## ABSTRACT A mild whole body hyperthermic stress causes a rapid and reversible reduction of rat liver glucocorticoid receptor (GR) binding capacity and affects the stability of the GR‐DNA complexes formed after thermal transformation of the receptor. These changes appear to be physiologically rele
Immunocytochemical study of the glucocorticoid receptor in rat liver nuclei after hyperthermic stress
✍ Scribed by Aleksandra Čvoro; Aleksandra Korać; Gordana Matić
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 400 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1065-6995
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The presence of glucocorticoid receptors (GR) in rat liver nuclei over a 24 h time period following hyperthermic stress at 41 °C was immunocytologically studied using unfixed nuclear smears. Liver nuclei in unstressed animals were found to be immunonegative for GR. However, intense GR immunopositivity followed by a subsequent gradual decrease in receptor levels was observed in the nuclei of test animals during the first 2 h after stress. This stress‐related increase in the receptor nuclear level was greater than the increase seen after dexamethasone administration. These results suggest that hyperthermic stress could potentiate the hormonal stimulation of receptor nuclear translocation.
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