title: The effects in the rat of two fragments of parathyroid hormone-related protein on uterine contractions in situ.
abstract: Synthetic parathyroid hormone fragment PTH(1-34) has been reported recently to inhibit uterine contractions stimulated by a variety of agonists. We have studied the effect in this system of the parathyroid hormone-related protein fragment PTHrP(1-34) which shows 60% homology with PTH over the first thirteen amino acid residues. The effects of two different PTHrP fragments on acetylcholine-stimulated uterine contractions in vitro were studied. Whereas synthetic hPTHrP(75-86 amide) (10(-9)-10(-7) M) was without effect, synthetic hPTHrP(1-34) (10(-9)-10(-7) M) was capable of inhibiting, in a dose-related fashion, uterine muscle contractions precontracted with 10(-6) M-acetylcholine. In a second series of experiments the bovine PTH(3-34) fragment itself was shown to have no stimulatory effect on acetylcholine-stimulated contractions. Also this fragment in an equimolar concentration (10(-7) M) failed to antagonize the effects of PTHrP(1-34) on acetylcholine-stimulated uterine contractions. However, a 100-fold excess molar concentration of bPTH(3-34) (10(-6) M) completely abolished the inhibitory action of hPTHrP(1-34) (10(-8) M) on acetylcholine-stimulated uterine contractions. These results clearly show that the inhibitory action of PTH(1-34) and PTHrP(1-34) on uterine contractions depends on the integrity of the amino-terminal region of the molecule.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Aberystwyth.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Barri
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Abbas
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Care
mesh_terms: D000109:Acetylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D044162:Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000494:pharmacology*; D011506:Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D014590:Uterine Contraction / Q000187:drug effects*; D014599:Uterus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D010281:Parathyroid Hormone; D044162:Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011506:Proteins; C054296:parathyroid hormone-related protein (1-34); C031617:parathyroid hormone (3-34); D000109:Acetylcholine