title: Norepinephrine induces glial-specific enzyme activity in cultured plasma glioma cells.
abstract: Addition of 1 micronM 1-norepinephrine to cultures of C6TK- rat glioma cells caused a 2-fold increase in specific activity of the glial-specific enzyme 2':3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphohydrolase (nucleoside-2':3'-cyclic-phosphate 3'-nucleotidohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.16). Specific activity could also be stimulated by analogues of 3':5'-cyclic AMP, and the effect of norepinephrine could be blocked by beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists but not by alpha-adrenergic antagonists. Norepinephrine or cyclic AMP analogues also increased the specific activity of this enzyme in other clones of glioma and Schwannoma cells and in glioma X neuroblastoma cell hybrids. These results show that the stimulatory effect of norepinephrine on cyclic AMP concentrations in glioma cells leads ultimately to a stimulation of glial-specific cell funtion.
mesh_terms: D015087:2',3'-Cyclic-Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D002999:Clone Cells; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D004790:Enzyme Induction / Q000187:drug effects; D005910:Glioma / Q000201:enzymology*; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000201:enzymology*; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002395:Catecholamines; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D015087:2',3'-Cyclic-Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases; D009638:Norepinephrine