Tachykinin Systems in the Spinal Cord and Basal Ganglia: Influence of Neonatal Capsaicin Treatment or Dopaminergic Intervention on Levels of Peptides, Substance P-Encoding mRNAs, and Substance P Receptor mRNA
| Autor: | S P Sivam, James E. Krause |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Injections Subcutaneous Neurokinin A Dopamine Agents Neurotoxins Central nervous system Radioimmunoassay Substantia nigra Substance P Striatum Biology Dynorphins Biochemistry Basal Ganglia Rats Sprague-Dawley Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience chemistry.chemical_compound Pregnancy Dopamine Tachykinins Internal medicine Basal ganglia medicine Animals RNA Messenger Chromatography High Pressure Liquid Neurons Dopaminergic Receptors Neurokinin-1 Blotting Northern Spinal cord Rats Receptors Neurotransmitter medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology Animals Newborn Spinal Cord nervous system chemistry Haloperidol Female Endorphins Capsaicin medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Neurochemistry. 59:2278-2284 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3042 |
| Popis: | The aim of the study was to test whether the synthesis of substance P (SP) and that of its receptor (also known as NK1 receptor) are coordinately regulated after chronic pharmacologic intervention in two neural systems, the spinal cord and basal ganglia. In one set of experiments, capsaicin was administered subcutaneously during the early postnatal period (day 3 after birth) to induce degeneration of afferent sensory neurons in the spinal cord. In the other set of experiments, interruption of dopaminergic transmission was achieved by two methods: (a) The neurotoxin 6-hydroxydopamine was used to denervate dopaminergic neurons during the early postnatal period, and (b) haloperidol was used in adult animals to block dopaminergic transmission by receptor blockade. The spinal cord, striatum, or both were used for the quantification of tachykinin [SP and neurokinin A (NKA)] and opioid peptides [[Met5]-enkephalin (ME) and dynorphin A (1–8) (DYN)] by radioimmunoassays. The abundance of total SP-encoding preprotachykinin (PPT) mRNA and SP receptor (SPR) mRNA in spinal cord (C5 to T1 segments), striatum, or microdissected substantia nigra was determined by northern blot or solution hybridization analysis. Amines and their acid metabolites were quantified by HPLC. Capsaicin administration (subcutaneously) during the early postnatal period increased latency in a hot-plate test, decreased SP and NKA levels, increased levels of PPT mRNAs, and did not affect SPR mRNA levels in the spinal cord. Intraspinal SP systems may attempt to compensate for the loss of afferent SP input, whereas spinal cord receptor mRNA levels do not appear to be altered. Neonatal dopaminergic denervation or haloperidol blockade of dopamine receptors in adult rats decreased PPT mRNA levels in the striatum as previously reported but did not alter the abundance of SPR mRNA in the striatum or substantia nigra. The presence of SPR mRNA levels in microdissected substantia nigra and the lack of alteration in its levels as a consequence of dopamine denervation suggest that the receptor is expressed within nondopaminergic neurons, possibly GABAergic neurons. In both spinal cord and basal ganglia systems, regardless of increases or decreases in SP or SP-encoding mRNA levels, SPR mRNA levels were not altered. We conclude that the regulation of the presynaptic biosynthesis of SP and the postsynaptic regulation of the SPR mRNA can be modulated independently of each other in spinal cord and basal ganglia SP systems. |
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