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Isolated rat neurohypophyses were superfused in vitro and the release of vasopressin and oxytocin into the medium was determined by specific radioimmunoassays. Hormone secretion was increased by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk at different frequencies. The effects of several phorbol esters, known to activate (phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate, PDB) or not to affect (4a-phorbol 12,13-dideconate and phorbol 12-monoacetate) protein kinase C, and of the direct protein kinase C inhibitor 1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine (H7) were tested.
Electrical stimulation with 450 pulses caused the release of about 45 μU vasopressin and 55 μU oxytocin, when a frequency of 3 Hz was applied, and of about 500 μU vasopressin and oxytocin, when a frequency of 15 Hz was used.
PDB (1 gmol/l) increased the release of vasopressin evoked by 15 Hz stimulation maximally by about 40–50% and that evoked by 3 Hz stimulation by about 150%. The release of oxytocin evoked by 15 Hz stimulation was increased by about 150% and that evoked by 3 Hz stimulation by about 400–500% in the presence of PDB. Both inactive phorbol esters had no effects on the evoked release of vasopressin or oxytocin. The effect of PDB on the release of vasopressin and oxytocin was blocked by H7 (10–30μmol/1). H7 (30 μol/1) alone reduced the release of vasopressin evoked by stimulation at 15 Hz by 50%. The release of oxytocin was not significantly affected by H7. In the presence of naloxone (1 μol/1) the release of oxytocin evoked by 3 and 15 Hz stimulation was increased by about 175 and 105%, respectively. In the presence of naloxone, H7 (30 μmol/1) had no effect on the release of oxytocin evoked by stimulation at 15 Hz, but PDB caused an increase of the release of oxytocin similar to that in the absence of naloxone. Inactivation of protein kinase C by prolonged exposure of isolated neurohypophyses to PDB (1 μmol/1) for 4 h reduced the release of vasopressin evoked by stimulation at 15 Hz by about 45%.
In conclusion, activation of protein kinase C can facilitate impulse-induced hormone secretion from neurosecretory nerve endings. Under the present in vitro conditions, an endogenous activation of protein kinase C appears to be involved, in part, in the frequency-dependent facilitation of vasopressin, but not of oxytocin secretion. In addition, the inhibition of oxytocin release by endogenous opioids appears not to be associated with effects on protein kinase C.
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Abbreviations
- DMSO:
-
dimethylsulphoxide
- H7:
-
1-(5-isoquinolinylsulfonyl)-2-methyl-piperazine
- PDB:
-
phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate
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Racké, K., Burns, F., Haas, B. et al. Frequency-dependent effects of activation and inhibition of protein kinase C on neurohypophysial release of oxytocin and vasopressin. Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Arch Pharmacol 339, 617–624 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168653
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