title: Somatostatin inhibition of VIP- and isoproterenol-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation in dissociated cells from rat cerebral cortex.
abstract: Freshly dissociated cerebral cortex cells from adult rats have been used in the present study to determine if dual regulation of cyclic AMP levels by inhibitory and stimulatory agents can be expressed in the mature brain. Somatostatin, an inhibitory agent, barely affected the basal cyclic AMP metabolism while vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and isoproterenol, two stimulatory agents enhanced cyclic AMP production. However, this increase was depressed by somatostatin, which decreased the efficiency, but not the potency, of the effects of the two stimulatory agents on cyclic AMP accumulation.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Bioquimica y Biologia Molecular, Facultad de Medicina Universidad de Alcala de Henares-Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Colas
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Lopez Ruiz
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Prieto
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Arilla
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007545:Isoproterenol / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*
chemical_list: D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide; D013004:Somatostatin; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D007545:Isoproterenol