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Query: EC:3.5.4.4 (adenosine deaminase)
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Dopamine (DA) stimulates the cAMP-generating system in the male rat hypothalamus only to a very low extent (25% above control). Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen, was found to be extremely potent (a 4- and 16-fold stimulation at 20 micron and 100 micron, respectively). Addition of either one to an incubation medium containing varying concentrations of the other resulted in a synergistic response. The potentiation by 20 micron DES of the effect elicited by 100 micron DA was the most remarkable, namely, a 3-fold stimulation of the combined response. A 4- and 7.5-fold stimulation of cAMP accumulation was observed when adenosine (100 micron) or adenosine (100 micron) + DA (100 micron) were present in the incubation medium. Theophylline (0.5 mM), an adenosine antagonist, could effectively reduce this effect, as did adenosine deaminase (10 microgram/ml). Clomiphene (50 micron), an estrogen antagonist, exhibited a marked decrease in DES + DA-elicited cAMP formation. Pimozide (40 micron) had the ability to significantly block the stimulatory effects of DES and DA.
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PMID:Diethylstilbestrol potentiation of the dopamine-elicited formation of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate in incubated male rat hypothalamus. 20 9

Dopamine synthesis rate and cyclic AMP concentration were measured in synaptosomes prepared from rat striatum. Dopamine synthesis rate was decreased by the addition of either adenosine deaminase or 8-phenyltheophylline, an adenosine receptor blocker, and was increased by the addition of 2-chloroadenosine. The addition of L-glutamate in the absence of adenosine deaminase decreased both dopamine synthesis rate and cyclic AMP concentration; in the presence of adenosine deaminase, glutamate had no effect on basal dopamine synthesis, but enhanced K(+)-stimulated synthesis. Both these effects of glutamate were abolished in Ca2(+)-free medium or in the presence of 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate, an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker. In Mg2(+)-free medium with adenosine deaminase, glutamate enhanced both basal and K(+)-stimulated synthesis. These results suggest that dopaminergic terminals have A2 adenosine receptors, whose activation can stimulate dopamine synthesis by a cyclic AMP-dependent mechanism, and NMDA receptors, which modulate dopamine synthesis by a Ca2(+)-dependent mechanism.
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PMID:Presynaptic adenosine A2 and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors regulate dopamine synthesis in rat striatal synaptosomes. 167 86

Dopamine and 2-chloroadenosine independently promoted the accumulation of cyclic AMP in retinas from 16-day-old chick embryos. The two compounds added together either in saturating or subsaturating concentrations were not additive for the accumulation of the cyclic nucleotide in the tissue. This fact was shown to be due to the existence of an adenosine receptor that mediates the inhibition of the dopamine-dependent cyclic AMP accumulation in the retina. Adenosine inhibited, in a dose-dependent fashion, the accumulation of cyclic AMP induced by dopamine in 12-day-old chick embryo retinas, with an IC50 of approximately 1 microM. This effect was not blocked by dipyridamole. N6-(l-Phenylisopropyl)adenosine, (l-PIA) was the most potent adenosine analog tested, showing an IC50 of 0.1 microM which was two orders of magnitude lower than its stereoisomer d-PIA (10 microM). The maximal inhibition of the dopamine-elicited cyclic AMP accumulation by adenosine and related analogs was 70%. The inhibitory effect promoted by adenosine was blocked by 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) or by adenosine deaminase. Adenine was not effective; whereas ATP and AMP promoted the inhibition of the dopamine effect only at very high concentrations. Apomorphine was only 30% as effective as dopamine in promoting the cyclic AMP accumulation in retinas from 11- to 12-day-old embryos and 2-chloroadenosine did not interfere with the apomorphine-mediated shift in cyclic AMP levels. In the retinas from 5-day-old posthatched chickens dopamine and apomorphine were equally effective in eliciting the accumulation of cyclic AMP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Expression of A1 adenosine receptors modulating dopamine-dependent cyclic AMP accumulation in the chick embryo retina. 257 99