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This study was designed to determine if morphine administered intrathecally (IT) interacts with serotonergic or noradrenergic nerve terminals in the spinal cord to produce analgesia on the spinally mediated tail-flick test. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fitted with IT catheters. One week later, animals were spinally pretreated with receptor antagonists selective for opioid, serotonin or alpha-adrenoceptors, and the ability of these agents to alter spinal morphine-induced antinociception was assessed. Morphine dose-dependently elevated tail-flick latency in a naltrexone-reversible manner. The serotonin receptor antagonists spiroxatrine (5-HT1A), pindolol (5-HT1B), ritanserin (5-HT2) and ICS 205-930 (5-HT3) attenuated the spinal analgesic effects of morphine. In contrast, the alpha 1 and alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists prazosin and yohimbine, respectively, did not alter morphine-induced elevations in tail-flick latency. These data substantiate earlier reports that spinal morphine-induced antinociception relies on an opioid receptor-mediated component in addition to a local serotonergic component. The finding that the alpha-adrenoceptor antagonists did not alter the antinociceptive effects of IT morphine suggests that spinal norepinephrine does not contribute to the analgesic effects of the opiate.
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PMID:Serotonin contributes to the spinal antinociceptive effects of morphine. 168

A series of serotonergic agents were assessed for their ability to antagonize isolation-induced aggression and their activity to disrupt performance in the rotorod motor coordination test. All compounds with 5-HT1A activity [buspirone, gepirone, ipsapirone, tandospirone (SM-3997), 8-OH-DPAT, Wy-48,723, BMY-7378, Wy-47,846] reduced aggression at doses below those which produced debilitation in the rotorod motor coordination test. In addition, the 5-HT3 antagonist zacopride failed to attenuate aggression or produce debilitation at any of the doses tested; however, the 5-HT2 antagonist ritanserin inhibited aggressive behavior at a high dose which was not debilitating. Benzodiazepines (chlordiazepoxide, diazepam and lorazepam), and antidepressant (desipramine) and an antipsychotic (haloperidol) reduced aggressive behavior only at debilitating doses. Activity at the 5-HT1A receptor, and possibly nonsedative anxiolytic activity, appears to be related to antagonism of isolation-induced aggression.
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PMID:Effects of serotonergic agents on isolation-induced aggression. 168 5

The effects of known anxiolytic agents and putative anxiolytic agents were assessed in mice in a fully automated 2-compartment light/dark test. Significant increases in lit area activities (e.g., time spent in the lit area, locomotor activity, rearing behavior) were used as possible indicators of anxiolytic-like action. The measurement found most consistent and useful for assessing antianxiety-like activity was the time mice spent in the lit area. The benzodiazepine, diazepam; the 5-HT1A agent, ipsapirone; and the 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, ondansetron, produced significant anxiolytic-like activity between doses of 1.0 to 10.0 mg/kg, 17.8 to 31.6 mg/kg, and 0.0001 to 1.0 mg/kg respectively. The 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-OH DPAT, also exhibited anxiolytic-like action between doses of 0.0005 to 3.16 mg/kg. In contrast, the peripheral 5-HT3 receptor agonist, N-phenylbiguanide; the antidepressant, imipramine; the neuroleptic, chlorpromazine; and the CNS stimulant, S(+)-amphetamine, did not display antianxiety-like activity. The positive results obtained for the three types of compounds (benzodiazepine, 5-HT1A, and 5-HT3) indicate that this fully automated light/dark apparatus may be useful for identifying known and putative anxiolytic agents.
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PMID:A fully automated light/dark apparatus useful for comparing anxiolytic agents. 168 62

