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The influence of enkephalins on haemopoiesis was studied under conditions of stress. Administration of leu-enkephalin and dalargin to mice subjected to immobilization led to inhibition of proliferation and differentiation of haemopoietic precursor cells and to a reduction in the content of cellular elements of erythroid and granulocyte lineages of haemopoiesis. On the contrary, met-enkephalin produced a stimulating influence on the bone marrow haemopoiesis in stress. The regulatory influence of enkephalins is connected with reduction of glucocorticoid production and inhibition of migration to bone marrow of T-lymphocyte regulators of haemopoiesis of the phenotype Lyt-1+, Lyt-2+ and with the direct action on the bone marrow cells. Participation of endogenous leu-enkephalin in the haemopoiesis regulation in stress takes place at an early stage (the first 24 h) of the general adaptation syndrome formation.
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PMID:The modulating influence of enkephalins on the bone marrow haemopoiesis in stress. 227 86

Although previous studies have suggested that human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) may express pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA and synthesize its related peptides, the patho-physiological role of POMC expressed in peripheral cells is not known. In this study, we investigated the POMC gene expression in various types of human leukemia cell lines by Northern blot analysis and the reverse transcribed-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method. The POMC mRNA was not detected by Northern blot analysis in all cell lines tested except the Jurkat cell line which is derived from T-lymphoblastic leukemia. The POMC mRNA expressed in the Jurkat cells was smaller than that in the human anterior pituitary gland. The RT-PCR method revealed that a truncated-POMC transcript could be detected not only in lymphoblastic leukemia cells but also in erythroid and myeloid cells. Interestingly, two cell lines of monocytic leukemia, J-111 and U937, did not express the truncated-POMC mRNA. Treatment with concanavalin-A stimulated truncated POMC mRNA expression and ACTH-like immunoreactivity in lymphoblastic leukemia cells with T-(Jurkat) and B-(BALL-1) lymphocyte phenotypes. These results confirm that human leukemia cells except for monocytic cells express a truncated-POMC mRNA as well as in the human normal PBMC.
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PMID:Expression of truncated pro-opiomelanocortin gene transcript in human leukemia cell lines. 979 Feb 76

Erythropoietin (EPO), known primarily for its erythropoietic activity, is commonly used clinically to treat anemia of chronic kidney disease. However, the expression of EPO receptor (EpoR) beyond erythroid tissue provides for potential extrahematopoietic effects of EPO, including EPO regulation of metabolic homeostasis (Zhang et al., 2014). Small clinical studies have shown that EPO treatment in patients with end-stage renal disease improved glycemic control and insulin sensitivity. Studies in animal models have shown that EPO regulation of metabolism is mainly attributed to its response in fat, and the hypothalamus-pituitary axis (Dey et al., 2016; Dey, Scullen, & Noguchi, 2015; Teng, Gavrilova, et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2013) and is not dependent on its hematopoietic activity. EpoR expression in the hypothalamus is localized to the neurons expressing proopiomelanocortin (POMC) in the arcuate nucleus region, the most important site in the brain for the regulation of physiological energy expenditure. EPO treatment increases POMC production in anorexigenic POMC neurons in the hypothalamus. In the pituitary, EPO modulates the secretion of the POMC-derived peptide, adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) that regulates physiological and metabolic stress response. With EPO produced by cells in the brain, such as astrocytes, and with EPO-stimulated POMC expression in the hypothalamus and EPO-inhibited ACTH secretion in the pituitary, EPO signaling contributes to the hypothalamic-pituitary axis as a major regulator of glucose metabolism and energy homeostasis.
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PMID:Erythropoietin and Hypothalamic-Pituitary Axis. 2862 13