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Query: UNIPROT:P01178 (oxytocin)
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A 26-year-old woman, gravida 1, para 0, having episodes of confusion, slurred speech, and blurred vision in pregnancy was documented to have severe hypoglycemia with elevated serum insulin and C-peptide levels. Emergency treatment for hypoglycemia was necessary several times during pregnancy. A healthy female infant was delivered after oxytocin induction of labor. Post partum the patient had numerous episodes of severe hypoglycemia in spite of constant intravenous glucose. Computerized tomographic scan of the pancreas failed to show a lesion, whereas pancreatic arteriography revealed a 2 cm mass in the tail of the pancreas. Partial pancreatectomy was performed 6 days after delivery. Microscopic examination of the tissue confirmed the presence of an insulinoma. Hypercalcemia developed together with elevated parathyroid hormone levels. The presence of an insulinoma, hypercalcemia, and a history of hyperparathyroidism in two relatives indicates that this is a case of multiple endocrine adenomatosis type I first diagnosed during pregnancy.
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PMID:Multiple endocrine adenomatosis type I in pregnancy. 197 95

Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (AVP) stimulate insulin and glucagon release from the pancreas, and evoke insulin secretion from the rat insulinoma cell line, RINm5F. To determine which AVP/OT receptor subtype is expressed in RINm5F cells, we used PCR with degenerate primers to two transmembrane domains of the AVP (V1a, V1b (or V3), V2) and OT receptors (OTRs). The single PCR fragment identified was used to obtain a full length cDNA from a RINm5F cDNA library. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of this clone with uterine OTR sequences from several species (human, sheep, bovine) and to the pig kidney epithelial cell (LLC-PK1) OTR reveals a very high degree of homology. After the RIN cell OTR cDNA was stably transfected into CHO cells (CHO-OTR), the cell membranes bound iodinated oxytocin antagonist with an apparent Kd comparable to that of RIN cell membranes and those from other OT target cells. Comparison of the ligand specificities of CHO-OTR and RIN cells membranes showed that the relative Ki values of a series of OT analogues were approximately equivalent in both preparations. The rank order of apparent Ki values also corresponded to published values for the rat myometrium, where OT elicits intracellular calcium transients, and increases inositol phosphate production. In uterin endometrium and amnion cells, OT stimulates prostaglandin release. Stimulation of CHO-OTR cells with OT caused an increase in cytosolic calcium concentration originating from both intracellular and extracellular sources, and a dose-dependent increase in inositol phosphate levels. Arachidonic acid release and PGE2 synthesis were also stimulated by OT. These findings (amino acid sequence homology, binding specificity, and signal transduction/second messenger production) suggest that OTRs from RINm5F cells are indistinguishable from OTRs that have been described in other tissues. The expression of OTR in pancreatic cells implies that OT plays a role in pancreatic function.
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PMID:Molecular cloning and functional characterization of the oxytocin receptor from a rat pancreatic cell line (RINm5F). 900 55