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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 256: G624-G630, 1989;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 256, Issue 3 624-G630, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Mucosal ornithine decarboxylase in the small intestine: localization and stimulation

L. R. Johnson, C. C. Tseng, P. Wang, U. R. Tipnis and M. K. Haddox
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston 77225.

In most tissues increases in ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) are associated with growth. Refeeding fasted rats. a potent stimulus for mucosal growth, strongly increases ODC in both small and large intestinal mucosa. In the small bowel, almost all of this increase occurs in the mature villus cells rather than the proliferative crypt cells. Nevertheless, inhibition of ODC with difluoromethylornithine blocks the growth response. Using a highly specific, polyclonal antiserum to ODC, we have determined that in the fasted rat ODC is localized almost exclusively to the villus cells. Using antiserum dilution techniques, we have shown that, within 2 h, refeeding increases the amount of immunoreactive ODC in both villus and crypt cells. Furthermore, the trophic hormone gastrin also increases ODC, but only in the crypt cells. Epidermal growth factor increased ODC to a greater extent than gastrin, but stimulation was more general, including both crypt and villus cells. Perfusing an isolated segment of small bowel in situ with glycine for 2 h also increased immunoreactive ODC but only in the villus cells. Thus in the small intestine the effect of refeeding on ODC activity appears to be mediated by different types of stimuli: luminal nutrients increase enzyme levels in the absorbing villus cells, while trophic peptides stimulate ODC synthesis in the proliferative crypt cells.


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