The level of cyclic AMP in NCB-20 cells was increased by serotonin (5-HT), 5-methoxytryptamine and 2-methyl-5-HT with EC50 of 0.5 +/- 0.1, 1.0 +/- 0.1, 10 +/- 0.1 microM, respectively. The 5-HT-mediated increase of cyclic AMP content was completely blocked by metergoline but unaffected by 5-HT3 antagonists, ICS 205-930, MDL 72222, quipazine and 5-HT2 antagonist, ketanserin. Putative 5-HT1A agonists (8-OH-DPAT, ipsapirone, and buspirone) and 5-HT1B agonists (TFMPP and m-CPP) affected neither basal nor forskolin-dependent cyclic AMP accumulation. Receptor binding studies suggest that NCB-20 cells are devoid of 5-HT1A and 5-HT1B receptor sites. Application of 5-HT onto NCB-20 cells resulted in membrane depolarization by an evoked inward current which displayed rapid desensitization. 5-HT-mediated current had a reversal potential around 0 mV and was potently and reversibly inhibited by ICS 205-930. Our data suggest that in NCB-20 cells the 5-HT3 receptor is involved in the generation of inward currents, while the 5-HT receptor coupled to adenylate cyclase does not seem to correspond to any of the known receptor subtypes.
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PMID:Characterization of two distinct 5-HT receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase activation and ion current generation in NCB-20 cells. 168 72

The effects of various manipulations of brain 5-HT mechanisms on the behavioural responses induced by the selective NK-3 tachykinin agonist senktide in rodents were assessed. Senktide elicited wet dog shakes in the rat which were attenuated by the 5-HT1C/2 antagonist mianserin and the selective 5-HT2 antagonist altanserin. Senktide-induced forepaw treading was stereospecifically attenuated by the 5-HT1A + B antagonist (-)-alprenolol. Senktide also elicited chewing mouth movements and yawning, which were unaffected by mianserin, altanserin, (+)- or (-)-alprenolol, or the selective 5-HT3 antagonist ICS 205-930, but attenuated by the muscarinic antagonist scopolamine. Penile grooming elicited by senktide was attenuated by mianserin, but was unaffected by the other antagonists. Senktide-induced wet dog shakes were enhanced by the 5-HT reuptake inhibitors citalopram and fluoxetine, suppressed by the monoamine oxidase (MAO)-B inhibitor pargyline, but unaffected by the MAO-A inhibitor clorgyline. Forepaw treading was potentiated by citalopram and clorgyline, but not significantly altered by fluoxetine or pargyline. Depletion of 5-HT by p-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) in the rat attenuated senktide-induced wet dog shakes and forepaw treading. Neither PCPA nor 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine affected senktide-induced behaviours in the mouse, but the degree of brain 5-HT depletion caused by these treatments in mice was relatively small. These findings indicate that stimulation of NK-3 tachykinin receptors by senktide results in a complex behavioural syndrome which is mediated by multiple 5-HT receptors, and dependent upon intact stores of endogenous 5-HT. Independent stimulation of brain cholinergic mechanisms by senktide is also confirmed.
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PMID:Pharmacological characterization of the behavioural syndrome induced by the NK-3 tachykinin agonist senktide in rodents: evidence for mediation by endogenous 5-HT. 169 59

Serotonin (5-HT) plays a major role as a neurotransmitter in the brain and large amounts are found in blood platelets. 5-HT release can be induced by action potentials invading the nerve terminals and by platelet aggregation. The targets of 5-HT are specific receptors mediating a wide variety of central and peripheral effects. For two of the main 5-HT receptor classes, the 5-HT2 and 5-HT3 receptors, selective antagonists are available, but this is not the case for the heterogeneous population of 5-HT1 receptors. In addition, the drugs with antagonistic properties at the 5-HT1A, 5-HT1B, 5-HT1C, and 5-HT1D receptors block other 5-HT receptors or even entirely different receptors (e.g., beta-adrenoceptors); as a rule, they do not discriminate between the four 5-HT receptor subtypes. Identification and characterization of these subtypes is further complicated by the fact that, with the exception of drugs activating 5-HT1A receptors, e.g., 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) and urapidil; no subtype-selective agonists are available. Hence, the pharmacological characterization of a 5-HT1 receptor must be based on experiments with several putative 5-HT receptor agonists and antagonists with an overlapping profile of affinities for the various 5-HT1 receptor subclasses. The 5-HT1A receptor is the best-defined subclass and has already been cloned. It has been identified on cell bodies of 5-HT neurons in the raphe nuclei, and it mediates inhibition of cell firing.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Identification and classification of 5-HT1 receptor subtypes. 170 82

