CALCITONIN SELECTIVELY STIMULATES 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D3-1ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE IN PROXIMAL STRAIGHT TUBULE OF RAT-KIDNEY
CALCITONIN SELECTIVELY STIMULATES 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN D3-1ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE IN PROXIMAL STRAIGHT TUBULE OF RAT-KIDNEY
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DOI:
10.1038/291327a0
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
KUROKAWA, K
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KAWASHIMA, H;TORIKAI, S;KUROKAWA, K
The 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25(OH)D3)-1.alpha.-hydroxylase (1.alpha.(OH)ase) activity was previously reported to be localized exclusively in the proximal convoluted tubules (PCT) in mature vitamin D-deficient rats and that the enzyme activity was largely abolished by parathyroidectomy in the vitamin D-deficient rats with presumed secondary hyperparathyroidism. Other studies found enzyme activity in both PCT and the proximal straight tubules (PST) of the fetal rabbit kidney. Parathyroid hormone and calcitonin, when given in vivo, can stimulate the production of 1.alpha.-25(OH)2D3 from 25(OH)D3 in vitamin D-deficient rats, and their in vivo effects on the 1.alpha.(OH)ase in thyroparathyroidectomized vitamin D-deficient rats are additive, a finding consistent with different sites of action of these 2 hormones. Plasma calcitonin levels are elevated in the fetus of several mammalian species, while they are likely to be low in hypocalcaemic vitamin D-deficient rats. Apparently, calcitonin could be responsible for stimulating enzyme activity in the PST while parathyroid hormone primarily activates 1.alpha.(OH)ase in the PCT. To test this, the effect of calcitonin on the 1.alpha.(OH)ase activity in defined nephron segments of vitamin D-deficient rats was tested. Evidently the hormone selectively stimulates 1.alpha.(OH)ase activity in the PST, whereas this enzyme activity is undetectable in control vitamin D-deficient animals.