Affiliation:
1. Department of Physiology, Gunma University, Maebashi, Japan.
Abstract
The effect of human growth hormone-releasing hormone (hGHRH), a potent stimulator of adenylate cyclase in somatotrophs on the voltage-gated sodium current was determined by perforated patch clamp of cultured rat somatotrophs The amplitude of the voltage-gated sodium current was augmented by 65.3 +/- 20.6% (mean +/- SE, n = 7) by 10 nM hGHRH. This augmentation was reversibly blocked by 10 microM H-89 a specific inhibitor for adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase. The membrane-permeant analogue of cAMP, dibutyryl cAMP (5 mM), also augmented the voltage-gated sodium current by 39.6 +/- 7.4% (n = 10). There were no effects of hGHRH or dibutyryl cAMP on steady-state inactivation of the sodium current. In contrast, in the whole cell configuration of patch clamp, no augmentation of the sodium current was observed by hGHRH or by the membrane-permeant analogue of cAMP. These results suggest that hGHRH augments the peak amplitude of the voltage-gated sodium current in rat somatotrophs via phosphorylation by cAMP-dependent protein kinase. For this augmentation, the intracellular environment must be kept relatively intact.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
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