THYROTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE STIMULATION OF PROLACTIN-RELEASE FROM CLONAL RAT PITUITARY-CELLS - EVIDENCE FOR ACTION INDEPENDENT OF EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM
THYROTROPIN-RELEASING-HORMONE STIMULATION OF PROLACTIN-RELEASE FROM CLONAL RAT PITUITARY-CELLS - EVIDENCE FOR ACTION INDEPENDENT OF EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM
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DOI:
10.1172/jci110216
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
RUBIN, BG
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作者:
GERSHENGORN, MC;HOFFSTEIN, ST;RUBIN, BG
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) stimulates prolactin [PRL] release and 45Ca2+ efflux from GH3 cells, a clonal strain of rat pituitary cells. Elevation of extracellular K+ also induces PRL release and increases 45Ca2+ efflux from these cells. This report distinguishes between TRH and high K+ as esecretagogues and shows that TRH-induced release of PRL and 45Ca2+ efflux is independent of the extracellular Ca2+ concentration, but the effect of high K+ on PRL release and 45Ca2+ efflux is dependent on the concentration of Ca2+ in the medium. The increment in 45Ca2+ efflux induced by 50 mM K+ during perifusion was reduced in a concentration-dependent manner by lowering extracellular Ca2+ from 1500 to 0.02 .mu.M (by adding ethylene glycol-bis(.beta.-amino ethyl ether)N,N,N'',N''-tetraacetic acid; 1 .mu.M TRH enhanced 45Ca2+ efflux similarly over the entire range of extracellular Ca2+ concentrations. Although 50 mM K+ caused release of 150 ng PRL from 40 .times. 106 GH3 cells exposed to 1500 .mu.M Ca2+ (control), reduction of extracellular Ca2+ to 2.8 .mu.M decreased PRL release caused by high K+ to < 3% of controls and no PRL release was detected after exposure to 50 mM K+ in medium with 0.02 .mu.M free Ca2+. In contrast, TRH caused release of 64 ng of PRL from 40 .times. 106 GH3 cells exposed to medium with 1500 .mu.M Ca2+, and release caused by TRH was still 50 and 35% of control in medium with 2.8 and 0.02 .mu.M Ca2+, respectively. TRH transiently increased by 10-fold the fractional efflux of 45Ca2+ from GH3 cells in static incubations with 1500 or 3.5 .mu.M Ca2+, confirming that the enhanced 45Ca2+ efflux caused by TRH in both low and high Ca2+ medium was not an artifact of the perifusion system. Data obtained with chlortetracycline (CTC), a probe of membrane-bound Ca2+, were concordant with those obtained by measuring 45Ca2+ efflux. Cellular fluorescence of CTC varied with the extracellular Ca2+ concentration and the duration of incubation. TRH decreased the fluoresence of cell-associated CTC in a manner strongly suggesting stimulus-induced mobilization of Ca2+, and this effect was still demonstrable in GH3 cells incubated in 50 mM K+. Apparently, TRH acts to mobilize sequestered cell-associated Ca2+ reflected as a 45Ca2+ efflux which is independent of the extracellular Ca2+ concentration. Mobilization of sequestered Ca2+ into the cytoplasm may elevate free intracellular Ca2+ and serve to couple stimulation by TRH to secretion of PRL.