Arachidonic Acid Metabolism and Prolactin Secretion in vitro: A Possible Role for the Lipoxygenase Products
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Neuroendocrinology
- Vol. 37 (3), 212-217
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000123545
Abstract
Basal and TRH-stimulated prolactin release was investigated [in rats] in the presence of agents that influence arachidonic acid metabolism. Agents that decrease its production by blocking phospholipase A2 activity, i.e., quinacrine and 4-bromophenacylbromide, significantly decreased prolactin secretion from anterior pituitary glands in vitro and from dispersed pituitary cells in a perifusion column. Phospholipase A2 and phorbol myristate acetate, substances that increase intracellular concentrations of arachidonic acid, markedly stimulated prolactin release by dispersed pituitary cells and by anterior pituitary glands incubated in vitro. The involvement in prolactin secretion of arachidonic acid metabolic products produced via the lipoxygenase pathway was investigated indirectly using nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA), a specific inhibitor of this enzyme. NDGA progressively (dose-related) inhibited the release of prolactin in vitro and blocked the stimulating effect of 50 mM TRH on prolactin release from hemipituitary glands. Indomethacin, a specific inhibitor of the cycloxygenase pathway, had no significant effect on basal and TRH-stimulated prolactin release. Apparently, arachidonic acid metabolism is involved in basal and TRH-stimulated prolactin secretion and lipoxygenase pathway products are at least partially responsible for these effects.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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