PANCREATIC-ISLETS - A TISSUE RICH IN SEROTONIN
PANCREATIC-ISLETS - A TISSUE RICH IN SEROTONIN
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DOI:
10.2337/diab.29.4.304
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
7.7
通讯作者:
FELDMAN, JM
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作者:
BIRD, JL;WRIGHT, EE;FELDMAN, JM
Despite the fact that exogenous serotonin [S] is an inhibitor of insulin secretion in a variety of species, many investigators doubt that endogenous S plays a role in the regulation of insulin secretion. This is because, with the exception of the guinea pig, most animals do not demonstrate histochemical evidence of S in their pancreatic islets. The S content of collagenase-isolated golden hamster islets was compared with the S content of other hamster tissues known to contain S. In the S assay, S was converted to N-acetyl serotonin by N-acetyltransferase; the latter is converted to tritiated melatonin by hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase and tritiated S-adenosylmethionine. In control hamsters, the mean .+-. standard error of the mean concentration in .mu.mol/kg wet wt of islets (26.3 .+-. 9.00) was greater than that of pancreas (4.0 .+-. 0.84), anterior pituitary (6.3 .+-. 1.53), median eminence (2.5 .+-. 0.69) and cerebral cortex (1.9 .+-. 0.30). There was no significant increase in tissue S after the administration of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor tranylcypromine. When the S precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan alone was given to hamsters, there was a 22-, 31- and 5-fold increase in islet, pancreatic and anterior pituitary S, respectively. When 5-hydroxytryptophan was given to hamsters after tranylcypromine administration, there was a 58-, 73-, 14- and 10-fold increase in islet, pancreatic, anterior pituitary and median eminence S, respectively. Tissue S decreased after administration of reserpine but not after administration of p-chloro-phenylalanine. Exposure to collagenase did not alter the S concentration of pancreas or cerebral cortex in control or drug-treated hamsters. Hamsters receiving tranylcypromine plus 5-hydroxytryptophan had a higher plasma glucose concentration (266 .+-. 19 vs. 116 .+-. 8 mg/dl), lower plasma insulin concentration (19 .+-. 3 vs. 46 .+-. 8 .mu.U/ml) and lower plasma insulin/glucose ratio (0.06 .+-. 0.01 vs. 0.40 .+-. 0.06) than control hamsters. Animals whose islets do not have histochemical evidence of S may have a high S concentration by chemical analysis; large increases in islet S concentration probably inhibit pancreatic insulin secretion.