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  • 101
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    The AMPA antagonists NBQX and GYKI 52466 do not counteract neuroleptic-induced catalepsy (1994)
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    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 349 (1994), S. 61-65 
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    ISSN: 1432-1912
    Keywords: AMPA receptor ; NBQX ; GYKI 52466 ; Dizocilpine ; Quinpirole ; l-DOPA ; Catalepsy ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The AMPA antagonists NBQX (2.5, 5, 10 mg/kg) and GYKI 52466 (4.8, 8 mg/kg) were investigated in haloperidol (0.5 mg/kg)-induced catalepsy in the rat. The effects of AMPA antagonists administered either alone or in combination with the noncompetitive NMDA antagonist dizocilpine (0.02 mg/kg), with the dopamine D-2 agonist quinpirole (1 mg/kg) or with L-DOPA (50, 100 mg/kg plus benserazide) were tested. NBQX or GYKI 52466 did not exert anticataleptic effects, neither alone nor in combination with dizocilpine, quinpirole or l-DOPA. Thus, in the rat inhibition of AMPA receptors with NBQX or GYKI 52466 does not have effects predictive for an antiparkinsonian potential.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00178207
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    Excitatory amino acid receptors in the rostral ventrolateral medulla mediate hypertension induced by carotid body chemoreceptor stimulation (1994)
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    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 349 (1994), S. 549-554 
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    ISSN: 1432-1912
    Keywords: Kynurenate ; Excitatory amino acid receptor ; Vasopressin ; Chemoreceptor ; Vasopressin antagonist ; Rostral ventrolateral medulla ; Carotid body ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) is involved in the mediation of cardiovascular responses to peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation. To investigate whether excitatory amino acid inputs in the RVLM are related to the responses to chemoreceptor stimulation, we microinjected kynurenate, an amino acid antagonist, unilaterally into the RVLM and examined its effects on the pressor response to stimulation of carotid body chemoreceptors. Male Wistar rats were anesthetized with urethane, paralyzed and artificially ventilated. The carotid chemoreceptors were stimulated with isotonic solutions of inorganic phosphate solution. Stimulation of carotid body chemoreceptors produced increases in blood pressure. Kynurenate injected ipsilaterally but not contralaterally into the RVLM markedly inhibited the pressor response to chemoreceptor stimulation. In rats with spinal transection, stimulation of carotid body chemoreceptors also produced increases in blood pressure. The pressor response in rats with spinal transection was inhibited by intravenous injection of a vasopressin antagonist or by kynurenate injected ipsilaterally into the RVLM. Kynurenate injected into the RVLM inhibited the pressor response to NMDA, AMPA and kainate but not to acetylcholine in intact rats. These findings indicate that excitatory amino acid receptors are involved in mediating the pressor response to carotid body chemoreceptor stimulation in the rat RVLM. It appears that the chemoreceptor stimulation produces an increase in vasopressin release and the enhancement of vasopressin release is also mediated by an increase in excitatory amino acid inputs in the RVLM.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01258457
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  • 103
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    Halothane anesthesia enhances the effect of dopamine uptake inhibition on interstitial levels of striatal dopamine (1994)
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    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 350 (1994), S. 239-244 
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    ISSN: 1432-1912
    Keywords: Halothane ; Vanoxerine ; GBR 12909 ; d-Amphetamine ; Dopamine uptake ; Microdialysis ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The anesthetic, isoflurane, has been shown to potentiate the ability of the dopamine (DA)-uptake inhibitor, nomifensine, to increase the brain interstitial dopamine level ([DA]e). Since the effect of the more commenly used anesthetic, halothane, on this system is unknown, we determined [DA]e by microdialysis in the striatum of rats, conscious or anesthetized with halothane, in the presence of the more selective DA uptake inhibitor, vanoxerine (GBR 12909), or the DA releaser, d-amphetamine. Basal [DA]e was not changed by halothane. However, in halothane-anesthetized rats, the vanoxerine (3 mg/kg i.v.)-induced DA response increased severalfold compared to the response in conscious rats. The initial peak response to d-amphetamine (1 mg/kg i.v.) did not change, but the late response (1–3 h after injection) was augmented in anesthetized rats. Halothane is believed to increase firing of DA neurons in the substantia nigra and, hence, to release striatal DA. We hypothesize that [DA]e, is maintained at a normal level during the increased firing by equally increased activity of the DA transporter. However, when the DA transporter is blocked by vanoxerine, the increased DA release is unimpaired and [DA]e rises.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00175028
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    Convulsant action of a benzodiazepine receptor agonist/inverse agonist Ro 19-4603 in developing rats (1994)
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    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 350 (1994), S. 393-397 
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    ISSN: 1432-1912
    Keywords: Seizures ; Development ; Rat ; Benzodiazepine ; Inverse agonist
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract An inverse benzodiazepine receptor agonist Ro 19-4603, administered intraperitoneally, was found to induce two types of motor seizures, i.e. minimal, predominantly clonic and major, generalized tonic-clonic, in rats at all developmental stages studied (7, 12, 18 and 25 days old). The developmental profile of the two types of seizure was different. Minimal seizures could be induced easily in the two youngest groups, whereas there were no marked differences in the induction of major seizures between the age groups. A lethal outcome was more common in 18- and 25-day-old rats than in younger animals. The convulsant action of the benzodiazepine agonist/inverse agonist Ro 19-4603 shows only quantitative changes during post-natal development in the rat.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00178957
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    Ramipril prevents the detrimental sequels of chronic NO synthase inhibition in rats: hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and renal insufficiency (1994)
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    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 350 (1994), S. 646-652 
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    ISSN: 1432-1912
    Keywords: Nitric oxide ; NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester ; Kidney ; Heart ; Hypertension ; Renal haemodynamics ; Renin-angiotensin system ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Inhibition of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) with ramipril was studied in male Wistar rats during long-term inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) synthase by NG-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (l-NAME). Chronic treatment with l-NAME in a dose of 25 mg/kg per day over 6 weeks caused myocardial hypertrophy and a significant increase in systolic blood pressure (245 ± 16 mmHg) as compared to controls (155+4 mmHg). Animals receiving simultaneously l-NAME and ramipril were protected against blood pressure increase and partially against myocardial hypertrophy. L-NAME caused a significant reduction in glomerular filtration rate (GFR: 2.56+0.73 ml·kg−1·min−1) and renal plasma flow (RPF: 6.93±1.70ml·kg−1·min−1) as compared to control (GFR: 7.29±0.69, RPF: 21.36±2.33ml·kg−1·min−1). Addition of ramipril prevented l-NAME-induced reduction in GFR and renal plasma flow. l-NAME produced an elevation in urinary protein excretion and serum creatinine and a decrease in potassium excretion which was antagonised by ramipril. L-NAME-induced increase in plasma renin activity (PRA) was further elevated with ramipril treatment. Isolated hearts from rats treated with l-NAME showed increased post-ischaemic reperfusion injuries. Compared to controls duration of ventricular fibrillation was increased and coronary flow reduced. During ischaemia the cytosolic enzymes lactate dehydrogenase and creatine kinase, as well as lactate in the venous effluent were increased. Myocardial tissue values of glycogen, ATP, and creatine phosphate were decreased, whereas lactate was increased. Coadministration of ramipril reversed these effects. l-NAME treatment reduced the cyclic GMP content in urine and renal arteries, and was not changed by additional ramipril-treatment. In the kidney hyalinosis of arterioles and of glomerular capillaries, as well as mesangial expansion and tubular atrophies seen after long-term inhibition of NO synthase were reduced by coadministration of ramipril. In conclusion, long-term ACE inhibition by ramipril prevented l-NAME-induced hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy, and attenuated functional and morphological changes in the kidneys. In addition, cardiac-dynamic and -metabolic deterioration induced by L-NAME was normalised by co-treatment with ramipril.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00169370
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    Oxygen consumption of oestradiol-treated rats (1994)
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    Pflügers Archiv 426 (1994), S. 351-353 
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    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Rat ; Brown adipose tissue ; Noradrenaline responsiveness ; Oxygen consumption ; Cold acclimation ; Body temperature ; Oxidative capacity
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Rectal temperature and oxygen consumption (üüO2) were monitored in female rats acclimated either to cold or to thermoneutrality and with and without chronic administration of oestradiol. The hormone is known to inactivate brown adipose tissue (BAT) and to reduce its response to noradrenaline (NA). The role of sympathetic control was studied by administering NA or the adrenergic blocker propranolol. Oestradiol treatment did not affect rectal temperature in the states of acclimation to thermoneutrality and to cold, nor did it change the hypothermic response of cold-exposed rats to temporary food deprivation. In the cold-acclimated rats, both controls and oestradiol-treated animals exhibited similar degrees of metabolic reduction after propranolol administration in the cold and similar degrees of metabolic activation by NA at thermoneutrality. Rats acclimated to thermoneutrality showed a larger metabolic response to NA when treated with oestradiol. The results suggest that oestradiol, while inactivating the BAT response to NA, activates the NA responsiveness of other metabolically active tissues in cold-induced thermogenesis. The observation of a greater oxidative capacity in the kidney and the rectus abdominis muscle of oestradiol-treated, cold-acclimated rats would be in line with this proposal.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00374793
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    Effects of methionine sulphoximine treatment on renal amino acid and ammonia metabolism in rats (1994)
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    Pflügers Archiv 427 (1994), S. 524-532 
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    ISSN: 1432-2013
    Keywords: Glutamine synthetase ; Kidney ; Intestine ; Glutamine ; Ammonia ; Amino acids ; Metabolism ; Rat ; In vivo
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Renal glutamine metabolism in relation to ammoniagenesis has been extensively studied during chronic metabolic acidosis, when arterial glutamine levels are reduced. However, little is known about the effects of reduced glutamine delivery on renal glutamine and ammonia metabolism at physiological systemic pH values. Therefore, a model of decreased arterial glutamine concentrations at normal pH values was developed using methionine sulphoximine (MSO). Renal glutamine and ammonia metabolism was measured by determining fluxes and intracellular concentrations after an overnight fast in ether anaesthetized normal rats, MSO-treated rats and their pair-fed controls. Moreover, fluxes and intracellular concentrations of several other amino acids were determined concomitantly. After 2 and 4 days of MSO treatment, arterial glutamine concentrations were reduced to 55%, while arterial ammonia concentrations increased by 70%. Kidney glutamine uptake reduced, but systemic pH was unchanged. Fractional extraction of glutamine remained unchanged, suggesting that also in vivo net uptake of glutamine by the kidney at subnormal levels is related to arterial glutamine concentrations. As a result, at day 2 but not at day 4, the kidney reduced the net release of ammonia into the renal vein and thus reduced net renal ammonia addition to body ammonia pools. Therefore at day 2, the kidney seems to play an important role in adaptation to both hyperammonaemia and hypoglutaminaemia.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00374270
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    Effect of hyperfiltration on long-term follow-up of glomerular filtration rate in male Wistar rats (1994)
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    Pediatric nephrology 8 (1994), S. 710-714 
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    ISSN: 1432-198X
    Keywords: Glomerular filtration rate ; Technetium-DTPA ; Hyperfiltration ; Uninephrectomy ; High-protein diet ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract It has been suggested that a prolonged course of hyperfiltration could lead to progressive deterioration of renal function. In order to test this hypothesis, the following protocol was applied to 60 male Wistar rats. At 12 weeks of life, the rats were submitted to a surgical procedure: sham operation (25 rats), unilateral nephrectomy (25 rats) or 3/4 nephrectomy (10 rats). The three groups were again divided into two subgroups: one with high-protein intake (36%) and one with a low-protein intake (12%). In order to avoid any additional traumatic procedure which could shorten the animal's life, the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was measured without blood sampling, using a previously validated technique based on an image recorded by a gamma camera between the 9th and the 10th min after intravenous injection of99m technetium diethylenetriaminepentaacetate (DTPA). The sum of both kidneys and bladder activity was expressed as a percentage of the injected dose. The test was performed before surgery and every month thereafter. Six weeks after surgery, the highest filtration rate was found in the rats with “two kidneys/high-protein diet”, followed by the “two kidneys/low-protein diet”, the “one kidney/high-protein diet”, the “one kidney/low-protein diet” and the “1/2 kidney”. The overall GFR in the one kidney/high-protein diet rat and in the 1/2 kidney rat was respectively 80% and 55% of the pre-operative values. Until 109 weeks of age, the survival rate was comparable in the five groups of rats. At 109 weeks of age, non-significant changes in renal function were observed, the follow-up slopes of the different subgroups being more or less parallel. At that age, the lesions of glomerular sclerosis were focal and discrete, without significant differences in the five groups.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00869097
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    A comparison of the effects of the D1 receptor antagonists SCH 23390 and SCH 39166 on suppression of feeding behavior by the D1 agonist SKF38393 (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 113 (1994), S. 328-333 
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    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Dopamine ; 5-HT2 ; 5-HT1C ; D1 ; SKF 38393 ; SKF 82958 ; SCH 39166 ; SCH 23390 ; Feeding ; Behavior ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The hypophagic effect of the D1 receptor agonist SKF 38393 is not dose-dependently antagonized by the D1 antagonist SCH 23390. Moreover, the receptor specificity of this interaction remains in question, since SCH 23390 has significant activity at both 5-HT2 and 5-HT1C receptors, and SKF 38393 also interacts with 5-HT1C receptors. To determine the relative significance of these actions, a comparison was made between the anorectic effects in rats of SCH 23390 (0.1–1.0 mg/kg) and the benzonaphthazepine SCH 39166 (0.1–3.0 mg/kg), a D1 antagonist with negligible affinity for 5-HT sites. Both compounds inhibited food-intake dose-dependently, with SCH 23390 being approximately twice as potent as SCH 39166. Behaviorally inactive and active doses of both antagonists were tested in combination with the D1 agonist SKF 38393 (10–56 mg/kg). Neither antagonist was able to produce more than a marginal attenuation of the agonist-induced hypophagia. This demonstrates that previous failures to reverse the behavioral actions of SKF 38393 by SCH 23390 were not due to specific actions of this particular antagonist. Finally, like SCH 23390, SCH 39166 (0.3 mg/kg) was able to attenuate fully the anorectic effects of the D1 agonist SKF 82958 (1.0 and 3.0 mg/kg), demonstrating that neither compound is intrinsically unable to block D1 receptor-mediated hypophagia. The results demonstrate the generality of the D1 antagonist-mediated effect on feeding and call into question the use of SKF 38393 as a D1 agonist in studies of feeding, and perhaps in other contexts as well.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02245205
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    Prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response of rats is reduced by 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 113 (1994), S. 487-492 
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    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Prefrontal cortex ; Dopamine ; Acoustic startle response ; Prepulse inhibition ; 6-Hydroxydopamine ; Rat ; Schizophrenia
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response (ASR) is impaired by dopamine (DA) overactivity in the nucleus accumbens and anteromedial striatum. Since there is evidence that DA in the medial prefrontal cortex exerts an inhibitory control on striatal DA systems, it was investigated whether depletion of prefrontal DA reduces PPI. Rats were tested for PPI both before and after injections (2 × 1 µl per side) of vehicle, a low (3.0 µg/µl) or a high (6.0 µg/µl) dose of 6-hydroxydopamine hydrobromide (6-OHDA) into the prefrontal cortex. Only the high dose of 6-OHDA, leading to an 87% depletion of prefrontal DA, impaired PPI. The ability of an acoustic prepulse (75 dB, 10 kHz) to reduce the response to a startle pulse (100 dB noise burst) was maintained in sham lesioned rats, but was significantly disturbed in rats lesioned with the high dose of 6-OHDA. The 6-OHDA treatment did not affect the ASR amplitude in the absence of a prepulse. The reduction of PPI in lesioned rats correlated with the extent of DA depletion. These results suggest that the DA innervation of the prefrontal cortex is involved in the modulation of the ASR and they provide further evidence for opposite actions of prefrontal and subcortical DA systems in the control of behaviour. The present findings are discussed with regard to the potential role of prefrontal DA in schizophrenia.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02245228
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    Prenatal nicotine exposure increased duration of nicotine-induced analgesia in adult rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 113 (1994), S. 534-538 
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    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Nicotine ; Prenatal ; Analgesia ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The effect of prenatal exposure to nicotine on nicotine-induced analgesia was studied in rats. The analgesic effect of a single dose of nicotine (1 mg/kg SC) was measured by the tail-flick technique, and two subsequent studies were carried out. In the first study, 7-month-old male rats, born to dams chronically treated with nicotine during pregnancy (NIC), exhibited prolonged nicotine-induced analgesia compared to matched controls. The second study was designed to explore whether rats prenatally exposed to nicotine (NIC rats) are born with an increased sensitivity to nicotine and whether there is any sex difference. The analgesic effect of nicotine was tested on control and NIC rats of both sexes once a month from 2 to 7 months of age. At an early age, male but not female NIC rats, exhibited shorter analgesic responses to nicotine than did the matched controls. With increasing age, however, the duration of nicotine analgesia began to be prolonged in NIC rats of both sexes. Significant differences between control and NIC rats were found at the age of 6 and 7 months, in both sexes. Thus, rats prenatally exposed to nicotine are not born with an increased sensitivity to the analgesic effect of a single dose of nicotine. This phenomenon develops later, during the course of life, independently of gender.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02245235
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    Regional brain distribution of risperidone and its active metabolite 9-hydroxy-risperidone in the rat (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 53-62 
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    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Risperidone ; 9-Hydroxy-risperidone ; Active metabolite ; Antipsychotic ; 5-HT2 Antagonist ; Dopamine-D2 antagonist ; Pharmacokinetics ; Regional brain distribution ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Risperidone is a new benzisoxazole antipsychotic. 9-Hydroxy-risperidone is the major plasma metabolite of risperidone. The pharmacological properties of 9-hydroxy-risperidone were studied and appeared to be comparable to those of risperidone itself, both in respect of the profile of interactions with various neurotransmitters and its potency, activity, and onset and duration of action. The absorption, plasma levels and regional brain distribution of risperidone, metabolically formed 9-hydroxy-risperidone and total radioactivity were studied in the male Wistar rat after single subcutaneous administration of radiolabelled risperidone at 0.02 mg/kg. Concentrations were determined by HPLC separation, and off-line determination of the radioactivity with liquid scintillation counting. Risperidone was well absorbed. Maximum plasma concentrations were reached at 0.5–1 h after subcutaneous administration. Plasma concentrations of 9-hydroxy-risperidone were higher than those of risperidone from 2 h after dosing. In plasma, the apparent elimination half-life of risperidone was 1.0 h, and mean residence times were 1.5 h for risperidone and 2.5 h for its 9-hydroxy metabolite. Plasma levels of the radioactivity increased dose proportionally between 0.02 and 1.3 mg/kg. Risperidone was rapidly distributed to brain tissues. The elimination of the radioactivity from the frontal cortex and striatum—brain regions with high concentrations of 5-HT2 or dopamine-D2 receptors—became more gradual with decreasing dose levels. After a subcutaneous dose of 0.02 mg/kg, the ED50 for central 5-HT2 antagonism in male rats, half-lives in frontal cortex and striatum were 3–4 h for risperidone, whereas mean residence times were 4–6 h for risperidone and about 12 h for 9-hydroxy-risperidone. These half-lives and mean residence times were 3–5 times longer than in plasma and in cerebellum, a region with very low concentrations of 5-HT2 and D2 receptors. Frontal cortex and striatum to plasma concentration ratios increased during the experiment. The distribution of 9-hydroxy-risperidone to the different brain regions, including frontal cortex and striatum, was more limited than that of risperidone itself. This indicated that 9-hydroxy-risperidone contributes to the in vivo activity of risperidone, but to a smaller extent than would be predicted from plasma levels. AUCs of both active compounds in frontal cortex and striatum were 10–18 times higher than those in cerebellum. No retention of metabolites other than 9-hydroxy-risperidone was observed in any of the brain regions investigated.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02245444
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    Methamphetamine exposure during early postnatal development in rats: I. Acoustic startle augmentation and spatial learning deficits (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 392-401 
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    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Methamphetamine ; Rat ; Postnatal ; Acoustic startle ; Spatial learning
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Methamphetamine (MA) induces neurotransmitter reductions and neurotoxicity at high doses in adult animals, but its effects on early brain development and behavior have received less attention. In this experiment the effects of MA exposure during a period equivalent to the human third trimester were examined. Rats (Sprague-Dawley CD) were injected subcutaneously withd-MA (30 mg/kg b.i.d.) early in postnatal development (days 1–10), later (postnatal days 11–20), or with water during both of these periods. Both early and later MA-exposed offspring exhibited augmented acoustic startle and impaired performance in a complex multiple-T water maze. Only the early MA exposure group showed a persistent deficit in weight while only the later MA exposure group showed impaired learning in the Morris hidden platform maze. Effects on locomoter activity are reported in the accompanying article. It was concluded that the effects of MA are both long lasting and stage dependent and involve cognitive as well as arousal functions.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02249328
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    Effects of (R)-α-methylhistamine and scopolamine on spatial learning in the rat assessed using a water maze (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 651-656 
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    Keywords: (R)-α-Methylhistamine ; Scopolamine ; Histamine ; Cognition ; Water maze ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The effects of (R)-α-methylhistamine ((R)-α-MeHA, a selective H3-receptor agonist) and scopolamine (SCOP, a muscarinic antagonist) were investigated on spatial learning and memory in the rat (Hooded Lister) using a water maze (WM). (R)-α-MeHA treatment (6.3 and 10 mg/kg IP) had no apparent effect on spatial learning but did result in enhanced spatial recall at the higher dose, assessed by a transfer (probe) test after training. In contrast, SCOP (0.5 mg/kg IP) induced a learning and memory deficit measured both during and after training. In animals treated with (R)-α-MeHA and SCOP, (R)-α-MeHA partially (6.3 mg/kg) and completely (10 mg/kg) reversed the SCOP-induced deficit during the training phase, while in the post-training transfer test, (R)-α-MeHA (10 mg/kg) significantly reduced the SCOP-induced memory deficit. None of the treatments described resulted in impaired visual acuity as demonstrated by a raised platform test. These results are consistent with a role for histamine in cognitive processes and suggest a possible interaction between central histamine and cholinergic mechanisms associated with rodent spatial learning and memory.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244997
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    Ethological study of the effects of tetrahydroaminoacridine (THA) on social recognition in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 644-650 
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    Keywords: Social recognition ; Cognition ; Social interaction ; Ethological method ; Tetrahydroaminoacridine ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Two major difficulties confront ethopharmacological investigations on cognitive abilities such as social recognition in drug-treated animals involved in free social interactions. The first concerns the choice of the most relevant behaviours, those reflecting the cognitive abilities attributed to the animals and assessing the specificity of the drug activity, and those reflecting non-specific drug effects. The second refers to the experimenter's awareness that in contrast to physical objects, social stimuli respond to drug-treated subjects and that their own level of responsiveness may influence the changes of drug-treated subjects' social interest. In addition, their contribution may vary according to the different treatments the drug-treated subjects receive. In examining the effects of tetrahydroaminoacridine (THA) at doses of 0.3, 1 and 3 mg/kg on the ability of adult male rats to recognize previously encountered conspecifics, we attempted to take into consideration such difficulties. A detailed behavioural profile of drug-treated rats was reported to separate specific from non-specific effects of THA. In addition, rats were assigned an index of responsibility for contact which takes into account the interactive dimension of each dyad and allows relevant comparisons between different treatments. The doses of THA which were found to decrease the duration of exploration of a familiar juvenile were also found to decrease the number of contacts initiated by the drug-treated subjects. THA induced a relative increase in body care by comparison to saline treatment. However, it had no effect of locomotor activity and rearing of the subjects. These findings enable dissociation of the effects of THA on cognitive versus non-cognitive processes.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02244996
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    Effect of lesions of the ascending 5-hydroxytryptaminergic pathways on timing behaviour investigated with the fixed-interval peak procedure (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 463-468 
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    Keywords: 5-Hydroxytryptamine ; 5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine ; Operant behaviour ; Timing ; Fixed-interval peak procedure ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Twelve rats received injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine into the dorsal and median raphe nuclei; 12 rats received sham lesions. The rats were then trained for 60 sessions under a discrete-trials fixed-interval schedule (peak procedure). In half the trials, a reinforcer became available 40 s after trial onset, and the trial was terminated upon reinforcer delivery; the remaining trials were 120 s in duration, and reinforcement did not occur in these trials. Performance during the 120-s trials was characterized by increasing response rate during the first 40 s of the trial, declining response rate between 40 s and 80 s, and a secondary increase in response rate during the final 40 s of the trial. The lesioned group showed a broader “spread” of the response rate function than the control group (time between attainment of 70% of the peak response rate and subsequent decline of response rate below this level); however, the peak response rate and the time from trial onset until attainment of the peak response rate did not differ significantly between the groups; the spread/peak-time ratio was significantly greater in the lesioned group than in the control group. The levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid in the parietal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, nucleus accumbens and hypothalamus were markedly reduced in the lesioned group, but the levels of noradrenaline and dopamine were not significantly affected by the lesion. The results confirm the involvement of 5HTergic function in timing behaviour.
