Cholinergic stimulation of adrenal medulla is essential for the granulicytopoietic response to lithium.

Granulocytopoietic response to lithium carbonate (Li+) in rat was eliminated completely by N-cholinergic blocking agent, and independently by alpha-1-adrenergic antagonist. A link between these two contradictory events is explained by release of acetylcholine from the cholinergic preganglionic nerve endings in adrenal medulla triggered by Li+, and subsequent discharge of catecholamines (CA) from medullar chromaffin cells, which on their part activate adrenergic receptors of alpha-1 class on hematopoietic progenitor cells. Respectively, granulocytopoietic response to Li+ is blocked by cholinergic N-blocking agent at the level of adrenal medulla, and by the alpha-adrenergic blocking agent at the level of the hematopoietic cells proper. The stimulatory action of Li+ on granulocytopoietic cells is indirect, while is mediated by CA release from adrenal chromaffine cells. At the initial stages of leukocyte restitution in the acute myelotoxic leucopenia relative increase in "large" lymphocyte fraction (Lge) preceding the increment in granulocyte counts is evident. In this fraction of lymphocytes peripheral blood progenitor cells (PBPC) are expected.

[The monoaminergic receptors of the internal organs in rats with a tumor and after partial hepatectomy]. / Issledovanie monoaminergicheskikh retseptorov vnutrennikh organov u krys s opukhol'iu i posle chastichnoi gepatéktomii.

Sensitivity to phenylephrine, isoproterenol, serotonin, oxytocin, acetylcholine and barium chloride of vas deferens uterus und fundus strip was studied comparatively in hepatectomized and sarcoma-45, sarcoma-M1, Walker carcinosarcoma and Zajdela ascites hepatoma bearing rats. The contractile response to monoamines and oxytocin was considerably lower or absent at certain periods after hepatectomy or tumour grafting. Effects of biogenic amine antagonists were also substantially altered. The response to isoproterenol, acetylcholine and barium chloride remained unchanged. Apparently a selective alteration of a response of visceral smooth muscles mediated through alpha-adrenergic and D-serotonin receptors occurred not only during the tumour growth but also in the case of active (extensive) proliferation of the normal tissue.

[Decreased isoproterenol sensitivity of the salivary epithelium in mice with transplanted tumors]. / Snizhenie chuvstvitel'nosti k izoproterenolu épiteliia sliunnykh zhelez myshei s perevivnymi opukholiami.

The proliferative response of secretory cells of parotid glands to isoproterenol could not be observed in tumour-bearing mice, while in normal mice a ten-fold increase was usually observed. Mice with subcutaneous allografts of normal tissue (tail fragments) demonstrated sensitivity similar to normal mice. Apparently, a lack of sensitivity in tumour-bearing mice is characteristic of the tumour-host interaction. According to electron microscopic cytochemical data the adenylate cyclase activity is not changed in the mentioned cells of the tumour-bearing mice. It is supposed that lack of sensitivity is due to an alteration of certain properties of some other components of the beta-adrenergic system.