gastrins and 4-diphenylacetoxy-1-1-dimethylpiperidinium

There is conflicting evidence concerning whether muscarinic regulation of gastrin release in humans is a direct or indirect effect on antral G cells. The present experiments were designed to resolve this question using an isolated human G-cell preparation.. The ability of muscarinic agonists to stimulate or inhibit gastrin release was assessed with or without an immunoneutralizing somatostatin antibody or an m3 receptor antagonist. The effect of secretogogues on G and D cells was monitored by intracellular calcium imaging.. Muscarinic agonists failed to stimulate gastrin release, even after the removal of somatostatin-induced inhibition. Our group has previously shown that muscarinic agonists stimulated somatostatin release from antral D cells. Methacholine (100 mumol/L) increased intracellular calcium levels in cocultured D cells; this increase was inhibited by the m3 receptor antagonist 4-diphenylacetoxy-n-methylpiperidine methiodide. Gastrin cells in the same field of view lacked a response to methacholine but showed a clear response to 10 nmol/L bombesin.. The experiments indicate that vagal control of gastrin release in humans is indirect; stimulation would be achieved by the activation of intrinsic gastrin-releasing peptide neurons, and inhibition would be via the paracrine action of somatostatin released from adjacent D cells.

Topics: Adult; Antibodies; Bombesin; Calcium; Carbachol; Cells, Cultured; Female; Gastrins; Humans; Male; Methacholine Chloride; Middle Aged; Muscarinic Agonists; Muscarinic Antagonists; Piperidines; Pyloric Antrum; Somatostatin

The functional role of the cholinergic nervous system in regulating gastrin release was investigated using enriched canine antral G cells. Gastrin content was 30.1 +/- 2.9 pmol per well and basal gastrin release was 900 +/- 27 fmol per well (n = 45). Carbachol (10(-8) to 10(-5) M) dose-dependently stimulated gastrin release with a maximal stimulatory response achieved at a concentration of 10(-5) M (330% over basal). To characterize the muscarinic receptor which mediates gastrin release from antral G cells, we examined the effect of three muscarinic receptor antagonists on carbachol-stimulated gastrin release; atropine (nonselective muscarinic receptor antagonist), pirenzepine (M1 muscarinic receptor antagonist) and 4-DAMP (M3 muscarinic receptor antagonist). Atropine (10(-9) to 10(-6) M), pirenzepine (10(-8) to 10(-5) M) and 4-DAMP (10(-9) to 10(-6) M) had no effect on the basal gastrin release. However, carbachol (10(-5) M)-stimulated gastrin release was effectively inhibited by atropine and 4-DAMP with Ki values of 0.48 and 0.66 nM, respectively. Pirenzepine at a high concentration (10(-5) M) also inhibited carbachol-stimulated gastrin release with a Ki value of 46.3 nM. These results suggest that the cholinergic nervous system directly stimulates gastrin release via M3 muscarinic receptors located on antral G cells.

Topics: Animals; Atropine; Carbachol; Cells, Cultured; Dogs; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Enterochromaffin Cells; Gastrins; Muscarinic Antagonists; Parasympathetic Nervous System; Parasympatholytics; Piperidines; Pirenzepine; Pyloric Antrum; Receptor, Muscarinic M3; Receptors, Muscarinic; Stimulation, Chemical