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Serotonin storage and chromogranins: an experimental study in rat gastric endocrine cells
G Bargsten and D Grube
Department of Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Federal Republic of Germany.
Chromogranins (Cg) and secretogranins (Sg) are acidic proteins localized in the secretory granules of a large variety of endocrine cells collectively named APUD cells (amine precursor uptake and decarboxylation). To examine the possible function of Cg/Sg as amine storage proteins, enteroendocrine cells of the rat gastric antral mucosa, i.e., serotonin-containing enterochromaffin (EC)-cells, gastrin (G)-, and somatostatin (D)-cells, were investigated immunohistochemically in serial semi-thin sections of controls and after intervention in serotonin synthesis. CgA and CgB immunoreactivity was determined semiquantitatively by optical density measurements. Experiments included inhibition of serotonin synthesis by p- chlorophenylalanine (pCPA), exogenous application of the serotonin precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP), and a combination of both treatments. The cellular distribution of Cg and the density of its immunoreactivity were closely related to the primary content of serotonin and the ability to store serotonin after 5-HTP application. Thus, Cg may act as amine-binding proteins in enteroendocrine cells, binding most probably being due to ionic interactions between Cg and the biogenic amines. EC- and G-cells, however, differed in their amine- handling properties and in the response of their Cg immunoreactivity after intervention in serotonin synthesis. We conclude, therefore, that the physiological function of Cg as amine storage proteins is restricted to endocrine cells with an endogenous content of amines. In other endocrine cells, exhibiting only a potential amine production, APUD may be considered as a kind of supravital staining without physiological significance.
Volume 40,
Issue 8,
pp. 1147-1155,
08/01/1992
Copyright © 1992 by The Histochemical Society
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