Cimetidine inhibits the pentagastrin-induced release of calcitonin in normocalcaemic man |
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Authors: | Mats Ericsson Stig Ingemansson Johannes Järhult |
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Affiliation: | Department of Surgery, University Hospital, S-221 85 Lund, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Pentagastrin stimulates the release of calcitonin from normal C-cells in the human thyroid. In the present investigation the effect of cimetidine on the liberation of calcitonin in response to intraarterial pentagastrin (0.6 μg · kg?1) was studied in 14 normocalcaemic patients undergoing surgery for thyroid adenomas. Cimetidine was administered as a bolus injection of 200 mg followed by an intravenous infusion of 1.5 mg · kg?1 · h?1. In seven patients not given cimetidine, mean calcitonin concentration in the thyroid vein rose from 419 ± 58 to 2787 ± 645 pM in response to pentagastrin. In seven patients given cimetidine, mean calcitonin concentration only increased from 107 ± 33 to 166 ± 51 pM after pentagastrin. The difference between the two groups was statistically significant both during basal conditions (P < 0.001) and in response to pentagastrin (P < 0.01). The results suggest that pentagastrin affects normal C-cells via release of histamine and that cimetidine markedly interferes with this mechanism. |
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Keywords: | cimetidine pentagastrin calcitonin normocalcaemic man thyroid C-cells |
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