scholarly journals Magnesium modulates parathyroid hormone secretion and upregulates parathyroid receptor expression at moderately low calcium concentration

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Rodriguez-Ortiz ◽  
A. Canalejo ◽  
C. Herencia ◽  
J. M. Martinez-Moreno ◽  
A. Peralta-Ramirez ◽  
...  
1988 ◽  
Vol 254 (1) ◽  
pp. E63-E70 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Morrissey

The influence of phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), an activator of protein kinase c, on the secretion of parathyroid hormone from collagenase-dispersed bovine parathyroid cells was tested. The cells were incubated at low (0.5 mM) or high (2.0 mM) concentrations of calcium in the medium, and the hormone secreted into the medium was measured by a radioimmunoassay that recognizes both intact and C-terminal fragments of hormone. At low calcium, the secretory rate averaged 32 +/- 3.8 ng.h-1.(10(5) cells)-1. The addition of 1.6 microM PMA did not affect secretion. At high calcium there was a significant suppression of secretion by 38% to 19.8 +/- 3 ng.h-1.(10(5) cells)-1. The addition of 1.6 microM PMA significantly stimulated hormone secretion to 35.8 +/- 8 ng.h-1.(10(5) cells)-1, a rate indistinguishable from low calcium. This stimulatory effect of PMA at high calcium was seen at PMA concentrations as low as 1.6 nM, did not occur with a biologically inactive 4 alpha-isomer of phorbol ester, and was independent of changes in cellular adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate levels. Examination of 32P-labeled phosphoproteins by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis revealed acidic proteins of approximately 20,000 and 100,000 Da that were phosphorylated at low and high calcium + 1.6 microM PMA but not at high calcium alone. The protein kinase c activity associated with the membrane fraction of parathyroid cells significantly decreased 40% when the cells were incubated at high vs. low calcium. The data suggest that calcium may regulate parathyroid hormone secretion through changes in protein kinase c activity of the membrane fraction of the cell and protein phosphorylation.


1979 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
JJ Morrissey ◽  
DV Cohn

The biosynthesis, processing, and secretion of parthormone and the effect of calcium on these processes were measured in dispersed porcine parthyroid cells incubated with [(35)S]methionine. Proparathormone was detected at 10 min, the earliest time measured, and was rapidly and apparently quantitatively converted to parathormone. The half-life of the prohomormone pool was 15 min. Secretion of parathormone was detected by 20 min. In pulse-chase experiments there was a period between 20 and 40 min during which the wave of newly-synthesized parathormone was secreted. After 40 min during little additional radioactive hormone was secreted, but dibutyryl cyclic AMP, an agent that can mobilize stored parathormone, when added to the incubation mixtures enhanced radioactive parathormone secretion but only after 60 min, although it increased net hormone secretion as determined by radioimmunoassay to the same extent at all times studied. When the ionized calcium concentration of the medium was lowered, more radioactive hormone was secreted at all times but the effect was greatest on that hormone that was synthesized less than 60 min previously ; however, net hormone secretion in contrast to radioactive hormone was enhanced equally at all intervals. These data could mean that the refractoriness to secretion of parathormone 40-60 min of age was related to maturation of secretory container preparatory to storage. Low calcium (0.5 mM) stimulated hormone secretion up to fivefold compared to high calcium (3.0 mM) but did not affect synthesis of parathormone or proparathormne or conversion of the latter to hormone. During processing at least 70 percent of the intracellular parathormone was lost, presumably through proteolysis and this degradation was greater at high calcium. These data have been interpreted in light of the concept that two secretable pools of parathormone exist within the parathyroid.


2005 ◽  
Vol 153 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takehisa Kawata ◽  
Yasuo Imanishi ◽  
Keisuke Kobayashi ◽  
Takao Kenko ◽  
Michihito Wada ◽  
...  

