Effect of Forskolin and Prostaglandin E1 on Stimulus Secretion Coupling in Cultured Bovine Adrenal Chromaffin Cells
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 50 (2), 616-623
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1988.tb02955.x
Abstract
Treatment of adrenal chromaffin cells with forskolin (0.1-10 .mu.M) stimulated cyclic AMP levels, reduced the maximal stimulation of release of noradrenaline by nicotine, and increased release in response to elevated external potassium and the calcium ionophore A23187. The presence of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor Ro 20-17-24 with forskolin potentiated both the stimulation of cyclic AMP and the inhibition of nicotine-induced noradrenaline release. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and the elevation of cyclic AMP with prostaglandin E1, also attenuated nicotine-stimulated release. However, when the stimulation of intracellular cyclic AMP production by prostaglandin E1 was potentiated by low levels of forskolin, there was not a concomitant potentiation of effect on noradrenaline release. Dideoxyforskolin, an analogue of forskolin which does not stimulate adenylate cyclase, inhibited both potassium- and nicotine-stimulated release, probably by a mechanism unrelated to the action of forskolin in these experiments. Using Fura-2 to estimate free intracellular calcium levels, both forskolin and dideoxyforskolin (at 10 .mu.M) reduced the calcium transient in response to nicotine. These results support a model in which elevation of cyclic AMP inhibits the activation of nicotinic receptors, but augments stimulus secretion coupling downstream of calcium entry.The data, however, do not indicate a simple relationship between total intracellular cyclic AMP levels and the attenuatsion of nicotinic stimulation of release.Keywords
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