Pharmacological analysis of extracellular dopamine and metabolites in the striatum of conscious as/agu rats, mutants with locomotor disorder

The as/agu rat is a spontaneously occurring mutation which exhibits locomotor abnormalities, reduced tyrosine hydroxylase levels in the substantia nigra and lower extracellular levels of dopamine. The animal could represent a model of some human locomotor disorders. High-potassium medium evoked a 460% rise of dopamine levels in control rats but double this in mutants. Amphetamine increased extracellular dopamine by 710% in controls and 1480% in mutants. Clorgyline produced a small increase of dopamine levels in controls but an 1170% increase in mutants. The uptake inhibitor nomifensine increased dopamine levels by 910% in controls but only 270% in mutants. After treatment with benserazide plus L-DOPA, an acute injection of L-DOPA evoked a release of dopamine which was twice as large in the as/agu rats compared with controls. The results show reduced extracellular dopamine in as/agu rats when the locomotor disorder is apparent, but there has been little loss of tyrosine hydroxylase. The responses to drugs are qualitatively different from those obtained using 6-hydroxydopamine.Overall, the effects of compounds affecting aminergic neurons suggest that one possible mechanism for the neuronal abnormality in as/agu rats is a defective regulation of dopamine release from striatal terminals.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2000

Erschienen:

2000

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:100

Enthalten in:

Neuroscience - 100(2000), 1 vom: 29., Seite 45-52

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Campbell, J M [VerfasserIn]
Gilmore, D P [VerfasserIn]
Russell, D [VerfasserIn]
Growney, C A [VerfasserIn]
Favor, G [VerfasserIn]
Kennedy, A K [VerfasserIn]
Davies, R W [VerfasserIn]
Payne, A P [VerfasserIn]
Stone, T W [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

1LGS5JRP31
46627O600J
Amphetamine
CK833KGX7E
Clorgyline
Dopamine
Dopamine Agents
Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
Journal Article
LYJ16FZU9Q
Levodopa
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors
Nomifensine
Potassium
RWP5GA015D
VTD58H1Z2X

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 06.11.2000

Date Revised 12.07.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM109165772