Cinacalcet HCl, an allosteric modulator of the calcium-sensing receptor (CaR), has recently been approved for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis, due to its suppressive effect on parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion. Although cinacalcet’s effects in patients with primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism have been reported, the crucial relationship between the effect of calcimimetics and CaR expression on the parathyroid glands requires better understanding. To investigate its suppressive effect on PTH secretion in primary hyperparathyroidism, in which hypercalcemia may already have stimulated considerable CaR activity, we investigated the effect of cinacalcet HCl on PTH-cyclin D1 transgenic mice (PC2 mice), a model of primary hyperparathyroidism with hypo-expression of CaR on their parathyroid glands. A single administration of 30 mg/kg body weight (BW) of cinacalcet HCl significantly suppressed serum calcium (Ca) levels 2 h after administration in 65- to 85-week-old PC2 mice with chronic biochemical hyperparathyroidism. The percentage reduction in serum PTH was significantly correlated with CaR hypo-expression in the parathyroid glands. In older PC2 mice (93–99 weeks old) with advanced hyperparathyroidism, serum Ca and PTH levels were not suppressed by 30 mg cinacalcet HCl/kg. However, serum Ca and PTH levels were significantly suppressed by 100 mg/kg of cinacalcet HCl, suggesting that higher doses of this compound could overcome severe hyperparathyroidism. To conclude, cinacalcet HCl demonstrated potency in a murine model of primary hyperparathyroidism in spite of any presumed endogenous CaR activation by hypercalcemia and hypo-expression of CaR in the parathyroid glands.


1986 ◽  
Vol 250 (4) ◽  
pp. E475-E479
Author(s):  
J. J. Morrissey

This study determines whether calcium affects glutathione metabolism and whether glutathione metabolism may influence parathyroid (PTH) secretion in collagenase dispersed bovine parathyroid cells. Reduced glutathione (GSH) and glutathione disulfide (GSSG) were measured fluorometrically and enzymatically while PTH secretion was determined by radioimmunoassay. The total GSH and GSSG content of parathyroid cells was found to range from 1.59 to 1.71 micrograms/mg cell protein, and this did not vary significantly with changes in extracellular calcium. An increase in the medium calcium concentration from 0.5 to 2.0 mM did, however, cause an increase in GSSG from 0.43-0.54 to 1.19-1.20 micrograms/mg protein with a concomitant decrease in GSH. The compound 2-cyclohexen-1-one was used to deplete the cells of GSH at a low-calcium medium (0.5 mM) to levels seen in high-calcium medium (2.0 mM). This treatment was found to inhibit PTH secretion in the low-calcium medium, as if the cells were incubated in high medium calcium. Both 2-cyclohexen-1-one and calcium caused a rapid decrease in reduced GSH levels and in hormone secretion. The ketone was not found to affect cellular protein synthesis, indicating that there was no nonspecific toxic effect of this treatment on the cells. These results suggest that changes in the calcium concentration of the medium affect the GSH/GSSG ratio of dispersed parathyroid cells. Changes in the GSH/GSSG ratio induced by calcium may be related to changes in PTH secretion.


1977 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dietel ◽  
G. Dorn ◽  
R. Montz ◽  
E. Altenähr

ABSTRACT The effect of different calcium concentrations as well as dibutyryl-cyclic adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate (DB-cAMP) on the secretion of parathyroid hormone by human parathyroid adenomas taken from patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) was studied in organ culture. Their influence on the release of hormone was determined. The tissue was incubated in culture medium for 4 h; the medium was changed hourly and analyzed for immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (PTH) by radioimmunoassay. The hormone secretion showed an inverse relationship to different calcium concentrations in the medium and could be stimulated independently of the calcium concentration by adding DB-cAMP. These results suggest that the examined parathyroid adenomas are sensitive to physiological stimuli.


2001 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-307
Author(s):  
D. Bonofiglio ◽  
S. Catalano ◽  
M. Maggiolini ◽  
S. Andò

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