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PubMed1981

Effects of prostaglandin D2 and theophylline on rat serosal mast cells: discordance between increased cellular levels of cyclic AMP and activation of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.

Previous studies have shown that perturbation of the mast cell IgE-Fc receptor activates adenylate cyclase so as to raise cellular levels of cyclic AMP and to activate cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Theophylline, an inhibitor of cytoplasmic cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, raises cellular cyclic AMP levels, activates Type I and Type II cytoplasmic cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase isoenzymes, and inhibits immunologic mediator release in a dose-dependent fashion. Since the EC50 values for each of these effects are similar (8 to 9.5 mM), it seems likely that a relationship exists between the activation of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase and the inhibition of mediator release. Such inhibition could be due to either to the uncovering of an inhibitory protein by phosphorylation or to the depletion of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme, which is essential for productive IgE-Fc receptor-induced activation-secretion coupling. PGD2, which also raises mast cell cyclic AMP levels in a dose-dependent fashion and interacts synergistically with theophylline in this regard, fails to suppress mediator release alone or to add to the inhibitory effect of theophylline. The finding that PGD2 also fails to activate cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase suggests that the adenylate cyclase stimulated by this agonist is not linked to the mast cell activation-secretion response.

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PubMed1994

Effects of stem cell factor (kit-ligand) and interleukin-3 on the growth and serine proteinase expression of rat bone-marrow-derived or serosal mast cells.

The effects of rat stem-cell factor (SCF) and interleukin-3 (IL-3), alone or in combination, on the in vitro growth and serine proteinase expression of rat serosal/connective-tissue mast cells (CTMC) or bone marrow-derived mast cells (BMMC) were examined. Rat SCF stimulated the growth of both CTMC and BMMC. IL-3 stimulated BMMC growth to a lesser extent than did SCF, whereas CTMC numbers did not increase in IL-3. However, SCF and IL-3 had synergistic effects on the growth of both BMMC and CTMC. SCF favoured the maintenance of rat mast cell proteinase-I (RMCP-I) in CTMC, but did not induce detectable production of RMCP-I in BMMC. In contrast, when IL-3 or lymph node-conditioned medium (LNCM) was added to SCF, a subpopulation of CTMC expressed and stored the soluble proteinase RMCP-II. In BMMC, the RMCP-II content of cells maintained in SCF was significantly less than that of cells maintained in IL-3 or LNCM. RMCP-II also appeared in the supernatants of BMMC, especially when BMMC numbers were increasing rapidly in SCF with or without IL-3 or LNCM. Thus, SCF and IL-3 can regulate the growth of rat BMMC and CTMC, as well as influence their production and release of proteinases.

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PubMed1994

Impaired healing of cervical oesophagogastrostomies can be predicted by estimation of gastric serosal blood perfusion by laser Doppler flowmetry.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of relative blood perfusion of the gastric tube in prediction of impaired healing of cervical oesophagogastrostomies. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: University hospital, The Netherlands. SUBJECTS: Thirty patients undergoing transhiatal oesophagectomy and partial gastrectomy for cancer of the oesophagus or oesophagogastric junction, with gastric tube reconstruction and cervical oesophagogastrostomy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Operative measurement of gastric blood perfusion at four sites by laser Doppler flowmetry and perfusion of the same sites after construction of the gastric tube expressed as a percentage of preconstruction values. RESULTS: The relative perfusion at the most proximal site of the gastric tube was significantly lower than at the more distal sites (p = 0.001). Nine of 18 patients (50%) in whom the perfusion of the proximal gastric tube was less than 70% of preconstruction values developed an anastomotic stricture, compared with only 1 of 12 patients (8%) with a relative perfusion of 70% or more (p = 0.024). A reduction in perfusion of the gastric tube did not predict leakage. CONCLUSION: Impaired anastomotic healing is unlikely if relative perfusion is 70% or more of preconstruction values. Perfusion of less than 70% partly predicts the occurrence of anastomotic stricture, but leakage cannot be predicted. Factors other than blood perfusion may have a role in the process of anastomotic healing.

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