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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 7, 4017-4033, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Neuroscience

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Serotonin-storing secretory granules from thyroid parafollicular cells

JM Barasch, H Tamir, EA Nunez and MD Gershon
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032.

The subcellular storage of 5-HT was studied in sheep thyroid parafollicular cells. These cells are neural crest derivatives and were investigated as a serotonergic model system. Light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry was used to examine the distributions of 5-HT, 45 and 56 kDa forms of 5-HT binding protein (SBP), and calcitonin. A single type of parafollicular cell was found that contained calcitonin, 5-HT, and 45 kDa SBP but not 56 kDa SBP. The secretory granules of parafollicular cells all displayed calcitonin immunoreactivity, and many were also immunoreactive for 5-HT and 45 kDa SBP. Granules were isolated, first by size and then by density, on successive metrizamide gradients. These provided a granular fraction that was enriched in calcitonin, endogenous 5-HT, and 45 kDa SBP. Immunoblots confirmed the presence of 45 kDa SBP in the isolated granules and in suspensions of parafollicular cells that were purified by an affinity chromatographic technique. Parafollicular cell granules did not appear to contain substantial stores of ATP. Granules isolated on Percoll gradients were morphologically homogeneous and took up 3H-5- HT. The specificity of this uptake was confirmed by quantitative electron microscopic radioautography. The granular uptake of 3H-5-HT was inhibited by reserpine (10 microM). It is concluded that parafollicular cell granules are different from other amine-storing vesicles that do contain ATP; nevertheless, since parafollicular cell granules store 5-HT and have the same 45 kDa SBP as is found in serotonergic axon terminals, parafollicular cell granules may be analogous to the synaptic vesicles of serotonergic neurons.

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