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Endocrinology, Vol 129, 3372-3380, Copyright © 1991 by Endocrine Society

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Peptide contents of neuropeptide Y, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, and beta-calcitonin gene-related peptide and their messenger ribonucleic acids after dexamethasone treatment in the isolated rat islets of Langerhans

H Jamal, PM Jones, J Byrne, K Suda, MA Ghatei, SM Kanse and SR Bloom
Department of Medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

A number of neuropeptides including neuropeptide Y (NPY), vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), and beta-calcitonin gene related peptide (beta-CGRP) are known to influence insulin secretion. In order to investigate whether they might have a local autocrine/paracrine effect within the islets of Langerhans we screened isolated islets by Northern blot analysis and RIA for a number of peptides and found evidence for the presence of messenger RNA (mRNA) encoding NPY, VIP, and beta-CGRP. Dexamethasone treatment for 12 days increased the content of NPY, VIP, and beta-CGRP significantly from 1.3 +/- 0.3 to 19.8 +/- 1.6; 0.25 +/- 0.03 to 0.91 +/- 0.1; 2.2 +/- 0.2 to 4.8 +/- 0.1 fmol/islet respectively, mean +/- SEM (n = 4, P less than 0.05) and remained elevated 24 h after recovery. However when the results were normalized and expressed as a ratio of insulin content only NPY and VIP were significantly raised. Five days post treatment VIP was still significantly elevated compared to controls. mRNA for NPY increased 10- fold and for VIP increased 2 1/2 times after dexamethasone whereas mRNA for beta-CGRP was not significantly different from controls. Neither capsaicin nor 6-hydroxydopamine affected islet content or message of NPY, VIP, and beta-CGRP. Immunoreactive NPY and its mRNA were detected in two cultured beta-cell lines, HIT T-15 and RIN m5F cells whereas VIP and beta-CGRP were undetectable. The local islet synthesis of neuropeptides, which are known to influence islet hormone release pharmacologically, suggests the possibility that they may play a role in intraislet paracrine regulation.




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