Publication: Long-term prolactin exposure differentially stimulated the transcellular and solvent drag-induced calcium transport in the duodenum of ovariectomized rats
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2005-01-01
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15353699
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15353702
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Experimental Biology and Medicine. Vol.230, No.11 (2005), 836-844
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Kukiat Tudpor, Narattaphol Charoenphandhu, Wasana Saengamnart, Nateetip Krishnamra Long-term prolactin exposure differentially stimulated the transcellular and solvent drag-induced calcium transport in the duodenum of ovariectomized rats. Experimental Biology and Medicine. Vol.230, No.11 (2005), 836-844. doi:10.1177/153537020523001108 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/16386
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Long-term prolactin exposure differentially stimulated the transcellular and solvent drag-induced calcium transport in the duodenum of ovariectomized rats
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Prolactin, having been shown to stimulate transcellular active and solvent drag-induced calcium transport in the duodenum of female rats, was postulated to improve duodenal calcium transport in estrogen-deficient rats. The aim of the present study was, therefore, to demonstrate the effects of long-term prolactin exposure produced by anterior pituitary (AP) transplantation on the duodenal calcium transport in young (9-week-old) and adult (22-week-old) ovariectomized rats. We found that ovariectomy did not alter the transcellular active duodenal calcium transport in young and adult rats fed normal calcium diet (1.0% w/w Ca) but decreased the solvent drag-induced duodenal calcium transport from 75.50 ± 10.12 to 55.75 ± 4.77 nmol·hr-1·cm-2(P < 0.05) only in adult rats. Long-term prolactin exposure stimulated the transcellular active calcium transport in young and adult AP-grafted ovariectomized rats fed with normal calcium diet by more than 2-fold from 7.56 ± 0.79 to 16.54 ± 2.05 (P < 0.001) and 9.78 ± 0.72 to 15.99 ± 1.75 (P < 0.001) nmol·hr-1·cm-2, respectively. However, only the solvent drag-induced duodenal calcium transport in young rats was enhanced by prolactin from 95.51 ± 10.64 to 163.20 ± 18.03 nmol·hr-1·cm-2(P < 0.001) whereas that in adult rats still showed a decreased flux from 75.50 ± 10.12 to 47.77 ± 5.42 nmol·hr-1·cm-2(P < 0.05). Because oral calcium supplement has been widely used to improve calcium balance in estrogen-deficient animals, the effect of a high-calcium diet (2.0% w/w Ca) was also investigated. The results showed that stimulatory action of long-term prolactin on the transcellular active duodenal calcium transport in both young and adult rats was diminished after being fed a high-calcium diet. The same diet also abolished prolactin-enhanced solvent drag-induced duodenal calcium transport in young and further decreased that in adult AP-grafted ovariectomized rats. We concluded that the solvent drag-induced duodenal calcium transport in adult rats was decreased after ovariectomy. Long-term prolactin exposure stimulated the transcellular active duodenal calcium transport in both young and adult rats whereas enhancing the solvent drag-induced duodenal calcium transport only in young rats. Effects of prolactin were abolished by a high-calcium diet. Copyright © 2005 by the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.