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Endocrinology, Vol 105, 499-508, Copyright © 1979 by Endocrine Society

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Glicentin immunoreactive cells: their relationship to glucagon- producing cells

M Ravazzola, A Siperstein, AJ Moody, F Sundby, H Jacobsen and L Orci

The cellular and subcellular localization of one of the gut glucagon- like immunoreactants (GLI-1 or glicentin) and the relative distribution of glicentin- and glucagon-containing cells were investigated by immunocytochemistry. By immunofluorescence, the antiglicentin serum, which does not react with glucagon, revealed positive cells in the islets of Langerhans and in the gut mucosa, particularly in the terminal ileum and colon. In the intestinal mucosa, it was proven ultrastructurally that the glicentin immunoreactive cells correspond to the L cell and that the secretory granules represent the storage compartment of the immunoreactive material. In pancreatic islets, consecutive semithin sections treated with antiglicentin and specific antiglucagon sera showed that the same A cell population reacted with both sera, while immunoperoxidase staining on thin sections revealed that the immunoreactive material was confined to the secretory granules. The same results were obtained on dog oxyntic mucosa, where the glicentin- and glucagon-containing cells were identified as the gastric A cell. The immunocytochemical demonstration of a common glicentin-like material in the A and L cells together with the known presence of a common immunoreactant in glicentin and glucagon strongly support the idea that the A and L cells are ontogenetically related and synthesize their secretory product via a glicentin-like precursor which, by specific cleavage, could yield glucagon and gut glucagon-like immunoreactants.


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