AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 266, Issue 5 839-G845, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Smooth muscle cells from guinea pig stomach possess high-affinity galanin receptors that mediate relaxation

Z. F. Gu, T. K. Pradhan, D. H. Coy and R. T. Jensen
Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

Galanin-like immunoactivity occurs in nerves and plexi in muscle layers throughout gastrointestinal tract including the stomach. Galanin can affect gastric emptying and contraction or relaxation of gastric muscle in different species. The aim of this study was to investigate the direct effect of galanin on dispersed gastric smooth muscle cells and to characterize any galanin receptors that mediated any effect. Dispersed gastric smooth muscle cells were prepared from guinea pig stomach by collagenase digestion. Porcine galanin (p-galanin; 1 microM) did not stimulate contraction when present alone; however, p-galanin (1 microM) inhibited carbachol-induced contraction with a half-maximal effect at 7 nM. p-Galanin (1 microM) increased cellular adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) content by 10 s and caused a maximal increase of 80% over basal. 125I-galanin (porcine) bound to dispersed cells in a time- and temperature-dependent manner. Binding was saturable, reversible, and specific. Binding of 125I-galanin was inhibited almost equally by porcine and rat galanin (Ki = 6-8 nM) but was not inhibited by the galanin-associated peptide [preprogalanin-(108-123)]. The fragment galanin-(1-16) was equally potent to rat galanin; however, the fragment galanin-(9-29) was 56-fold less potent (Ki = 370 nM). Computer analysis demonstrated there were two binding sites for p-galanin on gastric smooth muscle cells, a high-affinity site (Kd = 2.6 nM) with low capacity (Bmax = 175 fmol/mg protein) and a low-affinity site (Kd = 150 nM) with large capacity (Bmax = 3,611 fmol/mg protein).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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