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Endocrinology, Vol 116, 1051-1059, Copyright © 1985 by Endocrine Society

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Angiotensin effects on calcium and steroidogenesis in adrenal glomerulosa cells

ME Elliott, FL Siegel, NE Hadjokas and TL Goodfriend

We investigated the role of cellular calcium pools in angiotensin II- stimulated aldosterone synthesis in bovine adrenal glomerulosa cells. Angiotensin II decreased the size of the exchangeable cell calcium pool by 34%, consistent with previous observations that angiotensin II causes decreased uptake of 45Ca+2 into cells and increased efflux of 45Ca+2 from preloaded cells. Atomic absorption spectroscopy showed that angiotension II caused a decrease of 21% in total cellular calcium. Angiotensin II caused efflux of 45Ca+2 in the presence of EGTA and retarded uptake of 45Ca+2 when choline was substituted for sodium, suggesting that hormone effects on calcium pools do not involve influx of trigger calcium or sodium. Cells incubated in calcium-free buffer and 0.1 mM or 0.5 mM EGTA synthesized reduced (but still significant) amounts of the steroid in response to hormone. Cells incubated in increasing concentrations of extracellular calcium contained increasing amounts of intracellular calcium and synthesized increasing amounts of aldosterone in response to angiotensin II. These results point to the participation of intracellular calcium pools in angiotensin II- stimulated steroidogenesis and the importance of extracellular calcium in maintaining these pools.


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