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    Effects of GABA-ergic drugs on penile erection induced by apomorphine in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 249-253 
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    Keywords: Penile erection ; Muscimol ; Baclofen ; Bicuculline ; Picrotoxin ; Phaclofen ; Apomorphine ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of GABA agonists and antagonists on penile erection (PE) induced by apomorphine were investigated in rats. Subcutaneous (SC) administration of apomorphine (0.01–0.1 mg/kg) induces a dose-dependent PE in rats. The maximum effect was obtained with 0.1 mg/kg of the drug. The response was decreased with increasing doses of apomorphine from 0.1 to 0.5 mg/kg. The response induced by apomorphine (0.1–0.5 mg/kg) was decreased in animals pretreated with either the GABA-A agonist muscimol or the GABA-B agonist baclofen. Combination of muscimol with baclofen caused a stronger inhibitory effect on apomorphine-induced PE. Bicuculline or picrotoxin but not phaclofen reduced the inhibitory effect of muscimol on PE induced by apomorphine, whereas phaclofen but not GABA-A antagonists decreased the inhibitory action of baclofen on apomorphine-induced PE. Pretreatment of animals with higher doses of the GABA-A antagonists bicuculline and picrotoxin or the GABA-B antagonist phaclofen elicited inhibition of apomorphine-induced PE. However, the inhibitory effects of GABA-A and GABA-B antagonists are lost on combination. Administration of GABA-A and GABA-B receptor stimulation inhibit PE induced by dopaminergic mechanism(s).
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    Crossmodal divided attention in rats: effects of chlordiazepoxide and scopolamine (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 213-220 
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    Keywords: Divided attention ; Scopolamine ; Chlordiazepoxide ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract “Divided attention” is a psychological construct that hinges on assumptions about a fixed finite capacity of subjects to simultaneously process multiple sets of information. A model of a crossmodal divided attention task was developed in rats. Initially, rats were trained consecutively in operant auditory and visual conditional discrimination tasks. The final task consisted of two successive blocks of 20 trials per modality (modality certainty), followed by 60 trials comprising a semi-randomized sequence of stimuli of both modalities (auditory or visual) and qualities (flashing/pulsing or constantly turned on; modality uncertainty). In comparison to unimodal blocks of trials, performance in the mixed condition was assumed to reflect the demands on the parallel processing of two sets of stimulus-response rules. While response accuracy remained unchanged, response latencies were generally longer in the bimodal condition. Administration of scopolamine (0.03, 0.06, 0.1 mg/kg) or chlordiazepoxide (1, 3, 5, 8 mg/kg) dose-dependently increased response latencies. The scopolamine-induced increase in response latencies was greater in the mixed condition. Cost-benefit analyses demonstrated that the absolute divided attention costs (in ms) were generally higher for visual than for auditory stimuli. Both drugs produced qualitatively similar effects; however, scopolamine was more potent in increasing the absolute divided attention costs than chlordiazepoxide. These data are discussed in terms of the validity of this animal paradigm, and of hypotheses about the effects of benzodiazepine receptor agonists and muscarinic antagonists on brain information processing capacity.
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    Influence of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists and the indirect 5-HT agonist, dexfenfluramine, on heroin self-administration in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 611-619 
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    Keywords: Heroin self-administration ; Rat ; 5-HT ; 2-HT3 receptor antagonists ; Ondansetron ; MDL72222 ; Indirect 5-HT agonist ; Dexfenfluramine ; Opioid reinforcement
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    Notes: Abstract The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of the 5-HT3 antagonists ondansetron and MDL72222, and the 5-HT releaser and reuptake inhibitor dexfenfluramine, on intravenous heroin self-administration by Wistar rats. Using separate squads of animals, two separate schedules of heroin reinforcement were used; a relatively low dose (0.03 mg/kg per infusion) made available under a FR5 schedule for 1 h each day, and a moderate heroin dose (0.1 mg/kg per infusion) available under a FR1 schedule for 2 h each day. Following the acquisition of stable levels of responding across days, both naloxone pretreatment (0.25 mg/kg SC) and halving the heroin infusion dose produced increases in operant responding for heroin at each concentration. Neither ondansetron (0.01–1 mg/kg SC) nor MDL72222 (0.1–3 mg/kg SC) pretreatment influenced heroin self-administration. Chronic treatment (5 day) of ondansetron (0.01–0.1 mg/kg) was similarly ineffective. However, dexfenfluramine (0.5–2.5 mg/kg IP) consistently reduced heroin self-administration at doses producing only modest decreases in food responding. These findings are in contrast to place conditioning studies, which show that 5-HT3 antagonists but not indirect 5-HT agonists block a morphine-induced place preference. Reasons for such discrepancies remain to be determined.
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    Elevated concentrations of the β-subunit of S100 protein in renal cell tumors in rats (1994)
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    Urological research 22 (1994), S. 251-255 
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    Keywords: S100 protein ; Rat ; Carcinogenesis ; Renal neoplasms
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    Notes: Abstract Concentrations of α and β-subunits of S100 protein (S100-α and S100-β) in rat kidney neoplasms, including renal cell and mesenchymal tumors, were determined using a highly sensitive enzyme immunoassay, and both types immunohistochemically localized in tissue sections. Concentration of S100-α in each histological type of rat tumor were lower than in normal kidney, whereas levels of S100-β (mean±SE: 29.7±14.2 ng/mg protein, n=15) in renal cell tumors were significantly higher than in normal kidneys (0.55±0.06 ng/mg protein, n=7), or mesenchymal tumors (1.21±0.43 ng/mg protein, n=9). In normal rat kidney tissues S100-α was immunohistochemically positive in epithelial cells of the distal tubules, the thin limbs of loops of Henle, and the collecting ducts. No appreciable immunostaining for S100-β was found in any nephron segment. Both S100-α and S100-β were positive for renal cell tumors, indicating new appearance of the latter during renal carcinogenesis in rats.
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    The effect of active immunization against gonadotropin-releasing hormone on the ultrastructure of the rat ventral prostate (1994)
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    Urological research 22 (1994), S. 107-113 
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    Keywords: GnRH-DT vaccine ; Testosterone ; Ultrastructure ; Rat ; Prostate
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    Notes: Abstract To evaluate the effects of active immunization against gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) on the ultrastructure of the rat ventral prostate, male Sprague-Dawley rats received three consecutive intramuscular injections of 10 μg/100g body weight (D-Lys6)-GnRH-diphtheria toxoid conjugate (GnRH-DT vaccine). Following immunization, test animals developed sufficiently high antibody titres to block the pituitary gonadal axis. Consequently testosterone values dropped to the levels in castrates. This therapy leads to atrophy of the prostate. Following immunization a strong immunological response, indicating the presence of considerable amounts of a GnRH-like peptide, was observed in the ventral prostates as early as 14 days after the first injection of GnRH-DT. Immunoneutralisation of GnRH-like activity may contribute to the effects observed.
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    Pyelonephritis: renal urokinase and sialidase (neuraminidase) activity in rats fed a standard laboratory diet (1994)
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    Urological research 22 (1994), S. 57-60 
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    Keywords: Kidney ; Pyelonephritis ; Rat ; Sialidase (neuraminidase) ; Urokinase
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    Notes: Abstract Renal stone formation can be caused by many different and varied disturbances, some of which are poorly understood. The relationship between urinary infection and renal stone formation has not been completely clarified. It is argued that renal stones form primarily as a consequence of the hydrolysis of urea by the bacterial enzyme urease. However, no explanation is given for microorganisms that produce urease only occasionally or not at all. The question arises as to wheter the infection-induced microorganisms might not be playing a double role in renal stone formation by not only producting urease, but also by affecting in vivo urokinase (UK) and sialidase (SA) activity. With this in mind, the effect of Escherichia coli on renal UK and SA activity has been studied in male rats with a normal diet. The renal UK (P=0.208) and SA (P=0.2135) activities did not differ significantly between the two kidneys of the same rat. In contrast, when drainage from one kidney of a rat was externally obstructed, the UK and SA activities differed significantly between kidneys (P〈0.015). An increase in UK (r=0.6456, P〈0.0001) and SA (r=0.7507, P〈0.0001) activity was observed over time in the obstructed kidney. Subcutaneous injections with E. coli reduced the UK activity of the obstructed kidney significantly (p=0.0171). However, the SA activity remained the same (P=0.3929). This decrease in the UK activity in the presence of microorganisms may result in an increase in the uromucoid concentration, leading to renal stone formation in the presence of increased salt precipitation on the uromucoid as caused by the urease producing microorganisms.
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    Post-irradiation bladder dysfunction: muscle strip findings (1994)
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    Urological research 22 (1994), S. 51-55 
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    Keywords: Bladder dysfunction ; Muscle strip ; Rat ; X-irradiation
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    Notes: Abstract Strips of rat detrusor muscle were studied in an organ bath 6 months after X-irradiation at doses of 15 and 25 Gy; cystometric studies in these animals had shown a persistent and significant reduction in compliance. The organ bath study demonstrated an increase in the purinergie sensitivity of irradiated detrusor muscle as compared with control. This was significant: p〈0.0145 for the 25 Gy dose group (n=8) and p〈0.0456 for the 15 Gy group (n=8) at an α,β-methylene-ATP concentration of 10-4 M (Mann-Whitney U-Test). There was no difference in sensitivity to cholinergic or noradrenergic stimulation, or to electrical stimulation of the transmural nerves. The finding of purinergic hypersensitivity in irradiated muscle, coupled with ultrastructural evidence of a neural injury, raises the interesting possibility that a denervation super-sensitivity phenomenon may contribute to the pathophysiology of post-irradiation bladder dysfunction.
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    Comparative NMR studies of diffusional water permeability of erythrocytes from some animals introduced to Australia: Rat rabbit and sheep (1994)
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    Comparative clinical pathology 4 (1994), S. 232-235 
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    Keywords: NMR ; Rabbit ; Rat ; Red blood cells ; Sheep ; Water permeability
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    Notes: Abstract The diffusional water permeability (P d) of the red blood cell (RBC) membrane of rat, rabbit and sheep, representing some animal species introduced to Australia, has been monitored, by a Mn2+-doping 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NR) technique using a high-field spectometer operating at 400 MHz. In order to make comparisons with previous measurements on the same species (performed at 25 MHz) an analysis of the influence of instrumental parameters and of the state of blood oxygenation was performed on samples of rat and rabbit blood. It was found that by using a short interpulse delay (around 100 µs) in the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill sequence, and by performing the measurements of the transverse relaxation time of the water in the cell interior (T 2i) on packed cells (haematocrit 〉95%), the values of the water exchange time (T e) obtained with a high-field spectrometer are comparable with those obtained by using a low-field NMR spectrometer. The values of the diffusional water permeability (P d), calculated from the T e values, were, at 24.6°C around 10 × 10−3 cm/s in case of rat and rabbit RBC and around 5 × 10−3 cm/s for sheep RBC; at 37°C the P d values were around 16 × 10−3 cm/s for rat RBC, 14 × 10−3 cm/s for rabbit RBC and 7 × 10−3 cm/s for sheep RBC. These values are very close to the P d values previously reported for the European counterparts of these species. There were no significant differences in the P d values between laboratory rabbits and wild rabbits, or between castrated males, pregnant or nonpregnant females. These results suggest that no changes in the RBC water permeability are correlated with marked alterations in the habitat of animal species introduced to Australia or by sex hormone status. If the NMR instrument-parameters are carefully chosen then comparative studies of RBC water permeability in different laboratories, at separate locations and using different instruments are meaningful.
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    Effects of fasting on haematology and clinical chemistry values in the rat and dog (1994)
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    Comparative clinical pathology 4 (1994), S. 152-156 
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    Keywords: Clinical chemistry ; Dog ; Fasting ; Haematology ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Many regulatory toxicity guidelines and the recommendation of AACC-DACC/ASVCP joint task force of the USA on clinical pathology testing require overnight fasting for rats and non-rodents before blood sampling. However, the reason why animals must be fasted before blood sampling is unclear in toxicology studies. Fasting, one of many preanalytical conditions, can lead to false low or high values, which in turn may lead to misinterpretation of test compound effects in toxicological studies. This paper reviews the literature with respect to fasting, and reports on our own studies, in the hope of increasing the awareness among investigators of these problems. Haematocrit values and plasma chemistry values in blood obtained from rats and dogs following fasting were compared with unfasted animals. In male F344 rats, after 16 h fasting, body weight decreased. Increases in aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) and decreases of plasma alkaline phosphatase (ALP), total cholesterol (CHO), triglycerides (TG), phospholipids (PL), urea nitrogen (UN) and calcium were observed. Haematocrit, plasma alanine aminotransferase (ALT)/glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT), total proteins (TP), glucose, and inorganic phosphorus (IP) were unchanged. In male beagle dogs after 16 h fasting, TG, PL, UN, calcium and IP were decreased. Haematocrit, ALP, TP, albumin, glucose, CHO, creatinine, AST/GOT, ALT/GPT, LDH and CPK were not changed. Our own studies show that in order to avoid excessive stress to test animals, the fasting period should be decided case by case, and not made uniform in toxicology studies. It would be useful if regulatory guidelines made some mention of both the effect of feeding, and of stress caused by fasting.
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    Prothrombin times and activated partial thromboplastin times in toxicology: a comparison of different blood withdrawal sites for wistar rats (1994)
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    Comparative clinical pathology 4 (1994), S. 173-176 
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    Keywords: APTT ; Blood withdrawal ; PT ; Rat ; Sysmex CA-5000
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    Notes: Abstract The prothrombin time (PT) and the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) for untreated male Wistar rats were determined on the Sysmex CA-5000 Instrument for blood taken from the orbital sinus, tail vein, vena cava and aorta. Boxplot and statistical analysis was performed. Only orbital sinus puncture yields unpredictable and unacceptable variation/prolongation of clotting times.
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    Effects of the calcium antagonist isradipine on cocaine intravenous self-administration in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 113 (1994), S. 378-380 
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    Keywords: Cocaine ; Self-administration ; Calcium antagonists ; Isradipine ; Dopamine ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effect of isradipine, a dihydropyridine calcium antagonist, on cocaine intravenous self-administration in rats was investigated. Administration of (±)isradipine (1.25–5 mg/kg SC) 2 h before the cocaine self-administration session induced a significant and dose-dependent increase in the number of coacine injections with respect to basal values. This effect was sterospecific, with the (+) form of isradipine being active, while the (−) stereoisomer was ineffective. These results suggest that isradipine antagonizes the rewarding properties of cocaine, possibly by inhibiting those dopaminergic systems related to reward mechanisms. These results further indicate a possible use of isradipine, or structurally similar compounds, in the treatment of cocaine related disorders.
