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Domínguez-Mancera B, Barrientos-Morales M, Cervantes-Acosta P, Hernández-Beltrán A, Rodríguez-Andrade A, González-Ramírez R, Monjaraz E, Felix R. Leptin regulation of inward membrane currents, electrical activity and LH release in isolated bovine gonadotropes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 491:53-58. [PMID: 28705737 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.07.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 07/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Leptin, a peptide hormone produced by adipocytes, is recognized as one of the signals involved in the onset of reproductive activity. The leptin receptor has been found in hypothalamic neurons and pituitary gonadotropes, suggesting that the hormone may act at both sites to stimulate the secretion of GnRH and consequently, FSH and LH. In response to a stimulus such as a hypothalamic secretagogue, gonadotropes respond with changes in electrical activity, intracellular Ca2+ and hormone release. The main aim of this report was to investigate whether leptin promotes a change in the electrical and secretory activities of bovine gonadotropes. After 48 h of treatment with leptin (10 nM) significant changes in the action potential properties were observed in gonadotropes, which included an increase in amplitude, time-to-pike and post-hyperpolarization, as well as a decrease in firing threshold. Likewise, leptin induced a significant (∼1.3-fold) up-regulation of voltage-gated Na+ channel current density, and a selective increase (∼2.1-fold) in Ca2+ current density through high voltage-activated channels. Consistent with this, leptin enhanced GnRH-induced secretion of LH measured by ELISA. We suggest that leptin enhances membrane expression of voltage-gated Na+ and Ca2+ channels, which results in a modulation of the action potential properties and an increase in hormone release from gonadotropes.
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- Instituto de Fisiología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Stojilkovic SS, Bjelobaba I, Zemkova H. Ion Channels of Pituitary Gonadotrophs and Their Roles in Signaling and Secretion. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2017; 8:126. [PMID: 28649232 PMCID: PMC5465261 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Gonadotrophs are basophilic cells of the anterior pituitary gland specialized to secrete gonadotropins in response to elevation in intracellular calcium concentration. These cells fire action potentials (APs) spontaneously, coupled with voltage-gated calcium influx of insufficient amplitude to trigger gonadotropin release. The spontaneous excitability of gonadotrophs reflects the expression of voltage-gated sodium, calcium, potassium, non-selective cation-conducting, and chloride channels at their plasma membrane (PM). These cells also express the hyperpolarization-activated and cyclic nucleotide-gated cation channels at the PM, as well as GABAA, nicotinic, and purinergic P2X channels gated by γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acetylcholine (ACh), and ATP, respectively. Activation of these channels leads to initiation or amplification of the pacemaking activity, facilitation of calcium influx, and activation of the exocytic pathway. Gonadotrophs also express calcium-conducting channels at the endoplasmic reticulum membranes gated by inositol trisphosphate and intracellular calcium. These channels are activated potently by hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and less potently by several paracrine calcium-mobilizing agonists, including pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptides, endothelins, ACh, vasopressin, and oxytocin. Activation of these channels causes oscillatory calcium release and a rapid gonadotropin release, accompanied with a shift from tonic firing of single APs to periodic bursting type of electrical activity, which accounts for a sustained calcium signaling and gonadotropin secretion. This review summarizes our current understanding of ion channels as signaling molecules in gonadotrophs, the role of GnRH and paracrine agonists in their gating, and the cross talk among channels.
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- Stanko S. Stojilkovic
- Section on Cellular Signaling, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
- *Correspondence: Stanko S. Stojilkovic,
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- Institute for Biological Research “Siniša Stanković”, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Physiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czechia
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Stojilkovic SS, Kretschmannova K, Tomić M, Stratakis CA. Dependence of the excitability of pituitary cells on cyclic nucleotides. J Neuroendocrinol 2012; 24:1183-200. [PMID: 22564128 PMCID: PMC3421050 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2012.02335.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate and cyclic 3',5'-guanosine monophosphate are intracellular (second) messengers that are produced from the nucleotide triphosphates by a family of enzymes consisting of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases. These enzymes are involved in a broad array of signal transduction pathways mediated by the cyclic nucleotide monophosphates and their kinases, which control multiple aspects of cell function through the phosphorylation of protein substrates. We review the findings and working hypotheses on the role of the cyclic nucleotides and their kinases in the control of electrical activity of the endocrine pituitary cells and the plasma membrane channels involved in this process.
