Figure 1.
Functional expression of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) receptors in HSG cells. (a) Expression of mRNA transcripts for all LPA receptor subtypes, from 1 to 6, using reverse transcriptase–PCR. Lanes ‘M and N' indicate the kb marker and negative control, respectively. β-actin was used as the positive control. (b) LPA-induced a transient [Ca2+]i increase in the presence or absence (gray line) of [Ca2+]i in the medium. (c and d) LPA-induced the [Ca2+]i response before and after (gray line) pretreatment of cells with 10 μM U-73211 and 10 μM 2-APB. (e) Subsequent stimulation of the cells with 100 μM carbachol (CCh) after LPA stimulation. (f) Subsequent stimulation of the cells with 1 μM LPA after CCh stimulation.