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MH Nathanson and AD Burgstahler
Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.
Excitable cells often display rapid coordination of hormone-induced intracellular calcium signals. Calcium elevations that begin in a single epithelial cell also may spread to adjacent cells, but coordination of hormone-induced signals among epithelial cells has not been described. We report the use of confocal microscopy to determine the inter- and intracellular distribution of cytosolic calcium in isolated rat hepatocyte couplets, an isolated epithelial cell system in which functional polarity is maintained. Both vasopressin and phenylephrine evoked sequential coordinated calcium signals in the couplets, even during cytosolic calcium oscillations. The coupling was abolished by closure of intercellular gap junction channels by treatment with octanol. These observations demonstrate that hormone- induced intracellular calcium signals are coordinated among hepatocytes and suggest that gap junction channels mediate this intercellular integration of tissue responsiveness.
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