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Nohara S, Yuhi T. Prediction of agitation by olfactory function and cognitive function in hospitalized neurological disease patients. J Neurol Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2017.08.2169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Im HJ, Smirnov D, Yuhi T, Raghavan S, Olsson JE, Muscat GE, Koopman P, Loh HH. Transcriptional modulation of mouse mu-opioid receptor distal promoter activity by Sox18. Mol Pharmacol 2001; 59:1486-96. [PMID: 11353810 DOI: 10.1124/mol.59.6.1486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Previously, we reported the presence of dual promoters, referred to as distal (DP) and proximal, with a negative regulatory element between them in the mouse mu-opioid receptor (mor) gene. Here we have identified a positive regulatory element influencing mor DP transcription, which contains multiple consensus binding motifs for Sox factors (sex-determining Sry-like high mobility group box-containing genes). In gel supershift assays, the Sox family member Sox18 bound directly to the multiple Sox consensus binding motifs of the mor DP enhancer. Overexpression of Sox18 cDNA increased luciferase activity regulated by the mor DP, and did so in a Sox18 concentration-dependent manner. In contrast, overexpression of another Sox member, Sox5, triggered no such trans-activation of mor DP-driven luciferase activity or DNA-protein binding activity. These results suggest that Sox18 directly and specifically stimulates mor gene expression, by trans-activating the mor DP enhancer.
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MESH Headings
- 5' Untranslated Regions/genetics
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Animals
- Binding Sites
- CHO Cells
- Consensus Sequence/genetics
- Cricetinae
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic/genetics
- Gene Targeting
- Genes, Reporter
- HeLa Cells
- High Mobility Group Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors
- High Mobility Group Proteins/genetics
- High Mobility Group Proteins/physiology
- Humans
- Mice
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Receptors, Opioid, mu/genetics
- SOXF Transcription Factors
- Transcription Factors/antagonists & inhibitors
- Transcription Factors/genetics
- Transcription Factors/physiology
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
- Transcriptional Activation/genetics
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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Affiliation(s)
- H J Im
- Department of Pharmacology, The University of Minnesota Medical School, 6-120 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Okada K, Yuhi T, Tsuji S, Yamashita U. Cyclooxygenase-2 expression in the hippocampus of genetically epilepsy susceptible El mice was increased after seizure. Brain Res 2001; 894:332-5. [PMID: 11251211 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-8993(01)02019-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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It has been suggested that cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 and prostaglandin play a role in epilepsy. We studied the expression of COX-2 in the hippocampus and the effect of oral administration of indomethacin, a COX inhibitor, on seizure activity in genetically seizure-susceptible El mice. COX-2 protein significantly increased in the hippocampi of El mice after epileptic seizure. Indomethacin did shorten the duration from seizure onset to full recovery in El mice although the threshold and the duration of seizure were not changed.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Cyclooxygenase 1
- Cyclooxygenase 2
- Cyclooxygenase 2 Inhibitors
- Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Epilepsy, Complex Partial/drug therapy
- Epilepsy, Complex Partial/genetics
- Epilepsy, Complex Partial/metabolism
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/drug therapy
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/genetics
- Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe/metabolism
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/drug effects
- Hippocampus/enzymology
- Hippocampus/physiopathology
- Indomethacin/pharmacology
- Isoenzymes/antagonists & inhibitors
- Isoenzymes/genetics
- Isoenzymes/metabolism
- Membrane Proteins
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases/genetics
- Prostaglandin-Endoperoxide Synthases/metabolism
- Prostaglandins/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Seizures/drug therapy
- Seizures/genetics
- Seizures/metabolism
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- K Okada
- Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Yahatanishi-ku, 807-8555, Kitakyushu, Japan.
