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  • Title: Presence of angiotensin II in the adult male rat anterior pituitary gland: immunocytochemical study after cryoultramicrotomy.
    Author: Chabot JG, Gray DA, Dubois PM, Morel G.
    Journal: Exp Cell Res; 1989 Jan; 180(1):189-97. PubMed ID: 2642425.
    Abstract:
    Angiotensin II (AII)-like immunoreactivity and binding sites have recently been demonstrated at the pituitary level. This peptide also exerts a stimulatory effect on anterior pituitary hormone release. Immunocytochemistry on ultrathin sections obtained by cryoultramicrotomy was used with the aim of localizing endogenous AII-like material at the cellular and subcellular levels of the anterior pituitary gland. AII-like immunostaining was observed only in gonadotrophs, lactotrophs, and corticotrophs. In gonadotrophs, AII-like immunoreactivity was restricted only to secretion granules. In the two other immunoreactive cells, lactotrophs and corticotrophs, immunostaining was observed in the cytoplasm and in the nucleus. In the cytoplasm, AII-like material was visualized in the cytoplasmic matrix and in the secretory granules. In the nucleus, immunostaining was distributed in the euchromatin in the vicinity of the heterochromatin. AII-like immunoreactivity was also seen at the plasma membrane, but only scarcely. No reaction product was found when anti-AII serum preincubated with AII was used. These immunocytochemical results (1) provide evidence that gonadotrophs are only a site of synthesis and/or storage of AII-like material, (2) indicate that lactotrophs and corticotrophs are cells for AII and (3) provide cytological evidence for a direct participation of AII in the regulation of the lactotropic and corticotropic function.
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