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    An examination of the behavioural specificity of hypophagia induced by 5-HT1B, 5-HT1C and 5-HT2 receptor agonists using the post-prandial satiety sequence in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 113 (1994), S. 369-377 
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    Keywords: 5-HT1B ; 5-HT1C ; 5-HT2 receptors ; Feeding ; Satiety sequence ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Previous studies have shown that administration of 5-HT1B, 5-HT1C or 5-HT2 agonists decreases food intake in rats. However, it has not been established whether these drugs induce satiety or decrease feeding by a non-specific mechanism. In the present study the post-prandial satiety sequence was used to characterise the actions of the 5-HT2 receptor agonist, 1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane (DOI), the 5-HT1B/5-HT1C receptor agonists, 1-(3-chorophenyl) piperazine (mCPP) and 1-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl] piperazine (TFMPP), and the 5-HT1B agonist, 5-methoxy-3-(1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-4-pyridinyl)H-indole (RU 24969), on feeding in rats. All four compounds reduced food intake in rats that had been food deprived overnight. The 5-HT1B/5-HT1C agonists, TFMPP (at a dose of 1.0 mg/kg) and mCPP (at a dose of 3.0 mg/kg), appeared to produce satiety as their effects on the satiety sequence were similar to those induced by a food pre-load. In contrast, the 5-HT1B agonist RU 24969 and the 5-HT2 agonist DOI did not produce behavioural profiles that resembled satiety. Thus, RU 24969 elevated active behaviours and did not accelerate resting whereas DOI appeared to induce hypophagia by a non-specific fragmentation of behaviour. The results suggest that simultaneous activation of 5-HT1B and 5-HT1C receptors may be sufficient to elicit behaviourally specific satiety in the rat. In contrast, selective activation of 5-HT2 receptors does not induce satiety but elicits active behaviours and decreases feeding by response competition.
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    Methamphetamine exposure during early postnatal development in rats: II. Hypoactivity and altered responses to pharmacological challenge (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 402-408 
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    Keywords: Methamphetamine ; Rat ; Postnatal development ; Hypoactivity ; Pharmacological challenge
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    Notes: Abstract Methamphetamine induces neurotransmitter reductions and neurotoxicity at high doses in adult animals, but its effects on early brain development and behavior have received little attention. In this experiment the effects of methamphetamine exposure during a period equivalent to the human third trimester were examined. Rats (Sprague-Dawley CD) were injected subcutaneously withd-methamphetamine (d-MA) (30 mg/kg b.i.d.) early in postnatal development (days 1–10), later (postnatal days 11–20), or with water during both of these periods. Both early and later MA-exposed offspring exhibited reduced locomotor activity. The effect was most evident at 30 days of age and was smaller at 45 and 60 days and only present at these latter ages in males. Only the early MA exposure group showed prolonged suppression of activity in response to a challenge dose of fluoxetine and a persistant deficit in weight while only the later MA exposure group showed attenuated suppression of activity in response to a challenge dose of fluoxetine. Based both on the present data and those in the preceding article, it was concluded that the effects of MA are both long lasting and stage dependent and involve arousal as well as cognitive functions.
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    Effects of chronic phenylpropanolamine infusion and termination on body weight, food consumption and water consumption in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 114 (1994), S. 513-519 
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    Keywords: Phenylpropanolamine ; Body weight ; Food consumption ; Water consumption ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The present study determined the effect of chronic PPA infusion and withdrawal on weight regulation. Male Sprague-Dawley rats received PPA (0, 90 or 180 mg/kg) via miniosmotic pumps for 2 weeks. Body weight and food and water consumption were measured daily before, during, and for 2 weeks after PPA infusion. Additionally, body weight was measured once 6 weeks after the last day of drug administration. PPA infusion produced dose-dependent reductions in body weight and food consumption throughout drug administration. During the first week of PPA termination, food consumption returned to control levels; however, body weights of drug-treated animals remained below those of controls throughout the 6-week post-drug period. PPA depressed water intake during the first week of drug administration, but tolerance to this effect developed by the second week of administration. These results suggest chronic PPA infusion produces persistent appetite suppression and weight loss and that discontinuation of PPA does not result in hyperphagia or rapid weight gain. These findings may have clinical significance for the many individuals who wish to lose weight but have difficulty reducing intake without pharmacologic assistance.
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    Diazepam impairs place learning in naive but not in maze-experienced rats in the Morris water maze (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 73-78 
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    Keywords: Benzodiazepines ; Diazepam ; Morris water maze ; Place learning ; Anxiety ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Anxiolytic benzodiazepines have been shown to impair place learning in the Morris water maze. However, a clear-cut demonstration of a direct and specific effect on mnemonic processes has not yet been offered. In the present study, the effects of diazepam on place navigation in the Morris water maze were studied in rats. Three conditions were examined: learning, reversal learning and learning after familiarisation of animals with the maze. In view of the anxiolytic and sedative properties of diazepam, appropriate doses of the drug, i.e. those that produced an anxiolytic effect but no major motor impairment, were initially selected in the water-lick conflict and rotarod tests, respectively. Doses of 2.5 and 5 mg/kg PO increased punished drinking in the water-lick conflict test without significantly decreasing rotarod performance. These doses were then used to assess the effects of diazepam on spatial behaviour. Diazepam, at both doses, impaired place learning in behaviourally naive rats. Such an effect appeared to be transient: diazepam-treated rats eventually reached control performance. Moreover, analysis of the probe trial at the end of training revealed adoption of a spatial strategy to locate the submerged platform. Neither reversal learning nor learning after familiarisation was affected. These results do not replicate previous findings in the Morris water maze and provide some evidence that the diazepam-induced place learning deficit may be primarily anxiolytic in nature.
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    Discriminative stimulus properties of cocaine: modulation by dopamine D1 receptors in the nucleus accumbens (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 110-114 
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    Keywords: Cocaine ; Drug discrimination ; Nucleus accumbens ; Dopamine D1 and D2 receptors ; Microinjection ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Dopamine (DA) D1 and D2 receptors are involved in mediating the behavioral effects of cocaine, including its discriminative stimulus properties. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of the nucleus accumbens and, in particular, accum bens DA D1 receptors in modulating the stimulus effects of cocaine. Thus, rats were trained to discriminate cocaine (10 mg/kg, IP) from saline using a two-lever, water-reinforced FR 20 drug discrimination task. In substitution tests, systemic (IP) administration of cocaine (0.625–20 mg/kg) produced a dose-related increase in cocaine-appropriate responding. Microinjections of cocaine (2.5–40 µg) into the nucleus accumbens also engendered dose-dependent and complete substitutions (〉 80% drug-lever responding) for the systemic training dose of cocaine, whereas intra-accumbens artificial cerebrospinal fluid (1 µl/side) produced primarily saline-appropriate responding. In antagonism tests, pretreatment with the DA D1 antagonist SCH 23390 (3–12 µg/kg) completely antagonized (〈20% drug-lever responding) a dose of cocaine (5 mg/kg) that produced greater than 90% cocaine-lever responding when given alone. Additionally, intra-accumbens injections of SCH 23390 (0.025–0.4 µg) prior to systemic cocaine (5 mg/kg) also significantly blocked the cocaine stimulus. The present results confirm the importance of the nucleus accumbens in mediating the discriminative stimulus properties of cocaine and suggest a primary role of accumbens DA D1 receptors in modulating this behavior.
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    High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging of arthritic pathology in the rat knee (1994)
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    Skeletal radiology 23 (1994), S. 429-437 
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    Keywords: Arthritis ; Rat ; Knee ; MRI ; X-radiography ; histology
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    Notes: Abstract High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to visualise the changes that occur in both soft tissue and bone during antigen-induced, monoarticular arthritis (AIMA) of the rat knee. Extensive optimisation studies were performed in order to minimise the time of the experiments and to maximise both the signal-to-noise ratio and the contrast in the MR images. The study was cross-sectional rather than longitudinal and at each of the 13 time points studied during the progression of the disease, corresponding X-radiographs and histological sections were obtained. Interpretation of the spin echo MR images was aided by the use of chemical shift-selective imaging, magnetisation transfer contrast and relaxation time experiments, as well as by correlation with the histology and X-radiography data. The MR images clearly show invasion of the synovium by an inflammatory pannus which spreads over the articular cartilage and invades the bone, leading to erosion and later remodelling. Two distinct types of bony erosion were observed: focal erosions, especially at the margins of the joint, and subchondral erosions. It is concluded that MRI provides a sensitive, non-invasive method for investigating both early-stage inflammatory changes and late-stage bony changes in the knee joints of the arthritic rat.
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    Evidence for altered α2-adrenoceptor function following isolation-rearing in the rat (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 183-190 
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    Keywords: Isolation rearing ; α2-Adrenoceptor ; Clonidine ; Mydriasis ; Hypoactivity ; [3H]-Idazoxan binding ; cAMP ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract This study investigated central α2-adrenoceptor function in differentially reared rats. Rats reared from weaning were either housed singly or in groups of five. Measurements of spontaneous ambulatory activity at 4 weeks postweaning showed that isolates were more hyperactive on exposure to a novel environment than grouped rats. α2-Adrenoceptors were investigated using α2-adrenoceptor agonist-induced behaviours, [3H]-idazoxan binding and measurement of forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation. Clonidine (0.001–1.0 mg/kg IP) induced mydriasis in both groups with no difference observed in the response between the isolation and group-reared animals. Clonidine (0.01–0.5 mg/kg IP) induced hypoactivity in both groups, with the effect significantly greater in the isolation-reared rats. Idazoxan markedly attenuated both responses, confirming their induction by α2-adrenoceptor stimulation. Clonidine-induced hypoactivity and mydriasis are mediated by pre- and postsynaptic α2-adrenoceptors, respectively; therefore the results suggest rats reared in isolation have enhanced presynaptic but unchanged postsynaptic α2-adrenoceptor function. Saturation binding experiments using [3H]-idazoxan were undertaken to determine α2-adrenoceptor number (Bmax) and affinity (Kd) in membranes prepared from the frontal cortex and hippocampus. Analysis of binding data revealed an increase in receptor number in the hippocampus of isolates. Cyclic AMP accumulation was measured in hippocampal slices from differentially reared rats. Isolation-rearing did not affect cyclic AMP accumulation in response to stimulation by forskolin (30 µM). However, the selective α2-adrenoceptor agonist, UK14304, produced a significantly greater inhibition of cyclic AMP accumulation in slices from isolated rats, confirming changes in α2-adrenoceptor function following isolation rearing.
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    Facilitated acquisition of a temporal discrimination following destruction of the ascending 5-hydroxytryptaminergic pathways (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 373-378 
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    Keywords: 5-Hydroxytryptamine ; 5,7-Dihydroxytryptamine ; Operant behaviour ; Timing ; Interval bisection procedure ; Acquisition ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract This experiment examined the effect of destroying the 5-hydroxytryptaminergic (5HTergic) pathways on the acquisition and performance of discrimination between two brief time intervals. Rats that had received injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine into the dorsal and median raphe nuclei, and sham-lesioned control rats were trained in a series of discrete trials to press lever A following a 200-ms presentation of a light stimulus and lever B following an 800-ms presentation of the same stimulus. Both groups gradually acquired accurate performance, attaining 80%–85% accuracy by the end of 40 sessions. The lesioned group learnt the task significantly faster than the control group. When stable performance had been attained, “probe” trials were introduced in which the light was presented for intermediate durations. Both groups showed sigmoid functions relating percent choice of lever B to log stimulus duration. The bisection point (duration corresponding to 50% choice of lever B) did not differ significantly between the two groups; however, the Weber fraction was significantly smaller in the lesioned group than in the control group. The levels of 5HT and 5-hydroxy-indole-acetic acid were markedly reduced in the brains of the lesioned rats, but the levels of noradrenaline and dopamine were not altered. The results indicate that destruction of the 5HTergic pathways facilitates acquisition of a temporal discrimination. The lack of an effect of the lesion on the bisection point contrasts with our previous finding using longer stimulus durations; it is suggested that different behavioural processes may underlie millisecond-range and second-range temporal discrimination, and that these may be differently affected by 5HT depletion.
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    Alterations in the ontogeny of rat pup ultrasonic vocalization produced by prenatal exposure to nitrogen dioxide (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 423-427 
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    Keywords: Nitrogen dioxide ; Prenatal exposure ; Behavior ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Wistar female rats were exposed to low concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, NO2 (1.5 and 3 ppm) from day 0 to day 20 of pregnancy. The results show that prenatal exposure to this oxidant gas produced significant changes in the duration pattern of ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by male pups removed from their nest. In particular, a significant decrease in the length of ultrasonic calls was found in both 10- and 15-day-old rats exposed to NO2 (3 ppm) during gestation. These alterations were found at dose levels which did not significantly affect reproduction parameters, body weight gain and motor activity development. These findings suggest that gestational exposure to NO2, at concentrations below those associated with overt signs of toxicity, induces in rat offspring subtle behavioral changes characterized by altered ontogeny of ultrasonic emission.
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    The atypical antipsychotic, remoxipride, blocks phencyclidine-induced disruption of prepulse inhibition in the rat (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 437-442 
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    Keywords: Antipsychotic agents ; Acoustic startle ; Prepulse inhibition ; Schizophrenia ; Phencyclidine ; Remoxipride ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effect of various typical (haloperidol) and atypical (clozapine, raclopride, remoxipride) antipsychotics on phencyclidine (PCP)-induced disruption of sensorimotor gating was tested in rats using an acoustic startle paradigm. Clozapine (4–40 µmol/kg), haloperidol (1–5 µmol/kg) and raclopride (1–12 µmol/kg) failed to reverse PCP-induced disruption of prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response. In contrast, remoxipride (12–60 µmol/kg) caused a dose-dependent block of this effect. PCP-induced disruption of PPI is a widely accepted animal model of a corresponding behavioural deficit observed in schizophrenia although little evidence has been presented that it is in fact sensitive to antipsychotic agents. The present results indicate that remoxipride behaves in a unique way in this model compared to clozapine, haloperidol and raclopride.
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    Stress-induced changes in respiratory quotient, energy expenditure and locomotor activity in rats: effects of midazolam (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 475-482 
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    Keywords: Stress ; Anxiety ; Rat ; Metabolism ; Energy expenditure ; Energy substrate utilisation ; Respiratory quotient ; Midazolam ; FG-7142 ; RO 15-1788 ; Panic ; Hyperventilation ; Sympathetic nervous system ; Benzodiazepine ; Conditioned stimulus ; Respiration
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    Notes: Abstract Changes in O2 consumption, CO2 production and locomotor activity were examined in rats exposed to (1) brief footshock, (2) an aversive conditioned stimulus (CS) predicting footshock, or (3) the anxiogenic drug FG-7142. Respiratory quotient (RQ=CO2 produced/O2 consumed) and energy expenditure [EE=O2 consumed (364+113RQ)] were derived to give an estimate of the energy substrate (fat, carbohydrate or protein) being utilised and total substrate oxidation respectively. In experiment 1, footshock (4 × 5 s 0.6 mA shocks over 2 min) produced an immediate increase in RQ, EE and activity. The RQ and EE effects were attenuated by the benzodiazepine midazolam (1 mg/kg). In experiment 2, an aversive CS, consisting of flashing light and buzzer that had 24 h earlier been repeatedly paired with footshock (20 × 5 s 0.6 mA shocks) caused a pronounced drop in RQ, an increase in EE and locomotor activity suppression. The effects of the aversive CS on RQ and EE were reversed by midazolam (1 mg/kg). In experiment 3, FG-7142 (10 mg/kg) produced a steep drop in RQ that persisted for at least 2 h and which was reversed by midazolam (1 mg/kg) and delayed by the benzodiazepine antagonist RO 15-1788 (10 mg/kg). FG-7142 also tended to inhibit EE and locomotor activity, but these effects did not reach statistical significance. Overall, these data show that stress causes profound alterations in RQ, EE and activity and that the pattern of change in these parameters differs with the nature of the stressor involved.
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    Stereospecific reversal of stress-induced anhedonia by mianserin and its (+)-enantiomer (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 523-528 
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    Keywords: Chronic mild stress ; Anhedonia ; Sucrose drinking ; Place conditioning ; Mianserin ; (+)-Mianserin ; Dopamine ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Chronic sequential exposure to a variety of mild unpredictable stressors has previously been found to depress the consumption of a dilute (1%) sucrose solution and to inhibit food-induced place preference conditioning. In the present study, using a simplified version of the mild stress procedure, the decreased sucrose intake was reversed by chronic (4 weeks) treatment with the atypical antidepressant mianserin. The racemic compound (±)-mianserin (5 mg/kg per day) and one of its enantiomers, (+)-mianserin (2.5 mg/kg) were effective in this model; a lower dose of (±)-mianserin (2.5 mg/kg), and the other enantiomer, (−)-mianserin (2.5 mg/kg), were ineffective. Vehicle-treated stressed animals were also subsensitive to food reward in the place conditioning procedure: normal place preference conditioning was reinstated by chronic treatment with (±)-mianserin (5 mg/kg) or (+)-mianserin, but not by the lower dose of (±)-mianserin (2.5 mg/kg) or by (−)-mianserin. Raclopride (100 µg/kg) reinstated the decrease in sucrose intake in stressed animals successfully treated with (±)- or (+)-mianserin. The results suggest that (+)-mianserin is the active enantiomer in reversing chronic mild stress-induced anhedonia, and further support the hypothesis of a dopaminergic mechanism of antidepressant action in this paradigm.
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    Effects of cocaine microinjections into the nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex on schedule-induced behaviour: comparison with systemic cocaine administration (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 375-382 
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    Keywords: Cocaine ; Schedule-induced polydipsia ; Drinking ; Locomotor activity ; Nucleus accumbens ; Medial prefrontal cortex ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of cocaine HCl infusions into either the nucleus accumbens (NACC) or medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) were compared on the performance of schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) and related behaviours. Food-deprived rats were exposed to a fixed-time 60-s schedule of food delivery in daily 30-min sessions until stable levels of behaviour were obtained (14 days). Rats were then bilaterally infused with cocaine into either the NACC or PFC via chronically indwelling guide cannulae. Each subject received a sequence of five cocaine infusions (0, 12.5, 25, 50, 100 µg) according to a Latin Square design. For comparison, following these intracranial infusions each rat received a sequence of five IP injections of cocaine (0, 2.5, 5, 10, 20 mg/kg) also in a counterbalanced order. NACC and PFC infusions of cocaine and IP cocaine dose-dependently reduced SIP. Cocaine infusions into the NACC, but not the PFC, increased locomotor activity but the characteristic temporal profile of locomotor activity during SIP was retained. IP cocaine also increased locomotor activity in a dose-dependent manner, but the temporal profile of activity was flattened following 20 mg/kg cocaine. NACC and PFC infusions of cocaine had little effect on the total number of panel presses to gain access to the food pellets, but did slightly decrease the high rates of responding immediately prior to the pellet delivery. IP cocaine increased the total number of panel presses at the higher doses, mainly by increasing the low rates of responding. The effects of cocaine infusions into the PFC were behaviourally the most selective, as they reduced SIP without having substantial effects either on locomotor activity or panel pressing. These data therefore implicate a role for the PFC in the performance of SIP.
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    CCK-A and CCK-B selective receptor agonists and antagonists modulate olfactory recognition in male rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 435-440 
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    Keywords: Behaviour ; Olfactory recognition ; Social investigation ; Neuropeptides ; Cholecystokinin ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Modulation of learning and memory is one of the physiological roles that the neuropeptide cholecystokinin (CCK-8) may play. We have used a behavioural model of olfactory recognition among rats to test this hypothesis and to explore the relationship between CCK-A and CCK-B receptors and memory retention. Adult male rats form a transient memory of a juvenile congenere as indicated by a reduction in the duration of investigatory behaviour upon re-exposure 30 min after an initial exposure, but not when re-exposure is delayed until 120 min afterwards. In the present study, rats were treated after the first contact with various compounds; inhibition and facilitation of olfactory recognition were evaluated as the persistence in investigation 30 min and the decrease in investigation 120 min after pharmacological manipulations, respectively. Systemic injection of CCK-8, of a selective CCK-A agonist, or of non-peptide CCK-B antagonists (CI-988 and LY-262691) enhanced olfactory recognition. In contrast, the CCK-B selective agonist BC 264 and the tetrapeptide CCK-4 both disrupted it. Taken together with previous evidence of the detrimental effect of the non-peptide CCK-A antagonist devazepide on olfactory recognition, these results confirm and extend the hypothesis that there is a balance between CCK-A-mediated facilitative effects and CCK-B-mediated inhibitory effects on memory retention.