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Yanagita T, Kobayashi H, Yamamoto R, Takami Y, Yokoo H, Yuhi T, Nakayama T, Wada A. Protein kinase C and the opposite regulation of sodium channel alpha- and beta1-subunit mRNA levels in adrenal chromaffin cells. J Neurochem 1999; 73:1749-57. [PMID: 10501224 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.731749.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Our previous [3H]saxitoxin binding and 22Na influx assays showed that treatment of cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA) or phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu), an activator of protein kinase C (PKC), decreased the number of cell surface Na channels (IC50 = 19 nM) but did not alter their pharmacological properties; Na channel down-regulation developed within 3 h, reached the peak decrease of 53% at 15 h, and was mediated by transcriptional/translational events. In the present study, treatment with 100 nM TPA lowered the Na channel alpha-subunit mRNA level by 34 and 52% at 3 and 6 h, followed by restoration to the pretreatment level at 24 h, whereas 100 nM TPA elevated the Na channel beta1-subunit mRNA level by 13-61% between 12 and 48 h. Reduction of alpha-subunit mRNA level by TPA was concentration-dependent (IC50 = 18 nM) and was mimicked by PDBu but not by the biologically inactive 4alpha-TPA; it was prevented by H-7, an inhibitor of PKC, but not by HA-1004, a less active analogue of H7, or by H-89, an inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Treatment with cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, per se sustainingly increased the alpha-subunit mRNA level and decreased the beta1-subunit mRNA level for 24 h; also, the TPA-induced decrease of alpha-subunit mRNA and increase of beta1-subunit mRNA were both totally prevented for 24 h by concurrent treatment with cycloheximide. Nuclear run-on assay showed that TPA treatment did not alter the transcriptional rate of the alpha-subunit gene. A stability study using actinomycin D, an inhibitor of RNA synthesis, revealed that TPA treatment shortened the t(1/2) of alpha-subunit mRNA from 18.8 to 3.7 h. These results suggest that Na channel alpha- and beta-subunit mRNA levels are differentially down- and up-regulated via PKC; the process may be mediated via an induction of as yet unidentified short-lived protein(s), which may culminate in the destabilization of alpha-subunit mRNA without altering alpha-subunit gene transcription.
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- T Yanagita
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Kiyotake, Japan
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Yamamoto R, Wada A, Asada Y, Yanagita T, Yuhi T, Niina H, Sumiyoshi A, Kobayashi H, Lee TJ. Nitric oxide-dependent and -independent norepinephrine release in rat mesenteric arteries. Am J Physiol 1997; 272:H207-10. [PMID: 9038939 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.272.1.h207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The role of nitric oxide (NO) in endogenous norepinephrine (NE) release in the perfused isolated rat mesenteric vasculature was examined. NE overflow elicited by electrical field stimulation (EFS) at various frequencies was significantly smaller at 24 than at 37 degrees C. The pressor response upon EFS at 8 and 10 Hz, however, was higher at 24 than at 37 degrees C. When production of NO was blocked by N omega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), NE overflow upon EFS at each frequency of stimulation was diminished by 50% at 37 degrees C but remained unchanged at 24 degrees C, whereas the pressor response elicited by EFS became greater at 37 than at 24 degrees C. These effects of L-NNA were reversed by L-arginine, but not by its D-enantiomer. Sodium nitroprusside, an NO donor, increased EFS-elicited NE overflow at 24 degrees C but had no effect at 37 degrees C. These results demonstrate that NE release is NO dependent and NO independent. The NO-dependent mechanism is more sensitive to cooling than the NO-independent mechanism. The increase in EFS-elicited perfusion pressure at 24 degrees C may be due to reduction in synthesis of NO (a potent vasodilator), thus unmasking the effect of NE and other noncatecholamine vasoconstrictors.
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- R Yamamoto
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Yamamoto R, Yanagita T, Kobayashi H, Yuhi T, Yokoo H, Wada A. Up-regulation of functional voltage-dependent sodium channels by insulin in cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. J Neurochem 1996; 67:1401-8. [PMID: 8858921 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.67041401.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Treatment of cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells with 100 nM insulin raised [3H]saxitoxin ([3H]-STX) binding in a time-dependent manner (t1/2 = 26 h). Insulin (100 nM for 4 days) increased the Bmax of [3H]STX binding by 49% without changing the KD value and also augmented the maximal influx of 22Na+ due to 560 microM veratridine by 39% without altering the EC50 value of veratridine. The stimulatory effect of insulin on 22Na+ influx was concentration-dependent with an EC50 of 3 nM, whereas insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I had little effect at 1 nM. Ptychodiscus brevis toxin-3 allosterically potentiated veratridine (100 microM)-induced 22Na+ influx by approximately twofold in both insulin-treated cells and untreated cells. Veratridine-induced 45Ca2+ influx via voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels and catecholamine secretion were also enhanced by insulin treatment, whereas insulin did not alter nicotine-induced 22Na+ influx via the nicotinic receptor-ion channel complex and high-K+ (direct activation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels)-induced 45Ca2+ influx. Stimulatory effects of insulin on [3H]-STX binding and veratridine-induced 22Na+ influx were nullified by simultaneous treatment with either 5,6-dichlorobenzimidazole riboside, an inhibitor of RNA synthesis, or cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, whereas insulin treatment did not appreciably increase the level of mRNA encoding the Na+ channel alpha-subunit. These results suggest that the binding of insulin to insulin (but not IGF-I) receptors mediates the up-regulation of functional Na+ channel expression at plasma membranes; this up-regulation may be due, at least in part, to the de novo synthesis of an as yet unidentified protein(s).
