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The model of "chemical hypoxia" with KCN plus iodoacetic acid mimics the ATP depletion and reductive stress of hypoxia. Here, we examined the effects of chemical hypoxia on cytosolic free Na+ and Ca2+ in single cultured rat hepatocytes by multiparameter digitized video microscopy and ratio imaging of sodium-binding furan indicator (SBFI) and Fura-2. Intracellular Na+ increased from about 10 mM to more than 100 mM after 20 min of chemical hypoxia, whereas cytosolic free Ca2+ remained virtually unchanged. In normoxic hepatocytes, phenylephrine (50 microM) and Arg-vasopressin (20-40 nM) induced Ca2+ oscillations in 70 and 40% of cells, respectively. These Ca2+ oscillations were suppressed after one spike following the onset of chemical hypoxia. Phenylephrine and vasopressin also increased inositol phosphate formation by 22 and 147%, respectively. This effect was suppressed by KCN plus iodoacetate. Intracellular acidosis is characteristic of chemical hypoxia. Intracellular acidosis induced by 40 mM Na-acetate suppressed Ca2+ oscillations but did not inhibit hormone-induced inositol phosphate formation. Cytosolic alkalinization also suppressed Ca2+ oscillations. However, prevention of intracellular acidosis with monensin (10 microM) did not prevent suppression of Ca2+ oscillations during chemical hypoxia. Mitochondrial depolarization with uncoupler did not change free Ca2+ levels during chemical hypoxia, indicating that mitochondria do not regulate free Ca2+ during chemical hypoxia. From these results, we conclude: 1) chemical hypoxia does not block Na+ influx across the plasma membrane; 2) Chemical hypoxia inhibits hormone-stimulated Ca2+ flux pathways across cellular membranes by two different mechanisms: (a) by ATP depletion, which disrupts hormone-myo-inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate coupling, and (b) by intracellular acidosis, which inhibits myo-inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate-stimulated Ca2+ release from intracellular stores; 3) during ATP depletion by chemical hypoxia, mitochondria do not take up Ca2+ to maintain cytosolic free Ca2+ at low concentrations.
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PMID:Suppression of Ca2+ oscillations in cultured rat hepatocytes by chemical hypoxia. 193 69

Single skins were analyzed by 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy during alternate perfusion with control and experimental solutions. Intracellular (pHc) and extracellular (pHo) pH were monitored by measuring the spectral frequencies of intracellular Pi and external methylphosphonate, respectively. Base-line pHc was 7.20 +/- 0.02 (SE) when pHo was 6.99 +/- 0.02. A 4-acetamido-4'-isothiocyanostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (SITS)-inhibitable, HCO3--dependent alkaline shift in pHc can be elicited by replacing external Cl- by gluconate or sulfate. We now report that this effect is observed even in sodium-free media. The substitution of gluconate for external Cl- has also been reported to shrink cell volume. This shrinkage can be minimized by replacing Cl- with gluconate during perfusion with hypotonic, rather than isotonic, media. Conducted in this manner, the anionic substitution produces a much smaller alkaline shift in pHc. Replacement of external NaCl with N-methyl-D-glucamine chloride acidified the cells reversibly by 0.22 +/- 0.02. In the presence of the Na-H antiport blocker 5-(N-methyl-N-isobutyl)amiloride (MIA), restoration of external Na+ did not increase pHc. Separate addition of MIA acidified the cells by 0.18 +/- 0.03. Adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) also alters pHc. Addition of 1 mM 8(4-chlorophenylthio)cAMP or 100 mU/ml vasopressin acidified the cells by 0.22 +/- 0.03 and by 0.14 +/- 0.04, respectively. The data suggest that frog skin regulates pHc by the parallel operation of Na-H and Na+-independent Cl-HCO3 antiports. Cell volume and cAMP may play regulating roles in this epithelium.
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PMID:Intracellular pH in frog skin: effects of Na+, volume, and cAMP. 283 87

We have compared the immunoreactive oxytocin neurophysin from the human pineal gland with human neurohypophyseal neurophysin. The two proteins were reduced and carboxymethylated with [14C]-iodoacetic acid. Since the pineal protein was available only in a very small amount, we were obliged to use [12C]-carboxymethyl apomyoglobin as a nonalkylatable carrier. The trypsin and subtilisin digests of the two labelled proteins were compared by high-voltage electrophoresis on paper, partition paper chromatography, and high-performance liquid chromatography. The distribution of radioactivity in the above peptide separations suggests a great similarity between the two proteins and few significant differences. As far as we are aware, this study is the first attempt to analyze an extrahypophyseal neurophysin at the molecular level.
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PMID:Similarity of pituitary and pineal human oxytocin neurophysins indicated by peptide mapping after radioactive alkylation and proteolysis. 390 Jul 91

1 Amiloride inhibits Na transport and short-circuit current (SCC) across the toad bladder. It is 1000 times more active at the mucosal than serosal surface. The lowest effective concentration was 10(-7)M.2. The inhibition was non-competitive with the sodium on the mucosal side of the bladder.3. Vasopressin, cyclic adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and aldosterone increased Na transport and SCC across the bladder and these effects were inhibited by amiloride.4. The antagonism of amiloride for vasopressin was non-competitive.5. Amphotericin B also increases Na transport across the bladder but its action was not changed by amiloride.6. Amiloride was without effects on SCC and diffusion potentials in bladders metabolically inhibited with CN(-) and iodoacetic acid (IAA).7. Neither plasma albumin, Ca(2+) nor adenosine triphosphate (ATP) altered the effects of amiloride.8. The only structural analogue of amiloride found to reduce SCC similarly was guanidine which was 1000 times less active. Pyrazine and a substituted pyrazine analogue were without effect. Neither guanidine nor the substituted pyrazine compound were competitive with amiloride.9. Amiloride had no effect on the osmotic permeability of the toad bladder either in the presence or absence of vasopressin.10. Na transport across the toad colon was also reduced by 10(-5)M amiloride at the mucosal surface.11. The possible mechanism of action of amiloride is discussed.
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PMID:Amiloride: a potent inhibitor of sodium transport across the toad bladder. 564 23

Neuropeptides and their corresponding G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are increasingly implicated in the autocrine/paracrine stimulation of growth of human cancers. We report that neurotensin induced rapid Ca2+ mobilization from intracellular stores followed by Ca2+ influx in five human ductal pancreatic cancer cell lines: HPAF-II, Capan-1, Capan-2, PANC-1, and MIA PaCa-2. In addition, most cell lines exhibited Ca2+ responses to multiple neuropeptides including bombesin, bradykinin, cholecystokinin, and vasopressin and to bioactive lipids, including lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), that also act via GPCRs. The well-differentiated line HPAF-II responded to at least seven independent GPCR agonists. The concentrations of neurotensin required to induce half-maximal effects (EC50) in HPAF-II and PANC-1 cells were 5 and 8nM, respectively. Digital fluorescence image analysis to measure Ca2+ responses in single cells revealed that 90% or more of HPAF-II and PANC-1 cells responded to 10nM neurotensin. Addition of neurotensin to PANC-1 cells also induced rapid and dose-dependent extracellular-regulated protein kinase (ERK-1 and ERK-2) activation and subsequently, stimulated DNA synthesis. The signaling complexity of GPCRs uncovered by these studies reveals a new aspect in the biology of human pancreatic cancer and could offer the basis for new approaches to the treatment of this disease.
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PMID:G protein-coupled receptor signaling in human ductal pancreatic cancer cells: neurotensin responsiveness and mitogenic stimulation. 1114 14