Title : Vasoactive intestinal peptide elevates pinealocyte intracellular calcium concentrations by enhancing influx: evidence for involvement of a cyclic GMP-dependent mechanism.

Pub. Date : 1995 May

PMID : 7538196






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1 In the present study, we show that VIP (5-200 nM) treatment increased the intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in 64% of isolated individual pinealocytes; in comparison, norepinephrine (NE) elevated [Ca2+]i in 93% of the cells and produced more robust responses. Norepinephrine vasoactive intestinal peptide Homo sapiens