In the present experiment, metabolically active primary cultures of rainbow trout hepatocytes were utilized to study the inducibility of metallothionein after cortisol treatment. Glucocorticoid induction of metallothionein has previously only been demonstrated in mammalian systems. We now demonstrat
Induction and decay of thermotolerance in rainbow trout fibroblasts
β Scribed by D. D. Mosser; J. van Oostrom; N. C. Bols
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 911 KB
- Volume
- 132
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9541
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β¦ Synopsis
Thermotolerance was studied in the rainbow trout fibroblast cell line RTG-2. RTG-2 cultures that had been incubated at 28OC for 24 h were better able to withstand ultimately lethal temperatures above 28OC than RTG-2 cultures that had been maintained at the routine growth temperature of 22OC. This thermotolerance developed rapidly between 3 and 6 h and was fully developed by 24 h at 28OC. After development for 24 h r at 28OC, thermotolerance showed little change over 72 h at 0 and 5OC but approximately a 40 and 60% reduction at 10 and 22OC, respectively. This is the first demonstration of heat-induced thermal resistance in the cells of a poikilothermic vertebrate.
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