Somatostatin: an endogenous peptide in the toad urinary bladder inhibits vasopressin-stimulated water flow.
AUTOR(ES)
Forrest, J N
RESUMO
Somatostatin (somatotropin release-inhibiting factor; SRIF) is a tetradecapeptide present in brain, pancreas, gastrointestinal tract, and thyroid that inhibits the secretion or action of several hormones in these tissues. We observed that the toad urinary bladder contains concentrations of endogenous somatostatin (8.0 pg/micrograms of protein) comparable to those found in the mammalian pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. To determine if somatostatin directly alter the action of vasopressinn we studied the effects of this polypeptide on vasopressin-stimulated transport processes in the toad urinary bladder in vitro. Somatostatin produced a dose-dependent, reversible inhibition of vasopressin-stimulated osmotic water flow; it inhibited theophylline-stimulated osmotic water flow but not the water flow stimulated by 8-p-chlorophenylthioadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. These data are consistent with an inhibition of both basal and hormone-stimulated adenylate cyclase. Vasopressin-stimulated short circuit current was not inhibited by somatostatin. These studies provide direct evidence for an effect of somatostatin on hormone-modulated epithelial transport in tissues other than the gastrointestinal tract. We propose that endogenous somatostatin may function as a local regulator of the cellular action of vasopressin on osmotic water flow.
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