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    α2-adrenoceptor blockade, pituitary-adrenal hormones, and agonistic interactions in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 478-484 
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    Keywords: Aggression ; α2 Adrenoceptors ; Catecholamines ; ACTH ; Corticosterone ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of adrenergic activation on aggressiveness and the aggression induced endocrine changes were tested in rats. α2 adrenoceptor blockers were used for enhancing activation of the adrenergic system, and changes in aggressiveness were tested in resident-intruder contests. Three experiments were conducted. In experiment 1, saline injected rats responded to the presence of an opponent by aggression and the increase in plasma ACTH and corticosterone. Intraperitoneal administration of 1 mg/kg CH-38083 (an α2 adrenoceptor antagonist) produced a several fold increase in clinch fighting and mutual upright scores, and also further enhanced the plasma ACTH and corticosterone response. In experiment 2, the effect of three doses (0.5, 1 and 2 mg/kg) of three different α2 adrenoceptor blockers CH-38083, idazoxan and yohimbine were tested. All the substances increased aggression at 0.5 and 1 mg/kg; at 2 mg/kg the effect of idazoxan and yohimbine disappeared, while with CH-38083 an additional increase was obtained. In yohimbine treated animals the enhancement of aggression was reduced already at 1 mg/kg. In experiment 3, indomethacin, a potent inhibitor of the catecholamine-induced ACTH release completely abolished the effects of the α2 adrenoceptor antagonist CH-38083: the intensity of agonistic interactions, as well as ACTH and corticosterone plasma concentrations, returned to control levels. The possible role of catecholamines and the stress hormones in the activation of aggression is discussed.
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    Up-regulation of β1-adrenergic receptors in rat brain after chronic citalopram and fluoxetine treatments (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 543-546 
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    Keywords: β1-adrenergic receptors ; Rat ; Brain ; Citalopram ; Fluoxetine
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    Notes: Abstract Quantitative receptor autoradiography was used to study the effects of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors citalopram and fluoxetine and the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine on the regulation of β1-adrenergic receptors in the rat brain. Rats were treated with saline, citalopram (10 mg kg−1), fluoxetine (10 mg kg−1), or imipramine (15 mg kg−1) SC once daily for 14 days. [125I]Iodocyanopindolol binding to β1-adrenergic receptors was found to increase significantly in the caudate-putamen and the somatosensory areas of the frontal cortex after both citalopram and fluoxetine treatments. Imipramine treatment elicited a marked decrease in β1 binding in the outer laminae of the cingulate cortex, as well as in the motor and somatosensory areas of the frontal cortex. In a separate experiment, rats were treated with saline, citalopram (2.5, 10 and 20 mg kg−1) or fluoxetine (2.5, 10 and 20 mg kg−1) SC once daily for 14 days. The effects of citalopram and fluoxetine on β1 receptors in the somatosensory cortex and caudate-putamen were replicated. These results demonstrate that chronic administration of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, in contrast to imipramine, can cause a regional up-regulation of β1-adrenergic receptors in the rat brain.
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    Atropine effects on the intermediate stage and paradoxical sleep in rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 304-308 
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    Keywords: Intermediate stage of sleep ; Paradoxical sleep ; Spindle ; Theta rhythm ; Atropine ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Paradoxical sleep (PS) in the rat, cat and mouse is preceded and sometimes followed by a short-lasting intermediate stage (IS) characterized by high amplitude cortical spindles and low frequency theta rhythm. This stage, which is mimicked by an intercollicular transection, is massively extended at the expense of PS by low doses of barbiturates. Since the pontine cholinergic cell activation of PS is suppressed by barbiturates, we studied whether atropine, an antimuscarinic compound, extends IS at the expense of PS. Atropine sulfate was given at 5, 10 and 20 mg/kg IP. All doses increased dose dependently the occurrence latency of IS and PS. The amount of IS and PS was decreased for several hours, principally by a decrease of the number of phases. At 20 mg/kg the phase mean duration of IS and PS was also decreased. Consequently, IS and PS are similarly supported by muscarinic processes. The theta rhythm frequency was scored during IS and outside PS phasic motor activities (type 2 theta). At all doses it was significantly increased for hours. The theta rhythm frequency was also transiently increased during the hypersynchronization periods of PS (type 1 theta). At 20 mg/kg it was similarly the case for type 1 theta rhythm during waking.
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    Sex-dimorphic psychomotor activation after perinatal exposure to (−)-Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol. An ontogenic study in wistar rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 414-422 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Development ; Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol ; Motor behavior ; Locomotor activity ; Grooming ; Corticosterone
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    Notes: Abstract The ontogeny and the adult expression of motor behaviors were studied in male and female rats born from mothers exposed to Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, 5 mg/kg) during gestation and lactation. Perinatal exposure to THC increased both rearing and locomotor activities in males and females at immature preweanling ages (P-15 and P-20). These effects disappeared after ceasing THC exposure (postweaning ages), but they were observed again in adult (P-70) females. The effects appeared as persistently high motor activity in familiar environments, disappearing the characteristic habituation profile in locomotor and exploratory behaviors. In novel environment condition tests, adult (P-70) THC-exposed females, but not males, exhibited lower locomotor activity in the socio-sexual approach test, and an increase in the emergence latency in the dark-light emergence test. Additionally, animals of both sexes exposed to THC showed a increase in the time spent grooming measured in novelty conditions. These findings suggest that perinatal exposure to THC affects both the development and the adult expression of motor behaviors and it resulted in a sex-dimorphic psychomotor activation very similar to that observed after perinatal exposure to other drugs of abuse. A possible role of THC-induced pituitary-adrenal (PA) axis activation was also evaluated by measuring plasma corticosterone levels in adult animals perinatally exposed: THC-exposed females exhibit a clear increase of this adrenal hormone, whereas THC-exposed males displayed lower levels of this hormone. These results confirm our previous finding of a sex-dimorphic behavioral response to perinatal exposure to hashish extracts, and they suggest a role of THC-induced PA activation in the mediation of these actions.
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    Kavapyrone enriched extract fromPiper methysticum as modulator of the GABA binding site in different regions of rat brain (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 469-474 
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    Keywords: Kavapyrone ; Piper methysticum ; GABA ; Rat ; Brain
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    Notes: Abstract Regional differences in the modulation of [3H] muscimol binding to GABAA receptor complexes by kavapyrones, compounds of the rhizome of the plantPiper methysticum which possess sedative activity, were demonstrated using membrane fractions obtained from target brain centers of kavapyrone action: hippocampus (HIP), amygdala (AMY) and medulla oblongata (MED), and from brain centers outside the main kavapyrone effects as frontal cortex (FC) and cerebellum (CER). The kava extract enhanced the binding of [3H] muscimol in a concentration-dependent manner with maximal potentiation of 358% over control in HIP followed by AMY and MED (main target brain centers). Minimal stimulation was observed in CER followed by FC. In contrast, apart from CER, the potency of kavapyrones was similar in the brain areas investigated with EC50 values ranging between 200 and 300 µM kavapyrones. Scatchard analysis revealed that the observed effects of kavapyrones were due to an increase in the number of binding sites (Bmax), rather than to a change in affinity. At a kavapyrone concentration of 500 µM the order of enhancement in Bmax was HIP=AMY〉MED〉FC〉CER. When kavapyrones are included together with pentobarbital or HPO the two classes of compounds produced a more than additive, i.e., synergetic effect on [3H] muscimol binding. Our findings suggest that one way kavapyrones might mediate sedative effects in vivo is through effects on GABAA receptor binding.
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    Evaluation of the discriminative stimulus effects of the novel sedative-hypnotic CL 284,846 (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 289-296 
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    Keywords: CL 284,846 ; Drug discrimination ; Sedative ; Hypnotic ; Anxiolytic ; Rat ; Benzodiazepine receptors
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    Notes: Abstract CL 284,846,N-[3-(3-cyanopyrazolo[1, 5-a]pyrimidin-7-yl)phenyl)]-N-ethylacetamide, is a novel non-benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic with benzodiazepine-like sedative effects, but with less apparent liability for accompanying undesired side effects. In an effort to further characterize its pharmacological activity, CL 284,846 (3.0 mg/kg, IP, 30 min pretreatment) was established as a discriminative stimulus (DS) in rats (n=7). CL 284,846 (0.3–10.0 mg/kg) showed a dose-related increase in drug-appropriate responding up to the training dose and a dose-related decrease in response rate. The benzodiazepine agonist triazolam (0.1–1.0 mg/kg), the benzodiazepine partial agonist Ro 17-1812 (0.3–3.0 mg/kg) and the triazolopyridazine CL 218,872 (1.0–3.0 mg/kg) substituted for CL 284,846 in all rats, whereas the imidazopyridines zolpidem (3.0–10.0 mg/kg) and alpidem (10.0–30.0 mg/kg), the benzodiazepine partial agonist bretazenil (0.03–10.0 mg/kg) and the novel putative anxiolytic CL 273,547 (10.0–56.0 mg/kg) substituted in most, but not all, rats. Ro 17-1812, bretazenil, and CL 218,872 had no effect on response rate while the other drugs showed a concomitant decrease in rate. The 5-HT1A agonist buspirone (1.0–10.0 mg/kg) and the barbiturate pentobarbital (3.0–17.0 mg/kg) failed to substitute for CL 284,846 up to rate-decreasing doses. The benzodiazepine antagonist flumazenil (3.0–10.0 mg/kg) blocked the DS effects of CL 284,846 in most rats with no effect on response rate. Taken together, these results suggest that the DS effects of CL 284,846 are mediated via benzodiazepine receptors; however, the DS profile of CL 284,846 remains distinct from both benzodiazepine and non-benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic drugs.
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    Caffeine augmentation of electroconvulsive seizures (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 115 (1994), S. 320-324 
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    Keywords: Caffeine ; Electroconvulsive shock ; Seizure ; Rat ; Electroencephalography ; Convulsions
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    Notes: Abstract Caffeine has been used clinically to increase seizure length in electroconvulsive treatment (ECT). The present study was designed to establish an animal model of caffeine-augmented seizures for further study of mechanisms and effects of pharmacological manipulation of seizure length. Increasing doses of caffeine (0–200 mg/kg, IP) were given before electroconvulsive stimulation (ECS) in rats and resulting seizure lengths were quantified by timing of classical tonic-clonic convulsive movements. With this paradigm, caffeine led to a dose-dependent increase in seizure duration. This proconvulsant action of caffeine was detectable within 1 min after dosing, persisted for at least 230 min and was reversible. The results suggest that seizure length is a practicable measure in pharmacological modification of electroconvulsive seizures. They also suggest that pharmacologically-modified ECS can be modeled effectively in animals.
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    5-HT1A receptor agonists improve the performance of normal and scopolamine-impaired rats in an operant delayed matching to position task (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 135-142 
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    Keywords: Short term memory ; Delayed matching to position ; 5-HT ; 5-HT1A receptor ; 8-OH DPAT ; Ipsapirone ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract A series of experiments examined the effects of 5-HT1A ligands alone and in combination with the muscarinic antagonist scopolamine on short term working memory in the rat. The behavioural paradigm was a discrete trial, operant delayed matching to position task, with delays of 0, 5, 15 and 30 s. The 5-HT1A ligands tested were the full agonist, 8-OH DPAT (0, 0.1, 0.3 and 1 mg/kg), the partial agonist, ipsapirone (0, 1, 3 and 10 mg/kg), and the purported antagonist, NAN 190 (0, 1, 2, and 4 mg/kg). 1-PP (0, 0.1, 0.3, 1 mg/kg), the major metabolite of ipsapirone, was also tested. The lowest dose of 8-OH DPAT significantly improved matching accuracy at the longest delay, whereas the highest dose impaired matching accuracy and increased the latency to respond. Ipsapirone also significantly improved the accuracy of performance at a dose of 3 mg/kg, but the doses of 1 and 10 mg/kg did not significantly affect performance. NAN-190, at the highest dose tested (4 mg/kg), impaired matching accuracy, whereas the two lower doses did not significantly affect performance. The highest dose also increased the latency to respond. 1-PP had no effect on performance. Scopolamine HBr (0.14 mg/kg) caused a delay dependent impairment in matching accuracy, and had no effect on missed trials or the latency to respond. Low doses of 8-OH DPAT (0.1 and 0.3 mg/kg) significantly attenuated the scopolamine induced accuracy impairment, whereas 1 mg/kg 8-OH DPAT potentiated the impairment. Ipsapirone (3 mg/kg) also significantly improved the performance of scopolamine impaired rats. NAN-190 increased the latency to respond and reduced the number of nose pokes made during the delays in scopolamine-treated rats, and tended to potentiate the scopolamine-induced accuracy impairment. 1-PP did not affect the performance of scopolamine treated rats. Taken together, these results suggest that modulation of 5-HT1A receptors influences short term spatial working memory in the rat.
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    The neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate blocks NMDA antagonist-induced deficits in a passive avoidance memory task (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 201-206 
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    Keywords: Neurosteroid ; Memory ; Amnesia ; NMDA receptor ; Ataxia ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The neurosteroid pregnenolone sulfate (PS) has been recently shown to positively modulate NMDA receptors and to have memory enhancing properties in mice. In the present study, we examined the ability of PS to increase retention performance and to reduce deficits induced by a competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, the 3-((±)-2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl)-propyl-1-phosphonic acid (CPP), in a step-through passive avoidance task in rats. Pretraining administration of PS (0.84–1680 pmol, ICV) had minimal effects on retention performance assessed 24 h after training, while CPP significantly decreased retention performance at the doses of 1.2 and 1.6 nmol (ICV). However, when administered in combination with CPP (1.2 nmol), PS (0.84–840 pmol, ICV) dose-dependently blocked the deficit in passive avoidance response induced by the NMDA antagonist. At the dose of 840 nmol, PS also significantly reduced the motor impairment induced by CPP (1.2 nmol). The blockade of CPP-induced behavioral deficits by PS may result from its positive modulatory action at NMDA receptors.
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    Effects of SR 48692, a selective non-peptide neurotensin receptor antagonist, on two dopamine-dependent behavioural responses in mice and rats (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 237-241 
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    Keywords: SR 48692 ; Neurotensin receptor antagonist ; Dopamine ; Apomorphine ; Bromocriptine ; (+) SKF 38393 ; (+) Amphetamine ; Turning ; Yawning ; Mouse ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract One major mechanism underlying the central action of neurotensin is an interaction with the function of dopamine (DA)-containing neurons. In addition, direct or indirect DA agonists have been reported to promote neurotensin release. We have found that SR 48692, a non-peptide neurotensin receptor antagonist (0.04 – 0.64 mg/kg orally), antagonizes (50–65%) yawning induced by apomorphine (0.07 mg/kg SC) or bromocriptine (2 mg/kg IP) in rats, and turning behaviour induced by intrastriatal injection of apomorphine (0.25 µg), (+) SKF 38393 (0.1 µg), bromocriptine (0.01 ng) or (+) amphetamine (10 µg) in mice. Other apomorphine-induced effects in mice and rats such as climbing, hypothermia, hypo- and hyper-locomotion, penile erections and stereotypies were not significantly modified by SR 48692. Taken together, these data suggest that neurotensin may play a permissive role in the expression of some but not all behavioural responses to DA receptor stimulation.
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    Chronic haloperidol treatment leads to an increase in the intramembrane interaction between adenosine A2 and dopamine D2 receptors in the neostriatum (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 279-284 
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    Keywords: Adenosine A2 receptor ; Dopamine D2 receptor ; Methylxanthine ; Tardive dyskinesias ; Receptor-receptor interaction ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Stimulation of adenosine A2 receptors (with the selective adenosine A2 agonist CGS 21680) in rat striatal membrane preparations, produces a decrease in both the affinity of D2 receptors and the transduction of the signal from the D2 receptor to the G protein. This intramembrane A2-D2 interaction might be responsible for the behavioural depressant effects of adenosine agonists and for the behavioural stimulant effects of adenosine antagonists such as caffeine and theophylline. Dopamine denervation induces an increase in the intramembrane A2-D2 interaction, which may underlie the observed higher sensitivity to the behavioural effects induced by adenosine antagonists found in these animals. The present study was designed to examine if chronic treatment with haloperidol, which also produces dopamine receptor supersensitivity, is also associated with an increase in the intramembrane A2-D2 interaction in the neostriatum and with a higher sensitivity to the behavioural effects induced by adenosine antagonists. The data showed that: (i) haloperidol pretreatment causes a higher binding of the D2 antagonist [3H] raclopride in striatal membrane preparations due to an increase in the number of D2 receptors without changes in their affinity for the antagonist (increase in Bmax without changes in kd); (ii) GCS 21680 decreases the affinity of dopamine for the D2 receptor, by increasing the equilibrium dissociation constants of high (Kh) and low affinity (K1) dopamine D2 binding sites and increases the proportion of high affinity binding sites (Rh); (iii) a low dose of CGS 21680 (3 nM), which is ineffective in membrane preparations from neostriatum of nontreated animals, is effective in membranes from the striatum of haloperidol-pretreated animals; (iv) the nonselective adenosine antagonist theophylline (20 mg/kg SC) causes a higher motor activation in rats pretreated with haloperidol. The possible relevance of these results for the pathophysiology and treatment of tardive dyskinesias is discussed.
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    Ontogeny of behavioral sensitization in the rat: effects of direct and indirect dopamine agonists (1994)
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    Psychopharmacology 116 (1994), S. 483-490 
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    Keywords: Behavioral sensitization ; amphetamine ; NPA ; Ontogeny ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract In the present study, the abilities of NPA (a direct DA receptor agonist) and amphetamine (an indirect DA receptor agonist) to induce short- and long-term behavioral sensitization were assessed in 11- and 17-day-old rats (age at initial injection). Rats were injected on 4 consecutive days with amphetamine (1.0, 2.5, or 5.0 mg/kg), NPA (1.0 mg/kg), or saline. A final test day occurred either 2 days (experiment 1) or 8 days (experiment 2) later. On the test day, rats given successive agonist injections received a single injection of the same agonist again; whereas rats given successive saline injections received either amphetamine or NPA for the first time. Five minutes after injection, locomotor activity (line-crosses), stereotyped sniffing, and vertical activity were measured during a 30-min testing session. The results showed that 11- and 17-day-old rats exhibited behavioral sensitization when tested with NPA or amphetamine after a 2-day interval. In contrast, neither NPA nor amphetamine was able to sensitize the behaviors of preweanling rats when measured 8 days after initial drug treatments. Therefore, these results show that both direct and indirect DA agonists are able to induce short-term behavioral sensitization in preweanling rats, but that the mechanisms responsible for mediating long-term behavioral sensitization have not yet matured.
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    Glial activation and white matter changes in the rat brain induced by chronic cerebral hypoperfusion: an immunohistochemical study (1994)
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    Acta neuropathologica 87 (1994), S. 484-492 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion ; Glial activation ; White matter changes
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    Notes: Abstract Activation of glial cells and white matter changes (rarefaction of the white matter) induced in the rat brain by permanent bilateral occlusion of the commom carotid arteries were immunohistochemically investigated up to 90 days. One day after ligation of the arteries, expression of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigen in microglia increased in the white matter including the optic nerve, optic tract, corpus callosum, internal capsule, anterior commissure and traversing fiber bundles of the caudoputamen. After 3 days of occlusion, MHC class I antigen was still elevated and in addition MHC class II antigen and leukocyte common antigen were up-regulated in the microglia in these same regions. Astroglia, labeled with glial fibrillary acidic protein, increased in number in these regions after 7 days of occlusion. A few lymphocytes, labeled with CD4 or CD8 antibodies, were scattered in the neural parenchyma 1 h after occlusion. Activation of glial cells and infiltration of lymphocytes persisted after 90 days of occlusion in the white matter and the retinofugal pathway. However, cellular activation and infiltration in microinfarcts of the gray matter was less extensive and was substantially diminished 30 days after occlusion. The white matter changes were most intense in the optic nerve and optic tract, moderate in the medial part of the corpus callosum, internal capsule and anterior commissure, and slight in the fiber bundles of the caudoputamen. These results indicated that chronic cerebral hypoperfusion induced glial activation preferentially in the white matter. This activation seemed to be an early indicator of the subsequent changes in the white matter.
