Autor: |
Abrahim I Orabi, Yuhuan Luo, Mahwish U Ahmad, Ahsan U Shah, Zahir Mannan, Dong Wang, Sheharyar Sarwar, Kamaldeen A Muili, Christine Shugrue, Thomas R Kolodecik, Vijay P Singh, Mark E Lowe, Edwin Thrower, Ju Chen, Sohail Z Husain |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2012 |
Předmět: |
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Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 11, p e48465 (2012) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0048465 |
Popis: |
Acute pancreatitis is a painful, life-threatening disorder of the pancreas whose etiology is often multi-factorial. It is of great importance to understand the interplay between factors that predispose patients to develop the disease. One such factor is an excessive elevation in pancreatic acinar cell Ca(2+). These aberrant Ca(2+) elevations are triggered by release of Ca(2+) from apical Ca(2+) pools that are gated by the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) types 2 and 3. In this study, we examined the role of IP3R type 2 (IP3R2) using mice deficient in this Ca(2+) release channel (IP3R2(-/-)). Using live acinar cell Ca(2+) imaging we found that loss of IP3R2 reduced the amplitude of the apical Ca(2+) signal and caused a delay in its initiation. This was associated with a reduction in carbachol-stimulated amylase release and an accumulation of zymogen granules (ZGs). Specifically, there was a 2-fold increase in the number of ZGs (P |
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