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Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 264: C912-C917, 1993;
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AJP - Cell Physiology, Vol 264, Issue 4 C912-C917, Copyright © 1993 by American Physiological Society

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Inhibitors of the arachidonic acid cascade dissociate 48/80-induced Ca2+ influx and Ca2+ release in mast cells

M. Kuno, J. Kawawaki, T. Shibata and H. Gotani
Department of Physiology, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.

Effects of inhibitors of the arachidonic acid cascade on Ca2+ release from intracellular stores and Ca2+ influx through the plasma membrane during stimulus-secretion coupling were examined using rat peritoneal mast cells loaded with fura-2. Compound 48/80 (48/80) was used as a secretagogue. A phospholipase inhibitor, p-bromophenacyl bromide (PBPB), or a lipoxygenase inhibitor, nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA), inhibited the 48/80 (1 microgram/ml)-induced release of histamine, Ca2+, and Mn2+ influxes, but the cyclooxygenase inhibitor, indomethacin (approximately 50 microM), inhibited neither Ca2+ nor Mn2+ influxes. The Ca2+ release induced by 1 microgram/ml of 48/80 was little inhibited by PBPB, NDGA, or indomethacin. The Ca2+ release was activated and saturated with lower concentrations of 48/80 than was the Ca2+ influx. The percent inhibition of the Ca2+ release by 25 microM PBPB was increased by lowering the concentration of 48/80, but NDGA (10 microM) did not inhibit the Ca2+ release induced by low concentrations of 48/80 (0.03-0.1 microgram/ml). These results suggest that activation of the Ca2+ release and the Ca2+ influx were differently regulated and that full activation of Ca2+ influx needs the arachidonic acid cascade produced by higher concentrations of 48/80 than does the Ca2+ release. Lipoxygenase metabolites of arachidonic acid are potential modulators of the Ca2+ influx.


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