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    Experimental oxygen-induced retinal detachment in the newborn Wistar rat (1994)
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    Documenta ophthalmologica 87 (1994), S. 315-329 
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    Keywords: Experimental retinal detachment ; Glial fibrillary acidic protein ; Müller cells ; Oxygen ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract We conducted an extensive histological study of the retinas of newborn rats that had been exposed to hyperoxic conditions. Our aim was to verify whether it is possible, using oxygen alone, to induce retinal detachment, a lesion that is characteristic of the more advanced stages of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). Eight litters (total number of animals: 64) of newborn, albino Wistar rats were used. Four litters (32 rats) were exposed to 80% oxygen for the first ten days of life. Some of these rats were then removed to room-air environments where they were kept for two, three or four more weeks. The other four litters (32 rats) were maintained for the entire period in room-air. On the 11th, 25th, 32nd and 39th days of life rats from both the exposed and control groups were sacrificed and 5 micron sections of their in toto eyeballs were submitted to histological evaluation and immunohistochemical studies. Folding of the internal retinal layers was observed in some of the animals exposed to hyperoxia, as well as those kept in room air. These folds did not alter the overall thickness of the retina itself and were probably congenital. Retinal folds and microdetachments were seen in many of the retinas from the exposed group of rats. Extensive detachment was observed in one of the rats sacrificed after two weeks of room-air recovery, in two of those recovered for three weeks and in two exposed to four weeks of room air. The sections containing these areas of retinal detachment showed marked increases in glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in immunocytochemical studies, suggesting that Müller cells might play a role in the pathogenesis of retinal detachment.
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    Protein synthesis in the hippocampal slice: Transient inhibition by glutamate and lasting inhibition by ischemia (1994)
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    Metabolic brain disease 9 (1994), S. 235-247 
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    Keywords: Hippocampus ; Slices ; Protein synthesis ; Ischemia ; Glutamate ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Protein synthesis was measured in hippocampal slices which were exposed to glutamate (1 mM or 10 mM) or which were deprived of glucose and oxygen (‘in vitro ischemia’) for 15 min. Glutamate at 1 mM, a concentration estimated to occur duringin vivo ischemia did not affect protein synthesis. Ten mM glutamate inhibited protein synthesis immediately after exposure (50% of control values) and reduced ATP levels to about 30% of the control. After two hours, slices fully recovered their protein synthesis and energy metabolism. The effect of 10 mM glutamate was not receptor-mediated, as NMDA, AMPA, or metabotropic receptor antagonists failed to block the glutamate effect. Immediately after ischemia, protein synthesis was reduced to 30% of control values, and 2 hours later it was still depressed to one-half of control values. Energy charge, however, recovered completely. Ischemic inhibition of protein synthesis was not reversed by glutamate receptor antagonists. The data indicate that inhibition of protein synthesis in hippocampal slices during ischemia is not glutamate-dependent.
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    Changes in fibre-type composition and myosin heavy-chain IId isoform in rat soleus muscle during recovery period after hindlimb suspension (1994)
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    European journal of applied physiology 68 (1994), S. 102-106 
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    Keywords: Hindlimb suspension ; Recovery ; Soleus muscle ; Fibre-type composition ; Myosin heavy-chain IId isoform ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract We examined the changes in myosin heavy-chain (HC) isoforms and fibre-type composition in rat soleus muscle using both myosin adenosine triphosphatase staining and sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analyses during the recovery period after 4 weeks of hindlimb suspension. Although there was no change in type IIc fibres after the suspension, an increase in this type of fibres was observed during the 1- to 4-week recovery period. The increase in type Ilc fibres was considered to be due to a shift from type Ila to IIc fibres. The SDS-PAGE analysis revealed the presence of the HC IId isoform, which was not observed in the control muscle, after a 4-week hindlimb suspension. The HC IId isoform gradually decreased over 3 weeks of recovery and disappeared in the 4th week of recovery after the suspension. These results suggest that the hypogravity conditions induced by hindlimb suspension stimulated the synthesis of the HC IId isoform, whereas an increase in mechanical load to the muscle accelerated the degradation of the HC IId isoform and the synthesis of type Ilc fibres during the recovery period after hindlimb suspension.
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    Muscle glycogen repletion and pre-exercise glycogen content: effect of carbohydrate loading in rats previously fed a high fat diet (1994)
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    European journal of applied physiology 68 (1994), S. 483-488 
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    Keywords: Carbohydrate loading ; Glycogen utilization ; Glycogen repletion ; Glycogen synthase ; Muscle ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract We have recently reported that rates of muscle glycogen repletion during the early period of recovery were increased by carbohydrate (CHO) loading in rats previously fed a high fat diet. However, the reason for this remained unanswered. The purpose of this study was to examine whether an increase of glycogen utilization due to an elevated pre-exercise glycogen store would enhance rates of glycogen repletion in muscle. Despite an equal degree of glycogen depletion, the rates of glycogen repletion of soleus, red and white gastrocnemius muscles by postexercise administration of glucose (3.0 g · kg−1 body mass) and citrate (0.5 g · kg−1 body mass) were faster in the CHO loaded (3 days) rats than in the nonloaded rats, as a result of elevated pre-exercise glycogen content and consequently the greater glycogen utilization. The higher rate of muscle glycogen repletion may in part be explained by increased postexercise glycogen synthase activity.
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    The role of extracellular calcium in pregnancy-induced attenuation of phenylephrine contraction in rat aorta with functional endothelium (1994)
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    Journal of comparative physiology 164 (1994), S. 81-87 
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    Keywords: Vascular smooth muscle ; Phenylephrine-induced contraction ; Pregnancy ; Aorta ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effect of pregnancy on the supply of calcium ions for the contractile responses of rat aortic rings to phenylephrine was investigated. The contractility of intact aortic rings from pregnant rats, compared with that of similar rings from non-pregnant rats, to phenylephrine and potassium chloride was significantly decreased. Contractions of rings from non-pregnant rats, pretreated with phenylephrine or potassium chloride, in response to calcium chloride were greater than those of similarly treated rings from pregnant rats. When the concentration of calcium chloride in the medium bathing the rings was reduced to 0.8 mmol·l-1, the contractile response to phenylephrine was significantly (P〈0.005) inhibited in rings from both pregnant and non-pregnant rats but to a greater extent in rings from non-pregnant rats. Contractions of aortic rings from pregnant rats in response to phenylephrine in calcium-free medium were similar to those of rings from non-pregnant rats, suggesting equal dependence on calcium from intracellular stores. The results suggest that pregnancy decreased the response to calcium influx into the aortic smooth muscle cells through both receptor-and voltage-operated calcium entry pathways. Since de-endothelialisation reversed the pregnancy-induced diminished contraction to phenylephrine, it is likely that pregnancy interferred with contractions induced by activation of receptors with phenylephrine through enhanced production of endothelium-derived relaxing factor(s).
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    Zona glomerulosa of the adrenal gland in a transgenic strain of rat: a morphologic and functional study (1994)
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    Cell & tissue research 278 (1994), S. 21-28 
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    Keywords: Key words: Adrenal cortex ; Renin-angiotensin system ; Steroidogenesis ; Electron microscopy ; Morphometry ; Rat ; transgenic (mRen2) 27
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    Notes: Abstract. Transgenic rats for the murine Ren-2 gene display high blood pressure, low circulating levels of angiotensin II, and high renin content in the adrenal glands. Moreover, transgenic rats possess an increased aldosterone secretion (maximal from 6 to 18 weeks of age), paralleling the development of hypertension. To investigate further the cytophysiology of the adrenal glands of this strain of rats, we performed a combined morphometric and functional study of the zona glomerulosa of 10-week-old female transgenic rats. Morphometry did not reveal notable differences between zona glomerulosa cells of transgenic and age- and sex-matched Sprague-Dawley rats, with the exception of a marked accumulation of lipid droplets, in which cholesterol and cholesterol esters are stored. The volume of the lipid-droplet compartment underwent a significant decrease when transgenic rats were previously injected with angiotensin II or ACTH. Dispersed zona glomerulosa cells of transgenic rats showed a significantly higher basal aldosterone secretion, but their response to angiotensin II and ACTH was similar to that of Sprague-Dawley animals. Angiotensin II-receptor number and affinity were not dissimilar in zona glomerulosa cells of transgenic and Sprague-Dawley rats. These data suggest that the sustained stimulation of the adrenal renin-angiotensin system in transgenic animals causes an increase in the accumulation in zona glomerulosa cells of cholesterol available for steroidogenesis, as indicated by the expanded volume of the lipid-droplet compartment and the elevated basal steroidogenesis. However, the basal hyperfunction of the zona glomerulosa in transgenic animals does not appear to be coupled with an enhanced responsivity to its main secretagogues, at least in terms of aldosterone secretion.
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    The immunolocalization of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles in testicular cells during the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium of the adult rat (1994)
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    Cell & tissue research 278 (1994), S. 363-378 
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    Keywords: snRNPs ; Testis ; Spermatocytes ; Spermatids ; Immunocytochemistry ; Chromatoid body ; Intermitochondrial nuage ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The objective of this study was to determine the cellular and subcellular distribution of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) in the adult rat testis in relation to the different cell types at the various stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. The distribution of snRNPs in the nucleus and cytoplasm of germ cells was quantitated in an attempt to correlate RNA processing with morphological and functional changes occurring during the development of these cells. Light-microscopic immunoperoxidase staining of rat testes with polyclonal anti-Sm and monoclonal anti-Y12 antibodies localized spliceosome snRNPs in the nuclei and cytoplasm of germ cells up to step 10 spermatids. Nuclear staining was intense in Sertoli cells, spermatogonia, spermatocytes, and in the early steps of round spermatid development. Although comparatively weaker, cytoplasmic staining for snRNPs was strongest in mid and late pachytene spermatocytes and early round spermatids. Quantitative electron-microscopic immunogold labeling of Lowicryl embedded testicular sections confirmed the light-microscopic observations but additionally showed that the snRNP content peaked in the cytoplasm of midpachytene spermatocytes and in the nuclei of late pachytene spermatocytes. The immunogold label tended to aggregate into distinct loci over the nuclear chromatin. The chromatoid body of spermatids and spermatocytes and the finely granular material in the interstices of mitochondrial aggregates of spermatocytes were found to be additional sites of snRNP localization and were intensely labeled. This colocalization suggests that these dense cytoplasmic structures may be functionally related. Anti-U1 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections showed the same LM localization pattern as spliceosome snRNPs. Anti-U3 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections stained nucleoli of germ cells where pre-rRNA is spliced.
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    The immunolocalization of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles in testicular cells during the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium of the adult rat (1994)
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    Cell & tissue research 278 (1994), S. 363-378 
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    Keywords: Key words: snRNPs ; Testis ; Spermatocytes ; Spermatids ; Immunocytochemistry ; Chromatoid body ; Intermitochondrial nuage ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract. The objective of this study was to determine the cellular and subcellular distribution of small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) in the adult rat testis in relation to the different cell types at the various stages of the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium. The distribution of snRNPs in the nucleus and cytoplasm of germ cells was quantitated in an attempt to correlate RNA processing with morphological and functional changes occurring during the development of these cells. Light-microscopic immunoperoxidase staining of rat testes with polyclonal anti-Sm and monoclonal anti-Y12 antibodies localized spliceosome snRNPs in the nuclei and cytoplasm of germ cells up to step 10 spermatids. Nuclear staining was intense in Sertoli cells, spermatogonia, spermatocytes, and in the early steps of round spermatid development. Although comparatively weaker, cytoplasmic staining for snRNPs was strongest in mid and late pachytene spermatocytes and early round spermatids. Quantitative electron-microscopic immunogold labeling of Lowicryl embedded testicular sections confirmed the light-microscopic observations but additionally showed that the snRNP content peaked in the cytoplasm of mid-pachytene spermatocytes and in the nuclei of late pachytene spermatocytes. The immunogold label tended to aggregate into distinct loci over the nuclear chromatin. The chromatoid body of spermatids and spermatocytes and the finely granular material in the interstices of mitochondrial aggregates of spermatocytes were found to be additional sites of snRNP localization and were intensely labeled. This colocalization suggests that these dense cytoplasmic structures may be functionally related. Anti-U1 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections showed the same LM localization pattern as spliceosome snRNPs. Anti-U3 snRNP antibodies applied to frozen sections stained nucleoli of germ cells where pre-rRNA is spliced.
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    Selective association of nerve fibres immunoreactive for substance P or bombesin with putative cholinergic neurons of the male rat major pelvic ganglion (1994)
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    Cell & tissue research 278 (1994), S. 589-594 
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    Keywords: Autonomic ganglia ; Neuropeptides ; Pelvic plexus ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The male rat major pelvic ganglion contains both sympathetic and parasympathetic neurons that supply the lower urinary and digestive tracts, and the reproductive organs. The aim of this study was to describe the distribution and identify potential targets of sensory and intestinofugal axons in this ganglion. Two putative markers of these projections were chosen, substance P for primary sensory axons and bombesin for myenteric intestinofugal projections. Varicose substance P-immunoreactive axons were associated only with non-noradrenergic (putative cholinergic) somata, and most commonly with those that contained vasoactive intestinal peptide. Immunoreactivity for substance P was also present in a small group of non-noradrenergic somata, many of which were immunoreactive for enkephalins, neuropeptide Y or vasoactive intestinal peptide. Bombesin immunoreactivity was found only in preterminal and terminal (varicose) axons, the latter of which were exclusively associated with non-noradrenergic somata that contain neuropeptide Y-immunoreactivity. Some varicose axons containing either substance P-or bombesin-immunoreactivity were intermingled with clumps of small, intensely fluorescent cells. These studies indicate that substance P-and bombesin-immunoreactive axons are likely to connect with numerically small, but discrete, populations of pelvic neurons.
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    Expression of the α-subunit of glycoprotein hormones in the pars tuberalis-specific glandular cells in rat, mouse and guinea-pig (1994)
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    Cell & tissue research 278 (1994), S. 617-624 
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    Keywords: Key words: Pituitary ; Pars tuberalis ; α-Subunit ; Immunocytochemistry ; In situ hybridization ; Rat ; Mouse ; Guinea-pig
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    Notes: Abstract. The nature of the hormone(s) secreted by the pars tuberalis (PT) is still unknown. This pituitary lobe is mainly formed by specific glandular cells that differ in their ultrastructural features from the other adenohypophysial cell types. Data from the literature indicate the presence of thyroid-stimulating hormone immunoreactivity in the PT-specific cells of the rat and the Djungarian hamster but not of other species, including the mouse and guinea-pig. The PT also encloses variable numbers of pars distalis cells, essentially gonadotrophs that are mainly dispersed in its caudal area. We studied the expression of the glycoprotein hormone α-subunit in the PT of the rat, mouse and guinea-pig by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry. In situ hybridization, using an oligonucleotide probe complementary to rat cDNA sequence 196–237 revealed the expression of the α-subunit gene throughout the PT of the rat and the mouse; in the guinea-pig, the probe labelled no pituitary cells. Light- and electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry demonstrated α-subunit immunoreactivity in the secretory granules of the PT-specific cells in the three species examined. These cells did not react with a specific antibody against the β-subunit of luteinizing hormone, an antibody that labelled scattered gonadotrophs. The present data suggest that hormone(s) produced by the PT-specific glandular cells are, at least partly, related to glycoprotein hormones.
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    Expression of the α-subunit of glycoprotein hormones in the pars tuberalis-specific glandular cells in rat, mouse and guinea-pig (1994)
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    Cell & tissue research 278 (1994), S. 617-624 
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    Keywords: Pituitary ; Pars tuberalis ; α-Subunit ; Immunocytochemistry ; In situ hybridization ; Rat ; Mouse ; Guinea-pig
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    Notes: Abstract The nature of the hormone(s) secreted by the pars tuberalis (PT) is still unknown. This pituitary lobe is mainly formed by specific glandular cells that differ in their ultrastructural features from the other adenohypophysial cell types. Data from the literature indicate the presence of thyroid-stimulating hormone immunoreactivity in the PT-specific cells of the rat and the Djungarian hamster but not of other species, including the mouse and guinea-pig. The PT also encloses variable numbers of pars distalis cells, essentially gonadotrophs that are mainly dispersed in its caudal area. We studied the expression of the glycoprotein hormone α-subunit in the PT of the rat, mouse and guinea-pig by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry. In situ hybridization, using an oligonucleotide probe complementary to rat cDNA sequence 196–237 revealed the expression of the α-subunit gene throughout the PT of the rat and the mouse; in the guinea-pig, the probe labelled no pituitary cells. Light-and electron-microscopic immunocytochemistry demonstrated α-subunit immunoreactivity in the secretory granules of the PT-specific cells in the three species examined. These cells did not react with a specific antibody against the β-subunit of luteinizing hormone, an antibody that labelled scattered gonadotrops. The present data suggest that hormone(s) produced by the PT-specific glandular cells are, at least partly, related to glycoprotein hormones.
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    Ultrastructure of the basal surface of the rat corneal epithelium (1994)
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    Medical molecular morphology 27 (1994), S. 159-164 
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    Keywords: NaOH digestion method ; Basal epithelial surface ; Calcium deposits ; Rat ; Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
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    Notes: Abstract Basal surfaces of the rat corneal epithelium were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The epithelium was dissociated from the underlying stroma by dissolving the basal lamina with NaOH, and its basal surface was observed by SEM. Depressions, produced by the indentations of the plasma membrane, were present on the basal cell surfaces in rats which were 15 and 18 months old. TEM observations clarified that electron-dense deposits, presumably containing calcium, were located in the depressions. These depressions also accompanied the thickened basal lamina.
