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  • Title: Basal and stretch-augmented natriuretic peptide secretion by quiescent rat atria.
    Author: Page E, Goings GE, Power B, Upshaw-Earley J.
    Journal: Am J Physiol; 1990 Nov; 259(5 Pt 1):C801-18. PubMed ID: 2146883.
    Abstract:
    Absolute rates of immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) secretion were measured in vitro at 37 degrees C in noncontracting preparations of combined right and left rat atria at constant distending pressures of 0 or 5.1 mmHg in presence of 0.2 mM extracellular Ca2+ concentration [( Ca2+]o), 10 microM ryanodine, and either 1 microM saxitoxin or 10 microM tetrodotoxin. By systematic deletion of external Na+, K+, Mg2+, Cl-, or HCO3-, and reduction of [Ca2+]o, and by selective ion transport inhibitors, neither net transplasmalemmal fluxes of Na+, Cl-, HCO3-, and Mg2+ nor ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was found necessary for stretch augmentation of secretory rate (Ra). Ra 1) was near zero within 20 min when extracellular Na+ concentration = 0 and [Ca2+]o = 20 microM and within 5 min or less after preincubation with caffeine, 8-chlorophenylthioadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate, or at 18 degrees C; 2) was significantly decreased by Cd2+, Ni2+, the isoquinoline H-7, and trifluoperazine but not 100 microM ryanodine; 3) was increased by neomycin; and 4) had an apparent activation energy of 18.5 +/- 4.1 x 10(3) cal/mol between 23 and 42 degrees C. These experiments strongly implicated transplasmalemmal Ca2+ influx and cAMP but not SR Ca2+ release in control of Ra under the experimental conditions studied.
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