PMID- 8720686 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19961008 LR - 20191101 IS - 1016-0922 (Print) IS - 1016-0922 (Linking) VI - 4 IP - 4 DP - 1995 Jul-Aug TI - Properties of intracellular calcium stores and their role in receptor-mediated catecholamine secretion in rat adrenal chromaffin cells. PG - 195-205 AB - Simulation of rat adrenal chromaffin cells either with receptor agonists such as muscarine, bradykinin and histamine or with caffeine in Ca(2+)-free Krebs solution induced a brief increase in the intracellular free Ca2+ concentration, [Ca2+]i, which terminated within 90 s. Both the agonist- and caffeine-induced [Ca2+]i responses were abolished in cells which had been treated with either 500 nM thapsigargin (TG) or 20 microM ryanodine, suggesting that inositol trisphosphate and caffeine cause Ca2+ release either from the same Ca2+ store or from distinct stores which exchange Ca2+ rapidly. In normal Krebs solution, these agonists evoked catecholamine (CA) secretion which showed an initial transient followed by a sustained component. Neither component of the secretion was significantly affected by TG or ryanodine. In the medium containing 16 microM Ca2+ or no Ca2+, CA secretion evoked by 30-second stimulation with 100 microM muscarine was 59 or 7%, respectively, of that evoked in the normal medium containing 2 mM Ca2+. In TG-treated cells, the CA secretion at 16 microM Ca2+ was reduced to 23% and that in the Ca(2+)-free medium was completely abolished. These results suggest that the receptor-mediated Ca2+ entry solely determines the rate of CA secretion in rat chromaffin cells when stimulated by receptor agonists in the normal medium, whereas intracellular Ca2+ release and Ca2+ entry may cooperatively support the secretion when cells are stimulated in media containing low concentrations of Ca2+. FAU - Warashina, A AU - Warashina A AD - Department of Physiology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan. FAU - Fujiwara, N AU - Fujiwara N LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Switzerland TA - Biol Signals JT - Biological signals JID - 9210083 RN - 0 (Catecholamines) RN - 0 (Receptors, Cell Surface) RN - 15662-33-6 (Ryanodine) RN - 3G6A5W338E (Caffeine) RN - 7T101UWZ5W (Muscarine) RN - 820484N8I3 (Histamine) RN - S8TIM42R2W (Bradykinin) RN - SY7Q814VUP (Calcium) SB - IM MH - Adrenal Medulla/drug effects/*physiology MH - Animals MH - Bradykinin/*pharmacology MH - Caffeine/pharmacology MH - Calcium/*metabolism MH - Catecholamines/*metabolism MH - Histamine/*pharmacology MH - In Vitro Techniques MH - Kinetics MH - Male MH - Muscarine/*pharmacology MH - Perfusion MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Receptors, Cell Surface/agonists MH - Ryanodine/pharmacology MH - Time Factors EDAT- 1995/07/01 00:00 MHDA- 1995/07/01 00:01 CRDT- 1995/07/01 00:00 PHST- 1995/07/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1995/07/01 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1995/07/01 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1159/000109443 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biol Signals. 1995 Jul-Aug;4(4):195-205. doi: 10.1159/000109443.