Lescoat G, Loreal O, Desvergne B, Pasdeloup N, Deugnier Y, Brissot P. Effect of ornithine on transferrin secretion of rat and human hepatocyte cultures.
LIVER 1988;
8:360-5. [PMID:
3216774 DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0676.1988.tb01017.x]
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Abstract
Fetal rat or neonatal human hepatocytes and a human hepatoma cell line were cultured in an arginine-free medium, supplemented or not with L-ornithine. This amino-acid improved survival of hepatocytes and strongly enhanced their transferrin secretion. Moreover, this increase observed in transferrin production was well correlated with a higher corresponding mRNA level. Thus, it may be postulated that the mechanism involved in the increased transferrin secretion by L-ornithine is of pretranslational origin.
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