Substance P and vasoactive intestinal peptide influence polyamine metabolism in salivary glands of the rat.
Substance P and vasoactive intestinal peptide influence polyamine metabolism in salivary glands of the rat.
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P物质和血管活性肠肽影响大鼠唾液腺中的多胺代谢。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1748-1716.1989.tb08684.x
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发表时间:
1989
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通讯作者:
E. Rosengren
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作者:
J. Ekström;B. Nilsson;E. Rosengren
In parotid, sublingual and submaxillary glands stimulated by continuous intravenous infusion of the neuropeptides substance P or vasoactive intestinal peptide at various doses for 3 h, the concentrations of the polyamines putrescine, spermidine, spermine and N1-acetylspermidine as well as the activity of ornithine decarboxylase were determined. This enzyme catalyses the synthesis of putrescine and is the key enzyme in polyamine formation. Vasoactive intestinal peptide induced the most marked effects, and the most conspicuous findings were made in the sublingual glands, where the ornithine decarboxylase activity was found to have increased more than 100-fold, accompanied by an increased level of putrescine in those glands which were removed immediately after the end of the infusion. When, instead, the glands were removed 5 h after the end of the infusion there was no longer any increase in the activity of ornithine decarboxylase or in putrescine concentration, but now spermidine and spermine were found to be increased. Interestingly, the parasympathetic non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic regulation of polyamine metabolism in the major salivary glands of the rat is most predominant in the sublingual glands.