PMID: 15374368Sep 1, 1992Paper

Renal calcitonin receptors in the ageing Wistar rat

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
S Giscard-DartevelleZ Bouizar

Abstract

Ageing can affect both the secretion of a hormone and the number of its specific receptors. An autoradiographic method was used to quantify renal binding sites for calcitonin (CT) in Wistar rats aged 1, 3, 6, 12 and 18 months. In 1-month-old rats, high densities of calcitonin binding sites were observed in the outer cortex and in the outer medulla. However, an increasing number of rats presenting very low calcitonin binding site density in the outer medulla (that we called 'deficient') appeared during ageing. Ageing also involved a gradual decrease in calcitonin receptor densities in the kidney outer medulla in the non-'deficient' rats. The basal calcitonin concentrations in plasma did not vary with age. The increase in plasma calcitonin in response to a calcium injection increased with age, but this increase was not cor- related with the decrease in binding site density. In 18-month-old rats suffering from C cell hyperplasia or carcinoma, both basal and stimulated levels of calcitonin were increased (basal: x 3; stimulated: x 5), but no major modification in calcitonin binding site densities was observed. Thus in the Wistar rat, receptor density is apparently age-regulated and a relative increase in endogenous CT level is with...Continue Reading

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