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    Vahouny GV, Chanderbhan R, Hodges VA, Treadwell CR.
    Prostaglandins. 1978 Aug;16(2):207-20.
    Rat adrenocortical cells were incubated with labeled arachidonate, and the radioactivity in unesterified fatty acids was reduced by washing with 2% albumin solutions. These cells were then incubated for two hours in the absence and presence of 7.1 x 10(-10)M ACTH. During subsequent incubation of prelabeled cells with ACTH, both the mass and radioactivity of arachidonate in adrenocortical cholesteryl esters was depleted to the same extent (30--32%). The released arachidonate was in part incorporated into phospholipids, and there was also a significant increase in unesterified arachidonic acid. During this period, there was also increased incorporation of arachidonate into labeled prostaglandins. Of this increase, 92% by isotope analysis, and 88% by radioimmunoassay techniques was attributable to prostaglandins of the E pathway. These data demonstrate that prostaglandin E synthesis is specifically increased during ACTH stimulation of rat adrenocortical cells and suggest that a major source of the arachidonate substrate for this synthesis is derived from hormone-dependent hydrolysis of cortical cholesteryl esters.
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