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C Erlanson-Albertsson

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Effects of verapamil on amylase release from rat pancreatic acini and its relation to calcium fluxes.

The effects of verapamil on amylase release and Ca2+ fluxes from rat pancreatic acini have been studied. Verapamil at concentrations above 10 microM dose-dependently inhibited amylase release stimulated by carbachol, but enhanced the amylase release stimulated by cholecystokinin (CCK) and secretin. Verapamil had no significant effect on calcium uptake induced by carbachol or CCK, but significantly inhibited Ca+2 efflux caused by carbachol and slightly increased that caused by CCK. In a Ca2+-free, EDTA-containing medium, the increase in cytoplasmic free Ca2+ caused by carbachol was significantly inhibited by verapamil. Verapamil alone up to 400 microM had no effect on the release of lactic dehydrogenase. In conclusion, the effect of verapamil on amylase release from rat pancreatic acini differs depending on the type of secretagogue used to stimulate amylase release. This effect is not related to blockage of Ca2+ uptake, indicating another mechanism of verapamil on pancreatic acini.

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Effect of trypsin on the hormonal regulation of the fat-stimulated human exocrine pancreas.

To study the effects of trypsin on the pancreaticobiliary secretion and the release of secretin and cholecystokinin (CCK) to plasma, seven normal subjects were stimulated twice with duodenal perfusates containing 20 mM oleic acid (pH 6.0) with and without 1 g of bovine trypsin added per liter. In addition, six patients with advanced pancreatic insufficiency who received only the oleic acid were compared with eight normal subjects. The concentrations of secretin and CCK in plasma and the pancreatic enzyme and volume secretions were unaffected by the addition of trypsin, but the initial bile acid output and the bicarbonate secretion in the period after gallbladder emptying were reduced during perfusion with trypsin. The severely reduced enzyme secretion in chronic pancreatitis did not influence the basal or oleic acid-stimulated concentrations of the hormones in plasma. The study does not support the hypothesis of a trypsin-mediated negative feedback control of human pancreatic enzyme secretion. Furthermore, the reduced duodenal output of bicarbonate found in response to trypsin is not explained by changes in the release of secretin or CCK.

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Calcium fluxes caused by bile salts in rat pancreatic acini.

The effect of bile salt on Ca2+ uptake, Ca2+ efflux, and cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in rat pancreatic acini has been studied. The dihydroxy bile salts, taurodeoxycholate (TDC) and taurochenodeoxycholate (TCDC), were found to accelerate Ca2+ uptake. Dihydroxy bile salt and the trihydroxy bile salt taurocholate (TC) stimulated Ca2+ efflux from the acini. Verapamil increased the Ca2+ efflux induced by dihydroxy bile salts but did not influence the Ca2+ uptake. Under calcium-equilibrated conditions TDC and TCDC caused a quick net Ca2+ efflux, followed by an increase in Ca2+ uptake, whereas TC only caused a net Ca2+ efflux. TDC and TCDC, but not TC, increased the [Ca2+]i. This effect of TDC and TCDC was abolished in Ca2+-free EDTA-containing (0.2 mM) medium. The amylase release caused by bile salts was related in time with the Ca2+ fluxes. In conclusion, bile salts may change the Ca2+ homeostasis of pancreatic acini in different ways, depending on the type of bile salt. This change of Ca2+ homeostasis may play an important role in the bile salt-stimulated amylase release.

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Secretion of pancreatic lipase and colipase from rat pancreas.

Rat pancreatic juice was collected from female, anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats (200-250 g) during basal secretion and after 45-min intravenous infusion for secretin or secretin with cholecystokinin (CCK). The volume of secretion was measured as well as activity of lipase and colipase. It was shown that the basal secretion of pancreatic juice gave a colipase/lipase (C/L) ratio of about 0.5. Stimulation with secretin or addition of CCK to secretin gave a C/L ratio between 0.4 and 0.6. This was not significantly different from the ratio found in basal secretion. The secretion of lipase and colipase from isolated pancreatic acini was also found to parallel a C/L ratio equal to 0.6 in the basal release and to a ratio between 0.5 and 0.6 after stimulation with CCK, secretin, or carbachol. The total activity ratio of C/L in the pancreas was equal to 0.97. It is concluded that lipase and colipase are secreted in parallel both in vivo and in vitro. The reason for a lower ratio of C/L in the secreted juice compared to the C/L ratio of pancreatic gland is not known.

