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Volume 47, Issue 12, 1990, Pages 1037-1042
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Ethanol and diolein stimulate PKC translocation in astroglial cells

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Abstract

Ethanol exposure stimulates taurine release from astroglial cells. To determine if ethanol mediates this release using protein kinase C (PKC), PKC activity was measured using LRM55 astroglial cells. When ethanol (25–200 mM) or diolei (3 μM) was applied to cells for 30 seconds, PKC activity was observed to decrease in the cytosol and increase in the membrane fraction of the cell while the whole cell activity remained unchanged. The membrane-associated activity increased by almost 100%. When ethanol (100 mM) and diolein (3 μM) were applied simultaneously, membrane-associated activity increased to become 3–5 times greater than when either PKC activator was applied alone. These changes in PKC activity parallel changes in taurine release observed when cells are exposed to ethanol and the PKC activator diolein. Ethanol-stimulated release may be associated with the translocation of PKC activity from the cytosol to the membrane.

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