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J M Madison

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PubMed1995

Muscarinic regulation of cyclic AMP in bovine trachealis cells.

The goal of this study was to characterize the receptors and coupling mechanisms mediating muscarinic inhibition of adenylyl cyclase activity in bovine tracheal smooth muscle. In radioligand binding experiments, methoctramine and AF-DX 116 competed for approximately 85% of the 3H-quinuclidynyl benzilate (3H-QNB) binding sites on intact cells with high affinities (-log KI of 7.73 +/- 0.16 and 6.67 +/- 0.31, respectively) characteristic of binding to M2 receptors. The antagonist 4-diphenylacetoxy-N-methylpiperidine (4-DAMP) bound the receptors on intact cells with an affinity (-log KI = 7.76 +/- 0.21) characteristic of binding at M2 receptors. In experiments measuring 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) accumulation, methoctramine, AF-DX 116, and 4-DAMP antagonized the inhibitory effect of carbachol on isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation with potencies consistent with mediation by M2 muscarinic receptors (-log Kb of 8.01 +/- 0.22 to 7.58 +/- 0.25 for methoctramine; 7.43 +/- 0.36 to 7.02 +/- 0.30 for AF-DX 116; and 7.60 +/- 0.21 for 4-DAMP). In other experiments, 24 +/- 3% of the inhibitory effect of carbachol was not reversed by 60 min exposure to atropine. Moreover, pertussis toxin (10, 250, and 1,000 ng/ml) decreased only a portion of the inhibitory effect of carbachol (8 +/- 19%, 32 +/- 10%, and 33 +/- 8%, respectively) on cAMP accumulation. These findings indicated that M2 receptors were coupled to adenylyl cyclase in trachealis cells, but that coupling mechanisms in addition to those of pertussis toxin-sensitive guanine nucleotide binding proteins were involved. Since the inhibitory effect of carbachol (10(-8) M) on isoproterenol-stimulated cAMP accumulation was decreased from 20 +/- 4% to -1 +/- 5% (n = 6) by okadaic acid (1 microM), protein phosphatases may regulate the processes coupling muscarinic receptors to adenylyl cyclase.

Adenylate Cyclase Toxin↗
PubMed1990

Muscarinic receptor reserve of airway smooth muscle and the response to isoproterenol.

It has been hypothesized that the muscarinic receptor reserve for contraction of airway smooth muscle is an important determinant of the potency with which isoproterenol relaxes submaximal muscarinic contractions. The goals of this study were to inactivate, with phenoxybenzamine, a fraction of the muscarinic receptors present in canine tracheal smooth muscle, and then to determine whether this decrease in muscarinic receptor reserve altered the potency with which isoproterenol relaxed submaximal muscarinic contractions. Strips of smooth muscle were suspended from force transducers in vitro and preincubated with either vehicle (untreated) or phenoxybenzamine (10(-5) M) for 30 min. For muscarinic contractions induced by carbachol that were approximately 70-80% of maximum, the half-maximally effective concentration of isoproterenol was 2.4 +/- 0.8 x 10(-7) M for untreated strips but 5.8 +/- 1.3 x 10(-9) M for strips treated with phenoxybenzamine (n = 6, P less than 0.05). We concluded that treatment with phenoxybenzamine increased the sensitivity of a submaximal muscarinic contraction to isoproterenol. The results support the hypothesis that the muscarinic receptor reserve for contraction is an important determinant of the potency with which isoproterenol relaxes submaximal muscarinic contractions.

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PubMed1990

Receptors on airway gland cells.

