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Clonal strains of rat pituitary tumour (GH4C1) cells are known to possess specific intracellular binding sites for calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3). GH4C1 cells respond to calcitriol by a selective increase in prolactin(PRL)-gene expression. The interaction between calcitriol and glucocorticoids was studied by using this cultured-cell model. It was found that cortisol potently antagonized the induction of PRL mRNA and PRL production by calcitriol. The effects were concentration-dependent and were evident at glucocorticoid concentrations that did not alter basal PRL production. Inhibition was half-maximal at 3.2 nM-cortisol and 0.4 nM-dexamethasone. Calcitriol-induced PRL mRNA fell by more than 50% at 25 h and reached the control level 50 h after treatment with cortisol. The inhibition by cortisol of calcitriol induction of PRL production was selective when compared with effects on other inducers of PRL-gene expression [thyroliberin, epidermal growth factor and phorbol myristate acetate ('12-omicron-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate')]. Potent antagonism by glucocorticoids of vitamin D action on specific gene expression has been demonstrated. Further studies with this cultured-cell model may help to explain the mechanism of this hormonal interaction, which assumes particular importance at major sites of vitamin D action such as the intestine.

Glucocorticoids antagonize induction of prolactin-gene expression by calcitriol in rat pituitary tumour cells