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lüll Short-term hypoxia transiently increases dopamine beta-hydroxylase immunoreactivity in glomus cells of the rat carotid body Kato K; Yokoyama T; Yamaguchi-Yamada M; Yamamoto YJ Histochem Cytochem 2013[Jan]; 61 (1): 55-62Under long-term hypoxia, noradrenaline (NA) content in the carotid body (CB) increases, suggesting that NA plays an important role in CB chemotransduction. However, it is unknown whether short-term hypoxia upregulates NA biosynthesis in CB. Therefore, we examined dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) expression in the CB of rats exposed to hypoxia (10% O(2)) for 0 to 24 hr with immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry. Using immunoblotting, the signal intensity for DBH appeared to be the most intense in rats exposed to hypoxia for 12 hr. Using immunohistochemistry, DBH immunoreactivity was observed in the cytoplasm of some glomus cells and varicosities in controls and rats exposed to hypoxia for 6 hr. In rats exposed to hypoxia for 12 hr, DBH immunoreactive intensities in DBH-positive glomus cells were significantly higher compared with controls (p<0.05). In the CB of rats exposed to hypoxia for 18 and 24 hr, DBH immunoreactive intensities in DBH-positive glomus cells were significantly lower than that of rats exposed to hypoxia for 12 hr (p<0.05). These results demonstrate that DBH immunoreactivity is transiently increased in glomus cells by short-term hypoxia, suggesting that NA biosynthesis is transiently facilitated in glomus cells at an early stage of hypoxia.|Animals[MESH]|Carotid Body/cytology/*metabolism[MESH]|Cell Hypoxia[MESH]|Dopamine beta-Hydroxylase/genetics/*metabolism[MESH]|Fluorescent Antibody Technique[MESH]|Immunoblotting[MESH]|Male[MESH]|Norepinephrine/metabolism[MESH]|RNA, Messenger/metabolism[MESH]|Rats[MESH]|Rats, Wistar[MESH]|Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction[MESH] |