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Noradrenaline-storing granules, a mitochondrial fraction and a microsomal fraction of bovine splenic nerve trunks were prepared by differential centrifugation. These particulate fractions were characterized by their noradrenaline content, succinate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphatase activity. In the presence of ATP-Mg2+ all three fractions accumulated 45Ca2+ during incubation with 0.1 mM 45 CaCl2, buffered with potassium phosphate or glycylglycine (pH 7.5; 28 degrees C). The accumulated 45 Ca2+ was not removable by EGTA, and the uptake was absent at 0 degrees C or after destruction of the particles by sonication. The behaviour of the 45 Ca2+ -uptake into all three fractions against varying ATP-concentrations, metabolic inhibitors (pentachlorophenol, desaspidine, 2,4-dinitrophenol, N-ethylmaleimide, p-chloromercuribenzoate, sodium azide, amobarbital) and drugs (phenoxybenzamine, verapamil, prenylamine, reserpine, bretylium, phentolamine) was studied. Under nearly all conditions there were differences between the 45 Ca2+ -uptake into mitochondria and that into microsomes, which suggests two distinct uptake processes. The 45 Ca2+ -uptake into the granule fraction behaved intermediate between the two other fractions under many conditions, but not under all. Therefore, it is not possible to explain the 45 Ca2+ -uptake into the granule fraction as being due to contamination with mitochondria and microsomes; an inherent ATP-Mg2+ -dependent 45Ca2+ -uptake into the nerve granules must be postulated, which is not directly coupled with the noradrenaline transport into these particles. A particulate fraction (14000-100000 g), containing noradrenaline granules, was prepared from the vas deferens of the rat. Incubation with 5 X 10(-6) M (-)-noradrenaline and 0.1 mM 45Ca2+ showed that the particles of this fraction take up noradrenaline and 45Ca2+. The uptake of both was dependent on ATP-Mg2+. The ATP-Mg2+ -dependent uptake of both noradrenaline and 45Ca2+ was substantially reduced in the corresponding tissue fraction prepared from denervated vasa deferentia.
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PMID:Ca2+ -uptake into noradrenaline-storing granules of bovine splenic nerves. 18 27

The noradrenaline and glycogen contents as well as hexokinase, glucokinase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities were determined in normal, embryonic and partially denervated (bilateral dissection of the Nervus splanchnicus or Nervus vagus) rat liver and in two transplantable hepatomas. In embryonic liver and hepatomas a strong decrease or complete loss of noradrenaline and glycogen levels and glucokinase and glucose-6-phosphatase activities is demonstrable as compared to the livers of adult animals, while the hexokinase activity is enhanced. Following bilateral splanchnicotomy the glycogen content and hexokinase activity are enhanced; the glucose-6-phosphatase activity is reduced, and the liver does not contain any noradrenaline. Bilateral vagotomy causes decrease of the glycogen content, of the hexokinase and glucokinase activities and an enhancement of glucose-6-phosphatase activity. The results lend support to the idea of antagonistic action of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems upon several partial reactions of carbohydrate metabolism of liver. In addition, it can be assumed that the alterations of the carbohydrate metabolism demonstrable in hepatomas as compared to normal liver are not solely attributable to disturbance or breakdown of the nervous regulation.
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PMID:[Noradrenaline and glycogen content and the activity of several enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism in normal, embryonic, and partly denervated livers and in hepatomas of the rat]. 21 Jun 7

Further biochemical characterization of the Albert hepatoma has been performed. The following results were obtained: In spite of often repeated transplantations and a medium growth rate, the Albert hepatoma does still contain organ-characteristic enzymes. We have found significant activities of glucokinase, glucose-6-phosphatase and arginase, and considerable amounts of noradrenaline and glycogen. In addition, it is capable to respond to humoral stimuli, that is, it differs from most of the other hepatocellular malignomas also in this regard.
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PMID:Activities of organ characteristic enzymes and noradrenaline and glycogen contents in the Albert hepatoma of C57BL mice. 22 50

Levels of triiodothyronine, thyroxine, insulin, glucose and free fatty acids in the blood; contents of adrenaline, noradrenaline in adrenals and glycogen in the liver; activity of phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase in adrenals, hexokinase and glucose-6-phosphatase in the liver were studied in male Wistar rats and rats with inherited stress-induced arterial hypertension /ISIAH/. It was found that genetically caused rise of hypophyseal-thyroid systems activity in ISIAH-rats leads to a decrease of insulin blood level, activation of lipolysis and breach of glucose tolerance.
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PMID:[Endocrine-metabolic relations in rats with genetic arterial hypertension]. 216 74

