Regulation of cyclic AMP formation in brain tissue by alpha-adrenergic receptors: requisite intermediacy of prostaglandins of the E series.
AUTOR(ES)
Partington, C R
RESUMO
The accumulations of cyclic AMP elicited by norepinephrine in slices of rat cerebral cortex or hypothalamus were markedly reduced after incubations with prostaglandin synthetase (8,11,14-eicosatrienoate, hydrogen-donor:oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.14.99.1) inhibitors such as indomethacin, aspirin, flufenamic acid, and acetoaminophen. Responses of cyclic AMP-generating systems to beta-adrenergic agonists or adenosine were unchanged by treatment with indomethacin and the reduction in the norepinephrine response appeared due primarily to a loss of the alpha-adrenergic component. The accumulation of cyclic AMP elicited by prostaglandin E2 [mean effective dose (EC50) 4 micro M] was increased by 2-fold by treatment with indomethacin. The alpha-adrenergic component of the norepinephrine response was fully restored by very low concentrations of prostaglandin E2 (EC50 20 nM). Prostaglandins of the F series had no effect on cyclic AMP generation under a variety of conditions. It appears that low levels of prostaglandins of the E series are required--perhaps by a calcium-dependent mechanism--for the expression of alpha-adrenergic receptor-mediated activation of cyclic AMP formation in brain tissue.
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