Tilman par Liège 1, Liège, Belgium

    C. Gosselin-Rey & L. Gosselin

  3. C.H.U., B.23, Institut de Pathologie, B-4000, Sart-Tilman par Liège 1, Liège, Belgium

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Etienne-Decerf, J., Gosselin-Rey, C., Gosselin, L. et al. Effects of thyrotropin and thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins on gangliosides labelling of human thyroid cultured pathological cells. J Endocrinol Invest 9, 57–63 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03348065

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