Nitric oxide synthase in the pineal gland

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1089-1100

  Lopez Figueroa M O ^a   Moller M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

blood vessels; cGMP; innervation; nitric oxide synthase; pineal gland

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEPTIDE HISTIDINE ISOLEUCINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; RAT; REVIEW; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CYCLIC GMP; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISOENZYMES; MAMMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEPTIDE PHI; PINEAL GLAND; RATS; SHEEP; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0029907863     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Arnold W.P., Mittal C.K., Katsuki S. and Murad F. (1977). Nitric oxide activates guanylate cyclase and increases guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate levels in various tissue preparations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74, 3203-3207.
2. Aronson B.D., Bell-Pedersen D., Block G.D., Bos N.P.A., Dunlap J.C., Eskin A., Garceau N.Y., Geusz M.E., Johnson K.A., Khalsa S.B.S., Koster-Van Hoffen G.G., Koumenis C., Lee T.M., LeSauter J., Lindgren K.M., Liu Q., Loros J.J., Michel S.H., Mirmiran M., Moore R.Y., Ruby N.F., Silver Ft., Turek F.W., and Zatz M. (1993). Circadian rhythms. Brain Res. Rev. 18, 315-333.
3. Bandaletova T., Brouet I., Bartsch H., Sugimura T., Esumi H. and Ohshima H. (1993). Immunohistochemical localization of an inducible form of nitric oxide synthase in various organs of rats treated with Propionibacterium acnes and lipopolysaccharide. APMIS 101, 330-336.
4. Bredt D.S. and Snyder S.H. (1989). Nitric oxide mediates glutamatelinked enhancement of cGMP levels in the cerebellum. Pro.c. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 9030-9033.
5. Bredt D.S. and Snyder S.H. (1990). Isolation of nitric oxide synthetase, a calmodulin-requiring enzyme. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87, 682-685.
6. Bredt D.S. and Snyder S.H. (1992). Nitric oxide, a novel neuronal messenger. Neuron 8, 3-11.
7. Bredt D.S., Glatt C.E., Hwang P.M., Fotuhi M., Dawson T.M. and Snyder S.H. (1991). Nitric oxide synthase protein and mRNA are discretely localized in neuronal populations of the mammalian CNS together with NADPH diaphorase. Neuron 7, 615-624.
8. Cho H.J., Xie Q.W., Calaycay J., Mumford R.A., Swiderek K.M., Lee T.D. and Nathan C. (1992). Calmodulin is a subunit of nitric oxide synthase from macrophages. J. Exp. Med. 176, 599-604.
9. Dawson V.L. (1995). Nitric oxide: role in neurotoxicity. Clin. Exp. Pharmacol. Physiol. 22, 305-308.
10. Dawson T.M. and Snyder S.H. (1994). Gases as biological messengers: nitric oxide and carbon monoxide in the brain. J. Neurosci. 14, 5147-5159.
11. Dawson T.M., Dawson V.L. and Snyder S.H. (1994). Molecular mechanisms of nitric oxide actions in the brain. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 738, 76-85.
12. Dinerman J.L., Dawson T.M., Schell M.J., Snowman A. and Snyder S.H. (1994). Endothelial nitric oxide synthase localized to hippocampal pyramidal cells: implications for synaptic plasticity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 4214-4218.
13. Forstermann U., Closs E.I., Pollock J.S., Nakane M., Schwarz P. and Gath I.K. (1994). Nitric oxide synthase isozymes. Characterization, purification, molecular cloning, and functions. Hypertension 23, 1121-1131.
14. Furchott R.F. and Zawadzki J.V. (1980). The obligatory role of endothelial cells in the relaxation of arterial smooth muscle by acetylcholine. Nature 288, 373-376.
15. Garthwaite J. (1991). Glutamate, nitric oxide and cell-cell signalling in the nervous system. Trends Neurosci. 14, 60-67.
16. 2+-dependent glutamate (quisqualate) binding site in the bovine pineal organ. J. Pineal Res. 3, 223-234.
17. Guerrero J.M., Reiter R.J., Poeggeler B., Chen L.D. and Tan D.X. (1994). Elevation of cyclic GMP levels in the rat pineal gland induced by nitric oxide. J. Pineal Res. 16, 210-214.
18. Ho A.K. Chik C.L. and Klein D.C. (1988). Permissive role of calcium in alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation of pineal phosphatidylinositol phosphodiesterase (phospholipase C) activity. J. Pineal Res. 5, 553-564.
19. Ignarro L.J., Buga G.M., Wood K.S., Bryns R.E. and Chaudhuri G. (1987). Endothelium-derived relaxing factor produced and released from artery and veins is nitric oxide. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 9265-9269.
