Stimulation of pancreatic growth by cholecystokinin is mediated by high affinity receptors on rat pancreatic acinar cells |
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Authors: | R Dawra A Saluja MM Lerch M Saluja C Logsdon M Steer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215. |
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Abstract: | Pancreatic acinar cells possess both high low affinity receptors for cholecystokinin. The cholecystokinin analog caerulein, which exerts a trophic effect on the rat pancreas, acts as an agonist at both types of receptors. In contrast, the synthetic analog CCK-JMV-180, which also acts as an agonist at high affinity receptors, opposes the action of caerulein on the low affinity receptors. We report that infusion of either caerulein or CCK-JMV-180 into rats increases 3H]-thymidine incorporation into pancreatic DNA and causes the pancreatic weight as well as content of DNA, RNA, and protein to increase. CCK-JMV-180 also stimulates in-vitro incorporation of 3H]-thymidine into DNA of cultured rat acini. The finding that both caerulein and CCK-JMV-180 exert the same trophic effect on pancreatic acinar cells indicates that this effect is mediated via high affinity acinar cell cholecystokinin receptors. |
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