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Evidence in vivo indicates that endogenous and exogenous prostaglandins can alter gastrin secretion. We have used primary cultures containing canine antral G-cells to study the cellular actions of prostaglandins on gastrin secretion, comparing the effects of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and its synthetic analogue enprostil. Enprostil (10(-10)-10(-6) M) inhibited gastrin secretion in response to bombesin, carbachol, and forskolin, the latter a receptor-independent activator of adenylate cyclase. This inhibition by enprostil was reversed by treatment with pertussis toxin (200 ng/ml, 8 h). However, enprostil did not inhibit the postreceptor stimuli 8-bromoadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (10(-3) M), calcium ionophore A-23187 (10(-7) M), or 4 beta-phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (10(-8) M). In contrast, whereas PGE2 inhibited forskolin-stimulated gastrin release, PGE2 did not inhibit the response to carbachol or bombesin in control cultures. However, in pertussis toxin-treated cultures, PGE2 inhibition was reversed and, in contrast, the responses to bombesin, carbachol, and possibly forskolin were augmented. Indomethacin at a dose of 10(-5) M did not alter basal or bombesin-stimulated gastrin secretion. However, the somatostatin antibody CURE-S6 enhanced the response to forskolin and enhanced inhibition by PGE2, suggesting that endogenous somatostatin produced an inhibitory tone in these cultures and excluding the possibility that PGE2 acted via release of endogenous somatostatin. Our data suggest that in cultured antral cells gastrin release is regulated by inhibitory and stimulatory prostaglandin mechanisms.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effects of prostaglandins on gastrin release from canine antral mucosal cells in primary culture. 814 Dec 91

The H(+)-K(+)-adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) is expressed in the parietal cell and is responsible for acid secretion by the stomach. Histamine binds to an H2 receptor and activates adenylate cyclase and intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) elevation, stimulating acid secretion. It has been shown that omeprazole administered to rats increases serum gastrin and transiently increases the level of mRNA for the alpha-subunit of the pump, but this increase is blocked by the presence of the H2-receptor antagonist, famotidine [A. Tari, G. Yamamoto, K. Sumii, M. Sumii, Y. Takehara, K. Haruma, G. Kajiyama, V. Wu, G. Sachs, and J. H. Walsh. Am. J. Physiol. 265 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 28): G752-G758, 1993]. These observations suggest that the release of histamine induced by gastrin is essential for the increase of the expression of mRNA induced by omeprazole. Infusion of histamine at 15 mumol.kg-1.h-1 i.v. for 1 h increased the alpha-subunit mRNA level by 144 +/- 2.4% and induced a stimulated morphological appearance of the parietal cell. These changes were inhibited completely by the competitive H2-receptor antagonist famotidine, which elevated gastric pH and serum gastrin. Famotidine also reduced the level of H(+)-K(+)-ATPase mRNA compared with control animals. No change in the expression of beta-actin mRNA was observed in any group of animals. These data provide direct evidence for histamine stimulation of H(+)-K(+)-ATPase alpha-subunit gene expression by activation of the H2 receptor.
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PMID:Effect of histamine on rat gastric H(+)-K(+)-ATPase alpha-subunit expression. 816 83

The effect in vitro of gastrin-17 and gastrin-34 was studied at concentrations from 10(-12) to 10(-6) M on several functions of resting peritoneal macrophages from BALB/c mice: adherence to substrate, mobility (spontaneous and directed by chemical gradient or chemotaxis), and ingestion of inert particles (latex beads) or cells (Candida albicans). Both gastrins, at concentrations from 10(-10) to 10(-8) M, inhibited significantly all functions studied with the exception of adherence, which was increased. A dose-response relationship was observed, with a maximum inhibition of macrophage functions found at 10(-9) M. These peptides induced in murine macrophages a significant increase of cAMP levels at 60 and 120 s. Adenosine, an adenylate cyclase inhibitor, significantly increased the ingestion of latex beads, whereas the combined presence of adenosine and either G-17 or G-34 produced similar values to those of control samples without adenosine or gastrin. These results suggest that gastrin is a negative modulator of several macrophage functions, and that the inhibition of these activities is carried out through an increase of intracellular cAMP levels.
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PMID:Modulation of murine peritoneal macrophage functions by gastrin. 880 24

The occurrence and distribution of adrenergic, peptidergic and nitrergic nerve fibers were investigated within the part of the rat urethra that corresponds to the external urethral sphincteric mechanism. At this level, the urethral wall was found to be composed of the following layers: mucosa/urothelium, lamina propria, smooth muscle, mixed smooth and striated muscle and striated muscle. Nerve fibers containing immunoreactivity against either nitric oxide synthase (NOS) or any of the following peptides were visualised in various amounts in all three muscle layers of rats of both sexes: neuropeptide Y (NPY), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP), substance P (SP), cholecystokinin (CCK), gastrin releasing peptide (GRP) and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide. (PACAP) Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), marker for nonadrenergic nerves, was only found in nerve fibers of the smooth and mixed muscle layers, while enkephalin 8 (ENK-8) was only found in the striated muscle layer. The great number of putative neuromessengers and different nerve fiber populations suggest a complex innervation pattern of the sphincter area.
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PMID:Distribution of neuropeptide-, tyrosine hydroxylase- and nitric oxide synthase containing nerve fibers in the external urethral sphincter of the rat. 890 70