The relation between Ca2+ efflux, Ca2+ mobilization from mitochondria and glycogenolysis was studied in perfused euthyroid and hypothyroid rat livers stimulated by Ca2+-mobilizing hormones. Ca2+ efflux, induced by noradrenaline (1 microM) in the absence or presence of DL-propranolol (10 microM) from livers perfused with medium containing a low concentration of Ca2+ (approx. 24 microM), was decreased by more than 50% in hypothyroidism. This correlated with an equal decrease of the fractional mobilization of mitochondrial Ca2+, which could account for 65% of the difference between the net amounts of Ca2+ expelled from the euthyroid and hypothyroid livers. With vasopressin (10 nM) similar results were found, suggesting that hypothyroidism has a general effect on mobilization of internal Ca2+. In normal Ca2+ medium (1300 microM), however, the effect of vasopressin on net Ca2+ fluxes and phosphorylase activation was not impaired in hypothyroidism, indicating that Ca2+ mobilization from the mitochondria in this case plays a minor role in phosphorylase activation. The alpha 1-adrenergic responses of Ca2+ efflux, phosphorylase activation and glucose output, glucose-6-phosphatase activity and oxygen consumption in hypothyroid rat liver were completely restored by in vivo T3 injections (0.5 micrograms per 100 g body weight, daily during 3 days). Perfusion with T3 (100 pM) during 19 min did not influence hypothyroid rat liver oxygen consumption and alpha 1-receptor-mediated Ca2+ efflux. However, this in vitro T3 treatment showed a completely recovered alpha 1-adrenergic response of phosphorylase and a partly restored glucose-6-phosphatase activity and glucose output. The results indicate that thyroid hormones may control alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation of glycogenolysis by at least two mechanisms, i.e., a long-term action on Ca2+ mobilization, and a short-term action on separate stages of the glycogenolytic process.
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PMID:Effect of thyroid hormone on intracellular Ca2+ mobilization by noradrenaline and vasopressin in relation to glycogenolysis in rat liver. 299 6

1. Homogenates of bovine splenic nerves were subjected to differential and sucrose density gradient centrifugation. From the low-speed supernatant a high-speed sediment (mitochondria, lysosomes, microsomes and noradrenaline (NA) vesicles) was obtained. By density gradient centrifugation of this sediment it was shown that NA vesicles are slightly less dense than mitochondria, but denser than microsomes.2. In further experiments a mitochondrial and a microsomal sediment were obtained. The mitochondrial sediment was fractionated with a short centrifugation time over a density gradient ranging from 0.6 to 1.2 M sucrose. Mitochondria (fumarase and succinate-dehydrogenase) and lysosomes (acid ribonuclease and deoxyribonuclease) sedimented to the bottom of the tube. The highest concentration of NA vesicles was found in a medium position. There was only a small amount of microsomes (glucose-6-phosphatase) present.3. The microsomal sediment was centrifuged for 150 min over a density gradient ranging from 0.8 to 1.4 M sucrose. The microsomes remained on the top of the gradient. There were also some mitochondria and lysosomes present. The NA vesicles were found in highest concentration in the middle of the gradient (at about 1.2 M sucrose).4. With the use of these two density gradients, the subcellular distribution of dopamine-beta-hydroxylase, monoamine oxidase and ATPase was studied. Dopamine-beta-hydroxylase was found to be localized in the NA vesicles. Monoamine oxidase was mainly recovered in mitochondria; a small part of the enzyme appeared to be microsomal. ATPase was present in microsomal elements.
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PMID:Bovine splenic nerve: characterization of noradrenaline-containing vesicles and other cell organelles by density gradient centrifugation. 431 May 9

Adult rat parenchymal hepatocytes in primary culture can be induced to enter into DNA synthesis and mitosis. The optimal conditions for hepatocyte replication are low plating density (less than 10,000 cells/sq cm) and 50% serum from two-thirds partially hepatectomized rats (48 hr after hepatectomy). Approximately 80% of the hepatocytes enter the cell cycle, and most of these cells go through mitosis. The replicating hepatocytes remain positive for glucose-6-phosphatase and negative for gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, and they accumulate fat, in analogy to regenerating liver. Most of the replicating hepatocytes enter into multiple consecutive rounds of DNA synthesis. Dose-response studies between control animal serum and hepatocyte labeling index indicate that in unoperated animals the serum contains substances stimulatory as well as inhibitory for hepatic growth, with the inhibitory effect prevailing at high concentrations. After partial hepatectomy, the inhibitory activity disappears whereas the hepatopoietin activity reaches almost 90% of maximal biological effectiveness at 25% serum concentration. Addition of hormones to the system shows that the hepatopoietin activity is not identical to epidermal growth factor, platelet-derived growth factor, thyroxine, glucagon, or hydrocortisone. Norepinephrine abolishes the difference between control and hepatectomized serum but does not restore hepatopoietin activity when added to heat-inactivated serum. The results show that this system of replicating hepatocytes can be used to investigate the trophic factors that control growth of normal and neoplastic hepatocytes.
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PMID:Liver regeneration studies with rat hepatocytes in primary culture. 621 20