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- S S Stojilkovic
- Sections on Cellular Signalling and Endocrinology and Genetics, The Eunice Kennedy Shiver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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Endocrine pituitary cells are neuronlike; they express numerous voltage-gated sodium, calcium, potassium, and chloride channels and fire action potentials spontaneously, accompanied by a rise in intracellular calcium. In some cells, spontaneous electrical activity is sufficient to drive the intracellular calcium concentration above the threshold for stimulus-secretion and stimulus-transcription coupling. In others, the function of these action potentials is to maintain the cells in a responsive state with cytosolic calcium near, but below, the threshold level. Some pituitary cells also express gap junction channels, which could be used for intercellular Ca(2+) signaling in these cells. Endocrine cells also express extracellular ligand-gated ion channels, and their activation by hypothalamic and intrapituitary hormones leads to amplification of the pacemaking activity and facilitation of calcium influx and hormone release. These cells also express numerous G protein-coupled receptors, which can stimulate or silence electrical activity and action potential-dependent calcium influx and hormone release. Other members of this receptor family can activate calcium channels in the endoplasmic reticulum, leading to a cell type-specific modulation of electrical activity. This review summarizes recent findings in this field and our current understanding of the complex relationship between voltage-gated ion channels, ligand-gated ion channels, gap junction channels, and G protein-coupled receptors in pituitary cells.
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- Stanko S Stojilkovic
- Program in Developmental Neuroscience, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Building 49, Room 6A-36, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-4510, USA.
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Avelino-Cruz JE, Flores A, Cebada J, Mellon PL, Felix R, Monjaraz E. Leptin increases L-type Ca2+ channel expression and GnRH-stimulated LH release in LbetaT2 gonadotropes. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2009; 298:57-65. [PMID: 18834922 PMCID: PMC2659688 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2008] [Revised: 08/29/2008] [Accepted: 09/02/2008] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Leptin, a mediator of long-term regulation of energy balance, has been implicated in the release of adenohypophyseal gonadotropins by regulating gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion from the hypothalamus. However, a direct effect of leptin on hormone release from gonadotropes remains virtually unexplored. In the current report, we assessed the long-term (48 h) actions of leptin on voltage-gated channel activity and luteinizing hormone (LH) production in mouse pituitary gonadotrope LbetaT2 cells. Electrophysiological recordings showed that leptin treatment significantly increased whole-cell patch-clamp Ba(2+) current through L-type Ca(2+) channels. Quantitative RT-PCR analysis revealed increased levels of L-type (alpha(1D)) Ca(2+) channel mRNA. Likewise, radioimmunoassays using specific antibodies provided evidence that leptin alone had no effect on LH release but did enhance GnRH-induced secretion of the hormone. Leptin had no apparent effects on LH gene transcription in absence of GnRH, as measured by transient transfection assays using a LH promoter-reporter gene and real-time RT-PCR. These observations suggest that leptin might affect LH release by acting directly on the gonadotropes, favoring hormone production by enhancing responsiveness to GnRH as a result of increased Ca(2+) channel expression.