Airway submucosal glands are by volume the most important source of macromolecules in airway secretions. These secretions, containing gel-forming mucins, antibacterial proteins, and antiproteases, comprise the major defensive barrier protecting the host against airborne pathogens. The identification of the mechanisms regulating secretion from the submucosal glands is key to understanding the genesis of this barrier and how it is altered by disease processes. Using a variety of methods, we and others have identified on the gland cells of several species receptors specific for ACh, norepinephrine, substance P, VIP, PGE1, PGE2, PGA1, PGD2, histamine and bradykinin. These receptors all participate in modulating the secretory activity of the airway submucosal glands. Studies of homogeneous cultures of bovine airway serous cells have yielded detailed information regarding the beta-adrenergic receptor on these cells. Using radioligand binding techniques, we found evidence for the presence of a single high affinity beta receptor of beta-2 subtype. Occupancy of this receptor by isoproterenol causes an elevation in the concentration of intracellular cAMP, which in turn stimulates the phosphorylation of a subset of cytoplasmic and membrane proteins. Based on the kinetics and pharmacology of these effects, it is likely that cAMP functions as a second messenger in the serous cell secretory pathway, probably acting through protein kinases. Current efforts are directed at identification of those phosphoproteins whose phosphorylation and dephosphorylation times are consistent with their possible roles in secretion.

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PubMed1989

Characterization of beta-adrenergic receptors in cultured bovine tracheal gland cells.

We characterized the beta-adrenergic receptors that mediate secretory responses to isoproterenol in cultured bovine tracheal submucosal gland cells. Previous studies have shown that these cells have morphological and biochemical features characteristic of serous cells. Isoproterenol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine each stimulated the secretion of 35SO4-labeled macromolecules from these cultured serous cells with a rank order of potency (isoproterenol greater than epinephrine greater than norepinephrine) consistent with the presence of beta 2-adrenergic receptors. These functional studies were supported by radioligand-binding studies using [I125]-iodocyanopindolol (125I-CYP) to identify beta-adrenergic receptors. 125I-CYP binding to membrane particulates prepared from cultured serous cells was saturable and of high affinity (equilibrium dissociation constant 20 +/- 3 pM; mean +/- SE, n = 6) and was antagonized stereoselectively by propranolol. Adrenergic agonists competed for 125I-CYP-binding sites with a rank order of potency characteristic of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor subtype. A specific beta 2-adrenergic receptor antagonist, ICI 118.551, competed for a single class of 125I-CYP-binding sites with high affinity (inhibition constant 1.8 +/- 0.3 nM, n = 3). We concluded that the secretory response of cultured tracheal gland cells to isoproterenol is a response mediated by beta-adrenergic receptors of the beta 2 subtype.

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PubMed1989

Differential effects of prostaglandin E2 on contractions of airway smooth muscle.

In an in vitro muscle bath, the active tension generated by strips of canine tracheal smooth muscle responding to cumulative additions of either histamine (10(-8) to 10(-3) M) or acetylcholine (10(-9) to 10(-3) M) was measured in the absence and presence of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) (10(-6) to 10(-5) M). When contractile responses of equal magnitude were compared, the contractions elicited by acetylcholine were resistant to the inhibitory effects of PGE2, relative to comparable contractions elicited by histamine. To assess the role of adenylate cyclase in determining the different responses to histamine and acetylcholine in the presence of PGE2, we assayed adenylate cyclase activity in membranes prepared from canine tracheal smooth muscle and found that acetylcholine, but not histamine, decreased PGE2-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity by 48 +/- 2% (mean +/- SE; n = 5). However, in other experiments, we found that even large pharmacological increases in tissue adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) content only partially inhibited muscarinic tone. Also, exogenously applied analogues of cyclic AMP inhibited contractions induced by histamine more effectively than comparable contractions induced by acetylcholine. We concluded that acetylcholine decreased adenylate cyclase activity in membranes prepared from canine tracheal smooth muscle and that this effect may have contributed to, but did not completely account for, the relative resistance of muscarinic contractions to the inhibitory effects of PGE2.

1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine↗
PubMed1988

Muscarinic cholinergic inhibition of cyclic AMP accumulation in airway smooth muscle. Role of a pertussis toxin-sensitive protein.

