Parathyrin and calcitonin stimulate cyclic AMP accumulation in cultured murine brain cells.

AUTOR(ES)

Löffler, F

RESUMO

Despite the key role Ca2+ plays in the nervous system, biochemical actions on neural tissue of the Ca2+-regulating peptide hormones parathyrin and calcitonin were unknown. Until a few years ago only neurons, but not glial cells, were considered as targets for peptide hormones. Our recent observation that peptide hormones do indeed act on glial cells is extended by the present report that these cells respond to the calcaemic peptide hormones parathyrin and calcitonin. In cultured murine brain cells mainly consisting of glioblasts, parathyrin stimulates the accumulation of cyclic AMP. The half-maximal effect is elicited at 30 nM parathyrin. With rat brain cells the effects are three times those observed with mouse brain cells. Calcitonin, which is less potent than parathyrin, elevates the concentration of cyclic AMP only in rat brain cells. If properly occupied, the inhibitory receptors present on the cells lower the increase in the level of cyclic AMP evoked by parathyrin and, to some extent, that elicited by calcitonin. The results suggest that: (i) these or closely related hormones might exert regulatory functions in brain; and (ii) glial cells must be considered in discussions of the targets of the calcaemic and other peptide hormones.

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