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  • Title: Neuropeptide Y release by pumiliotoxin-B in the electrically-stimulated mouse vas deferens: an immunohistochemical study.
    Author: D'Este L, Falconieri-Erspamer G, Severini C, Erspamer V, Renda TG.
    Journal: Peptides; 1999; 20(7):809-16. PubMed ID: 10477080.
    Abstract:
    Morphologic and immunohistochemical studies were conducted to ascertain whether pumiliotoxin-B (PTX-B), an indolizine alkaloid from the skin of the Neotropical dendrobatid frog, Dendrobates pumilio, affects the anatomic and immunohistochemical features of the electrically stimulated mouse vas deferens preparations. PTX-B, at a concentration of 1 microM, consistently decreased the density pattern of neuropeptide Y (NPY)-immunoreactive nerve fibers contained within the circular muscular layer. The alkaloid also induced striking morphologic changes. It enlarged the lumen of the vasa and relaxed the muscular wall. Pretreatment with prazosin or haloperidol affected neither the release of NPY nor the morphologic changes; pretreatment with tetrodotoxin and guanethidine abolished NPY release and prevented the PTX-B-induced morphologic changes. PTX-B had no appreciable effect on the density and distribution pattern of nerve fibers immunostained for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, substance P, calcitonin gene-related peptide, enkephalin, pancreatic polypeptide, 5-hydroxy-tryptamine and tyrosine hydroxylase.
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