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Query: EC:3.1.1.7 (acetylcholinesterase)
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The organization of the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN) in the adult rat was analyzed using cytoarchitectonic, histochemical and immunohistochemical methods. Four paired and four unpaired subnuclei can be distinguished in the IPN on the basis of neuronal size, morphology, staining characteristics and packing density. The rostral portion of the IPN contains a rostral dorsal, a rostral ventral and paired rostral lateral and dorsal lateral nuclei. The dorsal lateral nuclei continue into the caudal IPN, which also contains a caudal dorsal, a caudal ventral and paired caudal lateral nuclei. The distribution of extrinsic afferents and of chemically identified intrinsic neuronal and fiber populations within subdivisions of the IPN was examined using immunohistochemistry, acetylcholinesterase histochemistry, catecholamine histofluorescence and the autoradiographic tracing method. Six immunohistochemically distinct neuronal groups are identified in the IPN. Perikarya and axons showing substance P-, leu-enkephalin-, somatostatin-, avian pancreatic polypeptide-, serotonin- and glutamic acid decarboxylase-like immunoreactivity are localized to specific IPN subnuclei. Acetylcholinesterase-positive staining, extrinsic norepinephrine-containing fibers and afferents from the dorsal tegmental nuclei are also distributed specifically to IPN subnuclei. These findings demonstrate a cytoarchitectonic and cytochemical complexity in the rat IPN that implies an important functional role for this poorly understood nuclear complex.
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PMID:Interpeduncular nucleus organization in the rat: cytoarchitecture and histochemical analysis. 614 33

Nerve fibers containing substance P, VIP, enkephalin or somatostatin are numerous in the porcine gut wall. They are particularly numerous in the submucosal and myenteric plexuses where peptide-containing cell bodies are also observed. Peptide-containing nerve fibers occur also in the vagus nerves, suggesting that the gut receives and extrinsic supply of peptidergic nerves. The extrinsic contribution to the peptide-containing nerve supply of the gut wall has not yet been quantitatively assessed. In an attempt to clarify this question pigs were subjected to bilateral subdiaphragmatic vagotomy. Another group of animals was subjected to complete extrinsic denervation by autotransplantation of a jejunal segment. The pigs were killed at various time intervals after the operations; the longest time interval studied was four months. Following vagotomy the innervation pattern of the jejunum appeared completely unaffected. Following complete extrinsic denervation the adrenergic nerve fibers disappeared, while peptide-containing and acetylcholinesterase-positive nerve fibers remained apparently unaltered. This was confirmed chemically in the case of substance P. The motor activity of smooth muscle from the jejunum was studied in vitro. At low stimulation frequencies the smooth muscle from control jejunum responded by relaxation; upon cessation of stimulation a contraction occurred. With increasing stimulation frequencies the duration of the relaxation decreased; at high frequency stimulation only a contraction was recorded. In the autotransplant low frequency stimulation induced no or only a weak relaxation; high frequency stimulation induced contraction. After cholinergic and adrenergic blockade, the muscle responded with relaxation at all frequencies; the response was similar in innervated and denervated specimens. On the whole, the effects of extrinsic denervation on the motor activity of smooth muscle from porcine jejunum were minor, possibly reflecting the high degree of autonomy of the gut.
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PMID:Peptide-containing neurons intrinsic to the gut wall. An experimental study in the pig. 616 67

