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Atrial natriuretic polypeptide (ANP)-like immunoreactivity was found in the rat adrenal gland by using indirect immunofluorescence and peroxidase-antiperoxidase techniques. ANP-like immunostaining was present in most of chromaffin cells with varying degrees of immunoreactivity. The majority of medullary cells displayed very intense immunostaining, and several clusters revealed weaker immunostaining. No staining was found in the adrenal cortex or in the nerve fibers in this organ. In the consecutive sections treated for dopamine-beta-hydroxylase (DBH), apparently all medullary cells had intense immunofluorescence for DBH and its distribution pattern was very similar to that for ANP-like immunoreactivity. While phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT) immunoreactive cells largely corresponded to the intensely stained ANP-like immunoreactive cells, suggesting that adrenaline cells contained a large amount of ANP-like substance, noradrenaline cells contained a smaller amount of this substance than adrenaline cells. Ultrastructural study showed that end-products due to the immunoreaction with the ANP antiserum were primarily associating with chromaffin granules. In addition, the presence of ANP-like immunoreactivity was investigated in several sympathetic ganglia of the rat. No principal ganglion cells were ANP-positive, whereas a few small intensely fluorescent (SIF) cells were ANP-immunoreactive. The present findings suggest that catecholamines coexist with ANP which has a natriuretic and vasodilating effect, in adrenal medullary cells and SIF cells in several rat sympathetic ganglia, but not in principal ganglion cells.
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