Evidence for Paracrine Signaling Between Macrophages and Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cell Ca2+Channels
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The adrenal gland contains resident macrophages, some of which lie adjacent to the catecholamine producing chromaffin cells. Because macrophages release a variety of secretory products, it is possible that paracrine signaling between these two cell types exists. Of particular interest is the potential paracrine modulation of voltage-gated calcium channels (I(Ca)), which are the main calcium influx pathway triggering catecholamine release from chromaffin cells. We report that prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)), one of the main signals produced by macrophages, inhibited I(Ca) in cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells. The inhibition is rapid, robust, and voltage dependent; the activation kinetics are slowed and inhibition is largely reversed by a large depolarizing prepulse, suggesting that the inhibition is mediated by a direct G-protein betagamma subunit interaction with the calcium channels. About half of the response to PGE(2) was sensitive to pertussis toxin (PTX) incubation, suggesting both PTX-sensitive and -insensitive G proteins were involved. We show that activation of macrophages by endotoxin rapidly (within minutes) releases a signal that inhibits I(Ca) in chromaffin cells. The inhibition is voltage dependent and partially PTX sensitive. PGE(2) is not responsible for this inhibition as blocking cyclooxygenase with ibuprofen did not prevent the production of the inhibitory signal by the macrophages. Nor did blocking the lipoxygenase pathway with nordihydroguaiaretic acid alter production of the inhibitory signal. Our results suggest that macrophages may modulate I(Ca) and catecholamine secretion by releasing PGE(2) and other chemical signal(s).Keywords:
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Pertussis toxin was found to stimulate catecholamine release from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells in a Ca 2+ ‐dependent manner and in the absence of any stimulatory or inhibitory agonists for this cell. The release of catecholamine was associated with the ADP‐ribosylation of an approx. 40 kDa protein present in the total membrane fraction. These results are consistent with the existence of an exocytosis‐linked G‐protein.
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We have shown previously, acute intraperitoneal administration of 2-deoxy-d-glucose (2DG) into Sprague-Dawley rats led to activation of the adrenal medulla chromaffin cells, indicated with increased protein kinase activity and increased tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) phosphorylation, as well as increased plasma adrenaline and glucose levels. Here we have used spontaneous hypertensive (SHR) and Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats to investigate whether hypertension alters basal adrenal chromaffin cell function, or the response of these cells to acute 2DG treatment. At basal level, we found no differences in adrenal medulla TH protein, TH phosphorylation, TH activity or catecholamine levels between SHR and WKY despite a significant difference in the level of systolic blood pressure; nor were there differences in plasma catecholamine levels or blood glucose (BG). Furthermore, the vehicle animals evoked no significant changes in any parameter measured in SHR, but evoked significant increases in pSer19TH, plasma adrenaline and BG in WKY. Single episode of glucoprivation evoked increases in PKA and CDK/MAPK, pSer40TH, pSer31TH, TH activity, and plasma adrenaline and BG in SHR, and in addition evoked increases in PKC, CAMKII, and pSer19TH in WKY. These findings are significant which indicates hypertension does not impact catecholamine function in the adrenal gland. It also appears that hypertension does not alter the adrenal response to glucoprivation. The findings are also significant as WKY showed greater adrenal activation of protein kinases and TH phosphorylation in response to saline and 2DG when compared to SHR and possible reasons for these findings are further discussed.
