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Abstract
Intraperitoneal injection of neonatal rats with glucocorticoid hormones causes precocious development of hepatic cytochrome P-450. Glucagon injection fails to stimulate this cytochrome P-450 development. Adult liver cytochrome P-450 is less responsive to glucocorticoid stimulation than is that of neonatal rat liver. Adrenalectomy of prematurely delivered neonatal animals prevents the early postnatal development of cytochrome P-450. Glucocorticoids failed to increase cytochrome P-450 concentrations in foetal rat liver. These findings imply that, although glucocorticoids are mandatory regulatory factors controlling cytochrome P-450 development, they are not themselves the 'trigger' initiating onset of that development.Entities:
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Year: 1979 PMID: 40549 PMCID: PMC1161253 DOI: 10.1042/bj1820233
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857