Effects of amphetamines on regional tryptophan hydroxylase activity and synaptosomal conversion of tryptophan to 5-hydroxytryptamine in rat brain.
Effects of amphetamines on regional tryptophan hydroxylase activity and synaptosomal conversion of tryptophan to 5-hydroxytryptamine in rat brain.
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安非他明对大鼠脑中区域色氨酸羟化酶活性和色氨酸突触体转化为 5-羟色胺的影响。
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发表时间:
1974
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
M. Geyer
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作者:
S. Knapp;A. Mandell;M. Geyer
The acute administration of d -amphetamine, methamphetamine p -chloroamphetamine, and l -amphetamine reduced the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin (5-HT) in synaptosomes from the rat striatum. d -Amphetamine was approximately twice as potent as l -amphetamine in decreasing conversion activity. In contrast, fenfluramine increased this index of nerve ending 5-HT biosynthesis. None of the amphetamines studied affected synaptosomal uptake of 14C-L-tryptophan when measured in the same tissue preparations in which conversion activity was studied. The activity of solubilized tryptophan hydroxylase in the striatal synaptosomes was decreased by d -amphetamine treatment to the same extent that conversion activity was, accounting for the decrease in conversion activity. Tryptophan hydroxylase activity in the lateral midbrain after d -amphetamine was decreased to the same extent that it was in the nerve ending, but the decrease in the lateral midbrain preceded that observed in the nerve ending. Enzymic activity in the medial midbrain area was unaffected by d -amphetamine. At a concentration of 100 µM none of the amphetamines studied had a demonstrable effect on tryptophan hydroxylase activity in vitro . At 100 µM in vitro and 10 mg/kg in vivo , the two major amphetamine metabolites in the rat, p -hydroxyamphetamine and p -hydroxynorephedrine, failed to influence regional tryptophan hydroxylase activity or synaptosomal conversion of tryptophan to 5-HT. The short latency of the amphetamine-induced changes in nerve ending 5-HT synthetic activity contrasts with the delay of days to weeks in response to such agents as lithium and morphine as we have previously reported.