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Journal Article Direct secretagogue effect of corticotropin-releasing factor on the rat adrenal cortex: the involvement of the zona medullaris Get access P G Andreis, P G Andreis 1Department of Anatomy, University of Padua, Italy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G Neri, G Neri 1Department of Anatomy, University of Padua, Italy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G Mazzocchi, G Mazzocchi 1Department of Anatomy, University of Padua, Italy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar F Musajo, F Musajo 1Department of Anatomy, University of Padua, Italy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G G Nussdorfer G G Nussdorfer 1Department of Anatomy, University of Padua, Italy. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Endocrinology, Volume 131, Issue 1, 1 July 1992, Pages 69–72, https://doi.org/10.1210/endo.131.1.1319330 Published: 01 July 1992
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SUMMARY To evaluate the effect of changes in plasma catecholamines on the pituitary‐adrenal response to ovine corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) in normal man, the response to CRF alone (10 subjects) was compared with responses after infusions of adrenaline (6 subjects), noradrenaline (6 subjects) and after oral administration of the α 2 agonist clonidine (10 subjects). Compared to control levels, plasma adrenaline and noradrenaline concentrations were increased three‐ and four‐fold respectively by exogenous infusions, whereas plasma noradrenaline was significantly lowered by clonidine. Despite these changes in plasma catecholamine levels, the responses of plasma ACTH, cortisol and aldosterone to CRF did not differ significantly from control (CRF alone) in any of the three studies. Neither clonidine pretreatment nor catecholamine infusions altered basal levels of plasma ACTH, cortisol or aldosterone and no effect of CRF or catecholamine manipulations on plasma arginine vasopressin concentration was observed. These results show that modulation of peripheral plasma catecholamine levels within physiological limits does not affect CRF‐stimulated release of ACTH or the adrenal response in normal man.
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Liu J, Heikkilä P, Voutilainen R, Karonen S-L, Kahri AI, Pheochromocytoma expressing adrenocorticotropin and corticotropin-releasing hormone; regulation by glucocorticoids and nerve growth factor. Eur J Endocrinol 1994;131:221–8. ISSN 0804–4643 A pheochromocytoma from a 59-year-old woman was found to be immunoreactive to adrenocorticotropin (ACTH), chromogranin, neurofilament-200, neuron-specific enolase and S-100 protein. Northern blot analysis showed that both proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) genes were expressed in the pheochromocytoma but not in the surrounding adrenal cortex. In primary culture, the POMC and CRH mRNAs were increased by dexamethasone (500 μg/l for 3 days) up to 10- and 15-fold of the control, respectively. The secretion of ACTH also was stimulated eightfold with the same treatment. The stimulatory effect of dexamethasone on POMC gene expression was inhibited 70% by nerve growth factor (NGF, 200 μg/l), 30% by 12- O -tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA, 160 nmol/l) (a protein kinase-C activator) and 30% by (Bu) 2 cAMP (1 mmol/ 1). On the other hand, NGF alone increased the CRH mRNA accumulation up to 10-fold, and further enhanced the stimulatory effect of dexamethasone on the CRH mRNA twofold, and TPA inhibited (30%) the dexamethasone-induced CRH mRNA accumulation. Furthermore, the conditioned medium of the pheochromocytoma cells increased secretion of corticosterone fourfold in the primary culture of rat fetal adrenal cells. Our results indicate abnormal expression and regulation of POMC and CRH genes in this pheochromocytoma. Arvi I Kahri, Department of Pathology, PO Box 21 (Haartmaninkatu 3), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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We investigated the effects of an intrafetal infusion of IGF-I on adrenal growth and expression of the adrenal steroidogenic and catecholamine-synthetic enzyme mRNAs in the sheep fetus during late gestation. Fetal sheep were infused for 10 d with either IGF-I (26 microg/kg.h; n = 14) or saline (n = 10) between 120 and 130 d gestation, and adrenal glands were collected for morphological analysis and determination of the mRNA expression of steroidogenic and catecholamine-synthetic enzymes. Fetal body weight was not altered by IGF-I infusion; however, adrenal weight was significantly increased by 145% after IGF-I infusion. The density of cell nuclei within the fetal adrenal cortex (the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata), and within the adrenaline synthesizing zone of the adrenal medulla, was significantly less in the IGF-I-infused fetuses compared with the saline-infused group. Thus, based on cell-density measurements, there was a significant increase in cell size in the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex and in the adrenaline-synthesizing zone of the adrenal medulla. There was no effect of IGF-I infusion on the adrenal mRNA expression of the steroidogenic or catecholamine-synthetic enzymes or on fetal plasma cortisol concentrations. In summary, infusion of IGF-I in late gestation resulted in a marked hypertrophy of the steroidogenic and adrenaline-containing cells of the fetal adrenal in the absence of changes in the mRNA levels of adrenal steroidogenic or catecholamine-synthetic enzymes or in fetal plasma cortisol concentrations. Thus, IGF-I infusion results in a dissociation of adrenal growth and function during late gestation.
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