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Regulation of Na+,K+-ATPase in submandibular glands of hypophysectomized male mice by steroid and thyroid hormones
K Kurihara, S Maruyama, K Hosoi, S Sato, T Ueha and EW Gresik
Department of Oral Physiology, Meikai University of Dentistry, Saitama, Japan.
The effects of thyroid hormone, androgen, glucocorticoid, and mineralocorticoid on Na+,K+-ATPase activity and on levels of its alpha- subunit protein (alpha 1 isoform) in mouse submandibular gland (SMG) were studied by enzyme assay for ouabain-sensitive ATP hydrolysis, by quantitative densitometric scanning of Western blots, and by immunohistochemistry. To define the specific regulatory effects of various pituitary-dependent hormones on expression of Na+,K+-ATPase in the SMG, we treated hypophysectomized (hypox) male mice with triiodo-L- thyronine (T3), 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT), dexamethasone (Dex), and aldosterone (Ald), injected singly or in combination. Na+,K+-ATPase was confined to the duct system of the SMG. In intact mice there was a gender difference in SMG Na+,K+-ATPase, with levels of the enzyme's activity and of its alpha 1-subunit being less in the glands of males. In males, hypophysectomy caused a rise in levels of Na+,K+-ATPase activity and in levels of the alpha 1-subunit protein of this enzyme, and in intensity of immunocytochemical staining for this subunit but there were no such changes in the SMG of hypox females. Changes caused by hormonal replacement to hypox males in Na+,K-ATPase activity, levels of its alpha 1-subunit, or the intensity of immunocytochemical staining for this subunit were complex. Ald had no effect. T3 or dexamethasone, given alone, induced Na+,K+-ATPase activity above control values (hypox males) and increased levels of its alpha 1-subunit protein and immunohistochemical staining for this subunit. By contrast, DHT did not cause a decline in any of these parameters. However, when treatment with T3 was combined with administration of Dex or DHT, enzymatic activity of Na+,K+-ATPase decreased but levels of the alpha 1-subunit protein and immunohistochemical staining for this subunit increased. Therefore, inductions of the alpha 1-subunit of this enzyme are not always correlated with increases in levels of activity of Na+,K+- ATPase, and we propose that both enzymatic and immunochemical analyses are essential for evaluation of hormonal regulation of Na+,K+-ATPase in salivary gland and in other tissues.
Volume 44,
Issue 7,
pp. 703-711,
07/01/1996
Copyright © 1996 by The Histochemical Society
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