title: Expression and cell-specific localization of the cholecystokinin B/gastrin receptor in the human stomach.
abstract: Gastrin stimulates gastric acid secretion by acting on the cholecystokinin B/gastrin receptor (CCK-BR). The localization of this receptor at the cellular level showed conflicting results in animal studies and has not been described in man by immunohistochemistry. The aim of the present study is to characterize the precise cellular location of the CCK-BR in the human stomach. Polyclonal antisera were raised against different epitopes of the CCK-BR molecule and used for immunohistochemical investigations. CCK-BR mRNA was detected in paraffin tissue sections by the highly sensitive method of in situ reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Using immunohistochemistry, CCK-BR could successfully be localized in gastric parietal cells. In the majority of parietal cells, CCK-BR immunoreactivity was present a he basolateral cell membrane domain. In some parietal cells, a granular pattern of immunoreactivity was exclusively confined to the cytoplasm of the cells. CCK-BR mRNA was found in parietal cells and in enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells by means of in situ RT-PCR. No expression of CCK-BR was found in the gastric antral mucosa. Our data support the concept that gastrin stimulates gastric acid secretion directly via CCK-B receptors on parietal cells and indirectly by inducing histamine release from histamine-containing ECL cells, which contributes to acid secretion by parietal cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kulaksiz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Göke
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maronde
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fahrenholz
authors.forename: W G
authors.initials: WG
authors.lastname: Forssmann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eissele
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D016764:Cell Polarity; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000737:chemistry; D004759:Enterochromaffin Cells / Q000737:chemistry; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology; D005744:Gastric Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D005748:Gastric Fundus / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007106:Immune Sera; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010295:Parietal Cells, Gastric / Q000737:chemistry; D011949:Receptors, Cholecystokinin / Q000032:analysis / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013270:Stomach / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D007106:Immune Sera; D011949:Receptors, Cholecystokinin