Presence of immunoreactive alpha-endorphin in rat pituitary gland. |
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Authors: | J Fukata Y Nakai H Imura |
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Institution: | 2nd Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto 606, Japan |
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Abstract: | Utilizing radioimmunoassay for α-endorphin, we attempted to demonstrate immunoreactive α-endorphin in acid extracts of pars distalis and combined pars intermedia and pars nervosa of the rat pituitary gland after chromatography on Sephadex G-25. β-Lipotropin, β-endorphin and γ-endorphin were not converted into α-endorphin during the extraction and gel chromatographic procedures. Concentrations of immunoreactive α-endorphin determined after gel chromatography of extracts from pars distalis and combined pars intermedia and pars nervosa were 1.1±0.6 and 130±17 ng/mg wet tissue (mean±SE), respectively. Serial dilution of these extracts gave parallel lines to the standard curve of synthetic α-endorphin, but not to that of γ-endorphin or δ-endorphin. These results suggest the existence of immunoreactive α-endorphin indistinguishable in molecular size from synthetic α-endorphin in the rat pituitary gland. |
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