20. Klein D.C. (1985). Photoneural regulation of the mammalian pineal gland. Ciba Foundation Symposium. Photoperiodism, metabolism and the pineal. Evered D. and Clark S., (eds). Pitman. London, pp 38-56.
21. Knowles R.G. and Moncada S. (1994). Nitric oxide synthases in mammals. Biochem. J. 298, 249-258.
22. Knowles R.G., Palacios M., Palmer R.M.J. and Moncada S. (1989). Formation of nitric oxide from L-arginine in the central nervous system: A transduction mechanism for the stimulation of soluble guanylate cyclase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 5159-5162.
23. Kobzik L., Reid M.B., Bredt D.S. and Stamler J.S. (1994). Nitric oxide in skeletal muscle. Nature 372, 546-548.
24. Lin A.M., Schaad N.C., Schulz P.E., Coori S.L. and Klein D.C. (1994). Pineal nitric oxide synthase: characteristics, adrenergic regulation and function. Brain Res. 651, 160-168.
25. López-Figueroa M.O. and Moøller M. (1996). Localization of NADPH-diaphorase in the rat pineal gland: an experimental enzyme histochemical study. J. Pineal Res. 20, 157-163.
26. López-Figueroa M.O., Ravault J.P., Cozzi B. and Moøler M. (1996). Presence of nitric oxide synthase in the sheep pineal gland: an experimental immunohistochemical study. Neuroendocrinology 63, 384-392.
27. Maronde E., Middendorff R., Mayer B. and Olcese J. (1995). The effect of NO-donors in bovine and rat pineal cells: Stimulation of cGMP and cGMP-independent inhibition of melatonin synthesis. J. Neuroendocrinol. 7, 207-214.
28. Massov-Pévet M. and Gauer F. (1994). Differential daily and seasonal regulations of melatonin receptors in the suprachiasmatic nuclei and the pars tuberalis of mammals. Adv. Pineal Res. 8, 321-331.
29. McNulty S. and Hastings M.H. (1994). Melatonin inhibits forskolin stimulation of CREB phosphorylation in bovine pars tuberalis cultures. Adv. Pineal Res. 8, 377-381.
30. Mick G. (1995). Non-N-methyl-D-aspartate glutamate receptors in glial cells and neurons of the pineal gland in a higher primate. Neuroendocrinology 61, 256-264.
31. Mikkelsen J.D., Moøller M., Larsen P.J. and Fahrenkrug J. (1994). The presence of nerve fibers immunoreactive for vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI), and preproVIP(111-122) in the mouse pineal gland. J. Pineal Res. 16, 50-56.
32. Moncada S., Palmer, R. M. and Higgs E.A. (1991). Nitric oxide: physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology. Pharmacol. Rev. 43,109-142.
33. Moore R.Y. (1983). Organization and function of a circadian central nervous system oscillator, the suprachiasmatic hypothalamic nucleus. Fed. Proc. 42, 2783-2789.
34. Moller M., Ravault J.-P., Cozzi B., Zhang E., Phansuwan-Pujito P., Larsen P.J. and Mikkelsen J.D. (1991). The multineuronal input to the mammalian pineal gland. Adv. Pineal Res. 6, 3-12.
35. Moller M., Zhang E. and Cozzi B. (1994). Experimental immunohisto-chemical studies of neuropeptide Y (NPY), vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), and peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI) in the mammalian pineal gland. Adv. Pineal Res. 8, 135-142.
36. Nathan C. and Xie Q.W. (1994). Nitric oxide synthases: roles, tolls, and controls. Cell 78, 915-918.
37. Nozaki K., Moskowitz M.A., Maynard K.I., Koketsu N., Dawson T.M., Bredt D.S. and Snyder S.H. (1993). Possible origins and distribution of immunoreactive nitric oxide synthase-containing nerve fibers in cerebral arteries. J. Cereb. Blood. Flow. Metab. 13, 70-79.
38. Olcese J. (1991). Neuropeptide Y: An endogenous inhibitor of norepinephrine-stimulated melatonin secretion in the rat pineal gland. J. Neurochem. 57, 943-947.
39. Palmer R.M. and Moncada S. (1989). A novel citrulline-forming enzyme implicated in the formation of nitric oxide by vascular endothelial cells. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 158, 348-352.
40. Palmer R.M., Ferrige A.G. and Moncada S. (1987). Nitric oxide release accounts for the biological activity of endothelium-derived relaxing factor. Nature 327, 524-526.
