Induction by the calcium ionophore A23187 of a protective effect against cell injury in cultured gastric mucosal cells

1989 ◽  
Vol 38 (24) ◽  
pp. 4419-4423
Author(s):  
Mizushima Yukio
Keyword(s):  
Protective Effect ◽  
Cell Injury ◽  
Calcium Ionophore ◽  
Calcium Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Gastric Mucosal Cells ◽  
Mucosal Cells

Effect of extracellular Ca2+ on indomethacin-induced injury to rabbit dispersed gastric mucosal cells

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. L. Tepperman ◽  
B. D. Soper
Keyword(s):  
Incubation Medium ◽  
Trypan Blue ◽  
Cell Injury ◽  
Cell Damage ◽  
Cellular Damage ◽  
Blue Dye ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Dye Uptake ◽  
Gastric Mucosal Cells ◽  
Mucosal Cells

The effects of extracellular Ca2+ on indomethacin-induced disruption to rabbit dispersed gastric mucosal cells have been examined. Fundic mucosal cells were isolated, and cellular viability and disruption were assessed by the release of the lysosomal enzyme acid phosphatase and by trypan blue dye exclusion. Addition of the Ca2+ ionophore A23187 (12.5 and 25 μM) and indomethacin (0.1–10 μM) to the incubation medium induced concentration-dependent increases in enzyme marker release and trypan blue dye uptake in the cells. The resultant cellular disruption in response to incubation of cells with combinations of indomethacin and A23187 was not significantly different from that observed when the agents were administered separately. The degree of cell injury was reduced by removal of Ca2+ from the incubation medium. Similarly preincubation with the Ca2+ channel antagonist verapamil (1 μM) reduced A23187- and indomethacin-induced cell injury. Both A23187 (25 μM) and indomethacin (10 μM) treatments increased cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i). Pretreatment of cells with 16,16-dimethylprostaglandin E2 (0.1–10 μM) reduced both indomethacin (10 μM) induced cellular damage and the elevation in [Ca2+]i. These data suggest that indomethacin-induced disruption of gastric mucosal cells is dependent to some extent upon extracellular Ca2+. An inappropriate Ca2+ flux may contribute to indomethacin-induced damage to gastric mucosal cells.Key words: ionophore A23187, indomethacin, prostaglandin, calcium, cell damage.

Growth factors and the primary cilium in BALB/c 3T3 cells

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 830-831
Author(s):  
R. W. Tucker ◽  
N. S. More ◽  
S. Jayaraman
Keyword(s):  
Growth Factors ◽  
Primary Cilium ◽  
Cultured Cells ◽  
Morphological Changes ◽  
Calcium Ionophore ◽  
Growth Stimulation ◽  
Calcium Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
3T3 Cells ◽  
Microtubule Depolymerization

The mechanisms by which polypeptide growth factors Induce DNA synthesis in cultured cells is not understood, but morphological changes Induced by growth factors have been used as clues to Intracellular messengers responsible for growth stimulation. One such morphological change has been the transient disappearance of the primary cilium, a “9 + 0” cilium formed by the perinuclear centriole in interphase cells. Since calcium ionophore A23187 also produced both mitogenesis and ciliary changes, microtubule depolymerization might explain ciliary disappearance monitored by indirect immunofluorescence with anti-tubulin antibody. However, complete resorption and subsequent reformation of the primary cilium occurs at mitosis, and might also account for ciliary disappearance induced by growth factors. To settle this issue, we investigated the ultrastructure of the primary cilium using serial thin-section electron microscopy of quiescent BALB/c 3T3 cells before and after stimulation with serum.

Inhibition of Platelet Aggregation by Ethanol in Vitro Shows Specificity for Aggregating Agent Used and Is Influenced by Platelet Lipid Composition

1982 ◽  
Vol 48 (01) ◽  
pp. 049-053 ◽  
Author(s):  
C G Fenn ◽  
J M Littleton
Keyword(s):  
Platelet Aggregation ◽  
Lipid Composition ◽  
Saturated Fatty Acids ◽  
Calcium Ionophore ◽  
Cholesterol Content ◽  
Membrane Lipid ◽  
Calcium Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Increased Sensitivity

SummaryEthanol at physiologically tolerable concentrations inhibited platelet aggregation in vitro in a relatively specific way, which may be influenced by platelet membrane lipid composition. Aggregation to collagen, calcium ionophore A23187 and thrombin (low doses) were often markedly inhibited by ethanol, adrenaline and ADP responses were little affected, and aggregation to exogenous arachidonic acid was actually potentiated by ethanol. Aggregation to collagen, thrombin and A23187 was inhibited more by ethanol in platelets enriched with saturated fatty acids than in those enriched with unsaturated fats. Platelets enriched with cholesterol showed increased sensitivity to ADP, arachidonate and adrenaline but this increase in cholesterol content did not appear to influence the inhibition by ethanol of platelet responses. The results suggest that ethanol may inhibit aggregation by an effect on membrane fluidity and/or calcium mobilization resulting in decreased activity of a membrane-bound phospholipase.