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Effect of phosphatidylcholine and free fatty acids on the activity of pancreatic lipase-colipase.

Mixed micelles of bile salt and phospholipids inhibit the lipase-colipase-catalysed hydrolysis of triacylglycerols. Free fatty acids can reverse this inhibition and reactivate lipase-colipase. This reactivation is either due to the formation of a high-affinity complex between lipase and colipase induced by free fatty acids and/or to a change of the quality of the interface. Lauric acid, oleic acid and linoleic acid are the most potent reactivators, while short-chain free fatty acids have no effect and long-chain, saturated free fatty acids inhibit the lipase-colipase activity further. The physiological relevance of these results is evident as the glyceride emulsion reaching the duodenum already contains free fatty acids due to the activity of lingual lipase in the stomach.

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Effects of extracellular calcium and magnesium on bile-salt-stimulated amylase release from rat pancreatic acini.

The effects of extracellular calcium and magnesium on bile-salt-induced amylase release from rat pancreatic acini have been studied. The amylase releases caused by from 0.25 mM to 1.0 mM taurodeoxycholate (TDC) and by taurochenodeoxycholate (TCDC) at a concentration of more than 0.75 mM were reduced by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and increased by verapamil. EDTA and verapamil had no significant effect on the taurocholate (TC) (1.0-5.0 mM)-stimulated amylase release. The inhibiting effect of EDTA began to appear already during the initial 5 min and was not parallel to any change of lactate dehydrogenase release. The TDC- and TCDC-stimulated amylase release was strongly dependent on the concentrations of extracellular calcium and was only weakly dependent on extracellular magnesium. The TC-induced amylase release was slightly increased only at high concentrations of calcium and magnesium. It is suggested that the mechanism of dihydroxy bile-salt-induced amylase release from rat pancreatic acini is different from that of trihydroxy bile salt. The dihydroxy bile-salt-stimulated amylase release is dependent on extracellular calcium but does not seem to be related to the uptake of calcium by the acini.

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Processing of pro-colipase and trypsinogen by pancreatic dipeptidyl peptidase IV.

Purified dipeptidyl peptidase IV from porcine pancreas or from human placenta cleaves N-terminal dipeptides from two proteins of the pancreatic juice, namely trypsinogen and pro-colipase. Phenylalanyl-proline is very effectively released (Km approximately 50 microM) from bovine or porcine trypsinogen. Both purified dipeptidyl peptidases also rapidly cleave valyl-proline from the N-terminus of porcine pro-colipase. This degradation does not increase the colipase activity of the precursor. However, under certain conditions, which are not fully understandable at present, dipeptidyl peptidase IV releases more slowly a second dipeptide, aspartyl-proline, from pro-colipase, and this results in a partial activation. Dipeptidyl peptidase IV apparently lines the excretory ducts of porcine pancreas and, therefore, is in close contact to the proteins of pancreatic juice in vivo. The possible significance of these degradations is discussed.

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Stimulatory effects of human pancreatic polypeptide on rat pancreatic acini.

The effect of human pancreatic polypeptide (HPP) on rat pancreatic acini has been studied. It was found that HPP stimulated amylase and lipase release from the acini. The secretory response of acini to HPP was dose-dependent in a sigmoidal fashion. Between 10(-9) M and 10(-8) M concentration of HPP there was a slow increase of enzyme release to about 40-60% over basal release. At concentrations of HPP above 10(-8) M there was a rapid increase of enzyme release, amounting to 4-6 times over basal release at 10(-6) M concentration of HPP. The potency of HPP compared to other secretagogues at 10(-7) M concentration was 45% of CCK, 60% of carbachol and 75% of secretin. HPP did not inhibit the effect of CCK, secretin and carbachol on amylase release. The amylase release stimulated by HPP was accompanied by an increase in 45Ca2+ efflux. Atropine or dibutyryl cyclic GMP did not influence the effect of HPP. It is concluded that HPP stimulates the release of enzymes from rat pancreatic acini and that Ca2+ may be a mediator for this secretion.

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The interaction between human pancreatic carboxylester hydrolase (bile-salt-stimulated lipase of human milk) and lactoferrin.

