Mechanism of the contractile response to platelet-activating factor (PAF) of the rat stomach fundus. II. PAF-induced phosphatidylinositol turnover and desensitization.
作者信息
Kamata K, Arai Y, Kasuya Y
机构信息
Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hoshi University, Tokyo, Japan.
出版信息
Gen Pharmacol. 1993 Nov;24(6):1337-41. doi: 10.1016/0306-3623(93)90416-u.
Accumulation of [3H]-inositol phosphates (IPs) was slightly enhanced by PAF in a concentration-dependent manner, but the accumulation was very small as compared with that induced by carbachol. 2. The levels of [32P]-phosphatidic acid which is transformed from diacylglycerol (DAG) were increased by treatment with PAF or with carbachol. 3. PAF-induced contraction was significantly reduced by treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). 4. These results suggest that while PAF slightly stimulates the turnover of phosphatidylinositol (PI) in the rat stomach fundus, this response may not be responsible for the PAF-induced contractile response, and that the desensitization induced by repeated application of PAF may be due to the activation of protein kinase C.