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    Ultrastructure as a basis for dating of rat endometrium (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 238 (1994), S. 163-176 
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    Keywords: Endometrium ; Rat ; Estrus cycle ; Electron microscopy ; Sex hormones ; Morphometry ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Studies on the endometrial cycle depend upon the precise dating of the cycle stage. In the present paper the generally applied method of vaginal smear was carefully verified through the measurement of the hormones relevant to the endometrial cycle. From rats predated through vaginal smear cytology, the hormone levels of estradiol-17-beta (E2) and progesterone (P), luteinizing hormone (LH), and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) were measured. The values obtained were then compared to the standardized values of our reference curve. Animals with values that did not fit within the standard deviation of our reference curve were excluded from this investigation. Thus, for the first time exactly dated rat endometrial morphology was studied with electron microscopy. The morphology of the surface epithelium of rat endometrium from all four stages of the cycle is described in detail. In addition, a semiquantitative morphometric analysis of the following parameters was performed: cell volume, nuclear volume, the volume density of secretory granules, digestive vacuoles, mitochondria, Golgi apparatus, rough endoplasmic reticulum, and lipid vacuoles as well as the size of lipid vacuoles. With the cellular content of lipid vacuoles and their diameter, it is possible to differentiate between proestrus/estrus and diestrus I/diestrus II, the latter possessing definitely more and larger lipid vacuoles. During estrus the greatest cytoplasmic volume develops. In addition to this, secretory granules are only present during estrus. Finally, diestrus I can be well differentiated from diestrus II, because diestrus I exhibits more digestive vacuoles and during diestrus II a high percentage of free ribosomes is present. On the basis of distinct morphological features, described in this paper, it is now clearly possible to distinguish between the four different cycle stages. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    The epithelial attachment and the dental junctional epithelium: Ultrastructural features in porcine molars (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 238 (1994), S. 1-14 
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    Keywords: Junctional epithelium ; Epithelial attachment ; Cementum ; Extracellular matrix ; Electron microscopy ; Electrophoresis ; Pig ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The region of epithelial apposition with a tooth surface is the site of an unusual stratified integument, the junctional epithelium, which combines tight attachment to the tooth, cell turnover, tissue permeability, and epithelial versatility into the first line of defense against periodontal destruction by oral pathogens. To better understand the structure and function of the junctional epithelium we have reviewed its developmental and cell biology, and undertaken a multidisciplinary analysis of its composition in the pig, an omnivore whose dietary and dental development and occlusion patterns are similar to the human condition, and which, because of its size, is more readily amenable to experimental manipulation. The porcine junctional epithelium was also compared with this well-described epithelium in the rat. Morphological analyses by light microscopy and scanning and transmission electron microscopy showed the porcine junctional epithelium and epithelial attachment were similar to that in the rat except that apically, extracellular matrix lamellae associated with the internal basal lamina were more complex, and more coronally there was extensive layering of a dental cuticle-like material. Biochemical analysis of the porcine junctional epithelium by dissociative extraction and SDSPAGE revealed the presence of some proteins not present in gingival epithelium. Together, these studies show that the porcine junctional epithelium has predictable morphological and biochemical features which establish the pig as an advantageous model to study the basic and clinical biology of this unique epithelium. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Comparative localization of carboxylesterase in F344 rat, Beagle dog, and human nasal tissue (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 55-64 
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    Keywords: Carboxylesterases ; Nasal metabolism ; Olfactory toxicity ; Xenobiotic metabolism ; Olfactory mucosa ; Respiratory mucosa ; Human ; Dog ; Rat ; Nasal toxicity ; Nose ; Comparative ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background. Carboxylesterases (CE) exhibit high activity in the nasal mucosae and produce acid metabolites toxic to the olfactory epithelium following exposures to inhaled esters. The regional distribution and activity of CE have been studied in rodents, but no comparative studies have examined regional localization or activity in dog or human nasal tisses.Methods. We determined the immunohistochemical distributions of CE in the nasal respiratory and olfactory mucosae of Beagle dogs, and the nasal respiratory mucosa of the human nose and compared these distributions to those in the F344 rat.Results. In the dog respiratory mucosa, the greatest CE immunoreactivity was in the subepithelial glands and surface epithelial cells. In the olfactory mucosa, immunoreactivity was observed in the apical portion of the sustentacular cells, and in duct cells and acinar cells of Bowman's glands. This distribution is similar to that found in rat, except the subepithelial glands of the rat respiratory mucosa showed little to no immunoreactive CE. The human respiratory mucosa showed immunostaining in surface epithelial cells as well as glandular cells. Immunostaining in the human tissue samples was dramatically reduced in the presence of hyperplastic lesions and virtually eliminated in samples with squamous metaplasia.Conclusions. The data indicate that the distribution of CE is very similar in healthy nasal mucosae across the three species studied. However, the loss of CE immunoreactivity correlated with nasal epithelial lesions in the human samples suggests enzymatic activity may be compromised by insults to nasal tissues. Further studies of CE activity in animals following nasal insult could improve the ability to predict human responses to inhaled esters. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Immunocytochemical detection of actin and 53 kDa polypeptide in the epididymal spermatozoa of rat and mouse (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 240 (1994), S. 516-527 
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    Keywords: Spermatozoa ; Actin ; 53 kDa protein ; Immunocytochemistry ; Rat ; Mouse ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Presence of immunocytochemically detectable actin in the rat and mouse sperm head has been enigmatic for years. In this study, we demonstrate actin in the perinuclear theca and show that the detection of actin epitopes in the rat and mouse epididymal spermatozoa can effectively be enhanced by pre-extraction of sperm cells with SDS.Methods: The study with one monoclonal and one polyclonal anti-actin antibody was carried out at conventional and confocal fluorescence and electron microscope level, and by immunoblotting of proteins isolated from the head and tail fractions.Results: In the head of the control methanol-acetone fixed rat spermatozoa, the polyclonal antibody gave a stronger immunostaining in the postacrosomal area and in the perforatorium than the monoclonal antibody. In the mouse sperm head, the monoclonal antibody labeled the ventral edge of the postacrosomal area and slightly the perforatorium, whereas the polyclonal antibody stained the entire perinuclear space. In the SDS-extracted spermatozoa, an intense postacrosomal and perforatorial labeling was obtained with both antibodies but, in particular in the rat spermatozoa, the middle lateral portion of the postacrosomal segment remained unlabeled. Sonication seemed to cause structural modifications which specifically impeded staining with the monoclonal antibody. Both antibodies detected actin in the basal plate and the monoclonal antibody in the neck. Amorphous matrix of the connecting piece showed immunogold labeling. In the tail, the monoclonal antibody recognized actin and a relatively basic 53 kDa polypeptide, whereas the polyclonal antibody reacted with several protein bands. SDS-soluble actin of the tail was addressed to the midpiece and the SDS-insoluble 53 kDa protein profoundly to the outer dense fibers of the principal piece.Conclusions: Intense labeling of actin in the SDS-extracted rat and mouse spermatozoa was presumably due to the generated demasking of actin epitopes embedded in the perinuclear cytoplasm. The results are important in confirming that actin in the rat and mouse sperm head is not lost during spermiogenesis but apparently contributes to the three-dimensional packing of the mature perinuclear cytoplasm. This study further demonstrates the importance of the methods used in sample preparation and advantages of conofocal microscopy when attempting to detect cytoskeletal proteins which, as in spermatozoa, may occur in small quantities. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Quantitative study on the relation between structural and functional properties of the hearts from three different mammals (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 238 (1994), S. 199-206 
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    Keywords: Cardiac myocyte ; Mitochondria ; Morphometry ; Volume density ; Rat ; Rabbit ; Guinea pig ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The ultrastructural quantitative composition of left ventricular cardiac myocytes from isolated Langendorff-perfused hearts was studied in three different mammals (rabbit, guinea pig, and rat). Volume densities of mitochondria, myofibrils, and unspecified cytoplasm were determined using morphometry and were compared to functional parameters including left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP), contractility (dP/dt), heart rate, TTI (tension-time index, an index of oxygen consumption), and relative heart mass (H/B) obtained from these hearts. Each of the mammals was found to possess a very specific and characteristic quantitative composition of cardiac myocyte. Cardiac myocytes contained 26.8% mitochondria and 56.3% myofibrils in rabbits, 25.8% mitochondria and 60.9% myofibrils in guinea pigs, and 27.7% mitochondria and 58.1% myofibrils in rats. The LVDP, contractility, heart rate, and TTI were quite different among species. However, there were close correlations between the mitochondrial volume density and the LVDP (p 〈 0.05), and between the mitochondrial volume density and the TTI (p 〈 0.05), in any group of the animals. It is concluded that the mitochondrial volume density is a good indirect indicator of function of cardiac muscle related to oxidative capacity. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Effects of peripheral axotomy on presynaptic axon terminals with GABA-like immunoreactivity (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 238 (1994), S. 248-262 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Facial nucleus ; Axotomy ; Axon reaction ; GABA ; Electron microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The facial nerve was unilaterally crushed at its exit from the stylomastoid foramen in three 3-month old male rats. After 10 days survival, before the regenerating axons had reinnervated their target muscles, the facial nucleus was examined to determine central patterns of response in material prepared to demonstrate the presence of GABA-like immunoreactivity with postembedding procedures using gold-labeled secondary antibody. The uninjured nucleus served as a control. In both control and injured nuclei, the GABAergic terminals synapse with all parts of the motor neurons, except the axon, and exhibit diverse morphologies. GABAergic axon terminals vary in their size and in the electron density of their axoplasm and the majority of the terminals contain pleomorphic vesicle profiles that display a range in their packing density and size. In both control and injured facial nuclei, only ∼40% of the axon terminal profiles with pleomorphic vesicles exhibit GABA immunoreactivity. A morphometric analysis of the synaptic vesicle profiles in the GABA-positive terminals reveals that following axotomy there is no change in the mean number of synaptic vesicle profiles per GABAergic terminal profile. However, the mean size of the synaptic vesicle profiles in these terminals shows an axotomy-induced 50% increase, without change in the shapes of the enlarged vesicle profiles. Also, the numerical density of gold particles associated with the GABA-positive terminals is consistently greater in the injured than the control axon terminals. In the control animals quantitative analysis of the relative distribution of all axon terminal profiles in the neuropil categorized by the shape of their vesicle profiles as round, pleomorphic, or flat is 57:37:6. Ten days after axotomy the ratio of these categories in the injured nucleus has shifted to 35:60:5. This study demonstrates that the functional state of a postsynaptic target can influence the morphology of vesicle profiles in presynaptic elements as well as patterns of its afferent input. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    The peripheral cytoplasm of adrenocortical cells: Zone-specific responses to ACTH (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 95-102 
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    Keywords: Steroidogenesis ; Actin ; Adrenal cortex ; Immunoelectron microscopy ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Differences in the cytoskeletal protein actin in cells from the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata would be of considerable interest because there is persuasive evidence that rat corticosteroids are secreted by mechanisms that are somewhat zone-specific. We have previously shown evidence that actin may be involved in steroid secretion, possibly in connection with changes in adrenocortical microvilli. However, the cells upon which the data were based were not separated according to zone of origin.Methods: Immunogold electron microscopy and morphometric procedures were used to determine whether ACTH-induced changes in the peripheral cytoplasm of isolated adrenocortical cells occur in both zona fasciculata and zona glomerulosa cells.Results: Actin immunoreactivity was more concentrated in the cytoplasm adjacent to the plasma membrane (including the cytoplasm within the microvilli) than it was in the internal cytoplasm in cells from both zones (4-6 times more concentrated in zona glomerulosa cells and 3-6 times more concentrated in zona fasciculata cells). However, the mean aggregate microvillar surface length (microvillar index) of untreated zona fasciculata cells previously reported (Loesser and Malamed, 1987) was 23% greater than that of untreated zona glomerulosa cells. Although ACTH (at a maximal steroidogenic concentration) had no effect on the peripheral cytoplasmic actin concentration of zona glomerulosa cells, there was a 24% increase in the aggregate microvillar length. In contrast, in zona fasciculata cells, ACTH treatment was accompanied by an increase in peripheral cytoplasmic actin concentration of 58-64% and an increase in aggregate microvillar surface length of 40% (previously reported (Loesser and Malamed, 1987)), almost twice that for zona glomerulosa cells.Conclusion: The results suggest that ACTH-induced hormone release from zona fasciculata cells is mediated by increases in peripheral cytoplasmic actin and aggregate microvillar length; in zona glomerulosa cells such changes are small or absent. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Extractions reveal specific argentophilic proteins in rat and bull sperm heads (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 126-136 
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    Keywords: Argentophilic proteins ; Extraction ; Western blot ; Spermiogenesis ; Spermatozoa ; Rat ; Bovine ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Silver-stainability (argentophilia) of cytoplastmic structures occurring in spermatids have been localized into the organizing perinuclear theca, but the biochemical nature and structural associations of these proteins with the cytoskeletal and membranous elements are unresolved and, therefore, were the aim of the present study.Methods: Light and electron microscopic analysis of the silver-stainability in the rat spermatids and spermatozoa was carried out in the intact testis tissue and epididymal spermatozoa and after their chemical and mechanical extraction. Correlation of argentophilia with specific proteins of rat and bovine spermatids and spermatozoa was investigated using a recently developed technique for silver nitrate staining of proteins on nitro-cellulose.Results: Sequential formation of the silver-stainable domains seemed to proceed from the argentophilic acrosomal ring. Various extractions indicated that argentophilia in the spermatids and spermatozoa was mainly associated with the perinuclear theca and to some extent to the plasma membrane. Hyamine-soluble extract from spermatozoa of rat and bull revealed only a single argentophilic protein of 130 kDa. Hyamine and SDS-soluble extracts of rat testis tissue contained an additional group of argentophilic polypeptides of lower molecular weight (115, 94, 36, 23, and 21 kDa).Conclusions: Reduction in the number of argentophilic proteins appears to be involved in a series of changes in the cyto-architecture of developing spermatids. Tentative cytoskeletal nature of argentophilic proteins remains to be identified. Nevertheless, they may have important physical relations with the higher-order organization of the sperm head cytoskeleton and overlying membranes. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Connections between the various elements of the Cis- and mid-compartments of the Golgi apparatus of early rat spermatids (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 240 (1994), S. 469-480 
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    Keywords: Cis-Golgi network (CGN) ; Intermediate compartment (IC) ; Golgi saccules and vesicles ; Spermatids ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: The exact structural relationships of the saccules, membranous tubules, and vesicles that compose the cis- and midcompartments of the Golgi cortex of rat spermatids was investigated to determine the relationship of these elements to each other.Methods: Tissues fixed with glutaraldehyde and buffered in sodium cacodylate were examined with the electron microscope. Electron micrographs, including stereopairs, were analyzed to determine the three-dimensional organization of the Golgi elements.Results: The deeper layer of the Golgi cortex was composed of stacks of saccules connected to each other either by saccules or membranous tubules. The peripheral region of the Golgi cortex, located between the cisside of the stacks and a network of overlying ER cisternae contained numerous membranous tubules and vesicles of two class sizes: 50-100 nm vesicles and microvesicles 5-10 nm in diameter. The tubules formed tight networks, known as cis-elements or cis-Golgi networks (CGN), which were strictly parallel and next to the first or cis-saccule of the stack. The cis-elements were continuous with more loosely arranged peripheral tubules which formed elaborate, intertwined and interconnected networks. These peripheral tubules closely approximated the overlying ER cisternae in areas often showing fuzz-coated finger-like projections. Occasionally such peripheral tubules were continuous with ER cisternae. The saccules forming the stacks were continuous with membranous tubules which not only connected saccules of adjacent stacks, but also saccules of the same stack. These tubules were also connected with the tight tubular networks forming the cis-elements and the broad networks formed by the peripheral membranous tubules. Vesicles (50-100 nm) and microvesicles (5-10 nm) frequently formed aggregates in the peripheral Golgi region next to areas of ER membrane free of fuzz-coated projections. The microvesicles, embedded in a denser cytoplasmic matrix, had a more or less distinct delimiting membrane suggestive of their disintegration in this juxta-ER location. The 50-100 nm vesicles that were seen at the periphery of the vesicular aggregates appeared to form mainly from the membranous tubules of the Golgi cortex.Conclusions: Thus the saccules and membranous tubules of the spermatid's Golgi cortex formed a single continuous membranous system connected to ER cisternae. The vesicles, seemingly arising from the membranous tubules, appear to follow a retrograde pathway and undergo dissolution next to ER cisternae. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Ontogeny of neurotransmitter systems in the paracervical ganglion and uterine cervix of the rat (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 240 (1994), S. 377-386 
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    Keywords: Paracerivcal ganglia ; NPY ; VIP ; TH ; AChE ; Development ; Cervix ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: The paracervical ganglia (PG) are components of the pelvic plexus that provides sensory and motor innervation to the reproductive system of the female rat. Several neurotransmitters including norepinephrine (NE), acetylcholine (ACh), neuropeptide Y (NPY), and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) are present in neurons of the adult PG and in axons innervating the adult uterus and uterine cervix. The current study was undertaken to describe the onset of immunoreactivity of these neurotransmitters and neuropeptides during development.Methods: Female rats, ages E18 to P36, were prepared for immunohistochemistry for TH (tyrosine hydroxylase, a marker of noradrenergic neurons), NPY, or VIP as well as the histochemical demonstration of acetylcholinesterase (AChE).Results: All four markers were detected in neurons of the PG at E18. Changes in the appearance of these markers from E18 to P36 reflected previously described growth changes in the PG. Axons containing AChE, TH, NPY, or VIP were first detected within the cervix at E20. Immunopositive axons first appeared as thick, unbranched structures at the outermost portion of the cervical myometrium. Over time, these axon bundles ramified to form discrete varicose axons. The ingrowth was similar for axons containing each of the four markers.Conclusions: The relative density of each neuronal type in the PG was reflected in the density of axons containing the same marker in the cervix. Changes in neurotransmitter/neuropeptide staining of PG neurons or axons in the cervix were not observed as the animals approached puberty. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Precursors of macrophages in embryonic rat lungs fail to exhibit granulocyte-forming potential (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 240 (1994), S. 387-397 
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    Keywords: Macrophages ; Differentiation ; Precursors ; Retinoic acid ; Transforming growth factor β1 ; Cytokines ; F-actin ; Embryo ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Mesenchyme-like macrophage (M) precursors called angular cells are present in rat lungs on the thirteenth day of gestation and by then can differentiate into outright macrophages. Based on studies of bone marrow-derived cells, it is widely believed that the macrophage line necessarily proceeds from a colony-forming unit with dual granulocyte-macrophages potential (CFU-GM). In embryos this seems doubtful since macrophages are already scattered throughout the body before the first granulocytes appear. We examined the question in organ cultured 14 day prenatal rat lungs after having shown earlier that the macrophage population developed in explants is increased by exposure to M- and GM-colony-stimulating factors (CSFs) but is unaffected by multi (IL-3)- or granulocyte (G)-CSF. Reportedly retinoic acid (RA) shifts CFU-GM strongly to wards granulocytic differentiation and inhibits mitosis of unipotential macrophage precursors but not differentiated cells. Transforming growth factor β1 (TGF) inhibits multipotential blood progenitors but allows proliferation of committed precursors, and TGF together with GM-CSF induces granulocytopoiesis from CFU-GM.Methods: Lung pairs were grown on a serum-containing medium or one supplemented either by RA, TGF, or TGF/GM-CSF to form a control and three experimental groups. A fourth experiment compared responses to M-CSF exposure and M-CSF/TGF. Macrophage population growth was estimated by measuring the areas of coronas formed by macrophages emerged from the explants. F-actin was stained with florescein-labeled phalloidin.Results: In all experiments macrophages were produced unmixed with granulocytes. By +8 days they had largely emerged to form coronas about the lungs. In cultures exposed to RA, macrophages were less intensely stained for actin and slower to emerge than controls. At +8 days, however, coronal areas were not significantly different from controls, as was also true for the TGF group. In contrast, coronal areas of cultures grown with TGF/GM-CSF were much larger. At +17 days, mean coronal area of TGF cultures was about half that of controls (P 〈 0.05), whereas mean coronal area of the TGF/GM-CSF group was 5.4 times greater (P 〈 0.001). Macrophages from control and TGF-exposed cultures responded to M-CSF by an increase in coronal area which was greater among cultures given M-CSF alone than those given TGF + M-CSF (both P 〈 0.005).Conclusions: Macrophage precursors in embryonic lungs are distinct from CFU-GM. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Exogenous cytokines enhance survival of macrophages from organ cultured embryonic rat tissues (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 240 (1994), S. 398-406 
