Experiments were carried out to assess the effects of secretagogues on the polyphosphoinositides phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PtdIns4P) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2] on preparations of exocrine pancreas in vitro. Carbachol and caerulein provoked a rapid (less than 1 min) breakdown of 15-20% of [32P]PtdIns(4,5)P2 in isolated pancreatic acini, but did not affect [...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Severe acute pancreatitis is characterized by acinar cell death and inflammation. Necroptosis is an aggressive and pro-inflammatory mode of cell death that can be prevented by necrostatin-1 administration or RIP3 deletion. METHODS Mouse pancreatic acinar cells were incubated with supramaximally stimulating concentrations of caerulein or sub-micellar concentrations of TLCS ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS In the pancreas, activation of primary sensory nerves through the transient receptor potential ion channel TRPV1 contributes to the early stages of development of pancreatitis. Little is known about the mechanism by which this occurs. We investigated whether leukotriene B4 (LTB4) is an endogenous agonist of TRPV1 and mediates pancreatitis. METHODS Acute inflammation was indu...

The hamster has been shown to share a variety of metabolic similarities with humans. To replicate human acute pancreatitis with hamsters, we comparatively studied the efficacy of common methods, such as the peritoneal injections of caerulein, L-arginine, the retrograde infusion of sodium taurocholate, and another novel model with concomitant administration of ethanol and fatty acid. The severit...

Skin secretions from the South African frog Xenopus laevis have been chromatographed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), fractionated, and analyzed by fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry (FAB-MS). The HPLC chromatograms showed the secretion to be a complex mixture with over 30 components at similar levels to the four peptides previously isolated from X. laevis skin, i.e. xenop...

Pancreatic proteases are secreted in acute pancreatitis, but their contribution to associated lung injury is unclear. Applying models of mild edematous (intravenous caerulein) and severe necrotizing (intraductal glycodeoxycholic acid) pancreatitis in rats, we showed that both trypsinogen and trypsin concentrations in peripheral blood, as well as lung injury, correlate with the severity of the d...

Pancreatic morphology and amylase release from isolated pancreatic acimn in response to caerulein was studied in the course of an experimental bile induced acute pancreatitis without acinar necrosis. The inflammation was induced by retrograde microinfusion of 25 RI bile into the rat bile pancreatic duct. A dissociation between functional and structural findings was seen. One hour after the bile...