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- R Yamamoto
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Receptors for atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in isolated bovine adrenal chromaffin cells were characterized. 125 I-ANP specifically bound to the cells with a Kd of 103 pM and a Bmax of 5.6 fmol/10(6) cells (16.5 fmol/mg of cell protein). C-ANF, a highly selective ligand for ANP-C receptors of natriuretic peptides, did not compete for 125 I-ANP binding at concentrations up to 10nM. Chemical cross-linking of 125I-ANP to the cells showed a single molecular size of the 120 kDa binding site on SDS gel electrophoresis under reducing conditions. CNP, a specific peptide for the ANP-B receptor, was much less potent than ANP in inhibiting 125 I-ANP binding and in displacing 125 I-ANP from the 120 kDa band. These results suggest that ANP specifically binds to the ANP-A receptor of 120 kDa and that there is no ANP-C receptor in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells.
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- H Niina
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Yanagita T, Wada A, Yamamoto R, Kobayashi H, Yuhi T, Urabe M, Niina H. Protein kinase C-mediated down-regulation of voltage-dependent sodium channels in adrenal chromaffin cells. J Neurochem 1996; 66:1249-53. [PMID: 8769891 DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.66031249.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Treatment of cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA), an activator of protein kinase C (PKC), decreased [3H]saxitoxin ([3H]STX) binding in a concentration (IC50 = 19 nM)- and time (t1/2 = 4.5 h)-dependent manner. TPA (100 nM for 15 h) lowered the Bmax of [3H]STX binding by 53% without altering the KD value. Phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDBu) also reduced [3H]STX binding, whereas 4 alpha-TPA, an inactive analogue, had no effect. The inhibitory effect of TPA was abolished when H-7 (an inhibitor of PKC), but not H-89 (an inhibitor of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase), was included in the culture medium for 1 h before and during TPA treatment. Simultaneous treatment with TPA in combination with either actinomycin D or cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, nullified the effect of TPA. TPA treatment also attenuated veratridine-induced 22Na+ influx but did not alter the affinity of veratridine for Na channels as well as an allosteric potentiation of veratridine-induced 22Na+ influx by brevetoxin. These results suggest that an activation of PKC down-regulates the density of Na channels without altering their pharmacological features; this down-regulation is mediated via the de novo synthesis of an as yet unidentified protein(s), rather than an immediate effect of Na channel phosphorylation.
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- T Yanagita
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Yuhi T, Wada A, Kobayashi H, Yamamoto R, Yanagita T, Niina H. Up-regulation of functional voltage-dependent sodium channels by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase in adrenal medulla. Brain Res 1996; 709:37-43. [PMID: 8869554 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01252-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Treatment of cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells with dbcAMP increased [3H]STX binding with an EC50 of 126 microM and a half-effective time of 12 h; dbcAMP (1 mM x 18 h) raised the Bmax approximately 1.5-fold without altering the Kd value. Forskolin (0.1 mM) or IBMX (0.3 mM) also increased [3H]STX binding, while dbcGMP had no effect. Effects of dbcAMP and forskolin were abolished by H-89, an inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Cycloheximide (10 microgram/ml) and actinomycin D (10 microgram/ml), inhibitors of protein synthesis, nullified the stimulatory effect of dbcAMP, whereas tunicamycin, an inhibitor of protein glycosylation, had no effect. Treatment with dbcAMP augmented veratridine-induced 22Na influx, 45Ca influx via voltage-dependent Ca channels and catecholamine secretion, while the same treatment did not alter 45Ca influx and catecholamine secretion caused by high K (a direct activation of voltage-dependent Ca channels) [25]. Na influx via single Na channel calculated from 22Na influx and [3H]STX binding was quantitatively similar between non-treated and dbcAMP-treated cells. Brevetoxin allosterically enhanced veratridine-induced 22Na influx approximately 3-fold in dbcAMP-treated cells as in non-treated cells. These results suggest that cAMP-dependent protein kinase is involved in the modulation of Na channel expression in adrenal medulla.
