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Effect of adrenergic and Ca2+ antagonists on increased ornithine decarboxylase expression in regenerating rat liver.

Abstract：

:Partial hepatectomy (PH) (70% resection) causes within 4 hr an accumulation of ornithine decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.17, ODC) mRNAs concomitant with an increase in ODC activity, maximum values being observed at 8 and 16 hr, respectively. In the early hours of hepatic regeneration, enhancement of transcriptional-rate of ODC gene, demonstrated by nuclear run-on analysis, can account for the accumulation of ODC mRNAs. The involvement of catecholamines in these processes is demonstrated by using prazosin and propranolol, specific antagonists of alpha 1 and beta adrenoceptors, respectively. Prazosin reduces almost completely the rise of ODC activity at 4 hr, without affecting mRNA levels. At 16 hr, enzyme activity and mRNAs increase, however, over the values observed in regenerating liver of prazosin-untreated animals. These findings suggest that alpha 1-receptor activation triggers positive control signals for ODC gene expression at the early time of liver regeneration and, on the contrary, negative signals at later times by mainly post-transcriptional and transcriptional mechanisms, respectively. Propranolol reduces similarly the initial 4 hr-rise of ODC activity. These results indicate that activation of both alpha 1- and beta-adrenoceptors causes the large increase in ODC activity. Pharmacological manipulation of intracellular Ca2+ levels by verapamil, a Ca2(+)-channel blocker, or neomycin, an inhibitor of Ca2+ release from endogenous stores, diminishes ODC activity at 4 and 16 hr after PH. ODC mRNA levels, which are not modified at 4 hr, increase over the values of partially hepatectomized rat liver at 16 hr. Trifluoperazine inhibits both ODC activity and mRNA accumulation at the times studied. As a working hypothesis it is proposed that Ca2(+)-mediated processes induced by catecholamines are involved in ODC gene expression during the prereplicative phase of liver regeneration.

journal_name

Biochem Pharmacol

journal_title

Biochemical pharmacology

authors

Desiderio MA,Lugaro G,Galasso D,Colombo MP

doi

10.1016/0006-2952(90)90462-t

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-10-01 00:00:00

pages

1605-13

issue

eissn

0006-2952

issn

1873-2968

pii

0006-2952(90)90462-T

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Effect of adrenergic and Ca2+ antagonists on increased ornithine decarboxylase expression in regenerating rat liver.