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Pituitary GH3 Cells (pituitary + gh3_cell)

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  • rat pituitary gh3 cell
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    Selected Abstracts

    Evidence of calcium- and SNARE-dependent release of CuZn superoxide dismutase from rat pituitary GH3 cells and synaptosomes in response to depolarization

    JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2007
    Mariarosaria Santillo
    Abstract The antioxidant enzyme CuZn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) is secreted by many cell lines. However, it is not clear whether SOD1 secretion is only constitutive or can be regulated in an activity-dependent fashion. Using rat pituitary GH3 cells that express voltage-dependent calcium channels and are subjected to Ca2+ oscillations, we found that treatment with high K+ -induced SOD1 release that was significantly higher than the constitutive secretion. Evoked SOD1 release was correlated with depolarization-dependent calcium influx and was virtually abolished by removal of extracellular calcium with EGTA or by pre-incubation of GH3 cells with Botulinum toxin A that cleaves the SNARE protein SNAP-25. Immunofluorescence experiments performed in GH3 cells and rat brain synaptosomes showed that K+ -depolarization induced a marked depletion of intracellular SOD1 immunoreactivity, an effect that was again abolished in the absence of extracellular calcium or after treatment with Botulinum toxin A. Subcellular fractionation analysis showed that SOD1 was present in large dense core vesicles. These data clearly show that, in addition to the constitutive SOD1 secretion, depolarization induces an additional rapid calcium-dependent SOD1 release in GH3 cells and in rat brain synaptosomes. This likely occurs through exocytosis from SOD1-containing vesicles operated by the SNARE complex. [source]

    Melatonin suppresses cyclosporine A-induced autophagy in rat pituitary GH3 cells

    JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010
    Yeong-Min Yoo
    Abstract:, Cyclosporine A (CsA) is a powerful immunosuppressive drug with side effects including the induction of chronic nephrotoxicity including endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in tubular cells. Recently, it was reported that autophagy is induced by ER stress and serves to alleviate the associated deleterious effects. In the current study, CsA treatment (0,100 ,m) decreased cell survival of rat pituitary GH3 cells in a dose-dependent manner. At concentrations ranging from 1.0 to 10 ,m, CsA induced a dose-dependent increase in the expression of microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3 (LC3)-I and LC3-II. Cells treated with 2.5 ,m CsA exhibited cytoplasmic vacuolation, indicating that CsA induces autophagy in rat pituitary GH3 cells. In the presence of 1.0,10 ,m CsA, the expression of catalase decreased while that of the ER stress markers, ER luminal binding protein (BiP) and inositol-requiring enzyme 1 alpha (IRE1,), increased as compared those levels in untreated cells. These results suggested that CsA-induced autophagy is dependent on ER stress. To determine whether melatonin would protect cells against CsA-induced autophagy, we treated rat pituitary GH3 cells with melatonin in the presence of CsA. Melatonin treatment (100 and 200 ,m) suppressed autophagy induced by 2.5 and 5 ,m CsA. Furthermore, co-treatment with 100 ,m melatonin inhibited LC3-II expression, and increased catalase and phosphorylated p-ERK levels in the presence of 2.5 and 5 ,m CsA. BiP and IRE1, expression in melatonin-co-treated cells was superior to that in cells treated with 2.5 and 5 ,m CsA alone. Thus, melatonin suppresses CsA-mediated autophagy in rat pituitary GH3 cells. [source]