AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 5 947-G952, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Retinol release by activated rat hepatic lipocytes: regulation by Kupffer cell-conditioned medium and PDGF

S. L. Friedman, S. Wei and W. S. Blaner
Liver Core Center, San Francisco General Hospital, California.

In normal liver, lipocytes are the principal reservoir for retinoids, which are stored as retinyl esters. In liver injury, lipocytes activate into myofibroblast-like cells, which lack retinoid. We examined mechanisms of retinoid loss using a culture model in which lipocyte activation is provoked by exposure to Kupffer cell-conditioned medium (KCM) (S.L. Friedman and M. J. P. Arthur, J. Clin. Invest. 84: 1780-1785, 1989). In lipocytes exposed to KCM, there was approximately 11-fold more retinol in medium than in untreated cells, without release of retinyl esters. Both bile salt-dependent and -independent retinyl ester hydrolase was entirely intracellular, suggesting that the increase in retinol was due to intracellular hydrolysis; activity of bile salt-independent hydrolase was increased in KCM-treated lipocytes. Release of retinol was serum dependent and inhibited 40% by antibodies to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). The addition of 10 nM PDGF to serum-free KCM also induced retinol release. Lipocyte expression of mRNAs for cellular retinol-binding protein, retinoic acid receptor (RAR)-alpha, and RAR-beta was unchanged after exposure to KCM. In summary, activation of cultured lipocytes by KCM is accompanied by serum- and PDGF-dependent release of retinol; a similar mechanism may underlie retinoid loss by activated lipocytes in vivo.

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