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- José E. Avelino-Cruz
- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Physiology, Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Neurobiology, Institute of Physiology, Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Mexico
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, Center for Reproductive Science and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of The National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, Institute of Physiology, Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP), Puebla, Mexico
- Correspondence: Dr. Eduardo Monjaraz, Laboratorio de Neuroendocrinología, Instituto de Fisiología - BUAP, 14 sur 6301, CU, San Manuel, Puebla, Pue. CP 72570, México, Tel: 52 (222) 2295500 ext. 7311, Fax: 52 (222) 2295500 ext. 7301, e-mail:
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McRory JE, Santi CM, Hamming KS, Mezeyova J, Sutton KG, Baillie DL, Stea A, Snutch TP. Molecular and functional characterization of a family of rat brain T-type calcium channels. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:3999-4011. [PMID: 11073957 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m008215200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Voltage-gated calcium channels represent a heterogenous family of calcium-selective channels that can be distinguished by their molecular, electrophysiological, and pharmacological characteristics. We report here the molecular cloning and functional expression of three members of the low voltage-activated calcium channel family from rat brain (alpha(1G), alpha(1H), and alpha(1I)). Northern blot and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analyses show alpha(1G), alpha(1H), and alpha(1I) to be expressed throughout the newborn and juvenile rat brain. In contrast, while alpha(1G) and alpha(1H) mRNA are expressed in all regions in adult rat brain, alpha(1I) mRNA expression is restricted to the striatum. Expression of alpha(1G), alpha(1H), and alpha(1I) subunits in HEK293 cells resulted in calcium currents with typical T-type channel characteristics: low voltage activation, negative steady-state inactivation, strongly voltage-dependent activation and inactivation, and slow deactivation. In addition, the direct electrophysiological comparison of alpha(1G), alpha(1H), and alpha(1I) under identical recording conditions also identified unique characteristics including activation and inactivation kinetics and permeability to divalent cations. Simulation of alpha(1G), alpha(1H), and alpha(1I) T-type channels in a thalamic neuron model cell produced unique firing patterns (burst versus tonic) typical of different brain nuclei and suggests that the three channel types make distinct contributions to neuronal physiology.
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- J E McRory
- Biotechnology Laboratory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Van Goor F, Goldberg JI, Chang JP. Electrical membrane properties and ionic currents in cultured goldfish gonadotrophs. Can J Physiol Pharmacol 1996. [DOI: 10.1139/y96-067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Hille B, Tse A, Tse FW, Bosma MM. Signaling mechanisms during the response of pituitary gonadotropes to GnRH. RECENT PROGRESS IN HORMONE RESEARCH 1995; 50:75-95. [PMID: 7740186 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-571150-0.50008-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- B Hille
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle 98195, USA
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McArdle CA, Bunting R, Mason WT. Dynamic video imaging of cystolic Ca2+ in the αT3-1, gonadotrope-derived cell line. Mol Cell Neurosci 1992; 3:124-32. [DOI: 10.1016/1044-7431(92)90016-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/1991] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Williams PJ, Pittman QJ, MacVicar BA. Ca(2+)- and voltage-dependent inactivation of Ca2+ currents in rat intermediate pituitary. Brain Res 1991; 564:12-8. [PMID: 1663812 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(91)91345-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We used single electrode voltage-clamp methods to investigate the inactivation of Ca2+ currents in melanotrophs of the intermediate lobe of the pituitary. The low threshold transient current was inactivated by brief prepulses to potentials above -30 mV and inhibition remained complete as prepulse potential was increased from 0 to +70 mV. Both the high threshold transient and sustained currents, however, were inhibited to the greatest extent (60%) by prepulses to 0 mV. Prepulses to more positive potentials close to the Ca2+ reversal potential produced much less (15%) inactivation. Buffering intracellular Ca2+ by including BAPTA in the recording electrode or replacing extracellular Ca2+ with Ba2+ reduced the effect of prepulses. Slowing Ca2+ extrusion by reducing the Na+ gradient across the cell increased the duration of the effect of prepulses. We conclude that the low threshold, transient current is inactivated primarily by membrane voltage while both the high threshold currents are inhibited by elevation of intracellular Ca2+ although the two currents display different sensitivities to Ca2+ concentration. Inhibition of the high threshold transient current by the neurotransmitter dopamine, however, acts by a different mechanism not mediated by Ca(2+)-dependent inactivation.
