title: Possible involvement of adenylyl cyclase-cAMP-protein kinase a pathway in somatostatin inhibition of growth hormone release from chicken pituitary cells.
abstract: Somatostatin (SRIF) reduces growth hormone releasing hormone (GRF)-stimulated growth hormone (GH) release from avian and mammalian adenohypophyseal cells. The present studies examined the intracellular mechanisms mediating SRIF inhibition of GRF-stimulated GH release from chicken pituitary cells. Increases (P less than 0.05) in GH release were observed in the presence of (1) GRF; (2) the adenylyl cyclase stimulator, forskolin; (3) a cAMP analog, 8-bromo-cAMP; (4) the phosphodiesterase inhibitor 3-isobutyl-l-methyl-xanthine (IBMX) combined with GRF; (5) a tumor-promoting phorbol ester and protein kinase C activator, phorbol 12-myristate, 13-acetate (PMA); (6) a diacylglycerol analog, 1,2-dioctanoyl-glycerol (DiC8); and (7) a calcium ionophore, A23187, alone and in combination with PMA. Somatostatin (10 ng/ml) reduced the release of GH stimulated by GRF, forskolin, and 8-bromo cAMP and the GRF-provoked release of GH in the presence of IBMX (P less than 0.05). Somatostatin, however, did not influence GH release in the presence of the protein kinase C activators, PMA or DiC8, or the calcium ionophore A23187. These data suggest that SRIF inhibits GRF-provoked GH release by reducing the ability of the cAMP-protein kinase A but not of the calcium or protein kinase C intracellular message pathways to stimulate GH release.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Science, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 08903.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Donoghue
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Scanes
mesh_terms: D015056:1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D002645:Chickens / Q000502:physiology*; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000494:pharmacology; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000378:metabolism*; D013007:Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D010703:Phorbol Esters / Q000494:pharmacology; D010903:Pituitary Gland, Anterior / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D004075:Diglycerides; D010703:Phorbol Esters; C044295:1,2-dioctanoylglycerol; D013004:Somatostatin; D013006:Growth Hormone; D013007:Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D011494:Protein Kinases; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases; D015056:1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine