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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI107434

Acute Parathyroid Hormone Response to Epinephrine In Vivo

Jan A. Fischer, Jürg W. Blum, and Ulrich Binswanger

Research Laboratory for Calcium Metabolism, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Medicine, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich

Department of Agriculture, Federal Institute of Technology, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland

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Research Laboratory for Calcium Metabolism, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Medicine, University of Zurich, 8008 Zurich

Department of Agriculture, Federal Institute of Technology, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland

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Published October 1, 1973 - More info

Published in Volume 52, Issue 10 on October 1, 1973
J Clin Invest. 1973;52(10):2434–2440. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI107434.
© 1973 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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Abstract

The acute effects of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and isoproterenol on the plasma immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH) response were studied in 13 550-600 kg cows. Catecholamines were infused for 7.0 min. During epinephrine infusions at 0.08 μmol/min iPTH increased from 0.48±0.12 (mean±SE, ng/ml) to 1.09±0.18 ng/ml (P < 0.02). Small increases in plasma free fatty acids and glucose could be detected with 0.08 μmol/min epinephrine; the iPTH response to epinephrine was as sensitive as the free fatty acid and glucose responses and possibly of physiological importance. Plasma calcium (total and ionized) and magnesium did not change.

The responses were more pronounced at 0.8 μmol/min epinephrine with a mean iPTH increase from 0.49±0.16 ng/ml to 1.74±0.35 ng/ml (P < 0.01). Small decreases in plasma calcium occurred at 0.8 μmol/min epinephrine, but the plasma magnesium remained unchanged. However, when the plasma calcium was lowered with ethylene glycol bis(β-aminoethyl ether)-N, N′-tetraacetic acid (EGTA), a much more pronounced lowering of the plasma calcium was required to produce comparable increases of the plasma iPTH concentrations than when epinephrine was infused. It appears that epinephrine has a direct effect on the release of iPTH from the parathyroid glands.

Simultaneous infusions of calcium and epinephrine suppressed the stimulation by epinephrine. This points towards a common mechanism of the regulation of parathyroid hormone secretion caused by decreases in the extracellular calcium concentration and/or alterations in the distribution of calcium within parathyroid cells following the administration of epinephrine.

The iPTH response to epinephrine was suppressed in the presence of propranolol. Isoproterenol was less active in raising iPTH than epinephrine, and norepinephrine was the least active. The stimulation by isoproterenol and the suppression by propranolol suggest beta adrenergic receptor sites within the parathyroid glands.

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