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  • Title: Adrenergic stimulation of cyclic GMP formation requires NO-dependent activation of cytosolic guanylate cyclase in rat pinealocytes.
    Author: Spessert R, Layes E, Vollrath L.
    Journal: J Neurochem; 1993 Jul; 61(1):138-43. PubMed ID: 8099948.
    Abstract:
    Cyclic GMP (cGMP) formation in rat pinealocytes is regulated through a synergistic dual receptor mechanism involving beta- and alpha 1-adrenergic receptors. The effects of NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (NMMA), which inhibits nitric oxide (NO) synthase and NO-mediated activation of cytosolic guanylate cyclase, and methylene blue (MB), which inhibits cytosolic guanylate cyclase, were investigated in an attempt to understand the role of NO in adrenergic cGMP formation. Both NMMA and MB inhibited beta-adrenergic stimulation of cGMP formation as well as alpha 1-adrenergic potentiation of beta-adrenergic stimulation of cGMP formation, whereas they had no effect in unstimulated pinealocytes. The inhibitory action of NMMA was antagonized by addition of L-arginine. On the basis of these findings it can be concluded that the adrenergic stimulation of cGMP formation involves NO synthesis followed by activation of cytosolic guanylate cyclase.
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