Increase in muscarinic receptors in rat intestine by thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) |
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Authors: | C J Pirola M S Balda S Finkielman V E Nahmod |
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Affiliation: | Laboratorio de Sustancias Vasoactivas, Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Donato Alvarez 3150, 1427-Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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Abstract: | The effect of Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH) on the contractile activity elicited by acetylcholine and electric stimulation in the rat ileus terminalis was investigated. TRH did not show any intrinsic contractile activity but, after a 30 minute latency period, the peptide caused a shift to the left of the dose-response curve for both acetylcholine and electric stimulation. The binding of 3H-quinuclidinylbenzilate (3H-QNB) assayed on ileum slices disclosed that the addition of TRH increased the number of muscarinic cholinergic receptors without changes in affinity when incubation was performed at pH 7.8, but no effect TRH was demonstrated at pH 7.4. Therefore, in spite of its neural and direct actions on intestine motor activity, TRH may affect the acetylcholine induced contraction by increasing the number of muscarinic receptors at a specific pH. |
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