Muscarinic agonists are potent constrictors of airway smooth muscle. In many tissues, muscarinic agonists also reduce intracellular cyclic AMP by inhibiting its synthesis. In airway smooth muscle, the role muscarinic agonists have in the regulation of cyclic AMP content is not established. The hypothesis of our study was that muscarinic agonists reduce cyclic AMP accumulation in dog tracheal smooth muscle, and that this reduction involves a pertussis toxin-sensitive regulatory protein (Gi) that couples occupancy of the muscarinic receptor by the agonist to inhibition of adenylate cyclase. We measured cyclic AMP accumulation in tracheal smooth muscle from 4 dogs, and found that acetylcholine (10(-4) M) diminished basal and isoproterenol-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation by 37.6 +/- 12.1% and 39.4 +/- 1.9%, respectively (mean +/- SEM, p less than 0.05). This reduction of cyclic AMP was dose-dependent and inhibited by atropine (10(-5) M). Incubation of dog tracheal smooth muscle with pertussis toxin (12.5 micrograms/ml) for 21 h catalyzed covalent modification of a membrane protein with an approximate Mr of 40,000. In control strips, acetylcholine decreased isoproterenol-stimulated cyclic AMP content by 33.7 +/- 5.6% (p less than 0.05). However, in strips treated with pertussis toxin (10 micrograms/ml), acetylcholine decreased cyclic AMP by only 7.9 +/- 4.8%; this change was not significant. Thus, pertussis toxin (10 micrograms/ml) attenuated muscarinic cholinergic regulation of cyclic AMP. These findings are consistent with muscarinic cholinergic regulation of adenylate cyclase via Gi in dog tracheal smooth muscle. In addition, the techniques we employed should permit the evaluation of other functions of pertussis toxin-sensitive G proteins in airway smooth muscle.

Acetylcholine↗
PubMed1988

Differential inhibitory effects of forskolin, isoproterenol, and dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate on phosphoinositide hydrolysis in canine tracheal smooth muscle.

A characteristic feature of airway smooth muscle is its relative sensitivity to relaxant effects of beta adrenergic agonists when contracted by inflammatory mediators, such as histamine, vs. resistance to these relaxant effects when contracted by muscarinic agonists. Because contractions presumably depend upon the hydrolysis of membrane phosphoinositides (PI) and the generation of inositol phosphates (IP), our goal was to test for the effects of forskolin, isoproterenol, and dibutyryl cAMP on histamine- vs. methacholine-induced IP accumulation in canine tracheal smooth muscle. Methacholine (10(-3) M) was a more effective stimulant of IP accumulation (9.6 +/- 2.1-fold increase) than equimolar histamine (3.6 +/- 0.5-fold increase) in this tissue. When responses to equieffective methacholine (4 x 10(-6) M) and histamine (10(-3) M) were compared, neither forskolin, isoproterenol, nor dibutyryl cAMP significantly decreased IP accumulation in response to methacholine. In contrast, each of these three agents significantly decreased responses to histamine (by 56 +/- 9, 52 +/- 2, and 61 +/- 2%, respectively). We concluded that, in canine tracheal smooth muscle, increased cAMP is associated with inhibition of PI hydrolysis in response to histamine but not methacholine. The findings suggest a novel mechanism for selective modulation by cAMP of receptor-mediated cellular activation.

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PubMed1987

Morphologic characterization of cultured smooth muscle cells isolated from the tracheas of adult dogs.

The goals of our study were to isolate smooth muscle cells from the trachealis muscle of adult dogs and to characterize the cells morphologically when they were maintained in primary culture. Enzymatic digestion of the muscle yielded 4.8 +/- 1.8 X 10(6) viable smooth muscle cells per gram of tissue. When placed in culture, these cells rapidly proliferated until confluence was reached. The proliferating cells in culture differed from the cells in the intact tissue in that they stained less intensely for smooth muscle myosin, developed immunofluorescent staining for the intermediate filament protein vimentin, and lost many of the ultrastructural properties of the intact muscle. Only within nodules of cells in the confluent cultures were these ultrastructural properties preserved. Cultures of canine tracheal fibroblasts differed from these smooth muscle cell cultures in that the fibroblasts did not stain for smooth muscle myosin and did not form nodules at confluence. We concluded that adult canine airway smooth muscle cells may be maintained in primary culture, that the confluent cultures contain nodules of cells with many morphologic characteristics of the intact muscle, and that these preparations may be distinguished from cultured canine tracheal fibroblasts on specific morphologic grounds.

