title: No role for phospholipase A2 and protein kinase C in the potentiation by alpha-adrenoceptors of beta-adrenoceptor-mediated cyclic AMP formation in rat brain.
abstract: This study was undertaken to examine the role of phospholipase A2 and protein kinase C in the potentiation of beta-adrenoceptor-mediated cyclic AMP formation by alpha-adrenoceptors in rat cerebral cortical slices. Inhibition of arachidonic acid metabolism by a range of cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase inhibitors had no effect on the potentiation of isoprenaline-stimulated cyclic AMP. Conversely, stimulation of leukotriene formation had no effect on the response to isoprenaline. The phospholipase A2 activator, melittin, stimulated cyclic AMP and potentiated the effect of isoprenaline, but these responses were not influenced by cyclooxygenase or lipoxygenase inhibitors. Indomethacin was also ineffective against the potentiation of vasoactive intestinal peptide-stimulated cyclic AMP by noradrenaline. Phorbol ester potentiated the cyclic AMP response to isoprenaline, and this potentiation was antagonized by three different putative protein kinase C inhibitors. However, the same inhibitors did not affect the alpha-adrenoceptor-stimulated enhancement of the response to isoprenaline. We have found no evidence, therefore, to support the suggestion that arachidonic acid and its metabolites and/or protein kinase C mediate the alpha-adrenoceptor modulation of beta-adrenoceptor function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical School, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, England.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000494:pharmacology; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D016861:Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors; D016859:Lipoxygenase Inhibitors; D008297:Male; D008555:Melitten / Q000494:pharmacology; D010740:Phospholipases / Q000502:physiology*; D010741:Phospholipases A / Q000502:physiology*; D054467:Phospholipases A2; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000502:physiology*; D011796:Quinacrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011942:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha / Q000502:physiology*; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta / Q000502:physiology*; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D016861:Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors; D016859:Lipoxygenase Inhibitors; D011942:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha; D011943:Receptors, Adrenergic, beta; D008555:Melitten; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D010740:Phospholipases; D010741:Phospholipases A; D054467:Phospholipases A2; D011796:Quinacrine