Abstract：
:Changes in the levels of various molecular species of N-acylethanolamine in CdCl2-administered rat testis were examined. We found that the levels of various N-acylethanolamines including anandamide (N-arachidonoylethanolamine), an endogenous cannabinoid receptor ligand, were dramatically increased in CdCl2-admin-istered rat testis. Such changes were particularlyprominent for saturated and monoenoic species such as N-palmitoyl species (39-fold at 9 h) and N-stearoyl species (21-fold at 9 h), compared with unsaturated fatty acid-containing species such as anandamide (5-fold at 9 h). Noticeably, increased levels were observed of not only N-acylethanolamines but also several species of N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine, potential precursors for N-acylethanolamines. We confirmed that the rat testis microsomal fraction contains phosphodiesterase activity catalyzing the release of N-acylethanolamine from N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine and transacylase activity catalyzing the formation of N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine from phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine. These enzyme activities were not dramatically different in the microsomal fraction obtained from CdCl2-administered rat testis compared with that in the case of control rat testis, at least when estimated in cell-free assay systems, suggesting that the accessibility of the substrates to the enzymes may be increased in CdCl2-administered rat testis to generate a large amount of N-acylethanolamine. Possible pathophysiological implications of the augmented generation of N-acylethanolamine including anandamide in CdCl2-administered rat testis were discussed.
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Arch Biochem Biophysjournal_title
Archives of biochemistry and biophysicsauthors
Kondo S,Sugiura T,Kodaka T,Kudo N,Waku K,Tokumura Adoi
10.1006/abbi.1998.0688subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-06-15 00:00:00pages
303-10issue
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0003-9861issn
1096-0384pii
S0003-9861(98)90688-9journal_volume
354pub_type
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