Epidermal surface receptors which link pharmacological mediators to the adenylate cyclase system

The major purpose of our studies has been to investigate various stimulators of the epidermal adenylate cyclase system. We have recognized the occurrence of four distinct adenylate cyclase systems which respond respectively to catecholamine, histamine, prostaglandin and adenosine. The exposure of floating skin slices in vitro to a stimulator causes a rapid intracellular accumulation of cyclic AMP, which is always transient. Further addition of the same stimulator will not stimulate the same receptor system against the state of ‘refractoriness’. The addition of any of the other stimulators can increase the cyclic AMP level. Furthermore, the fact that each stimulator can yield an ‘additive’ stimulatory effect leads to the conclusion that the epidermis has four distinctly specific and independent adenylate cyclase systems.

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