Antisera to vasoactive intestinal polypeptide inhibit basal prolactin release from dispersed anterior pituitary cells

Neuroendocrinology
T C HagenT L Garthwaite

Abstract

Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) has been identified in hypothalamic tissue, is secreted into hypophysial portal blood, and stimulates prolactin (PRL) release in vivo and in vitro. It has been proposed, therefore, that VIP is a physiologic PRL-releasing factor. In this study, we confirm that VIP stimulates PRL release from rat pituitary cells in vitro, and demonstrate that an anti-VIP antiserum blocks VIP-induced PRL secretion. Surprisingly, the anti-VIP antiserum inhibited basal PRL secretion from rat pituitary cells in 3 separate experiments. Data from these experiments were pooled, as the responses were similar, revealing basal PRL release of 10.7 +/- 1.3 ng rPRL/10(5) cells (X +/- SE), while anti-VIP antisera significantly inhibited release to 4.4 +/- 0.6 ng rPRL/10(5) cells (p less than 0.001). PRL release in incubates containing control non-immune sera did not differ from basal release, 8.1 ng rPRL/10(5) cells. A further control experiment was conducted wherein cells were incubated with an anti-ACTH antiserum, representing another hyperimmune serum, which had no effect on PRL secretion. These data suggest that VIP, in addition to its possible role as a hypothalamic-derived PRL-releasing factor, may play a role with...Continue Reading

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