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Endocrinology, Vol 127, 3079-3086, Copyright © 1990 by Endocrine Society

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Evidence that ethanol induces prolactin secretion in GH4C1 cells by producing cell swelling with resultant calcium influx

N Sato, XB Wang, MA Greer, SE Greer and S McAdams
Department of Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201.

Although acute exposure to ethanol has been reported to affect hormone secretion, the data are sometimes conflicting, and the mechanism of action of ethanol is unclear. We have examined in GH4C1 cells the effect of isotonic ethanol on cell volume measured with a Coulter counter, the cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) monitored with fura- 2, and PRL secretion analyzed in a perifusion system. Isotonic ethanol caused prompt cell swelling and an explosive rise in both [Ca2+]i and PRL secretion proportional to the concentration of ethanol between 5- 120 mM. The increases in both [Ca2+]i and PRL secretion induced by 80 mM isotonic ethanol were essentially abolished by removal of medium Ca2+ or by nifedipine; the nifedipine IC50 was approximately 20 nM. Cell swelling induced by hyposmolarity or isotonic urea similarly increased both [Ca2+]i and PRL secretion. Hypertonic ethanol did not cause cell swelling and was ineffective in inducing an increase in either [Ca2+]i or PRL secretion. These data suggest that in GH4C1 cells a major mechanism by which ethanol stimulates PRL secretion is to induce cell swelling, thus producing enhanced Ca2+ influx through dihydropyridine-sensitive Ca2+ channels.


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