Abstract
Effects of opioid peptides (beta-endorphin, dynorphin (1-13). alpha-neoendorphin, beta-neoendorphin, leucine-enkephalin, methionine-enkephalin) on the release of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) from the rat caecum were studied in vitro. The rat caecum was incubated in medium 199 with 1.0 mg/ml of bacitracin (pH 7.4) (medium). The amount of TRH release from the rat caecum into the medium was measured by radioimmunoassay. The immunoreactive TRH (ir-TRH) release from the rat caecum was inhibited significantly in a dose-related manner with the addition of opioid peptides. The inhibitory effects of opioid peptides on ir-TRH release from the rat caecum were blocked with an addition of naloxone. The elution profile of acid-methanol-extracts of rat caecum on Sephadex G-10 was identical to that of synthetic TRH. The findings suggest that opioid peptides inhibit TRH release from the rat caecum in vitro.
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