Abstract:
:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 (PACAP38) is a neuropeptide related to vasoactive intestinal peptide-secretin-glucagon which stimulates adenylate cyclase in cultured rat pituitary cells and stimulates LH and FSH release in vitro and in vivo. Because the cAMP-protein kinase-A pathway regulates the gonadotropin subunit messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and modulates GnRH-stimulated gonadotropin secretion in vitro, we examined the effects of PACAP38 on gonadotropin secretion and subunit mRNA levels. Anterior pituitary cells were prepared from 7-week-old male rats castrated at 5 weeks of age. In monolayer cultures stimulated with GnRH, 0.1-10 nM PACAP38 decreased (P < 0.05) the EC50 for GnRH dose-dependently without affecting the maximum LH secretory response. Cells were next stimulated with 1-min pulses of 2.5 nM GnRH every hour for 9 h in the absence or presence of 10 nM PACAP38, which was perifused continuously. The amplitude of GnRH-induced LH, FSH, and alpha-subunit secretory episodes from PACAP38-treated cells rose (P < 0.01) gradually to 233 +/- 54%, 197 +/- 44%, and 378 +/- 104%, respectively (mean +/- SEM; n = 5 experiments), of the value for control cells lacking PACAP38. This enhancement was sustained for at least 3 h after PACAP38 was removed from the perifusion medium. With PACAP treatment, interpulse secretion of LH and alpha-subunit increased gradually (P < 0.01) to 174 +/- 21% and 212 +/- 64% of the value for chambers stimulated with GnRH alone (control), respectively, whereas interpulse secretion of FSH declined (P < 0.001) to 75 +/- 7% of the control value. In contrast to the gradual effect of PACAP38 to enhance GnRH-induced hormone secretion, PACAP38 alone produced a transient burst of gonadotropin secretion. At the completion of the perifusions, total RNA was extracted and gonadotropin subunit mRNA levels were determined by Northern analysis. GnRH increased (P < 0.01) FSH beta mRNA to 438 +/- 52% of the level in cells stimulated with medium alone (control). Adding PACAP38 to the perifusion medium partially blocked (P < 0.01) the effect of GnRH (178 +/- 20% of the control value), and PACAP38 alone reduced (P < 0.01) FSH beta mRNA levels to 31 +/- 3% of the control value. By contrast, alpha-subunit mRNA levels were increased by both PACAP38 (143 +/- 4% of the control value; P < 0.01) and GnRH (121 +/- 2% of the control value; P < 0.05).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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Endocrinologyjournal_title
Endocrinologyauthors
Tsujii T,Ishizaka K,Winters SJdoi
10.1210/endo.135.3.7915230subject
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1994-09-01 00:00:00pages
826-33issue
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0013-7227issn
1945-7170journal_volume
135pub_type
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