In osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells, VIP stimulated cAMP accumulation in a dose-dependent manner.
In plain wordsIn lab-grown bone-forming cells, VIP raised cAMP, an internal signal molecule, in a dose-dependent way.
- Outcome
- IncreasecAMP accumulation
- Study
n: not reported in source
osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells- Outcome group
- Receptor activity and mechanism · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- 1 nM to 0.1 microMAs given in this study.
Source sentences
VIP also stimulated cAMP accumulation dose-dependently between 1 nM and 0.1 microM.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In this study, we investigated the effects of PACAP on cAMP accumulation, phosphoinositide hydrolysis and Ca2+ influx in osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells, compared with those of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), which shows a considerable homology with PACAP in the N-terminal sequence.