Abstract:
:Acute ethanol treatment in vivo (i.p. injection of 3.5 g ethanol/Kg B. wt.) stimulated the release of beta-endorphin like peptides by the pituitary gland as was indicated by the increased content of beta-endorphin like immunoreactivity (beta-EPLIR) in the plasma. Furthermore, a significant decrease in the anterior lobe content of beta-EPLIR was observed, while the decrease in the neurointermediate lobe beta-EPLIR content at 45 min after the i.p. ethanol injection was not statistically significant. In vitro incubation of neurointermediate lobes, from animals injected with either ethanol or saline, in the presence of 3H phenylalanine indicated that the content of beta-EPLIR in the incubation medium was increased, the content of the newly biosynthesized 3H-phenylalanine labelled proteins in the neurointermediate lobe extract was decreased, while the content of 3H-phenylalanine labelled pro-opiomelanocortin, beta-lipotropin and beta-endorphin in the neurointermediate lobes extract were not significantly changed by the ethanol treatment, though a small increase was observed. When neurointermediate lobes from untreated control animals were incubated for 3 hrs with 3H-phenylalanine in the presence or absence of 300 mg ethanol per 100 ml incubation medium, there was no significant difference in the beta-EPLIR content in the incubation medium, or in the content of 3H-phenylalanine labelled proteins, pro-opiomelanocortin, beta-lipotropin and beta-endorphin in the neurointermediate lobe extract. These results suggest that ethanol has little or no direct effect on the beta-endorphin peptides in the pars intermedia cells.
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Life Scijournal_title
Life sciencesauthors
Gianoulakis C,Barcomb Adoi
10.1016/0024-3205(87)90247-5subject
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1987-01-05 00:00:00pages
19-28issue
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0024-3205issn
1879-0631pii
0024-3205(87)90247-5journal_volume
40pub_type
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