Effects of glucocorticoids on prostaglandin formation by human amnion

1990 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 671-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Gibb ◽  
Jean-Claude Lavoie
Keyword(s):  
Calcium Ionophore ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Calcium Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Isolated Cells ◽  
Stimulatory Action ◽  
Human Amnion ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
Epidermal Growth

The human amnion may be an important source of prostaglandins involved in the onset of human labor and therefore it is important to define the factors that regulate their formation in this tissue. In the present study we demonstrate that glucocorticoids inhibit prostaglandin production by freshly isolated amnion cells. The inhibitory action of the glucocorticoids, however, changes to a stimulatory action when the cells are maintained in primary culture for a few days. For both inhibition and stimulation, concentrations of 10−8 M dexamethasone or greater were required to give significant effects, and estradiol and progesterone had no effect on the prostaglandin output of the cells. Epidermal growth factor (EGF), which has previously been found to stimulate prostaglandin output by confluent amnion cells, did not alter prostaglandin output of cells initially placed in culture. Furthermore, the stimulatory action of EGF and dexamethasone appeared additive. The calcium ionophore A23187 stimulated prostaglandin output in freshly isolated cells and accentuated the inhibitory effect of dexamethasone. These studies indicate that prostaglandin formation by human amnion during pregnancy could be regulated by glucocorticoids. These steroids are easily available to the amnion by way of cortisone conversion to Cortisol by the maternal decidua. The results also indicate that amnion is capable of responding to glucocorticoids in both a stimulatory and inhibitory fashion and whether one or both actions are of importance in vivo is a question that is as yet unresolved.Key words: prostaglandins, amnion, fetal membranes, glucocorticoids, labor, pregnancy.

Evidence for direct cellular protective effect of PL-10 substances (synthesized parts of body protection compound, BPC) and their specificity to gastric mucosal cells

Life Sciences ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 61 (16) ◽  
pp. PL243-PL248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beáta Bódis ◽  
Oszkár Karádi ◽  
Péter Németh ◽  
Csaba Dohoczky ◽  
Marko Kolega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Effect ◽  
Gastric Mucosal Cells ◽  
Mucosal Cells

Immunologic mast cell-mediated responses and histamine release are attenuated by heparin

1992 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 1093-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lucio ◽  
J. D'Brot ◽  
C. B. Guo ◽  
W. M. Abraham ◽  
L. M. Lichtenstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mast Cell ◽  
Mast Cells ◽  
Histamine Release ◽  
Immunoglobulin E ◽  
Specific Antigen ◽  
Calcium Ionophore ◽  
Intradermal Injection ◽  
Calcium Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Ionophore A23187 ◽  
Dependent Manner

Heparin has been shown to act as a competitive inhibitor of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate (InsP3) receptors in various cell types. Because InsP3 is one of the second messengers involved in stimulus-secretion coupling in mast cells, it is possible that heparin may inhibit mast cell-mediated reactions. Therefore, in allergic sheep, we tested this hypothesis in two mast cell-mediated reactions induced by immunologic and nonimmunologic stimuli: immediate cutaneous reaction (ICR) and acute bronchoconstrictor response (ABR). In 12 sheep allergic to Ascaris suum antigen, the surface area of the skin wheal was determined 20 min after intradermal injection (0.05 ml) of increasing concentrations of specific antigen, compound 48/80, and histamine, without and after pretreatment with heparin (100, 300, or 1,000 U/kg i.v.). Antigen, compound 48/80, and histamine produced concentration-dependent increases in ICR. Heparin “partially” inhibited the ICR to antigen and compound 48/80 in a dose-dependent manner without modifying the ICR to histamine. The heparin preservative benzyl alcohol was ineffective. In 11 additional sheep, specific lung resistance was measured before and after inhalation challenges with antigen, compound 48/80, and histamine without and with aerosol heparin pretreatment (1,000 U/kg). Heparin blocked the antigen- and compound 48/80-induced bronchoconstriction without modifying the airway effects of histamine. In isolated human uterine mast cells, heparin inhibited the anti-immunoglobulin E- but not the calcium ionophore- (A23187) induced histamine release. These data suggest that heparin inhibits the ICR and ABR induced by stimuli that produce immunologic and nonimmunologic mast cell degranulation without attenuating the effects of histamine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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