Cycloheximide induces accumulation of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) binding sites at the cell surface of a human colonic adenocarcinoma cell line (HT29-D4). Evidence for the presence of an intracellular pool of VIP receptors.

Incubation of monolayers of HT29-D4 cells (a clone of the human colonic adenocarcinoma cell line HT29) in the presence of 17.5 microM cycloheximide resulted in an increase in the number of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) binding sites at the cell surface without any change in the affinity of receptor for its ligand. The increase in 125I-VIP-binding capacity was dose-dependent between 0.

Covalent cross-linking of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) to its receptor in intact colonic adenocarcinoma cells in culture (HT 29).

[125I]Monoiodinated vasoactive intestinal peptide (125I-VIP) was cross-linked with human colonic adenocarcinoma cells (HT29 cells) grown as a monolayer using dithiobis(succinimidylpropionate) as cross-linking reagent. The cross-linked polypeptides were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate. A major polypeptide of Mr = 67 000 was characterized and it behaved like a high-affinity binding site for VIP according to the following data.

Brain diurnal levels of adenosine 3',5' cyclic monophosphate in C57 BL/6 and BALB/C mice.

Adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) was measured in whole brain of two inbred strains of mice (BALB/C and C57 BL/6) submitted to a lighting schedule consisting of 12 hr light (0700-1900) and 12 hr darkness (1900-0700). Different mean levels of cAMP were found in each strain. Furthermore, statistical analysis of diurnal brain cAMP fluctuations showed different nycthemeral rhythms in both strains.

[The effect of some pharmacological agents and electroshock on the level of cyclic AMP of the total mouse brain].

Amphetamin, pentobarbital, pargyline, parachlorophenylalanine, pentetrasol and maximal electroshock all increased significantly cyclic AMP in mice whole brain conversely reserpine induced a decrease of cyclic nucleotide. All those changes were tentatively correlated toward central monoaminergic systems activation.