The inhibition of progesterone secretion and the regulation of cyclic nucleotides by atrial natriuretic factor in gonadotropin responsive murine Leydig tumor cells

Kailash N. Pandey, William J. Kovacs, Tadashi Inagami

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Abstract

We have found that atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) has a profound effect on testicular cells in altering intracellular cyclic nucleotide levels as well as progesterone secretion. Using clonal cultured Leydig tumor cells we found that 1×10-8M ANF caused a two thousand-fold elevation in the accumulation of cellular cGMP and inhibited cAMP in treated cells by more than 90% as compared to the controls. ANF (1×10-8M) also significantly inhibited gonadotropin-stimulated accumulation of cAMP in response to bovine luteinizing hormone (bLH) or human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Gonadotropin-stimulated progesterone secretion was inhibited by ANF (1×10-10-1×10-9M) in these cultured Leydig tumor cells. Approximately 50% inhibition of progesterone secretion was observed at the peptide concentration of 1×10-9M.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)800-806
Number of pages7
JournalBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume133
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 17 1985

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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