41. Pedersen E.B., Fox L.M., Castro A.J. and McNulty J.A. (1993). Immunocytochemical and electron-microscopic characterization of macrophage/microglia cells and expression of class II major histocompatibility complex in the pineal gland of the rat. Cell Tissue Res. 272, 257-265.
42. Pollock J.S., Klinghofer V., Forstermann U. and Murad F. (1992). Endothelial nitric oxide synthase is myristylated. FEBS Lett. 309, 402-404.
43. Reiter R.J. (1991). Melatonin: the chemical expression of darkness. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 79, C153-C158.
44. Sato T. (1990). Histochemical demonstration of NADPH-diaphorase activity in the pineal organ of the frog (Rana escutenta), but not in the pineal organ of the rat. Archiv. Histol. Cytol. 53, 141-146.
45. Schaad N.C., Vanecek J. and Schulz P.E. (1994). Photoneural regulation of rat pineal nitric oxide synthase. J. Neurochem. 62, 2496-2499.
46. Schaad N.C., Vanecek J., Kosar E., Aubry J.M., and Schulz P.E. (1995). Adrenergic control of rat pineal NO synthase. J. Neurochem. 65, 935-938.
47. Schober A., Malz C.R., Schober W. and Meyer D.L. (1994). NADPH-diaphorase in the central nervous system of the larval lamprey (Lampetra planeri). J. Comp. Neurol. 345, 94-104.
48. Spessert R. (1993). Vasoactive intestinal peptide stimulation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate formation: further evidence for a role of nitric oxide synthase and cytosolic guanylate cyclase in rat pinealocytes. Endocrinology 132, 2513-2517.
49. Spessert R., Layes E. and Vollrath L. (1993). Adrenergic stimulation of cyclic GMP formation requires NO-dependent activation of cytosolic guanylate cyclase in rat pinealocytes. J. Neurochem. 61, 138-143.
50. Spessert R., Albertowski K., Reuss S., Layes E. and Vollrath L. (1995a). Down-regulation of the nocturnally elevated guanylyl cyclase activity in the rat pineal gland. Neurosci. Lett. 190, 61-64.
51. Spessert R., Layes E., Schollmayer A., Reuss S. and Vollrath L. (1995b). In the rat pineal gland, but not in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the amount of constitutive neuronal nitric oxide synthase is regulated by environmental lighting conditions. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 212, 70-76.
52. Tsuchiaya M., Kaku K., Matsuda M., Kaneko T. and Yanaihara N. (1987). Demonstration of receptors specific for peptide N-terminal histidine and C-terminal isoleucine (PHI) using rat PHI and rat dispersed pineal cells. Biomed. Res. 8, 41-51.
53. Vanecek J. and Vollrath L.(1989). Melatonin inhibits cAMP and cGMP accumulation in the rat pituitary. Brain Res. 505, 157-159.
54. Vincent S.R. (1994). Nitric oxide: a radical neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. Prog. Neurobiol. 42, 129-160.
55. Vincent S.R. and Kimura H. (1992). Histochemical mapping of nitric oxide synthase in the rat brain. Neuroscience 46, 755-784.
56. Vollrath L. and Schmidt D.S. (1969). Enzyme histochemical studies on the pineal gland of normal and pregnant guinea pigs. Histochemie 20, 328-337.
57. White B.H. and Klein D.C. (1995). Stimulation of cyclic GMP accumulation by sodium nitroprusside is potentiated via a Gs mechanism in intact pinealocytes. J. Neurochem. 64, 711 -717.
58. Xie D.W., Cho H.J., Calaycay J., Mumford R.A., Swiderek K.M., Lee T.D., Ding A., Troso T. and Nathan C. (1992). Cloning and characterization of inducible nitric oxide synthase from mouse macrophages. Science 256, 225-228.
59. Xu W., Gorman P., Sheer D., Bates G., Kishimoto J., Lizhi L. and Emson P. (1993). Regional localization of the gene coding for human brain nitric oxide synthase (NOS1) to 12q24.2 → 24.31 by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 64, 62-3.
60. Xu W., Charles I.G., Moncada S., Gorman P., Sheer D., Liu L. and Emson P. (1994). Mapping of the genes encoding human inducible and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS2 and NOS3) to the pericentric region of chromosome 17 and to chromosome 7, respectively. Genomics 21, 419-422.
61. Yuwiler A. (1983). Vasoactive intestinal peptide stimulation of pineal serotonin-N-acetyltransferase activity. General characteristics. J. Neurochem. 41, 146-153.
62. Zhang E., Mikkelsen J.D. and Moøller M. (1991). Tyrosine hydroxylase-and neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive nerve fibers in the pineal complex of untreated rats and rats following removal of the superior cervical ganglia. Cell Tissue Res. 265, 63-71.