ECL cells are numerous in the acid-producing part of the rat stomach. They are rich in histamine and pancreastatin, a chromogranin A-derived peptide, and they secrete these products in response to gastrin. We have examined how isolated ECL cells respond to a variety of neuromessengers and peptide hormones. Highly purified (85%) ECL cells were collected from rat stomach using repeated counter-flow elutriation and cultured for 48 h before experiments were conducted. The ECL cells responded to gastrin, sulphated cholecystokinin-8 and to high K+ and Ca2+ with the parallel secretion of histamine and pancreastatin. Glycine-extended gastrin was without effect. Forskolin, an activator of adenylate cyclase, induced secretion, whereas isobutylmethylxanthine, a phosphodiesterase inhibitor, raised the basal release without enhancing the gastrin-evoked stimulation. Maximum stimulation with gastrin resulted in the release of 30% of the secretory products. Numerous neuromessengers and peptide hormones were screened for their ability to stimulate secretion and to inhibit gastrin-stimulated secretion. Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP)-27 and -38 stimulated secretion of both histamine and pancreastatin with a potency greater than that of gastrin and with the same efficacy. Related peptides, such as vasoactive intestinal peptide, helodermin and helospectin, stimulated secretion with lower potency. The combination of EC100 gastrin and EC50 PACAP produced a greater response than gastrin alone. None of the other neuropeptides or peptide hormones tested stimulated secretion. Serotonin, adrenaline, noradrenaline and isoprenaline induced moderate secretion at high concentrations. Muscarinic receptor agonists did not stimulate secretion, and histamine and selective histamine receptor agonists and antagonists were without effect. This was the case also with GABA, aspartate and glutamate. Somatostatin and galanin, but none of the other agents tested, inhibited gastrin-stimulated secretion. Our results reveal that not only gastrin but also PACAP is a powerful excitant of the ECL cells, that not only somatostatin, but also galanin can suppress secretion, that muscarinic receptor agonists fail to evoke secretion, and that histamine (and pancreastatin) does not evoke autofeedback inhibition.
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PMID:Neurohormonal regulation of histamine and pancreastatin secretion from isolated rat stomach ECL cells. 941 89

The parietal cell has three types of activating receptors for acid secretion on its basolateral membrane, i.e., histamine H2, acetylcholine M3, and gastrin CCKB. Activation of acid secretion is achieved by two concomitant functional changes namely: (i) tubulovesicles fuse with the apical secretory membrane, thus recruiting functional pumps to the expanded microvillar surface, and (ii) the apical membrane acquires a permeability to KCl. The major path for parietal cell stimulation is via H2-receptor-mediated adenylate cyclase and elevation of cAMP to activate protein kinase A (PKA), which phosphorylates key effector proteins, e.g., ezrin, a membrane-cytoskeletal linker, apical Cl- or K(+)-channels. Ca2+ is liberated from intracellular stores by IP3, which in turn is the result of M3-, CCKB-, or possibly H2-coupled activation of phospholipase C. The resulting protein kinase C activation may have both inhibitory and excitatory roles. Elevated Ca2+ activates calmodulin-dependent kinases, e.g., calmodulin kinase II and myosin light chain kinase, that could promote vesicular motor activity. Ezrin is considered to play a main role in the vesicular transport system of the parietal cell. The regulation might be conducted through the phosphorylation of the molecule to modify its property to interact with the cytoskeletal components, membranes or membrane proteins.
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PMID:[Signal transduction and intracellular recruitment of gastric proton pump in the parietal cell]. 950 88

Examination of neuropeptide families can provide information about phyletic relationships and evolutionary processes. In this article the oxytocin/vasopressin family, growth hormone releasing factor (GRF) superfamily and the substance P/tachykinin family have been considered in detail because they have been isolated from an extraordinarily diverse array of species from several vertebrate classes and invertebrate phyla. More important is that the nucleotide sequence of mRNA or cDNA encoding many of these peptides has been determined, which has allowed evolutionary distances to be estimated based on the DNA mutation rate. The origin of a given family lies in a primordial gene that arose many millions of years ago, and through time, exon duplication and insertion, gene duplication, point mutation and exon loss, the family developed into the forms that are now recognised. For example, in birds, GRF and pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP) are encoded by the same gene, which probably arose as a result of exon duplication and tandem insertion of the ancestral GRF gene. In mammals GRF is the sole product on one gene, and PACAP is the product of a gene that also produces PACAP-related peptide (PRP), which is homologous to GRF. Thus it appears that between birds and mammals the GRF/PACAP gene duplicated: exon loss gave rise to the mammalian GRF gene, while mutation led to the formation of the mammalian PRP/PACAP gene. The neuropeptide Y superfamily is considered briefly, as is cionin, which is an invertebrate peptide that is closely related to the mammalian gastrin/cholecystokinin family.
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PMID:Neuropeptide families: evolutionary perspectives. 953 70

