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Horm Metab Res 1979; 11(5): 366-370
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1092740
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Propranolol Inhibits the In Vitro Conversion of Thyroxine into Triiodothyronine by Isolated Rat Liver Parenchymal Cells

C.J.F.  van Noorden , W. M. Wiersinga , J. L. Touber
  • Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University Hospital "Wilhelmina Gasthuis", Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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17 December 2008 (online)

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Abstract

A model for the in vitro study of the conversion of thyroxine into triiodothyronine using isolated rat liver parenchymal cells is described.

Isolated liver cells (mean protein content 18 mg/ml) convert approximately 0.8% of 1.3 µM exogenously added T4 into T3 during thirty minutes incubation. Carbimazole (50 µM) has no effect on the conversion process, whereas propylthiouracil (50 µM) inhibits the conversion. The β-adrenoceptor blocking agent propranolol lowers the conversion ratio when added in concentrations of 580 and 1160 µM, but has no inhibitory effect when 290 µM is added.

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Isolated Rat Liver Cells - Propranolol - Conversion of Thyroxine - Triiodothyronine