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Tommaso Cassano1, Silvana Gaetani, Maria Grazia Morgese, Teresa Macheda, Leonardo Laconca, Pasqua Dipasquale, Juan Taltavull, Toni S Shippenberg, Vincenzo Cuomo, Gabriella Gobbi.
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The goal of our study was to assess the monoaminergic changes in locus coeruleus (LC) and dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) following noradrenaline (NA) depletion. Seven days after a single N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine (DSP-4) intraperitoneal administration in mice, we observed a decrease of NA in both the LC and DRN, as well as in prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HIPP). Moreover, an increase of serotonin (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindolacetic acid (5-HIAA) was detected at LC level, while no change was found in DRN. DSP-4 also caused a significant decrease of dopamine (DA) tissue content in HIPP and DRN, without affecting the LC and the PFC. A decrease of DA metabolite, homovanillic acid (HVA), was found in the DRN of NA-depleted mice. These results highlight that the neurotoxic action of DSP-4 is not restricted to LC terminal projections but also involves NA depletion at the cell body level, where it is paralleled by adaptive changes in both serotonergic and dopaminergic systems.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19229609 PMCID： PMC2951129 DOI： 10.1007/s11064-009-9928-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurochem Res ISSN： 0364-3190 Impact factor: 3.996