Bicarbonate excretion in bile is a major function of the biliary epithelium. It is driven by the apically located Cl-/HCO3- exchanger which is functionally coupled with a cAMP-dependent Cl- channel (CFTR). A number of hormones and/or neuropeptides with different mechanisms and at different intracellular levels regulate, in concert, the processes underlying bicarbonate excretion in the biliary epithelium. Secretin induces a bicarbonate rich choleresis by stimulating the activity of the Cl-/HCO3- exchanger by cAMP and protein kinase A mediated phosphorylation of CFTR regulatory domain. Protein phosphatase 1/2A are involved in the run-down of secretory stimulus after secretin removal. Acetylcholine potentiates secretin-choleresis by inducing a Ca(++)-calcineurin mediated "sensitization" of adenyl cyclase to secretin. Bombesin and vasoactive intestinal peptide also enhance the Cl-/HCO3- exchanger activity, but the intracellular signal transduction pathway has not yet been defined. Somatostatin and gastrin inhibit basal and/or secretin-stimulated bicarbonate excretion by down-regulating the secretin receptor and decreasing cAMP intracellular levels induced by secretin.
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PMID:Hormonal regulation of bicarbonate secretion in the biliary epithelium. 962 62

1. The present study examines the effect of naturally occurring prostanoids and prostaglandin (PG) congeners on gastrin- and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP)-evoked histamine and pancreastatin secretion from isolated rat stomach ECL cells. 2. ECL cells (75-85% purity) were isolated from rat stomach using pronase digestion followed by repeated counter-flow elutriation and cultured for 48 h before secretion experiments. The release of histamine and pancreastatin was determined by radioimmunoassay. 3. None of the PGs tested stimulated the release of either histamine or pancreastatin. 4. PGE1 and PGE2 inhibited both gastrin- and PACAP-evoked histamine and pancreastatin secretion (IC50 = 1-2 x 10(-10) M). Most other naturally occuring prostanoids and PG congeners had no or little inhibitory effect. The PGE analogues misoprostol and sulprostone were more potent (IC50 = 0.9 x 10(-11) M and 2 x 10(-11) M respectively) than PGE1 and PGE2. The rank order of potency was misoprostol > sulprostone > PGE1 = PGE2, suggesting the involvement of the so-called EP3 receptor. 5. The effects of PGs on the stomach ECL cells may be direct or indirect, for instance through the stimulated release of somatostatin from contaminating D cells (2-3%). However, the amount of somatostatin in the cell culture after 48 h was below the limit of detection, and somatostatin immunoneutralization did not prevent misoprostol from inhibiting secretion from the ECL cells. 6. The misoprostol-induced inhibition was reversed by pertussis toxin suggesting the involvement of G-protein subunits G alpha(0) and/or G alpha(i). 7. In view of the potency by which PGE1, PGE2, misoprostol and sulprostone inhibited the stimulated release of histamine and pancreastatin, we suggest that the ECL cells represent a primary target for prostaglandins acting via an EP3 receptor in the oxyntic mucosa. 8. The results suggest that the clinically useful effect of misoprostol as an anti-ulcer drug reflects its ability to inhibit stomach ECL-cell histamine secretion.
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PMID:Prostaglandins inhibit secretion of histamine and pancreastatin from isolated rat stomach ECL cells. 972 Aug 5

Substance P (SP) has been shown to induce phosphatidylinositol (PI) hydrolysis and Ca2+ mobilization in AR42J cells. In this study, we confirmed the expression of NK1 but not NK2 or NK3 receptors in this cell line, and further investigated signaling pathways via NK1 receptors and their desensitization. The activation of NK1 receptors by SP affected neither basal cyclic AMP level nor cyclic AMP accumulation induced by secretin and forskolin, although it stimulated PI hydrolysis. Furthermore, SP induced Ca2+ mobilization even in the absence of extracellular Ca2+, though maximal response was reduced. U73122, a phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor, nearly abolished Ca2+ response to SP. In addition, SP-induced Ca2+ signaling and PI hydrolysis rapidly desensitized following short exposure to SP, which did not affect the Ca2+ amount in intracellular Ca2+ stores or Ca2+ responses to carbachol and gastrin releasing peptide-10. These findings suggested that NK1 receptors do not couple to adenylate cyclase, although they induce PI response, and that NK1 receptors induce both intracellular Ca2+ release and Ca2+ influx through PLC activation. Ca2+ signaling and PI hydrolysis through NK1 receptors desensitized rapidly after the stimulation, maybe dependent on the modification of NK1 receptors.
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PMID:Signaling pathways via NK1 receptors and their desensitization in an AR42J cell line. 980 48


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