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Query: EC:3.1.1.34 (lipoprotein lipase)
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Angiotensin peptides produced a rapid (within 30 seconds) and concentration-dependent increase in the levels of the unesterified fatty acid and stimulated prolactin release. [3H]arachidonate appeared to be cleaved primarily from the lipid of the phosphoinositide cycle. In fact, angiotensin II produced a significant reduction of [3H]phosphatidylinositol. Conversely, [3H]diacylglycerol rapidly increased after the addition of angiotensin II to the incubation medium, returned to basal values within 2 minutes and then decreased below the control levels by 3-4 minutes, possibly due to the release of [3H]arachidonate. Finally, RHC 80267, a rather selective inhibitor of diglyceride lipase, antagonized angiotensin II-induced [3H]arachidonic acid and prolactin release. The effect of arachidonate on prolactin release has to be ascribed to further metabolism of the fatty acid to products other than prostaglandins and thromboxanes. The inhibitor of the cyclo-oxygenase pathway, indomethacin, did not significantly modify angiotensin II-induced prolactin release, whereas BW 755c and ETYA (inhibitors of cyclo-, lipo- and epoxygenase pathways) and NDGA (an inhibitor of leukotriene and epoxyeicosanoid synthesis) completely counteracted the effect of the octapeptide on hormone release.
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PMID:Angiotensin increases arachidonate metabolism in cultured anterior pituitary cells. 251 Apr 64

1. The effects of various treatments to alter either plasma prolactin (bromocryptine administration or removal of litter) or the metabolic activity of the mammary gland (unilateral or complete teat sealing) on the disposal of oral [14C]lipid between 14CO2 production and [14C]lipid accumulation in tissues of lactating rats were studied. In addition, the rates of lipogenesis in vivo were measured in mammary gland, brown and white adipose tissue and liver. 2. Bromocryptine administration lowered plasma prolactin, but did not alter [14C]lipid accumulation in mammary gland or in white and brown adipose tissue. 3. In contrast, complete sealing of teats results in no change in plasma prolactin, but a 90% decrease in [14C]lipid accumulation in mammary gland and a 4-fold increase in white and brown adipose tissue. The rate of lipogenesis in mammary gland was decreased by 95%, but there was no change in the rate in white and brown adipose tissue. Unilateral sealing of teats resulted in a decrease in [14C]lipid accumulation in white adipose tissue. 4. Removal of the litter for 24 h (low prolactin) produced a similar pattern to complete teat sealing, except that there was a 6-fold increase in lipogenesis in white adipose tissue. Re-suckling for 5 h increased plasma prolactin, but did not alter the response seen in litter-removed lactating rats. 5. Changes in lipoprotein lipase activity and in plasma insulin paralleled the reciprocal changes in [14C]lipid accumulation in white and brown adipose tissue and in mammary gland. 6. It is concluded that the plasma insulin is more important than prolactin in regulating lipid deposition in adipose tissue during lactation, and that any effects of prolactin must be indirect.
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PMID:Re-examination of the putative roles of insulin and prolactin in the regulation of lipid deposition and lipogenesis in vivo in mammary gland and white and brown adipose tissue of lactating rats and litter-removed rats. 264 88

The effects of angiotensin II (AII) on prolactin release and arachidonate liberation were studied in anterior pituitary cells preincubated with [3H]arachidonate to label the cellular phospholipids. AII increased prolactin release and [3H]arachidonate liberation over similar concentration ranges with the dynamics of these two events proving identical. Dopamine attenuated both prolactin release and [3H]arachidonate liberation. The diacylglycerol lipase inhibitor RHC80267 decreased AII-stimulated prolactin release and arachidonate liberation. Further evidence that AII-induced release of arachidonate is mediated by a diacylglycerol lipase is suggested by the finding that AII increased [14C]stearate liberation from cells prelabeled with the fatty acid. Although arachidonate itself may have some role in prolactin secretion, it is likely that arachidonate metabolites are more directly involved because BW755c and AA861, inhibitors of arachidonate metabolite formation, increased AII-stimulated arachidonate liberation, but decreased prolactin release.
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PMID:Angiotensin II increases pituitary cell prolactin release and arachidonate liberation. 313 14

