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. 1993 Apr;108(4):892–900. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb13483.x

Effects of the immunosuppressants cyclosporin A and FK 506 on exocytosis in the rat exocrine pancreas in vitro.

I H Waschulewski 1, D V Hall 1, H F Kern 1, J M Edwardson 1
PMCID: PMC1908154  PMID: 7683567

Abstract

1. We have examined the effects of the immunosuppressive drugs cyclosporin A (CsA) and FK 506 on exocytosis in two in vitro preparations of the exocrine pancreas-lobules and dispersed acini. 2. In lobules taken from starved rats and stimulated with the secretagogue caerulein, both CsA and FK 506, given shortly before stimulation, caused a dose-dependent inhibition of amylase secretion. In lobules from rats that had been pretreated in vivo with the protease inhibitor FOY-305 to stimulate secretion maximally, both CsA and FK 506 inhibited secretion of newly synthesized proteins, whereas only FK 506 inhibited caerulein-stimulated amylase release. 3. These different effects of the immunosuppressants on amylase release were reflected in their effects on degranulation, as revealed by electron microscopy. Control acinar cells in lobules from FOY-305-treated rats were almost completely degranulated, whereas treatment with FK 506, but not CsA, caused the accumulation of zymogen granules close to the apical plasma membrane. 4. In dispersed acini, stimulated with the cholinomimetic secretagogue bethanechol, both CsA and FK 506 reduced the secretory response, to about 45% of control; IC50 values were 50 nM and 3 nM, respectively. A similar partial inhibition of exocytosis was seen in acini permeabilized with the bacterial toxin streptolysin O and stimulated with 10 microM Ca2+. 5. These results demonstrate that the immunosuppressants cause an inhibition of exocytosis in the exocrine pancreas that is both rapid in onset and potent.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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