Capsaicin was applied locally to the sciatic or saphenous nerve, and the effects on axoplasmic transport, neurogenic plasma extravasation, and thermal pain were studied. Capsaicin (10 mg/ml) led to a complete block of axoplasmic transport of immunoreactive substance P (I-SP) and somatostatin (I-SRIF) in rat sciatic nerve without affecting the transport of noradrenaline or acetylcholinesterase. Inhibition of I-SP transport was also found in sciatic nerves of guinea-pig, cat and rabbit. In contrast, one or two weeks after systemic capsaicin treatment (125 mg/kg s.c.), orthograde transport of I-SP was the same in control and capsaicin-treated rats. After local capsaicin application to the sciatic nerve, a decrease of I-SP was found not only in skin and sciatic nerve distal to the site of application, but also in dorsal root ganglia, dorsal roots and the dorsal half of the spinal cord segments L 4-5. This was accompanied by a loss of acid phosphatase activity in the substantia gelatinosa supplied by sciatic nerve afferents. Plasma extravasation by mustard oil was reduced in the skin of the hind paw with a time course identical to the I-SP depletion. The response to noxious heat (hot plate test) was, however, abolished earlier. These results indicate that capsaicin applied to a peripheral nerve inhibits axoplasmic transport in sensory but not in adrenergic or cholinergic neurons, which leads to long-term biochemical and functional changes of the entire sensory neuron. In addition, capsaicin appears to inhibit impulse propagation in certain populations of sensory neurons.
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PMID:Capsaicin applied to peripheral nerve inhibits axoplasmic transport of substance P and somatostatin. 617 69

Four peptides--vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, substance P, somatostatin and a peptide-like avian pancreatic polypeptide--have been found in nerves of the human male genitalia using highly sensitive and specific methods of immunocytochemistry and radioimmunoassay. Five other peptides (met-enkephalin, leu-enkephalin, neurotensin, bombesin and cholecystokinin-8) were absent. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide was the most abundant peptide, its highest concentration being in the proximal corpus cavernosum. Immunoelectron microscopy localized this peptide to large (97 +/- 20 nm), round, electron-dense granules of p-type nerve terminals. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive neuronal cell bodies were found in the prostate gland and the root of the corpus cavernosum. Substance P immunoreactive material was present in smaller concentration and was mainly localized in nerves around the corpuscular receptors of the glans penis. Somatostatin immunoreactive nerves were associated mainly with the smooth muscle of the seminal vesicle and the vas deferens. When antiserum to avian pancreatic polypeptide was applied, certain nerves were stained, particularly in the vas deferens, the prostate gland and the seminal vesicle. However, chromatography detected no pure avian pancreatic polypeptide suggesting the presence of a structurally related substance, possibly neuropeptide Y, which cross-reacts with the avian pancreatic polypeptide antiserum. Similar distributions between vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive and acetylcholinesterase-positive nerves and between avian pancreatic polypeptide-immunoreactive and adrenergic nerves were observed. A general neuronal marker, neuron-specific enolase, was used to investigate the general pattern of the organ's innervation. The abundance and distribution patterns of these peptide-immunoreactive nerves indicate that they may play important roles in the male sexual physiology.
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PMID:Peptidergic innervation of the human male genital tract. 619 58

Frozen sections 10 microns thick were cut from the retina of chicks which had been kept either in total darkness or in a well lit room. The sections were incubated with acetylcholinesterase before antibodies to [Leu] enkephalin, substance P or somatostatin were applied. Sections of bovine adrenals were treated similarly but they were developed only with antibodies to [Leu]enkephalin. There were low numbers of immunoreactive amacrine cells and processes when any of the three antibodies were used on sections of dark-adapted retinae. When the sections were treated with acetylcholinesterase, however, the enkephalin-like and substance P-like immunoreactivity was enhanced while there was no effect on somatostatin. Counts of immunofluorescent cells indicated that the numbers had increased to levels like those found in light-adapted retinae. The adrenal also showed an enhanced enkephalin-like immunoreaction after treatment with the enzyme. Incubation with buffer alone or with enzyme together with 10 mM acetylcholine abolished the reaction. Acetylcholinesterase treatment of sections from light-adapted retinae had no discernible effect on the already high immunoreaction found using any of the three antisera. It is concluded that the peptidase activity of acetylcholinesterase has the capacity to hydrolyze proteins of which some may be the precursor molecules for the enkephalins and substance P. Since the amacrine cells that contain the enkephalin-like and the substance P-like immunoreactivity were found to contain acetylcholinesterase, it is possible that the action found here in vitro represents a physiological function of the enzyme. The immunoreactivity on which there was no effect, somatostatin, does not co-exist with acetylcholinesterase. A second conclusion that may be drawn from these data is that the dark-adapted retinae lose immunoreactive peptide because of the rate of processing; the results suggest that there is adequate precursor molecule available to maintain "control" levels.
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PMID:Treatment of sections of chick retina with acetylcholinesterase increases the enkephalin and substance P immunoreactivity. 620 21