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    Keywords: Macrophages, origins, lineage ; Cytokines, M-CSF ; Indomethacin ; Heart ; Lungs ; Limb buds ; Embryo ; Rat ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Macrophage precursors are present in embryonic rats shortly after the onset of hematopoiesis. During organogenesis they soon establish residency in many parts of the body and become convertible into phagocytes, at first gaining morphological characteristics of macrophages and later a range of surface antigens used to characterize subpopulations in adults. Nonetheless, it is uncertain whether representatives of this fetal lineage continue to exist past birth. We investigated the question indirectly by seeing if such cells can be made to survive in vitro to an age equivalent to adulthood and by examining underlying conditions that favor this outcome.Methods: Fourteen-day embryonic lungs, hearts, and limb buds were organ cultured on a firm serum-containing medium. Fetal macrophages developed within all explants and then migrated out to form a corona of cells surrounding each explant. The lung cultures were selected for subsequent work which mainly used coronal area as the measure of macrophage population size in experimental and control groups. Baseline growth and survival of macrophages were established for cultures grown on standard medium, then effects of the following were examined: indomethacin (10-6M) as it influences initial production of macrophages from precursors and later survival of differentiated cells; and macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), used alone at moderate dosage (50-100 U), and combined with granulocyte-macrophage CSF (both 200 U), for its importance to long-term survival of the population. Mitogenic influence of M-CSF on differentiated macrophages was demonstrated by uptake of 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine.Results: Indomethacin inhibited the formation of macrophages from precursors but enhanced the survival of differentiated cells. M-CSF increased BrdU uptake of differentiated macrophages and permitted coronal growth to continue long past the ∼30 day limit of controls. Beyond this interval, M-CSF was essential for macrophage survival, since coronas quickly shrank after the cytokine was withdrawn. Administration of the M-CSF/GM-CSF mixture to the 2 oldest M-CSF-exposed cultures between 98 and 127 days in vitro resulted in an increase in the number of coronal macrophages (P 〈 0.001); withdrawal between 129 and 140 days led to a decrease (P 〈 0.005). Ultimately a few cells were still surviving at 183 days.Conclusions: Intrinsic factors promote early formation of macrophages within the explants, but the availability of factors is lessened by the anti-inflammatory action of indomethacin. Its later promotion of macrophage survival may be based on suppression of autogenous prostaglandin (PGE2) synthesis. M-CSF greatly promotes macrophage survival; in context this is sufficient to show that the fetal macrophage line has a clear potential to survive well into adulthood. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Shoulder region of the rat: Anatomy and fiber composition of some suprascapular nerve branches (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 332-342 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Shoulder region ; Gross anatomy ; Subacromial space ; Supraspinatus muscle ; Suprascapular nerve ; Fiber composition ; Electron microscopy ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: The pathophysiology of chronic supraspinatus tendinitis is not fully understood. This may be due to the scarcity of experimental studies on this issue.Methods: In search for a system suitable for experimental analysis, the present study describes the relevant gross anatomy of the rat shoulder region (dissection), and examines the fiber composition of relevant suprascapular nerve branches (electron microscopy, selective denervations).Results: The rat shoulder region is similar to the human shoulder in terms of gross anatomy. The average suprascapular nerve (SSC) is derived mainly from the spinal cord segment C5 and contains 3,435 axons, 74% of which are unmyelinated. The supraspinatus branch (SSP) contains 627 fibers. Of the SSP fibers, 52% are myelinated, including 32% motor and 20% sensory axons. Of the C-fibers in the SSP 16% are sympathetic efferents and 32% are sensory. Many of the latter disappear after neonatal capsaicin treatment. The SSC emits a subacromial articular branch (ART), with some 260 axons, about 90% of which are unmyelinated. The myelinated ART fibers are sensory, and of the unmyelinated ones about 24% are sympathetic efferents and 66% are afferents. The latter resist neonatal capsaicin treatment.Conclusions: In view of the anatomy of the supraspinatus muscle, of the subacromial space, and of relevant nerves, the rat shoulder should be appropriate for experimental studies on inflammatory conditions in the subacromial space. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Quantitative study of the apical nerve fibers of adult and juvenile rat molars (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 238 (1994), S. 507-516 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Electron microscopy ; Dental pulp ; Tooth root ; Myelinated nerve fibers ; C fibers ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: The rat molar has become an important model for studies of interactions between nerves and the pulp-dentin complex, yet there is only limited quantitative information on the number and size distribution of axons entering the roots of this tooth. This study was undertaken to provide such a detailed characterization of the apical innervation of the rat molar. An additional objective was to compare the apical nerve composition of young, recently erupted rat molars with that of mature teeth in order to determine whether there is ongoing maturation of the innervation after the teeth have attained functional occlusion.A complete census was made of the nerve fibers entering the roots of both mature and recently erupted juvenile mandibular first molars in Sprague-Dawley rats. Each of the four roots of the first molars was processed for electron microscopy of thin sections near the apex.The majority of intradental nerve fibers entered the molar via the two larger (mesial and distal) roots. Within the apical root pulp, most, but not all, axons occurred within well-defined fascicles associated with blood vessels. Molars from adult animals (age 4 months) had a mean total of 232 (S.D. = 49, N = 7 teeth) myelinated fibers and 806 (S.D. = 143) unmyelinated axons entering the four roots. Fibers exceeding the Aδ size range (circumference ≥ 19 μm) accounted for only 4% of the myelinated axons at the apex. Molars from juvenile animals (age 4 weeks) had fewer myelinated fibers (mean 176, S.D. 18, N = 8), but more unmyelinated axons (mean 1,174, S.D. 160) than adults. The mean ratio of unmyelinated axons to myelinated axons was 6.6:1 for juveniles compared to 3.5:1 for adults. Juvenile teeth contained no myelinated fibers that exceeded 19 μm in circumference.These results indicate that the innervation of the rat molar resembles that of teeth of non-rodent mammals in that (1) innervation density is high, (2) there is a high ratio of unmyelinated axons, and (3) most of the myelinated fibers are of thin caliber. Furthermore, it appears that after the molar erupts, maturation of the nerve fiber composition continues with processes that include both a marked decrease in the number of unmyelinated axons and an increase in the number and size heterogeneity of myelinated fibers. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Morphological studies of hypomineralized enamel of rat pups on calcium-deficient diet, and of its changes after return to normal diet (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 379-395 
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    Keywords: Enamel ; Incisor ; Rat ; Morphology ; Electron microscopy ; Calcification ; Hypocalcemic diet ; Organic components ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Micro-hardness investigations have shown that rat pups nursed by mothers on a low calcium diet and weaned with the maternal calcium-deficient diet develop hypomineralized enamel. The inorganic and organic components of this enamel, their relationships, and their changes after return to normal diet have been studied by light and electron microscopy.Methods: The maturation zone of incisor enamel has been studied in: (1) rats nursed for 20 days by mothers on a low calcium diet and weaned for 30 days with the same diet (E1 enamel); (2) rats that after the calcium-deficient diet were fed normal diet for 10 days (E2 enamel); and (3) rats nursed for 20 days by mothers on a normal diet and weaned for 30 days with a normal diet (controls).Results: The results showed that E1 enamel was hypomineralized, as noted by its Azure II-Methylene blue stainability in undecalcified sections, its light staining with the von Kossa method, and its ultrastructure. E1 crystallites, although present throughout the whole enamel, were thinner than those of E2 enamel, which were similar to those of controls. E1 interrod crystallites were thicker in the intermediate than in the dentinal zone and were thicker than rod crystallites. Organic matrix was present throughout the whole E1 enamel. Its organic components (crystal ghosts) had the same shape, arrangement, and organization as those of inorganic crystallites. Crystal ghosts were greatly reduced in E2 enamel and in controls.Conclusions: The results lead to the conclusions that: (1) E1 enamel is hypomineralized, and its degree of calcification is restored by return to a normal calcium diet; (2) intra- and interprismatic calcification occurs in a different way; (3) crystallite thickness is initially greater in dentinal than in the superficial zone and is reversed as crystallite growth is completed; and (4) loss of enamel proteins is necessary for completion of crystallite growth and not for crystallite formation. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Effects of distribution of muscle fiber length on active length-force characteristics of rat gastrocnemius medialis (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 239 (1994), S. 414-420 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Skeletal muscle ; Length-force curve ; Gastrocnemius ; Modelling ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: The length-force curve of mammalian skeletal muscle is often wider than expected on basis of the optimum length of the muscle fibers. Two important effects may explain this discrepancy: muscle pennation and distribution of fiber lengths in the muscle. In the present study of the effects of a Gaussian distribution of fiber lengths on muscle length-force characteristics were investigated in rat gastrocnemius medialis.Methods: Fiber length-force characteristics and parameter values of the Gaussian distribution were derived from literature data (Stephenson et al., 1989, J. Physiol., 410:351-366; Heslinga and Huijing, 1990, J. Morph. 206:119-132; Zuurbier and Huijing, 1993, J. Morphol., 218:167-180). Three different constructions of the distribution model were compared with experimental data. Pennation effects were incorporated in the model.Results: Two constructions gave reasonably good results: (1) the model with a fiber optimum distribution, in which fibers acted at the same absolute length at a given muscle length; (2) the model in which fiber optimum length was uniform but absolute length at a given muscle length was distributed.Conclusions: In rat gastrocnemius medialis, the magnitude of the effects of these distributions is similar to pennation effects. The current results help to explain the relative wide working range of skeletal muscles in human movement and the differences in specific muscle tension as affected by muscle type, species, and age. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Ultrastructural studies and immunolocalization of enamel proteins in rodent secretory stage ameloblasts processed by various cryofixation methods (1994)
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    The @Anatomical Record 238 (1994), S. 425-436 
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    Keywords: Amelogenesis ; Tooth ; Rat ; Mouse ; Cryofixation ; Freeze-substitution ; Ultrastructure ; Enamel proteins ; Immunocytochemistry ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Background: Cryofixation rapidly immobilizes cell and tissue components in their native state, thereby resulting in an ultrastructural preservation very close to the living situation. We have applied this approach to examine the morphology of secretory stage ameloblasts and the distribution of enamel proteins in these cells.Methods: Molar and incisor tooth germs from newborn mice and/or rats were quickly dissected and divided into segments. The segments were then rapidly frozen using slam, plunge or pressure freezing, freeze-substituted and embedded in Epon. In addition, incisors from older rats were chemically fixed by vascular perfusion and also dehydrated by freeze-substitution.Results: Well-preserved ameloblasts were obtained with all four tissue processing methods. However, slam freezing often showed mechanical damage to the ameloblasts, particularly at the level of the distal portion of Tomes' processes which appeared severed or distorted. Plunging into liquid nitrogen-cooled liquid propane resulted in comparatively less tissue distortion. High pressure freezing gave a relatively higher yield of well-preserved specimens, although displacement of organelles in ameloblasts was sometimes observed, probably resulting from hydrostatic pressure. Minimal ice crystal and mechanical damage was observed in chemically fixed tooth samples processed by freeze-substitution since such specimens are cryoprotected and their examination is not restricted to a surface layer. With all of the above cryopreparation methods, the ultrastructure of well preserved ameloblasts was, in general, similar to that obtained following conventional chemical fixation, and immunocytochemistry with an anti-amelogenin antibody indicated no profound differences in the distribution of enamel proteins.Conclusions: These results indicate that, despite some limitations, it is possible to adequately cryofix tooth organs while preserving the architecture of ameloblasts and permitting immunolocalization of enamel proteins. Furthermore, they confirm the general morphology of secretory stage ameloblasts as currently derived from conventional chemical tissue processing. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Dopaminergic innervation of rat locus coeruleus: A light and electron microscopic immunohistochemical study (1994)
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    Microscopy Research and Technique 29 (1994), S. 211-218 
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    Keywords: Dopamine ; Locus coeruleus ; Rat ; Immunohistochemistry ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Dopaminergic innervation of the rat locus coeruleus (LC) was immunohistochemically studied by using monoclonal antibody directed against dopamine (DA) at the light- and electron-microscopic levels. A dense plexus of DA-immunoreactive (IR) varicose fibers was found not only in the cell body area of the LC but also in the dendritic area. Three hundred and forty DA-IR terminal boutons were observed. They were distributed in a wide range of diameters of 0.1-1.8 μm but most of them were large (mean value: 0.98 μm). Sixty-nine percent formed an asymmetric synapse. There were many axo-spinous connections. Small dendrites less than 0.3 μm in diameter displaying synaptic specialization were mostly dendritic spines (75%). Most of the target dendrites seemed to be noradrenergic in nature. It is suggested that dopaminergic innervation may play a powerful role in control mechanisms of activity of NA-containing neurons of the LC. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Permeability of the blood-brain barrier induced by 915 MHz electromagnetic radiation, continuous wave and modulated at 8, 16, 50, and 200 Hz (1994)
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    Microscopy Research and Technique 27 (1994), S. 535-542 
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    Keywords: Rat ; Albumin ; Fibrinogen ; Immunohistochemistry ; Electromagnetic fields ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
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    Notes: Biological effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) on the blood-brain barrier (BBB) can be studied in sensitive and specific models. In a previous investigation of the permeability of the blood-brain barrier after exposure to the various EMF-components of proton magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we found that the exposure to MRI induced leakage of Evans Blue labeled proteins normally not passing the BBB of rats [Salford et al. (1992), in: Resonance Phenomena in Biology, Oxford University Press, pp. 87-91].In the present investigation we exposed male and female Fischer 344 rats in a transverse electromagnetic transmission line chamber to microwaves of 915 MHz as continuous wave (CW) and pulse-modulated with repetition rates of 8, 16, 50, and 200 s-1. The specific energy absorption rate (SAR) varied between 0.016 and 5 W/kg.The rats were not anesthetized during the 2-hour exposure. All animals were sacrificed by perfusion-fixation of the brains under chloral hydrate anesthesia about 1 hour after the exposure. The brains were perfused with saline for 3-4 minutes, and thereafter fixed in 4% formaldehyde for 5-6 minutes. Central coronal sections of the brains were dehydrated and embedded in paraffin and sectioned at 5 μm. Albumin and fibrinogen were demonstrated immunohistochemically.The results show albumin leakage in 5 of 62 of the controls and in 56 of 184 of the animals exposed to 915 MHz microwaves. Continuous wave resulted in 14 positive findings of 35, which differ significantly from the controls (P = 0.002). With pulsed 915 MHz microwaves with repetition rates of 200, 50, 16, and 8 s-1, 42 of 149 were positive, which is highly significant at the P = 0.001 level. This reveals that both CW and pulsed 915 MHz microwaves have the potential to open up the BBB for albumin passage. However, there is no significant difference between continuous and pulsed 915 MHz microwaves in this respect.The frequency of occurrence of extravasates (26%) was found to be independent of SAR for SAR 〈 2.5 W/kg, but rose significantly for the higher SAR values (to 43%).The question of whether the opening of the blood-brain barrier constitutes a health hazard demands further investigation. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Immunohistochemical evidence from co-localization and denervation studies for four types of substance P-containing nervous structures in the rat superior cervical ganglion (1993)
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    Anatomy and embryology 187 (1993), S. 485-492 
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    Keywords: Immunohistochemistry ; Neuropeptides ; Rat ; Substance P ; Superior cervical ganglion
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    Notes: Abstract Four types of substance P-immunoreactive structures have been distinguished in the rat superior cervical ganglion by double-immunofluorescence microscopy: (1) A major population of mainly varicose fibres enmeshed singly-scattered neuronal perikarya, some of which contained vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactivity. These substance P-immunoreactive fibres did not contain colocalized calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and were absent after transection of the cervical sympathetic trunk. (2) A rather small substance P-immunoreactive fibre population with colocalized calcitonin gene-related peptide-immunoreactivity was distributed in a patchy manner and disappeared after cutting the postganglionic branches. (3) Most of the intraganglionic small intensely fluorescent (SIF) cell clusters were intensely substance P-immunoreactive. SIF cells were not visibly changed in number and fluorescence intensity by either surgical procedure. (4) Immunoreactivity was not visible in principal ganglionic neurons of control ganglia, but occurred in cell bodies after pre- as well as after postganglionic nerve transection. Some of the substance P-immunolabelled perikarya in addition revealed immunostaining to antisera against the catecholamine-synthesizin enyzme tyrosine hydroxylase or against the neuropeptides leu-enkephalin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, respectively. The results strongly suggest that, in addition to a substance P-containing preganglionic input (1), and a supply by substance P-containing sensory axon collaterals (2), the superior cervical ganglion of the rat gives origin to a paraganglionic (3) and a postganglionic (4) substance P-immunoreactive intrinsic system, the latter becoming visible only after disconnection of the sympathetic pathway.
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    Late developmental changes of the innervation densities of the myelinated fibres and the outer hair cell efferent fibres in the rat cochlea (1993)
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    Anatomy and embryology 187 (1993), S. 565-571 
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    Keywords: Cochlea ; Development ; Rat ; Innervation ; Efferent
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    Notes: Abstract The baso-apical distributions of the myelinated nerve fibres (representative for the inner hair cell afferent fibres) and the outer hair cell efferent fibres were studied during postnatal development of the rat cochlea. The myelinated fibres were counted in the primary osseos spiral lamina from semi-thin sections. The outer hair cell efferent fibres were counted in the tunnel of Corti by means of ultra-thin sections. The developmental changes of the myelinated fibres were investigated between 8 and 60 days after birth (DAB); those of the outer hair cell efferent fibres between 20 and 30 DAB. Between 12 DAB (onset of hearing) and 20 DAB the baso-apical distribution of the myelinated fibres does not change. Striking maturational changes occur late after the onset of hearing, between 20 and 30 DAB. The innervation density of the myelinated fibres increases in the lower middle region of the cochlea. In this region a maximum of innervation density appears. The efferent fibres to the outer hair cells show at 20 DAB a maximum of innervation density in the middle of the cochlea but between 20 and 30 DAB, the fibre density decreases in this region. During the same period the maximum of innervation density shifts towardsthe base. The change in the innervation densities of the myelinated fibres and the outer hair cell efferent fibres occurs late in development, after the onset of hearing, and after the organ of Corti shows an adult-like appearance.
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    Morphological evidence for secondary formation of the tail gut in the rat embryo (1993)
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    Anatomy and embryology 187 (1993), S. 291-297 
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    Keywords: Tail gut ; Tail cord ; Secondary body formation ; Gut ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The secondary body formation is a developmental mechanism occurring in the caudal part of the embryo in which embryonic structures arise from a mass of mesenchymal cells without previous formation of germ layers. The formation of the tail gut by this mechanism was investigated on transverse serial semithin and ultrathin sections of 12-, 13-, 14- and 15-day rat embryo tails. The tail gut, together with the tail portion of the notochord, originates from an axial mass of condensed mesenchymal cells named tail cord. Formation of the tail gut involves the appearance of large intercellular junctions among tail cord cells, and rearrangement of these cells around a newly formed lumen. Mesenchymal characteristics of these cells are gradually lost, and they simultaneously acquire the morphology of epithelial cells. Some cells of the tail cord, located ventral to the tail gut, do not participate in the tail gut formation and form a separate mass of cells without any definitive morphogenetic fate. This surplus group of cells is first evident in 12-day embryos, and it increases in mass during the following 3 days. In 15-day embryos, after the tail gut has completely disappeared, the surplus cells represent all that remains of the tail cord. The mesenchymal-epithelial transformation of the tail cord cells into the cells of the tail gut, and the appearance of the surplus cells, could be considered as the main morphological arguments for the secondary formation of the tail gut.
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    Decreased axonal calibres without axonal loss in optic nerve following chronic alcohol feeding in adult rats: a morphometric study (1993)
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    Acta neuropathologica 85 (1993), S. 117-121 
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    Keywords: Ethanol ; Rat ; Optic nerve ; Morphometry ; Axons
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    Notes: Summary The effects of chronic ethanol exposure on number and calibres of optic nerve axons (and number of retinal ganglion cells) were investigated in a rat model. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed a liquid, ethanol-containing diet for 5, 10 and 17 weeks with littermates given isocaloric amounts of ethanol-free diet serving as controls. After fixation by perfusion, the optic nerves were imbedded in epoxy resin and sectioned for electron microscopy. Systematic random sampling was made from a cross-shaped area over the nerve. Axons within a counting frame were counted and morphometrically categorized with regard to mean diameter and the total number of axons estimated from number per area and the cross-sectional area of the nerve, which was measured using a digitizer table. According to non-parametric statistical analysis, ethanol exposure resulted in a significant reduction in mean cross-sectional area of the optic nerve and in mean axonal calibre but not in total axonal number in the ethanol-treated rats but there was no significant effect of duration of the exposure. The mean cross-sectional area of the nerve was reduced by 9%, 10% and 18% after 5, 10 and 17 weeks of exposure, respectively. The reduction in cross-sectional area appeared to be related to a proportional reduction in axonal and myelin area fractions. The findings indicate that chronic ethanol exposure results in decreased axonal calibres without axonal loss. This also implies that there is no reduction in the number of retinal ganglion cells.