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- T Yuhi
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Wada A, Urabe M, Yuhi T, Yamamoto R, Yanagita T, Niina H, Kobayashi H. Large- and small-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels: their role in the nicotinic receptor-mediated catecholamine secretion in bovine adrenal medulla. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 1995; 352:545-9. [PMID: 8751084 DOI: 10.1007/bf00169389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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In cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells, charybdotoxin and iberiotoxin (inhibitors of the large-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel) as well as apamin (an inhibitor of the small-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel), at 1-100 nM, suppressed carbachol-induced 86RB+ efflux, augmented carbachol-induced 45Ca2+ influx via voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels and catecholamine secretion and had no effect on carbachol-induced 22Na+ influx via nicotinic receptors, a prerequisite for Ca2+ channel activation by carbachol. 45Ca2+ influx caused by high K+ (a direct activation of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels) was also enhanced by these K+ channel inhibitors, with the concentration-response curves being similar to those for carbachol-induced 45Ca2+ influx. Dendrotoxin and mast cell degranulating peptide (inhibitors of voltage-dependent K+ channels), on the other hand, did not alter carbachol-induced 86Rb+ efflux or 45Ca2+ influx. These results suggest that the stimulation of nicotinic receptors eventually opens large- and small-conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels, and that the blockade of these Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels results in gating of voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels and thereby augments catecholamine secretion from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells.
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- A Wada
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Yuhi T, Wada A, Yamamoto R, Urabe M, Niina H, Izumi F, Yanagita T. Characterization of [3H]brevetoxin binding to voltage-dependent sodium channels in adrenal medullary cells. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 1994; 350:209-12. [PMID: 7990979 DOI: 10.1007/bf00241098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have previously reported that in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells Ptychodiscus brevis toxin-3 (PbTx-3) does not alter the veratridine-induced 22Na influx when given alone, but increases the influx of 22Na when co-applied with either alpha- or beta-scorpion venom (Wada et al. 1992). In the present study, we characterized [3H]PbTx-3 binding in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. [3H]PbTx-3 binding was saturable, reversible and of high-affinity with an equilibrium dissociation constant (Kd) of 32.0 +/- 4.9 nmol/l and a maximum binding capacity (Bmax) of 6.2 +/- 1.2 pmol/4 x 10(6) cells (4.5 +/- 0.9 pmol/mg cell protein). A Hill plot revealed the lack of cooperative interaction among the binding sites. Unlabelled PbTx-3 inhibited [3H]PbTx-3 binding with an IC50 of 31 nmol/l. However, tetrodotoxin, veratridine, alpha- and beta-scorpion venom, or veratridine in combination with either alpha- or beta-scorpion venom did not alter [3H]PbTx-3 binding. All these results suggest that PbTx-3 binds to a site (site 5) distinct from the previously known four toxin binding sites, which does not gate voltage-dependent Na channels by itself, but is specifically involved in the allosteric modulation of Na channels in adrenal medullary cells.
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- T Yuhi
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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Kobayashi H, Ueno S, Tsutsui M, Okazaki M, Uezono Y, Yanagihara N, Yuhi T, Izumi F. C-type natriuretic peptide increases cyclic GMP in rat cerebral microvessels in primary culture. Brain Res 1994; 648:324-6. [PMID: 7922548 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)91135-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Effect of CNP on cGMP level in cultured rat cerebral microvessels was investigated. The cerebral microvessels were prepared from rat cerebral cortex by dispase and collagenase digestion and Percoll gradient centrifugation, and cultured. CNP increased cGMP level in a dose-dependent manner suggesting that CNP has a regulatory role in the cerebral microvessel function.
