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ARCHIVES OF ORAL BIOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 10, Pages 737-744Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2010.06.012
Keywords
Neurokinin A; Ca2+; Oxygen consumption; Paracellular pathway; Submandibular gland
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- JSPS [21592375]
- MEXT [2008-2012]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21592375] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Tachykinins such as neurokinin A (NKA) and substance P have been demonstrated to induce salivary fluid secretion in vivo. However, characteristics of salivary fluid secretion induced by tachykinins in salivary glands have not been well elucidated. In this study, the effects of the tachykinin NKA on salivary fluid secretion were investigated in isolated, perfused rat submandibular gland. NKA provoked salivary fluid secretion, which consisted of transient and sustained phases, in a dose-dependent manner. In fura-2-loaded dispersed cells of the rat submandibular gland, the doses of NKA in which induced salivary fluid secretion caused an increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration. When Ca2+ was removed from the perfusate to examine the effect of Ca2+ mobilization on NKA-induced fluid secretion, only the transient salivary fluid secretion occurred. When the gland was perfused with the Ca2+-free perfusate containing the intracellular Ca2+ chelator BAPTA-AM, NKA failed to induce salivary fluid secretion. NKA also induced an increase in oxygen consumption, but which was reduced by the removal of Ca2+ from perfusate. Salivary fluid is secreted via transcellular and paracellular pathways in acinar cells of salivary glands. To examine the contribution of paracellular pathway to NKA-induced salivary fluid secretion, the glands were perfused with a perfusate containing Lucifer yellow (LY), a cellular impermeable substance, and then were stimulated with NKA, which provoked secretion of LY in the saliva. These results suggest that the NKA-induced salivary fluid secretion is Ca2+-dependent and that the paracellular pathway contributes to the secretion. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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