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- P J Williams
- Neuroscience Research Group, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Rawlings S, Berry D, Leong D. Evidence for localized calcium mobilization and influx in single rat gonadotropes. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)54632-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Stack J, Surprenant A. Dopamine actions on calcium currents, potassium currents and hormone release in rat melanotrophs. J Physiol 1991; 439:37-58. [PMID: 1716675 PMCID: PMC1180097 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1991.sp018655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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1. Intracellular and whole-cell recordings were made from primary cultures of rat intermediate pituitary cells; beta-endorphin secretion was also measured by radioimmunoassay. The effects of dopamine receptor activation on hormone secretion, calcium currents and resting potassium conductance were compared. 2. Spontaneous sodium-dependent action potentials occurred in 82% of cells recorded with intracellular microelectrodes and 64% of cells recorded with whole-cell patch electrodes; the same proportion of cells showed spontaneous calcium-dependent depolarizations in the presence of tetrodotoxin. 3. Calcium currents recorded from holding potentials of -90 or -70 mV showed transient and sustained components, both of which activated at -40 mV and had similar current-voltage relations. Bay K 8644 (1 microM) increased both components by about 130% while nifedipine (1-10 microM) decreased them by a maximum of 30%. Nickel (500 microM) inhibited transient and sustained components by 68 and 50%; cadmium (100 microM) abolished the current. omega-Conotoxin (1 microM) reversibly inhibited the transient component by 26%. 4. The dopamine D2 receptor agonist, quinpirole (0.1-10 microM) inhibited transient and sustained components in all cells by a maximum of 40 and 25% respectively. Quinpirole did not alter the time course of the current. 5. Quinpirole (1-100 nM) hyperpolarized 90% of cells from which intracellular recordings were made and 55% of cells recorded from with whole-cell patch pipettes. Maximum hyperpolarization of 16 +/- 4 mV from a resting potential of -44 +/- 5 mV was observed with 100 nM-quinpirole; concentration producing half-maximal effect was 3 nM. The hyperpolarization resulted from an increase in potassium conductance. 6. Quinpirole (1-100 nM) decreased basal beta-endorphin secretion by 55% and abolished secretion stimulated by Bay K 8644 or isoprenaline; concentrations producing half-maximal inhibitions were 5-10 nM. Tetrodotoxin (1 microM), nifedipine (1 microM), nickel (500 microM) and cadmium (100 microM) did not alter basal or stimulated secretion although higher concentrations of cadmium did inhibit stimulated hormone release. 7. Pertussis toxin pre-treatment prevented all actions of quinpirole. 8. Thus, concentrations of quinpirole that abolished stimulated hormone secretion did not alter calcium currents; conversely, concentrations of calcium channel blockers that partially or completely inhibited calcium currents did not alter basal or stimulated secretion. These results may indicate that calcium influx through the voltage-dependent calcium channels measured in these experiments does not contribute significantly to hormone release from melanotrophs.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- J Stack
- Vollum Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201
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Blotner M, Shangold GA, Lee EY, Murphy SN, Miller RJ. Nitrendipine and omega-conotoxin modulate gonadotropin release and gonadotrope [Ca2+]i. Mol Cell Endocrinol 1990; 71:205-16. [PMID: 2170211 DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(90)90026-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We have examined the pharmacology of the voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channels (VSCCs) that mediate gonadotropin secretion from primary cultures of rat pituitary cells, stimulated by either cell depolarization or by binding of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH). We also measured single-cell [Ca2+]i transients using fura-2 in gonadotropes identified by a reverse hemolytic plaque assay employing an antiserum to luteinizing hormone (LH). Cell depolarization evoked by either 50 mM K+ or 30 microM veratridine induced 2- to 6-fold increases in gonadotropin secretion over basal levels. GnRH caused 6- to 20-fold increases in follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and LH secretion, respectively, with maximal stimulation at 100 nM GnRH. K(+)- or GnRH-induced FSH release was largely prevented by co-incubation with 1 mM CdCl. Tetrodotoxin (TTX, 5 microM) prevented the veratridine-, but not the K(+)- or GnRH-induced, stimulation of FSH secretion. Nitrendipine (Ntd, 1 microM) produced 35-50% inhibition (NS) of both FSH and LH release stimulated by either 50 mM K+ or 100 nM GnRH. Ntd also inhibited the K(+)-induced [Ca2+]i rise (greater than 90%), as well as the secondary, plateau phase of the GnRH-induced elevation of [Ca2+]i (100% inhibition). Omega-conotoxin (omega-CgTx, 100 nM) partially suppressed FSH and LH release (NS) due to both K+ (33% each) and GnRH (44% and 18%, respectively). omega-CgTx showed variable effects on [Ca2+]i transients evoked by K+ or GnRH ranging from clear inhibition to no effect. We conclude that influx of extracellular Ca2+ is one of several fundamental events underlying the depolarization- or receptor-activated release of LH and FSH, and that this influx can be inhibited by dihydropyridine-sensitive ('L') Ca2+ channels. Two classes of L-channels may exist in gonadotropes, that differ in their sensitivity to omega-CgTx.
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- M Blotner
- Department of Pharmacological, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, IL 60637
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