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PubMed1987

Muscarinic cholinergic inhibition of adenylate cyclase in airway smooth muscle.

The goal of our study was to test for an inhibitory effect of acetylcholine on adenylate cyclase activity in canine trachealis muscle. Therefore, cells were dispersed from the muscle enzymatically and lysed, and adenylate cyclase activity was assayed in a membrane suspension isolated from the lysates. Maximal beta-adrenergic stimulation, in the presence of GTP (10(-4) M), increased the activity of adenylate cyclase twofold above the activity induced by GTP alone. In the presence of GTP, acetylcholine (10(-4) M) decreased activity from 97 +/- 21 to 55 +/- 13 pmol cyclic AMP X min-1 X mg protein-1 (means +/- SE; n = 5; P less than 0.05); in the presence of GTP plus isoproterenol (10(-4) M), the acetylcholine-induced decreases were from 163 +/- 29 to 101 +/- 15 pmol cyclic AMP X min-1 X mg protein-1 (P less than 0.05). These decreases were dose dependent and they were altered by a series of cholinergic agents in a pattern consistent with a muscarinic effect. Our results suggest that one biochemical effect of vagal stimulation in the central airways of dogs may be attenuated adenylate cyclase activity in the smooth muscle.

Acetylcholine↗
PubMed1987

Affinities of pirenzepine for muscarinic cholinergic receptors in membranes isolated from bovine tracheal mucosa and smooth muscle.

Muscarinic cholinergic receptors have been classified into subtypes based on their high (M-1 subtype) or low (M-2 subtype) affinities for the nonclassic antagonist pirenzepine, and this classification has important experimental and therapeutic implications. Because muscarinic receptors are abundant in the airways where they mediate several different cellular responses, the goal of this study was to characterize the affinities of pirenzepine for the muscarinic receptors in bovine tracheal mucosa and smooth muscle. After isolating membrane particulates from mucosa and smooth muscle, as well as from bovine cerebral cortex (a known source of M-1 receptors), we used 3H-quinuclidinyl benzilate to label muscarinic receptors in the particulates and performed competition radioligand binding assays in the presence of either atropine or pirenzepine. Receptors from all 3 tissues (mucosa, smooth muscle, and cerebral cortex) were of a relatively uniform affinity for atropine (range of KI values: 0.8 +/- 0.4 X 10(-9) to 2.4 +/- 1.7 X 10(-9) M), as would be predicted for this classic muscarinic antagonist. By contrast, affinities for pirenzepine differed depending on the tissue. In cerebral cortex, the majority of receptors were of high affinity for pirenzepine (KI = 1.8 +/- 1.4 X 10(-8) M). In both mucosa and smooth muscle, receptors were of low affinity for pirenzepine (Kl = 4.8 +/- 0.4 to 6.9 +/- 3.8 X 10(-7) M). We conclude that muscarinic cholinergic receptors in bovine tracheal mucosa and smooth muscle are predominantly of the M-2 subtype.

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PubMed1985

Electron microscopic demonstration of lysosomal inclusion bodies in lung, liver, lymph nodes, and blood leukocytes of patients with amiodarone pulmonary toxicity.

The mechanism of amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity is unknown. Two cases of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity are presented in which abnormal inclusion bodies containing whorls of membrane were seen on electron microscopy of extrapulmonary tissues. These cytoplasmic lysosomal inclusion bodies were observed in lymphocytes, plasma cells, granulocytes, tissue macrophages, and hepatocytes. These widespread histopathologic changes in extrapulmonary tissues and in a variety of cell types are similar to more extensively investigated findings in animal models that are thought to represent a drug-induced lysosomal storage disease, phospholipidosis.

Amiodarone↗