title: Agonist-induced Ca2+ mobilization in cultured bovine and human corneal endothelial cells.
abstract: We investigated the possibility that cultured corneal endothelial cells express receptors that are coupled to the phosphoinositide cycle/intracellular Ca2+ signaling pathway. Agonist-stimulated changes in intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) in single bovine and human corneal endothelial cells (BCEC and HCEC, respectively) derived from confluent cultures were measured by microspectrofluorimetry using the Ca(2+)-sensitive probe, fura-2. Total inositol phosphates accumulated during a 30 min incubation in the presence or absence of agonists was determined in Li+ containing medium with cells pre-labelled for 48 hrs with 10 microCi/ml 3H-myoinositol. Histamine (HA), ADP and ATP induced a rapid increase in [Ca2+]i. Subsequently, [Ca2+]i decreased to either a stable, agonist-dependent sustained elevation, or fell back to baseline to begin oscillatory fluctuations. The initial rise in [Ca2+]i was insensitive to removal of extracellular calcium (Ca2+o), whereas the stable elevations in [Ca2+]i and the [Ca2+]i oscillations required Ca2+o. In contrast, bradykinin (BK) and endothelin-1 (ET-1) elicited an initial rise in [Ca2+]i that returned to prestimulatory levels within 2 min despite the continued presence of agonist. The Ca(2+)-mobilizing agonists carbachol, phenylephrine, adenosine and substance P were all ineffective in elevating [Ca2+]i. Histamine-induced Ca2+ mobilization was inhibited by the H1-receptor antagonist triprolidine, but triprolidine had no effect on either BK or ATP stimulation of Ca2+ mobilization. In BCEC, 100 microM HA significantly increased total inositol phosphate accumulation (18.8-fold over unstimulated controls) and was 90% inhibited by 0.5 microM triprolidine. BK and ATP also significantly increased formation of inositol phosphates in BCEC.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0616.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: MacCallum
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Ernst
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002120:Calcium Channel Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D002417:Cattle; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004728:Endothelium, Corneal / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D006632:Histamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007295:Inositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D015591:Microspectrophotometry; D011969:Receptors, Histamine H1 / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D002120:Calcium Channel Agonists; D006634:Histamine H1 Antagonists; D007295:Inositol Phosphates; D011969:Receptors, Histamine H1; D006632:Histamine; D002118:Calcium