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    The heterogeneous temporal evolution of focal ischemic neuronal damage in the rat (1993)
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    Acta neuropathologica 85 (1993), S. 327-333 
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    Keywords: Focal cerebral ischemia ; Middle cerebral artery occlusion ; Pathology ; Penumbra ; Rat
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    Notes: Summary Male Fisher rats (n=61) underwent permanent focal cerebral ischemia induced by left middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion, in conjunction with ipsilateral common carotid artery ligation. The experiments were terminated at time points ranging from immediately following occlusion to 30 days post MCA occlusion. A coronal histological section, in close proximity to the site of the arterial occlusion, was taken from each brain and divided into six areas encompassing the affected cortex and caudate putamen. Each area was analyzed for ischemic damage according to a grading scale that reflects changes in neuronal morphology. Differential neuronal counts were also made on a 0.5-mm2 field in each of the six areas. The areas closest to the occluded vessel showed accelerated ischemic damage between 8 and 12 h after occlusion, leaving open the possibility that before 8 h, therapeutic intervention may be effective. After 12 h, changes in these areas progressed to complete necrosis and eventual cavitation with a complete loss of neurons after 10 days. The areas more peripheral to the occluded vessel exhibited mild ischemic damage, with an apparent reversal of damage grading at later time points and no loss of neurons. This reversal of ischemic damage in the peripheral areas is suggestive of a histological equivalent of the penumbra.
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    Androgenic modulation of the activity of lumbar neurons involved in the rat bulbocavernosus reflex (1993)
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    Experimental brain research 94 (1993), S. 301-307 
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    Keywords: Bulbocavernosus reflex ; Spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus ; Androgen ; Testosterone ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The bulbocavernosus (BC) reflex, produced in the BC motor nerve in response to electrical stimulation of the contralateral pudendal sensory nerve, was investigated in intact, castrated, and testosterone-treated castrated male rats under urethane anesthesia. No significant group differences in the reflex latency, sensory or motor conduction velocity, or central delay were observed. A conditioning pulse to the pudendal sensory nerve caused suppression of the averaged antidromic field potential recorded in the contralateral spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) after stimulation of the SNB axons in the BC motor nerve. The suppression occurred at 6- to 35-ms intervals between shocks to pudendal sensory nerve and BC motor nerve, and was markedly smaller in castrated males than in the other two groups. In contrast, a conditioning pulse to the contralateral BC motor nerve had no effect on the SNB antidromic field potential. These results indicate that androgen modulates the efficacy of synaptic transmission onto SNB motoneurons or other neurons involved in the BC reflex.
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    The inhibitory effect of the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey matter on neurones in the rostral ventrolateral medulla involves a relay in the medullary raphe nuclei (1993)
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    Experimental brain research 94 (1993), S. 295-300 
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    Keywords: Ventrolateral periaqueductal grey matter ; Nucleus raphe magnus ; Nucleus raphe obscurus ; Rostral ventrolateral medulla ; GABA ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Experiments were carried out in urethane-anaesthetised rats to determine whether the inhibition of neurones in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) induced by stimulation in the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey matter (PAG), is mediated via a relay in the medullary raphe nuclei. Electrical stimulation in the ventrolateral part of the PAG (20-ms trains, 7 pulses, 5–100 μA) inhibited ongoing activity of neurones in the RVLM for periods of 10–120 ms (mean 43.6 ms). The duration of the inhibition was reduced by 51.1% after microinjection of GABA (40–160 nmol in volumes of 200–400 nl, 9/12 sites), but not 165 mM NaCl (8/8 sites) in nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) and the rostral half of nucleus raphe obscurus (NRO). In a further series of experiments, activation of neuronal perikarya at 17 sites in NRM or NRO by microinjection of d,l-homocysteic acid (5–40 nmol in volumes of 50–400 nl) inhibited ongoing activity of 9 out of 14 neurones in the RVLM, the other 5 being excited. We suggest that the inhibitory effect on neurones in the RVLM, which can be evoked by stimulation in the ventrolateral PAG, is mediated indirectly by activation of an inhibitory projection to the RVLM from NRM and the rostral half of NRO.
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    Calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity in motoneuron pools innervating different hind limb muscles in the rat (1993)
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    Experimental brain research 96 (1993), S. 291-303 
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    Keywords: Axotomy ; Retrograde tracing ; Spinal cord ; Motoneurons ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The content of calcitonin gene-related peptide-like immunoreactivity (CGRP-LI) in motoneurons was studied in four motor pools supplying muscles in the rat hind limb subserving different types of motor activity. The motor pools were identified by retrograde labeling with horseradish peroxidase or fluorophore-conjugated dextran amines, which were injected into the soleus, tibialis anterior, lateral gastrocnemius, or abductor digiti minimi muscles. After processing for immunohistochemistry, a semiquantitative evaluation was carried out to estimate the proportion of strongly, intermediately, and weakly labeled motoneurons, as well as motoneurons totally lacking CGRP staining. This revealed a considerable diversity in the intensity of CGRP labeling even for motoneurons in the same motoneuron pool. Thus, strongly labeled cells, as well as cells devoid of CGRP label, were found in all four motoneuron pools. However, a difference was found in the distribution of motoneurons innervating muscles with a dominant composition of fast and slow motor units, respectively, in that a larger fraction of the latter type lacked CGRP-LI. Moreover, generally motoneurons in the small motor units of the abductor digiti minimi muscle displayed weaker staining, and a larger proportion of cells was totally devoid of CGRP-LI (16%) compared with larger motor units of the other three muscles (1–10%). Small-sized cells within the γ-motoneuron size range were weakly stained or, more frequently, totally devoid of CGRP label (50%) as compared to larger cells, presumably representing α-motoneurons (1–16%). Five days after axotomy all four studied motoneuron pools displayed stronger CGRP labeling than corresponding unlesioned pools. However, a considerable variation in CGRP labeling persisted also among axotomized motoneurons. These results indicate that motoneurons normally display a great variation in CGRP-LI levels, but that motoneurons of small and slow-twitch motor units in general have lower levels than motoneurons of large and fast-twitch motor units, respectively. After axotomy, CGRP-LI increases in lesioned motoneuron pools compared with normal, but in a fraction of the axotomized motoneurons the increase seems to be discrete or even absent. The possible physiological implications of these findings are discussed.
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    Effect of ischaemia and reperfusion on the extra- and intracellular distribution of glutamate, glutamine, aspartate and GABA in the rat hippocampus, with a note on the effect of the sodium channel blocker BW1003C87 (1993)
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    Experimental brain research 96 (1993), S. 365-376 
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    Keywords: Ischaemia ; Hippocampal damage ; Microdialysis ; Glutamate ; Immunocytochemistry ; Amino acid neurotransmitters ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The redistribution of neurotransmitter amino acids resulting from 20 min of ischaemia was studied in the rat hippocampus by quantitative, electron microscopic immunocytochemistry and by in vivo microdialysis. Changes in the distribution of glutamate, glutamine, aspartate and GABA in various cell compartments of CA1 were analysed immediately after ischaemia or after 60 min of reperfusion, by incubating ultrathin sections with antisera raised against protein glutaraldehyde conjugates of the respective amino acids and subsequently with a secondary antibody coupled to colloidal gold particles. Transverse microdialysis probes coupled with HPLC and implanted in the same animals were used to determine the extracellular concentration of amino acids in the left hippocampus and to apply a drug (BW 1003C87) believed to modify the extracellular release of amino acids induced by ischaemia. Forebrain ischaemia was induced by temporary occlusion of the common carotid arteries in rats with permanently occluded vertebral arteries. The extracellular concentrations of glutamate, aspartate and GABA increased markedly during ischaemia, but returned rapidly to normal during reperfusion. BW 1003C87 (250 μM, in the dialysis fluid) did not modify the increase in extracellular concentration of amino acids during ischaemia. Glutamate-like immunoreactivity was reduced in pyramidal cell somata both immediately after ischaemia and after 60 min of reperfusion. This reduction appeared to be somewhat less pronounced for cells in the left hemisphere (perfused with BW 1003C87) than in the contralateral hemisphere. Ischaemia caused no consistent changes in terminals. The ratio between the intracellular levels of glutamate and glutamine was assessed by double-labelling immunocytochemistry, using two different gold particle sizes. The glutamate-glutamine ratio in glial cells was greatly increased after ischaemia, but recovered to a normal level within 1 h of reperfusion. Aspartate-like immunoreactivity was substantially reduced in pyramidal cell somata both immediately and 60 min after ischaemia, while profiles that were immunopositive for GABA in control brains showed increased GABA immunolabelling. These results suggest that postsynaptic neuronal elements as well as glial cells contribute to the extracellular overflow of excitatory amino acids during an ischaemic event: post-synaptic elements by leaking or releasing glutamate and aspartate, and glial cells by losing their ability to convert glutamate to glutamine effectively. The temporal association between the changes in the glial contents of glutamate and glutamine, and the extracellular amino acid fluctuations recorded by microdialysis in the same animals, underline the strategic role of glia in regulating the extracellular level of glutamate.
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    Brainstem sites for the carbachol elicitation of the hippocampal theta rhythm in the rat (1993)
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    Experimental brain research 96 (1993), S. 419-429 
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    Keywords: Nucleus pontis oralis ; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus ; Hippocampal theta rhythm ; Carbachol ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The effects of brainstem microinjections of carbachol on the hippocampal theta rhythm were examined in urethane anesthetized rats. The two most effective theta-eliciting sites with carbachol were the nucleus pontis oralis (RPO) and the acetylcholine-containing pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPT) of the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum. RPO injections generated theta at mean latencies of 38.5±70.8 s and for mean durations of 12.9±5.1 min. Five of seven RPO injections gave rise to theta virtually instantaneously, i.e., before the completion of the injection. PPT injections generated theta at mean latencies of 1.7±1.1 min and for mean durations of 11.9±6.0 min. Injections rostral or caudal to RPO in the caudal midbrain reticular formation (RF) or the caudal pontine RF (nucleus pontis caudalis) generated theta at considerably longer latencies (generally greater than 5 min) or were without effect. Medullary RF injections essentially failed to alter the hippocampal EEG. The finding that theta was produced at very short latencies at RPO suggests that RPO, the putative brainstem source for the generation of theta, is modulated by a cholinergic input. The further demonstration that theta was also very effectively elicited with PPT injections suggests this acetylcholine-containing nucleus of the dorsolateral pons may be a primary source of cholinergic input to RPO in the generation of theta. The hippocampal theta rhythm is a major event of REM sleep. The present results are consistent with earlier work showing that each of the other major events of REM sleep, as well as the REM state, are cholinergically activated at the level of the pontine tegmentum.
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    Ultrastructure of the cortical epithelium of the rat thymus after in vivo exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) (1993)
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    Archives of toxicology 67 (1993), S. 558-564 
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    Keywords: 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin ; TCDD ; Thymus ; Epithelium ; Ultrastructure ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is known for inducing cortical atrophy in the rat thymus. The present study was conducted to provide ultrastructural evidence for the cortical epithelium to be a target for TCDD in vivo. Juvenile male Wistar rats were orally intubated once with either 50 or 150 μg/kg TCDD and killed 4 or 10 days thereafter. Major changes were found in the cortical thymic epithelium. First, a relative shift occurred from “pale” to darker cortical epithelial cell types, as judged by their nuclear and cytoplasmic electron density. This effect was most prominent at 10 days after exposure to 150 μg/kg TCDD. The increased electron density of the cortical epithelium indicates an altered state of cellular differentiation. Secondly, at the 150 μg/kg dose level focal epithelial cell aggregates were seen both at day 4 and day 10 after administration. This aggregation may either be compound induced or represent a secondary event to the collapse of the thymic stroma. Thirdly, increased vacuolation of cortical epithelial cells was apparent. This effect is interpreted as a consequence rather than a cause of thymocyte depletion from the cortex. This study indicates that TCDD exposure affects the cortical epithelium of the rat thymus at a high dose level. Electron microscopy reveals that the differentiation of epithelial cells is altered. In addition, epithelial cell aggregates are formed.
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    Evaluation of DNA damage by alkaline elution technique after inhalation exposure of rats and mice to 1,3-butadiene (1993)
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    Archives of toxicology 67 (1993), S. 34-38 
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    Keywords: Alkaline elution ; 1,3-Butadiene ; Lung ; Liver ; Mouse ; Rat ; Single-strand breaks ; DNA-DNA cross-links ; DNA-protein cross-links
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    Notes: Abstract The alkaline filter elution technique was used to evaluate single strand breaks (SSB), DNA-DNA (DDCL) and DNA-protein cross-links (DPCL) in liver and lung of male rats (Sprague-Dawley) and male mice (B6C3F1) after exposure to 2000 ppm 1,3-butadiene (BD) for 7 days (7 h/day and/or to 100, 250, 500, 1000) 2000 ppm BD for 7 h. SSB were detected in liver DNA of both species at 2000 ppm. Cross-links are more pronounced in mouse lung than in mouse liver. Elution rates of lung DNA from mice exposed for 7 h to different concentrations of BD revealed an increase in cross-links between 250 and 500 ppm, and a further increase in cross-links up to 2000 ppm. No such signs of genotoxicity could be observed for the lung of rats. Our data support the involvement of reactive metabolites (epoxybutene and especially diepoxybutane) in butadieneinduced carcinogenesis in the mouse but not to that extent in the rat.
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    Thymocyte apoptosis as a mechanism for tributyltin-induced thymic atrophy in vivo (1993)
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    Archives of toxicology 67 (1993), S. 231-236 
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    Keywords: Tributyltin ; Thymic atrophy ; Immunotoxicity ; Apoptosis ; In vivo ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract Tributyltin (TBT) immunotoxicity in rodent species is primarily characterised by T-lymphocyte deficiency resulting from a depletion of cortical thymocytes. In this study, bis(tri-n-butyltin) oxide (TBTO) was administered to male rats as a single oral dose of 30 or 60 mg/kg, and assessments were made of thymic cytopathology and the integrity of cellular DNA. TBTO treatment did not cause severe toxicity or overt clinical signs; however, by 48 h post-dosing relative thymus weights at 30 and 60 mg/kg were reduced to 66 and 43%, respectively, of control values. Increased DNA fragmentation was evident in thymic cell isolates (principally thymocytes) obtained from treated animals during the period of thymic involution. When DNA purified from these cells was visualised by agarose gel electrophoresis a multimeric internucleosomal fragmentation pattern, indicative of supra-physiological levels of apoptosis, was detected. Although unassociated apoptotic or necrotic thymocytes were essentially absent in cell preparations from TBTO-treated rats, significantly increased numbers of mononuclear phagocytic cells were observed. Many of these cells contained either apoptotic thymocytes, with nuclear morphologies exhibiting chromatin condensation, or cell remnants which were characterised as apoptotic bodies. Dibutyltin, which is a major metabolic dealkylation product of tributyltin, failed to significantly stimulate apoptosis when added to isolated thymocytes in vitro. Collectively, these findings suggest that activation of apoptosis contributes to TBT-induced thymocyte depletion in vivo, and indicate that it is unlikely that the metabolite dibutyltin is responsible for this effect.
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    Acute toxicity of two pyrethroids, permethrin, and cypermethrin in neonatal and adult rats (1993)
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    Archives of toxicology 67 (1993), S. 510-513 
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    Keywords: Pyrethroids ; Acute toxicity ; Drug metabolism inhibitors ; Neonatal ; Rat
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    Notes: Abstract The present study aims specifically at obtaining a comparison of the acute toxicity of cypermethrin (CY), a type I pyrethroid, and permethrin (PERM), a type II pyrethroid, administered orally as a single dose to neonatal and adult rats, and at assessing the importance of pyrethroid biotransformation in CY and PERM toxicity through use of drug metabolism inhibitors. Our experiments show that CY is more toxic than PERM to adult and neonatal rats. The sensitivity of neonatal rats both to CY and to PERM toxicity is higher, the younger the animals. CY is much more toxic than PERM in the neonatal rat, compared with the adult. In rats aged 8, 16, and 21 days, pretreatment with piperonil butoxide (PB), a monooxygenase inhibitor, or with tri-o-tolyl phosphate (TOTP), an esterase inhibitor, does not produce significant variations in the lethal effects of CY and PERM. Instead, in the adult rats, a significant increase in CY (X2=5.97;p〈0.05) and PERM (X2=4.37;p〈0.05) mortality occurred in rats pretreated with esterase inhibitors, whereas no increase in CY and PERM toxicity was found in adult animals pretreated with monooxygenase inhibitor. It was concluded that the higher level of sensitivity of the neonate rat to pyrethroid toxicity is probably due to incomplete development of the enzymes which catalyze the metabolism of pyrethroids in the liver of young animals. It is suggested that ester hydrolysis is an important pyrethroids detoxification reaction in the adult rat.
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    Species-specific pharmacokinetics of styrene in rat and mouse (1993)
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    Archives of toxicology 67 (1993), S. 517-530 
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    Keywords: Pharmacokinetics ; Styrene ; Diethyl dithiocarbamate ; Species scaling ; Allometric extrapolation ; Mouse ; Rat ; Man ; Closed chamber technique
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    Notes: Abstract The pharmacokinetics of styrene were investigated in male Sprague-Dawley rats and male B6C3F1 mice using the closed chamber technique. Animals were exposed to styrene vapors of initial concentrations ranging from 550 to 5000 ppm, or received intraperitoneal (i.p.) doses of styrene from 20 to 340 mg/kg or oral (p.o.) doses of styrene in olive oil from 100 to 350 mg/kg. Concentration-time courses of styrene in the chamber atmosphere were monitored and analyzed by a pharmacokinetic two-compartment model. In both species, the rate of metabolism of inhaled styrene was concentration dependent. At steady state it increased linearly with exposure concentration up to about 300 ppm; more than 95% of inhaled styrene was metabolized and only small amounts were exhaled unchanged. At these low concentrations transport to the metabolizing enzymes and not their metabolic capacity was the rate limiting step for metabolism. Pharmacokinetic behaviour of styrene was strongly influenced by physiological parameters such as blood flow and especially the alveolar ventilation rate. At exposure concentrations of styrene above 300 ppm the rate of metabolism at steady state was progressively limited by biochemical parameters of the metabolizing enzymes. Saturation of metabolism (Vmax) was reached at atmospheric concentrations of about 700 ppm in rats and 800 ppm in mice, Vmax being 224 μmol/(h·kg) and 625 μmol/(h·kg), respectively. The atmospheric concentrations at Vmax/2 were 190 ppm in rats and 270 ppm in mice. Styrene accumulates preferentially in the fatty tissue as can be deduced from its partition coefficients in olive oil∶air and water∶air which have been determined in vitro at 37°C to be 5600 and 15. In rats and mice exposed to styrene vapors below 300 ppm, there was little accumulation since the uptake was rate limiting. The bioaccumulation factor body:air at steady state (K′st*) was rather low in comparison to the thermodynamic partition coefficient body:air (Keq) which was determined to be 420. K′st* increased from 2.7 at 10 ppm to 13 at 310 ppm in the rat and from 5.9 at 20 ppm to 13 at 310 ppm in the mouse. Above 300 ppm, K′st* increased considerably with increasing concentration since metabolism became saturated in both species. At levels above 2000 ppm K′st* reached its maximum of 420 being equivalent to Keq. Pretreatment with diethyldithiocarbamate, administered intraperitoneally (200 mg/kg in rats, 400 mg/kg in mice) 15 min prior to exposure of styrene vapours, resulted in effective inhibition of styrene metabolism, indicating that most of the styrene is metabolized by cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenases. In order to simulate chronic exposure rats and mice were exposed to 150 and 500 ppm styrene on 5 consecutive days (6 h/day). On day 6, inhalation kinetics were studied. No change in the rate of styrene metabolism was detected compared to non-pretreated controls. Intraperitoneal administration of styrene to rats and mice led to concentration-time courses in the atmosphere of the closed chamber with agreed with those predicted by the applied pharmacokinetic model. After p.o. administration of styrene to rats and mice concentration time-courses showed considerable inter-animal variability. The pharmacokinetic model was extended by a first order absorption from the gastrointestinal tract with half-lives of 0.87 h (rat) and 0.41 h (mouse) to obtain reasonable fits through the measured data. The pharmacokinetic parameters of inhaled styrene were extrapolated allometrically from rat to mouse and from rat and mouse to man. A good agreement was obtained with experimentally determined values indicating similar pharmacokinetic behaviour of styrene in these species.
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