Abstract
Rat gastric mucosal cells isolated by enzyme dispersion were separated by elutriation centrifugation. The amount of histamine and the number of enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells and parietal cells were determined in the crude mucosal cells and the various elutriation fractions. The mucosal cells contained 2.6% ECL and 20% parietal cells. Elutriation centrifugation resulted in good separation of parietal cells and ECL cells. Most of the ECL cells were elutriated in the small cell fractions. Scattered ECL cells were also present in the fraction enriched with parietal cells. Histamine and carbacholine stimulated aminopyrine uptake in a concentration-dependent manner with about the same efficacy, 5.6 times the base-line value. When combined with the phosphodiesterase inhibitor isobutyl methylxanthine, the maximal histamine stimulation was increased to 16.8 times the base-line value, and the sensitivity increased about 10-fold. Gastrin at high and unphysiologic concentrations stimulated only faintly the aminopyrine uptake in parietal cells and the histamine release from ECL cells.
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