An interaction between lactoferrin and human pancreatic carboxylester hydrolase (carboxylic-ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.1) (of bile-salt-stimulated lipase from human milk) has been demonstrated using partition in an aqueous two-phase system. This binding was strongly increased by the presence of sodium taurocholate, giving an apparent dissociation constant of around 10(-7) M. With this constant, significant binding is expected to occur in the intestine of the newborn being breast-fed between lactoferrin and either the pancreatic carboxylester hydrolase or the milk bile-salt-stimulated lipase. For carboxylester hydrolase, the interaction with lactoferrin meant a 1.4-fold increase in hydrolytic activity against p-nitrophenylacetate and cholesterololeate. For the function of lactoferrin we have not studied the importance of this interaction.

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Effect of bile salt on amylase release from rat pancreatic acini.

The effect of different bile salts on amylase release from isolated rat pancreatic acini has been studied. The bile salt-stimulated discharge of amylase could be divided into three situations, depending on the concentration of bile salt. At low concentrations, between 1 and 100 X 10(-6)M, there was a slight increase in amylase secretion, 5-7% of total, which varied with the type of bile salt but was independent of the concentration of bile salt. The release of amylase stimulated by cholecystokinin, secretin, and carbachol was not affected by bile salts at this low concentration. At slightly higher concentrations, between 250 and 1000 X 10(-6)M, there was a large release of amylase, 10-40% of total, which was dependent on both type and concentration of bile salt. This release occurred specifically for amylase and was not followed by release of either membrane-bound dipeptidylpeptidase IV or intracellularly located lactic dehydrogenase. At higher concentrations, 2000-5000 X 10(-6)M, both amylase and dipeptidylpeptidase IV and lactic dehydrogenase were released, accompanying viability changes of the cells with uptake of trypan blue.

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The interaction between pancreatic lipase and colipase: a protein-protein interaction regulated by a lipid.

Pancreatic lipase readily adsorbs to a triglyceride droplet. In the intestine the triglyceride droplets are covered with bile salt and phospholipids which will prevent the adsorption of lipase. In this situation the activity of lipase is restored by colipase, another pancreatic protein. Lipase and colipase in solution form a 1:1 molar complex. I emphasize the fact that the binding and conformation of the two proteins in the complex is dependent on the type of lipids present and suggest that this lipid-determined structure of the complex is responsible for the actual function of lipase/colipase. It determines whether colipase assists lipase in binding to the bile salt-covered triglyceride droplet as is the case with tributyrin as substrate, and whether colipase in addition activates lipase as is the case with a mixed trioctanoin/lecithin monolayer substrate. In other words, lipase activity is regulated by the combined action of colipase and the lipid substrate.

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Measurement of the binding of human colipase to human lipase and lipase substrates.

Equilibrium partition in an aqueous two-phase system was the method used for quantitative determinations of the binding between human colipase and human lipase and three triacylglycerol substrates: Intralipid tributyrin and triolein. The measurements were performed in a dextran/polyethyleneglycol system at pH 7.0 in the presence of 2 mM sodium taurodeoxycholate and 150 mM NaCL. The binding of colipase to lipase had a dissociation constant Kd = 4.8 . 10(-8) M. The dissociation constants for the binding of colipase to Intralipid, tributyrin and triolein were found to be 2.10(-7) M, 4.8 . 10(-8) M and 6.2 . 10(-8) M, respectively.

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Isolated co-lipase deficiency in two brothers.

Two normally developed Assyrian brothers with isolated pancreatic co-lipase deficiency are described. They presented at the age of 5-6 years with loose stools. They had steatorrhoea, and analysis of exocrine pancreatic enzymes in the small intestine showed co-lipase deficiency, while amylase, chymotrypsin, trypsin and lipase were normal. Intraduodenal infusion of purified co-lipase improved fat digestion measured by the triolein breath test. Their steatorrhoea diminished on treatment with enteric-coated pancreatic enzymes.

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Hydrolysis of milk fat globules by pancreatic lipase. Role of colipase, phospholipase A2, and bile salts.

Human milk fat globules require colipase to be hydrolyzed by pancreatic lipase in the presence of bile salts. This is contrary to a recent report in this Journal (J. Clin. Invest. 67: 1748-1752.) according to which inhibition of lipase by bile salt could be overcome by the addition of colipase or phospholipase A2. This latter finding is shown to be due to contamination of commercially available pancreatic phospholipase A2 by colipase.

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