title: Thrombin attenuates the stimulatory effect of histamine on Ca2+ entry in confluent human umbilical vein endothelial cell cultures.
abstract: Human umbilical vein endothelial cells were grown to confluence, as first passage cells, on coverslips. Treatment with ionomycin or histamine caused a sustained rise in intracellular Ca2+ (measured by Fura-2 fluorescence), but after treatment with thrombin, only a transient rise in Ca2+ was observed. Furthermore, the addition of thrombin after ionomycin or histamine lowered the raised Ca2+ back to near control levels. This effect of thrombin was concentration dependent, with increasing concentrations producing increases in both the rate and extent of the lowering of Ca2+. A similar effect of thrombin was seen on video imaging of Fura-2-loaded cell monolayers. The Ca2(+)-lowering effect of thrombin was not mimicked by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate nor blocked by staurosporine, indicating a lack of involvement of protein kinase C; intracellular pH also does not appear to be involved. The mechanism by which thrombin lowers cytoplasmic Ca2+ is due mainly to inhibition of Ca2+ entry since thrombin prevented the stimulated influx of Mn2+ caused by histamine or ionomycin. It may therefore be that in vivo under certain physiological or pathological conditions, thrombin's effects on intracellular Ca2+ are more transient than those of histamine, and thrombin also may induce transience in histamine's actions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Agricultural and Food Research Council Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Babraham, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Neylon
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Irvine
mesh_terms: D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000378:metabolism; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004533:Egtazic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000378:metabolism*; D006632:Histamine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D015759:Ionomycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D008345:Manganese / Q000378:metabolism; D009532:Nickel / Q000494:pharmacology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000502:physiology; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D013917:Thrombin / Q000008:administration & dosage*
chemical_list: D008345:Manganese; D004533:Egtazic Acid; D015759:Ionomycin; D009532:Nickel; D006632:Histamine; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D013917:Thrombin; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D002118:Calcium