The striatum (caudate-putamen) of the basal ganglia in the mammalian forebrain is a mosaic of two interdigitating, neurochemically distinct compartments. One type, the 'patch' compartment, is identified by patches of dense opiate receptor binding, and is enriched in enkephalin- and substance P-like immunoreactivity. The other compartment, the 'matrix', has a high acetylcholinesterase activity, and is shown here to have a dense plexus of fibres displaying somatostatin-like immunoreactivity. The present study demonstrates the two compartments have distinct connections, using a method that concurrently reveals striatal input, output and neurochemical systems in the rat. Patches receive inputs from the prelimbic cortex (a medial frontal cortical area with direct 'limbic' inputs from the amygdala and hippocampus); they also project to the substantia nigra pars compacta (the source of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system). Conversely, the matrix receives inputs from sensory and motor cortical areas; here it is shown to project to the substantia nigra pars reticulata (the source of the non-dopaminergic nigrothalamic and nigrotectal system). Also, an intrinsic striatal somatostatin-immunoreactive system is described that may provide a link between the two compartments. The striatal patch and matrix compartments thus appear to be functionally distinct and interactive parallel input-output processing channels.
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PMID:The neostriatal mosaic: compartmentalization of corticostriatal input and striatonigral output systems. 620 34

The rat hippocampus and fascia dentata contain neurons and terminal fields that react immunohistochemically with antisera raised against the peptides somatostatin, cholecystokinin (CCK), and enkephalin. Neurons with overlapping distribution synthesize acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as shown histochemically after systemic administration of diisopropylfluorophosphate (DFP). We used these techniques to examine the organization of peptidergic neurons and fibers and AChE-positive neurons in transplants of late embryonic and early postnatal rat hippocampi inserted into the brain of immature and adult rats. The astroglial organization was examined using an antibody raised against the astroglial marker, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). Eighty percent of the transplants were recovered. Within the transplants the peptidergic neurons, and the AChE-producing neurons retained their characteristic distributions. An organotypical astroglial pattern was also retained with some indication of a higher than normal density of cells and processes. The transplant neuropil displayed characteristic patterns of terminal field-like staining with the enkephalin and CCK antibodies. An enkephalin-like reactivity characteristic of the large mossy fiber terminals was found in the normal mossy fiber zones. A similar staining, but of smaller particle size, was found in and above the granule cell layer. It corresponded to the aberrant, supragranular mossy fiber projection, known to form after denervation of the dentate molecular layer. Also the CCK-like reactivity of the transplant neuropil was distributed in laminar patterns characteristic of the different subfields. Deviations from the normal patterns again followed known principles for lesion-induced aberrant nerve growth. Normalization of the enkephalin and CCK staining patterns in the dentate molecular layer was observed in transplants with intimate contact with the host dentate molecular layer or entorhinal cortex, but only in immature recipients, and not in every case. The staining was typically of the enkephalin-reacting lateral perforant path and the CCK-reacting medial perforant path and distributed in normal, mutually exclusive laminae in the dentate molecular layer. An invasion of the transplant dentate molecular layer by heterologous, host enkephalin- and CCK-like reacting afferents in transplants located in the host basal ganglia was limited at most. Outgrowth of CCK and enkephalin reacting transplant fibers into the host brains was not observed in this study.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Neuropeptides and astroglia in intracerebral hippocampal transplants: an immunohistochemical study in the rat. 648 Aug 97

