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HORMONES AND SIGNALING

Calcineurin mediates pancreatic growth in protease inhibitor-treated mice

Departments of ¹Molecular and Integrative Physiology and ²Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0622; and ³Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710

Submitted 16 October 2003 ; accepted in final form 15 December 2003

CCK acts on pancreatic acinar cells to increase intracellular Ca²⁺ leading to secretion of digestive enzymes and, in the long term, pancreatic growth. Calcineurin (CN) is a serine/threonine-specific protein phosphatase activated by Ca²⁺ and calmodulin that recently has been shown to participate in the growth regulation of cardiac and skeletal myocytes. We therefore tested the effect of two different CN inhibitors, cyclosporine A (CsA) and FK506, on mouse pancreatic growth induced by oral administration of the synthetic protease inhibitor camostat, a known stimulator of endogenous CCK release. Mice were fed a powdered diet with or without 0.1% camostat. Pancreatic wet weight, protein, and DNA were increased in response to camostat in a time-dependent manner over 10 days in ICR mice but not in CCK-deficient mice. Both CsA (15 mg/kg) and FK506 (3 mg/kg) given twice daily blocked the increase in pancreatic wet weight and protein and DNA content induced by camostat. The increase in plasma CCK induced by camostat was not blocked by CsA or FK506. Camostat feeding also increased the relative amount of CN protein, whereas levels of MAPKs, ERKs, and p38 were not altered. In summary, 1) CCK released by chronic camostat feeding induces pancreatic growth in mice; 2) this growth is blocked by treatment with both CsA and FK506, indicating a role for CN; 3) CCK stimulation also increases CN protein. In conclusion, activation and possibly upregulation of CN may participate in regulation of pancreatic growth by CCK in mice.

cholecystokinin; camostat; FK506; cyclosporine A

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