Characterization of cholinergic muscarinic receptor-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism in brain from immature rats

Journal Article · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990 · Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; (USA)

OSTI ID:6746803

Balduini, W; Murphy, S D; Costa, L G ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle (USA)

Hydrolysis of phosphoinositides elicited by stimulation of cholinergic muscarinic receptors has been studied in brain from neonatal (7-day-old) rats in order to determine: (1) whether the neonatal rat could provide a good model system to study this signal-transduction pathway; and (2) whether potential differences with adult nerve tissue would explain the differential, age-related effects of cholinergic agonists. Accumulation of (3H) inositol phosphates in (3H)inositol prelabeled slices from neonatal and adult rats was measured as an index of phosphoinositide metabolism. Full (acetylcholine, methacholine, carbachol) and partial (oxotremorine, bethanechol) agonists had qualitatively similar, albeit quantitatively different, effects in neonatal and adult rats. Atropine and pirenzepine effectively blocked the carbachol-induced response with inhibition constants of 1.2 and 20.7 nM, respectively. In all brain areas, response to all agonists was higher in neonatal than adult rats, and in hippocampus and cerebral cortex the response was higher than in cerebellum or brainstem. The relative intrinsic activity of partial agonists was higher in the latter two areas (0.6-0.7) than in the former two (0.3-0.4). Carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism in brain areas correlated well with the binding of (3H)QNB (r2 = 0.627) and, particularly, with (3H)pirenzepine (r2 = 0.911). In cerebral cortex the effect of carbachol was additive to that of norepinephrine and glutamate. The presence of calcium (250-500 microM) was necessary for maximal response to carbachol to be elicited; the EC50 value for Ca2+ was 65.4 microM. Addition of EDTA completely abolished the response. Removal of sodium ions from the incubation medium reduced the response to carbachol by 50%.

• OSTI ID: 6746803
• Journal Information: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; (USA), Journal Name: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics; (USA) Vol. 253:2; ISSN 0022-3565; ISSN JPETA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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