Acutel-DOPA pretreatment potentiates 6-hydroxydopamine-induced toxic effects on nigro-striatal dopamine neurons in mice
| Autor: | Bertrand Naudin, Jean Costentin, J.-J. Bonnet |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Dopamine Tetrabenazine Nerve Tissue Proteins In Vitro Techniques Levodopa Mice chemistry.chemical_compound Dopamine receptor D2 Internal medicine Electrochemistry medicine Animals Tyrosine Hydroxylase Inhibitor Oxidopamine Molecular Biology Chromatography High Pressure Liquid Neurons Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins Hydroxydopamine Membrane Glycoproteins Benserazide Chemistry General Neuroscience Homovanillic acid Membrane Transport Proteins Drug Synergism Neostriatum Substantia Nigra Endocrinology nervous system Dopamine Agonists Sympatholytics Dopamine Antagonists Neurology (clinical) Carrier Proteins Synaptosomes Developmental Biology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Brain Research. 701:151-157 |
| ISSN: | 0006-8993 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00988-7 |
| Popis: | We have studied the effect of various agents on the decreases in striatal levels of dopamine (DA) and its metabolites which were observed 14 days after an intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of 50 micrograms 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) to mice. A pretreatment of mice with either a tyrosine hydroxylase inhibitor (alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine), a D2 receptor agonist (bromocriptine) or antagonist (haloperidol), or a vesicular uptake inhibitor (tetrabenazine) did not modify the 6-OHDA-induced decreases in DA and metabolites, indicating that DA synthesis, vesicular storage and neuronal firing rates are not mainly involved in the 6-OHDA-induced toxicity on the DA neurons. Conversely, a pretreatment with L-DOPA + benserazide potentiated the 6-OHDA-induced decreases in striatal levels of DA, homovanillic acid and 3-methoxy-tyramine. This effect was not due to an increased 6-OHDA uptake via the neuronal carrier since a pretreatment with L-DOPA + benserazide, performed 1-1.5 h before sacrifice, decreased the apparent affinity of the uptake, an effect which disappeared when considering the total DA concentration present in incubation medium ([3H]DA and cold released DA). In conclusion, potentiation of the 6-OHDA neurotoxicity by L-DOPA rises again the important problem of the safety of the latter drug in therapeutics. |
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