A unique group of neurons in the submucous plexus of the gastrointestinal tract in guinea pigs was studied using (1) Nissl staining and an enzyme histochemical technique for acetylcholinesterase (AChE), (2) immunohistochemical methods for the localisation of neuron specific enolase (NSE) and neuropeptides, including vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), substance P (SP), somatostatin (SOM), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), leu-enkephalin (leu-ENK), neuropeptide (NPY) and cholecystokinin (CCK), (3) a fluorescence tracer technique involving the intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of fluorogold, and (4) normal electron microscopy. The results showed that these neurons were distributed singly or in groups in the submucosa. They were closely adherent to the outer walls of lymphatic vessels, some appearing to protrude into the lumen. Ultrastructurally, only a thin layer of basal lamina and some collagen fibrils intervened between the endothelia of the lymphatic vessels and these neurons. Based on their synaptic contacts and the features of their content of synaptic vesicles, at least 4 types of axon terminal forming synaptic contacts with the 'lymphatic vessel-associated neurons' (LV-AN) were identified. The sources of origin of these terminals remains uncertain although it is speculated that they may be derived from vagal efferents or of intrinsic origin from the neighbouring neurons. All the LV-AN showed AChE and NSE positive reactions, but only a varying number were positive for VIP, SP, SOM, ENK, CGRP, CCK or NPY. The LV-AN were labelled with fluorogold injected i.p.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Studies of the lymphatic vessel-associated neurons in the intestine of the guinea pig. 755 16

Pyridostigmine (PST), a cholinesterase inhibitor, induces a clear growth hormone (GH) release in man by suppression of hypothalamic somatostatin (SRIH). Somatostatin suppresses thyrotrophin (TSH) release in rats and men. Earlier studies showed that the thryotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH)-induced TSH response was not altered by 60-120 mg of PST. We studied whether a larger dose (180 mg) of PST can increase the TSH response to TRH. Six healthy young men were studied with the following six tests: (Test 1) 200 micrograms of TRH i.v.; (Test 2) 180 mg of PST po; (Test 3) three different doses of PST (60, 120, 180 mg) + TRH; (Test 4) 100 micrograms of octreotide (SMS) i.v.; (Test 5) SMS + TRH; (Test 6) PST + SMS + TRH. A large dose of PST (180 mg) significantly augmented GH, TSH and prolactin responses to TRH, while smaller doses of PST (60 and 120 mg) did not significantly increase the responses of GH and TSH. While the increased TRH-induced prolactin response by PST was not suppressed by SMS, the increased responses of GH and TSH were suppressed remarkably by SMS. Most of the subjects noticed a mild to moderate abdominal pain, nausea and muscular fasciculation after the administration of a large dose of PST administration. These data suggest that suppression of hypothalamic SRIH secretion by 180 mg of PST can augment the TSH response to TRH. However, the considerable side effects should be minimized before clinical application of the combined PST-TRH test.
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PMID:Combined pyridostigmine-thyrotrophin-releasing hormone test for the evaluation of hypothalamic somatostatinergic activity in healthy normal men. 758 70

21 patients with mild type of chronic superficial gastritis were selected in this study. The effect of electroacupuncture in Zhongwan (RM12), Neiguan (P6) and Sanyinjiao (Sp6) on gastric acid secretion, serum gastrin, plasma somatostatin, plasma motilin concentration and erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase (AchE) activity were observed. The results were as follows: There were significant decreases in gastric acid output, serum gastrin concentration and AchE activity (P < 0.05), but no significant changes in plasma somatostatin and motilin concentration (P > 0.05) after simultaneous electroacupuncture in Zhongwan, Neiguan and Sanyinjiao.
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PMID:[Effect of electroacupuncture on gastric acid secretion and gut hormones]. 771 1


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