The effect of (+)‐amphetamine on various central and peripheral catecholamine‐containing neurones
The effect of (+)‐amphetamine on various central and peripheral catecholamine‐containing neurones
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(+)-苯丙胺对各种中枢和外周含儿茶酚胺神经元的影响
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1966
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B. Hamberger
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A. Carlsson;M. Lindqvist;K. Fuxe;B. Hamberger
The effect of ( +)-amphetamine on various central and peripheral catecholaminecontaining neurones SiR,-In previous experiments with rat brain (Carlsson, Lindqvist, Dahlstrom, Fuxe & Masuoka, 1965), support was obtained for the view that substances of the amphetamine group are capable of causing the release of extragranular catecholamines, that is, of catecholamines located intraneuronally outside the storage granules. Furthermore, it was found that in large doses these drugs may also cause the release of catecholamines from the granules. In the present work the effect of (+)-amphetamine has been further examined for its effect on extragranular amines. Special attention has been paid to the sensitivity of different catecholamine neurone systems to this drug. Adult, male Sprague-Dawley rats, 200-300 g, were used. Since the extragranular amine fraction normally seems to be very small, the experiments were made on animals whose amine stores had been emptied by reserpine. Loading of the extragranular space was then brought about by means of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor nialamide, followed by the catecholamine precursor ~-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-dopa). In vivo experiments. The animals were treated with reserpine, 10 mg/kg, i.p., 20-22 hr before being killed, nialamide, 100 mg/kg, i.p., 4 hr before death, and dopa, 25-50 mg/kg, s.c., 30 min before death. (+)-Amphetamine was administered in various doses (calculated as the base) 15 min before the dopa. Dopamine, noradrenaline and 3-methoxytyramine were measured fluorimetrically (Bertler, Carlsson & Rosengren, 1958 ; Carlsson & Waldeck, 1958 ; Carlsson & Lindqvist, 1962; Carlsson & Lindqvist, 1963; Carlsson & Waldeck, 1964). Fifteen animals were taken for the cellular localization of monoamines in the brain, heart and vas deferens (Falck, Hillarp, Thieme & Torp, 1962; Falck, 1962; see review by Hillarp, Fuxe & Dahlstrom, 1965), one control group (4 animals) and two groups receiving (+)-amphetamine (0.75 mg/kg, 5 animals, and 0.4 mg/kg, 6 animals). In vitro experiments. Brain slices of the neostriatum, hypothalamus, neocortex and the vas deferens of reserpine-treated rats (10 mg/kg, 12-18 hr before killing) were incubated for 30 rnin (Hamberger & Masuoka, 1965) with cr-methylnoradrenaline, 1 or 0.03 pg/ml. In the test experiments the slices were preincubated for 15 min with (+)-amphetamine (0.0075-0.75 pg/ml), whereupon the cr-methylnoradrenaline was added to the medium.