Distribution of Immunoreactive Atrial and Brain Natriuretic Peptides in the Heart of the Chicken, Quail, Snake and Frog.

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  • MIFUNE Hiroharu
    Institute of Animal Experiment, Kurume University School of Medicine
  • SUZUKI Syusaku
    Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University
  • NOKIHARA Kiyoshi
    Biotechnology Instruments Department, Shimazu Corporation
  • NODA Yasutaka
    Institute of Animal Experiment, Kurume University School of Medicine

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  • Distribution of Immunoreactive Atrial a

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The distribution of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP)- and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP)-granules was examined immunohistochemically and ultrastructurally in the hearts of the chicken, Japanese quail, Japanese rat snake and bull-frog. Moreover, natriuretic peptide (NP)-granules in the cardiocytes were analyzed by ultrastructural morphometry. Immunohistochemically, ANP-immunoreactivity (IR) was not detected in any cardiocytes, but BNP-IR was detectable in most atrial and ventricular cardiocytes of both chicken and quail. In the snake, ANP-IR was seen in most atrial and ventricular cardiocytes, which showed traces and negative in BNP-IR, respectively. Both ANP- and BNP-IR were detected in the atrial and ventricular cardiocytes in the frog. Ultrastructurally, most of NP-granules were found in the perinuclear region in the chicken, quail and snake atrium, but the frog atrial cardiocytes had granules generally dispersing widely in the cell. By ultrastructural morphometry, the number of granules in the atrial cardiocyte was greatest in the frog, followedby the snake, and chicken or quail, in this order. The diameter of granules in the atrial cardiocyte was largest in the snake and reduced via the frog to the chicken or quail. In the ventricular cardiocytes of all species, the number and size of granules were significantly less than that in the atrial ones. These results indicated that the hearts of the chicken and quail contain only BNP, and that there are two different natriuretic peptides, ANP and BNP, in the snake and frog hearts.<br>

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  • Experimental Animals

    Experimental Animals 45 (2), 125-133, 1996

    Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science

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