Testis growth is stimulated when short photoperiod-regressed Siberian hamsters are exposed to a lengthening photoperiod, an effect presumably mediated by the pineal gland through a decrease in the peak nocturnal duration of secretion of its hormone melatonin (MEL)(D. S. Carter and B. D. Goldman, Endocrinology 113: 1268-1273, 1983). We examined this stimulatory or "progonadal" effect of MEL in short photoperiod-regressed, adult male Siberian hamsters that were pinealectomized (PINX) and given timed daily subcutaneous 1) injections of MEL (1 or 10 micrograms/day) or saline or 2) infusions of MEL that were "long day-like" (4 h, 10 or 100 ng/day), "short day-like" (10 h, 10 ng/day), or control saline infusions (4 h/day). Photoregressed sham PINX hamsters were transferred to long days at this time. After 5 wk of treatment, 1-microgram MEL-injected hamsters and both groups of 4-h MEL-infused hamsters had stimulatory responses that mimicked those of the long-day-exposed, sham PINX group [i.e., increased testes, body, and epididymal white adipose tissue (EPIWAT) weights, total body fat, EPIWAT lipoprotein lipase activity, and serum prolactin and follicle-stimulating hormone levels]. These effects were not observed in 10-micrograms MEL- or saline-injected and 10-h MEL- or saline-infused hamsters. Thus the peak nocturnal duration of serum MEL is the critical parameter of the MEL secretion profile for stimulating a variety of photoperiodic responses when photoregressed hamsters are exposed to lengthening daylengths.
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PMID:Effects of melatonin on long-day responses in short-day housed adult Siberian hamsters. 314 82

Long photoperiod-housed, adult Siberian hamsters were pinealectomized and given daily subcutaneous infusions of melatonin (MEL) to determine which characteristic of the MEL secretion profile is critical for short photoperiod-induced physiological responses. Long-duration MEL infusions (10 or 12 h) given for 5 wk elicited short-day-type responses [i.e., decreased body, testes, and epididymal white adipose tissue (EPIWAT) weights, EPIWAT lipoprotein lipase activity, carcass lipid content, and serum follicle-stimulating hormone and prolactin levels]. In contrast, short- or intermediate-duration (5 or 8 h) MEL infusions or saline infusions were without effect. Long-duration MEL infusions elicited short-day-type responses independently of both the time of day when MEL was administered and of the MEL dose if the latter was greater than or equal to 6.25 ng MEL/daily infusion. The continuity of the 10-h MEL infusions was important for triggering short-day-type responses; 10-h MEL infusions interrupted at their midpoint by 2 h of no infusion were ineffective even though dose and total duration were held constant. The body and lipid mass decreases were independent of the gonads, since castrated and gonad-intact hamsters responded similarly to the daily 10-h MEL infusions. Decreased body weight resulting from long-duration MEL infusions were never accompanied by decreased food intake. We conclude that the peak nocturnal duration of MEL is the critical parameter of the MEL secretion profile for triggering short-day-induced responses in adult Siberian hamsters.
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PMID:Peak duration of serum melatonin and short-day responses in adult Siberian hamsters. 318 92

Plasma lipase activity from the mammary vein and a tail blood vessel was measured in periparturient Holstein cows treated in one of three ways: control, CB154 (2-Br-alpha-ergocryptin) or CB154 plus prolactin. CB154 administration decreased basal serum prolactin concentration by 80% and blocked the normal parturient increase of serum prolactin. In CB154 plus prolactin-treated cows, prolactin was infused continuously for six days starting five and eight days prepartum. Plasma lipase activity was not detectable up to 26 hr prepartum in control and CB154-treated cows or before the start of prolactin infusion in CB154 plus prolactin-treated cows. After two hr prepartum, plasma lipase activity was detected in all treatments. In CB154 plus prolactin-treated cows, plasma lipase activity was detected in the presence of high concentrations of serum progesterone four days after the start of prolactin infusion and at least two days before parturition. Plasma lipase activity was four times greater in the mammary vein than in the tail vessel at sampling times at which activity was detected in both vessels. We propose the difference between plasma lipase activity from the mammary vein and tail vessel is due to release of lipoprotein lipase from the mammary gland into blood, and this activity can be induced prepartum by prolactin or at parturition even if the parturient increase in prolactin is suppressed.
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PMID:Mammary lipoprotein lipase in plasma of cows after parturition or prolactin infusion. 341 32

