EFFECT OF ACUTE ETHANOL INVIVO AND INVITRO ON THE BETA-ENDORPHIN SYSTEM IN THE RAT
EFFECT OF ACUTE ETHANOL INVIVO AND INVITRO ON THE BETA-ENDORPHIN SYSTEM IN THE RAT
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DOI:
10.1016/0024-3205(87)90247-5
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发表时间:
1987-01-05
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影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
BARCOMB, A
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作者:
GIANOULAKIS, C;BARCOMB, A
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 lobe 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 signifiant 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.