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REGULATORY PEPTIDES
Volume 126, Issue 1-2, Pages 137-143Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2004.08.033
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cholecystokinin A receptor; pancreatic islet; rat; immunohistochemistry; A cell; in situ hybridization
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Cholecystokinin (CCK) plays a major role in the regulation of pancreatic enzyme secretion based on its binding to the CCK-A receptor (CCK-AR). While CCK-AR is known to be expressed in rat islet B cells, the localization of CCK-AR in rat pancreatic A and D cells remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to identify the localization of CCK-AR in rat pancreatic islets by means of double immunofluorescence straining with antibodies against CCK-AR, glucagon. insulin and somatostatin and with in situ hybridization to detect 9 its transcript. CCK-AR-like immunoreactive cells were found to overlap both with glucagon-like immunoreactive cells and insulin-like immunoreactive cells but not with somatostatin-like immunoreactive cells. An in situ hybridization study using a cRNA probe for CCK-AR revealed that CCK-AR mRNA was expressed in the center and periphery of die pancreatic islets. Further to this. immunofluoresence staining using anti-glucagon antibody was carried out after in situ hybridization using the CCK-.AR cRNA probe in order to identify CCK-AR mRNA expressing cells. CCK-AR mRNA exhibited a distribution pattern almost identical to that of glucagon-like immunoreactive cells. These results show clearly that CCK-AR exists not only in B but also in A cells of the rat pancreas, suggesting that CCK regulates the secretion of insulin and glucagon at least partly via CCK-AR. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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