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Influence of corticosteroids on chemotactic response and collagen metabolism of human skin fibroblasts.

Following chronic administration of corticosteroids in vivo, a number of complications occur, which mainly involve the metabolism of connective tissue cells. Therefore, several attempts have been made to develop corticosteroids, which show less pronounced side effects. Fibroblasts were kept in monolayer cultures and were exposed to corticosteroids demonstrating similar anti-inflammatory activity (prednicarbate, desoximetasone). Chemotaxis of fibroblasts was studied over 4 hr, protein and collagen synthesis were estimated using proteinchemical methods and also by dot blot hybridization. Corticosteroids used in a high dosage (10 microM) affected all biosynthetic capacities of the investigated fibroblasts. Protein synthesis and production of collagen types I and III were reduced and a similar decrease of mRNA levels for collagen type I could be found indicating an influence on the pretranslational control. In the same concentrations desoximetasone was much more active than prednicarbate. Fibroblast migration was dosage dependently inhibited from 10(-9) M to 10(-5) M for desoximetasone, while incubation with prednicarbate did not cause a reduction of the chemotactic response at concentrations lower than 10(-7) M. These data suggest that modifications of corticosteroids might result in a dissociation of some of their biological activities and can specifically influence their effects on biosynthetic capacities of fibroblasts.[1]

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  1. Influence of corticosteroids on chemotactic response and collagen metabolism of human skin fibroblasts. Hein, R., Mauch, C., Hatamochi, A., Krieg, T. Biochem. Pharmacol. (1988) [Pubmed]
 
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