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- H Kobayashi
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Yamamoto R, Wada A, Asada Y, Yuhi T, Yanagita T, Niina H, Sumiyoshi A. Functional relation between nitric oxide and noradrenaline for the modulation of vascular tone in rat mesenteric vasculature. Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 1994; 349:362-6. [PMID: 8058108 DOI: 10.1007/bf00170881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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As previously reported, N omega-nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), an inhibitor of nitric oxide (NO) synthesis, decreased transmural field stimulation (TFS)-induced noradrenaline overflow from the isolated perfused rat mesenteric vasculature attached to the intestine. The decrease was attenuated by L-arginine. This suggests that NO may increase noradrenaline release (Yamamoto et al. 1993). The present experiments with this preparation were done in order to monitor changes in vascular perfusion pressure caused by TFS or by noradrenaline infusion in parallel with those in the noradrenaline outflow caused by TFS in the presence of atropine (0.1 mumol/l) (to block acetylcholine-induced release of endothelial NO) and of indomethacin (3 mumol/l) (to inhibit L-NNA-induced production of vasoconstrictor prostanoids). (1) TFS (2-10 Hz) caused a frequency-dependent increase in noradrenaline overflow and perfusion pressure. (2) L-NNA (10 and 30 mumol/l) caused a concentration-dependent inhibition of TFS-induced noradrenaline overflow, whereas the TFS-induced pressure increase was augmented by L-NNA in a concentration-dependent manner. At any given concentration of L-NNA, the potentiation of vasoconstriction by L-NNA became greater in magnitude as the frequency of the TFS was raised. (3) Infusion of noradrenaline (0.38-6 nmol) caused a dose-dependent increase in perfusion pressure up to a value comparable with that caused by TFS. The pressure increase in response to noradrenaline infusion was also enhanced by L-NNA, relatively, to a greater extent than the enhancement, by L-NNA, of the pressure response to TFS.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- R Yamamoto
- Department of Pharmacology, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan
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To characterize sites of action of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) in the glial cells, the effect of CNP on cGMP accumulation and the binding of [125I]CNP in rat astrocyte RCR-1 cells were studied. CNP stimulated cGMP accumulation in the cells from 10(-9) M in a dose-dependent manner, but ANP (atrial natriuretic peptide) had a negligible effect on cGMP accumulation in the cells. [125I]CNP was bound to the cells and its Kd value was 2 orders of magnitude lower than that of the ED50 value for stimulation of cGMP accumulation in the cells. Not only CNP but also ANP displaced [125I]CNP binding to the cells. These results suggest that RCR-1 cells have a B-receptor which contains a guanylate cyclase domain and is preferentially activated by CNP, and that they also have a C-receptor which does not contain a guanylate cyclase domain that reacts with both ANP and CNP.
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- H Kobayashi
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Wada A, Uezono Y, Arita M, Yuhi T, Kobayashi H, Yanagihara N, Izumi F. Cooperative modulation of voltage-dependent sodium channels by brevetoxin and classical neurotoxins in cultured bovine adrenal medullary cells. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1992; 263:1347-51. [PMID: 1335063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The effects of Ptychodiscus brevis toxin (PbTx-3) on 22Na influx, 45Ca influx and catecholamine secretion were examined in cultured bovine adrenal medullary cells and compared with the effects of classical neurotoxins. PbTx-3 alone had no effects, but greatly enhanced veratridine (30 microM)-induced Na influx, Ca influx and secretion, with a EC50 of 30, 25 and 23 nM, respectively. PbTx-3 (1 microM) reduced EC50 values of veratridine approximately 3-fold and increased the maximal responses caused by saturating concentration (300 microM) of veratridine approximately 1.3 fold. alpha- and beta-Scorpion venom shifted the concentration-response curves of veratridine to the left without altering maximal responses. PbTx-3 in combination with either alpha- or beta-scorpion venom showed only additive effects on Na influx, but augmented veratridine (30 microM)-induced Na influx to a greater extent than PbTx-3, alpha- or beta-scorpion venom alone. Na influx due to these toxins was abolished by 1 microM saxitoxin. Our results suggest that Na channels in adrenal medullary cells have neurotoxin receptors for brevetoxin that allosterically stimulate Na influx initiated by veratridine, leading to increased Ca influx and catecholamine secretion. Allosteric interactions do not exist between brevetoxin and alpha-scorpion venom, or between brevetoxin and beta-scorpion venom, but once Na channels are gated by veratridine, these toxins cooperatively augment Na influx.
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- A Wada
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Kitakyushu, Japan
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