Serum prolactin (PRL) decreases in Syrian (Mesocricetus auratus) and Siberian (Phodopus sungorus sungorus) hamsters following short-photoperiod exposure. Both species also exhibit short-photoperiod-induced changes in body and lipid mass, but in opposite directions; Syrian hamsters increase and Siberian hamsters decrease their body weight, changes reflected nearly exclusively in their carcass lipid content. The purpose of these experiments was to determine whether the photoperiod-induced changes in PRL were responsible for the seasonal changes in energy balance in Syrian and Siberian hamsters by using the strategy of experimentally producing serum PRL levels opposite to those normally associated with the photoperiod in which the animals were housed. In long photoperiods serum PRL was reduced to short-day levels by subcutaneous (s.c.) CB-154 (bromoergocryptine, a dopamine agonist) injections. In short photoperiods, serum PRL was elevated to long-day levels in Syrian hamsters by ectopic pituitary explants, and in Siberian hamsters, serum PRL was elevated by chronic s.c. infusions of ovine PRL (oPRL). In both species, manipulations of serum PRL did not affect food intake, carcass composition, or the wet weight of various white and brown adipose tissue pads (WAT and BAT, respectively). Body weight increased in CB-154-treated Syrian hamsters and decreased in Siberian hamsters, an effect partially reversed by coadministration of oPRL in Syrian, but not Siberian, hamsters. Thus, lowering serum PRL to short-day levels in long-day-housed hamsters of both species mimicked the directional change in body weight appropriate for each species when they are exposed to short days. This effect of CB-154 on body weight may be a result of some as yet unidentified effect of dopaminergic stimulation on overall growth since 1) these changes in body weight were not reflected as changes in lipid mass, as occurs naturally following short-day exposure for each species, and 2) neither species exhibited a reciprocal change in body weight when serum PRL was experimentally elevated in short days. Alternatively, it may be that once the energetic responses to short-day exposure have been fully expressed, the ability of PRL to stimulate the target sites of action for PRL for these responses may be decreased. BAT protein content, cytochrome oxidase activity (measures of metabolic growth of this tissue), and retroperitoneal total and specific lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activities were increased by CB-154 treatment in Syrian hamsters.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Are the short-photoperiod-induced decreases in serum prolactin responsible for the seasonal changes in energy balance in Syrian and Siberian hamsters? 344 32

Seasonal changes in subcutaneous adipose tissue metabolism and serum metabolite and hormone concentrations are described in virgin ewes fed a fixed amount of a cereal mixture plus hay ad libitum. Body weight, adipocyte mean cell volume, the rates of fatty acid and acylglycerol glycerol synthesis, and lipoprotein lipase activity increased from October to May and then decreased over the following five months. These changes are probably due to an increase in voluntary food intake leading to increased availability of acetate for fatty acid synthesis and also a probable rise in serum insulin concentration. Seasonal changes in adipose tissue metabolism in sheep are modulated by pregnancy and lactation, possibly mediated in part by changes in the serum insulin: growth hormone ratio. Although seasonal changes in adipose tissue metabolism are paralleled by changes in serum prolactin concentration, prolactin probably does not have a direct effect on adipose tissue metabolism.
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PMID:Adipose tissue metabolism in sheep: response to season and its modulation by reproductive state. 352 90

Milk lipids of lactating rabbit mammary epithelial cells were labelled in vitro during a 3-min pulse with 14C-Na butyrate. After 1 h of incubation in the presence or not of prolactin, the different classes of lipids, in the tissues and the incubating mediums, were separated by thin-layer chromatography. The radioactivity of spots corresponding to the different classes of lipids (compared with the standards) was counted by liquid scintillation. In the tissues, triglycerides were the most strongly labelled constituent (97.7% of the radioactivity was bound to triglycerides). In the medium, triglyceride radioactivity was less; only 70.9% was bound to the triglycerides. In the presence of prolactin (10 micrograms/ml) the distribution of radioactivity in the tissues was not modified but in the medium, secreted triglycerides were more radioactive than in the control medium. In the presence of protamine sulfate (100 micrograms/ml), an inhibitor of lipoprotein-lipase, radioactivity in the secreted triglycerides decreased less, suggesting that this decrease was due to hydrolysis by lipoprotein lipase, probably during the process of exocytosis. Morphological evaluation on electron micrographs of the number of intracellular and extracellular lipid globules showed that prolactin increased the number of extracellular lipid globules; this suggested a higher secretion. These results show that the radioactivity of neosynthesized lipid constituents was modified during the secretion of milk lipids. Prolactin, which increased the total labelled lipids secreted, had an effect on the distribution of the radioactivity of the different lipid classes.
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PMID:[Effect of prolactin on milk lipid secretion in epithelial mammary cells of the lactating rabbit]. 374 99

The effect of the diglyceride lipase inhibitor RHC 80267 on the prolactin secretory process was examined in clonal anterior pituitary GH3 cells. This compound reduced basal prolactin secretion as well as secretion induced by TRH and phospholipase C but not that induced by phorbol myristate acetate. Although exogenous phospholipase C increased diglyceride, no increase in the products of diglyceride lipase was detected. Moreover, low doses of RHC 80267 were observed to effectively block potassium-stimulated 45calcium influx. It is unlikely that RHC 80267 inhibits prolactin release solely by inhibiting diglyceride lipase. These data suggest blockade of plasma membrane calcium channels as an alternate mechanism for the inhibitory actions of RHC 80267 on intact GH3 cells. These observations may have implications for RHC 80267 action in other cell types.
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PMID:Effects of RHC 80267, a diglyceride lipase inhibitor, on prolactin secretion and calcium uptake in GH3 pituitary cells. 379 24


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