The effects of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) on the cardiovascular system are complex. These effects, consisting of bradycardia or tachycardia, hypotension or hypertension, and vasodilation or vasoconstriction are mediated by three main sets of receptors called 5-HT1-like, 5-HT2, and 5-HT3. In addition, recent findings suggest the participation of a putative 5-HT4 receptor. Though selective 5-HT1A receptor agonists can lower heart rate (and arterial blood pressure), 5-HT usually lowers heart rate by eliciting an initial short-lasting hypotension due to bradycardia (von Bezold-Jarisch-like reflex) via 5-HT3 receptors located on sensory vagal nerve endings in the heart. Once this bradycardia reflex is suppressed--for example, during deep anesthesia, vagotomy, or spinal section--5-HT can increase heart rate in different species by a variety of mechanisms. Myocardial 5-HT1-like, 5-HT2, and 5-HT4 receptors appear to be involved in the cat, rat, and pig, respectively. 5-HT-induced tachycardia in the dog and rabbit is due mainly to release of catecholamines and involves 5-HT2 receptors on the adrenal medulla and 5-HT3 receptors on postganglionic cardiac sympathetic nerve fibers. Recently, 5-HT3 receptors also have been implicated in the 5-HT-induced tachycardia in the conscious dog. The blood pressure response to 5-HT is usually triphasic and consists of a von Bezold-Jarisch-like reflex, a middle pressor phase, and a longer-lasting hypotension. The pressor response is a consequence of vasoconstriction mediated via 5-HT2 receptors; however, vasoconstriction in the dog saphenous vein and cephalic arteries and arteriovenous anastomoses is due to stimulation of 5-HT1-like receptors. The depressor response exclusively involves 5-HT1-like receptors located at four different sites: (a) central nervous system (decrease in sympathetic and increase in vagal nervous activity), (b) sympathetic nerve terminals (reduction of transmitter release), (c) vascular smooth muscle (vasodilatation), and (d) vascular endothelium (release of a relaxant factor, probably nitric oxide). Arteriolar dilatation, together with the constriction of arteriovenous anastomoses, leads to an increase in nutrient (tissue; capillary) blood flow. The 5-HT1-like receptors are heterogeneous in nature; however, apart from the resemblance of the central nervous system 5-HT1-like receptor causing hypotension and bradycardia to the 5-HT1A binding subtype, the relationship of the other 5-HT1-like receptors to 5-HT1 binding subtypes is still debatable.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Cardiovascular effects of serotonin agonists and antagonists. 170 84

The aim of the present study in rat spinal cord synaptosomes was to compare the pharmacological characteristics of the serotonin (5-HT)1B receptor defined by [125I]iodocyanopindolol [( 125I] ICYP) binding and the 5-HT autoreceptor defined by inhibition of [3H]-5-HT release. In Percoll gradient Fractions 3 and 4 of spinal cord synaptosomes, a single saturable binding site for [125I]ICYP with a maximum binding of 70 and 134 fmol/mg, respectively, was demonstrated in the presence of 30 microM isoproterenol. The Kd of 0.16 nM did not vary between fractions. Competition for [125I]ICYP binding by various 5-HT agonists and antagonists also indicated a single site model based on a Hill coefficient of approximately 1.0. The most potent compounds at displacing [125I]ICYP binding were RU 24969 (5-methoxy-3-[1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridin-4-yl]-1H-indole), 5-carboxyamidotryptamine HCl, 5-methoxytryptamine, 5-HT and CGS 12066B (7-trifluoromethyl-4(4 methyl-1-pyrolo[1,2-a]-quinoxaline malate). [125I]ICYP binding was not altered by compounds with activity at 5-HT1A, 5-HT1C, 5-HT2, 5-HT3 or alpha-2 receptor sites. Similar to the pharmacological characteristics of the 5HT1B site defined by [125I]ICYP, compounds most active at inhibiting 15 mM K(+)-stimulated release of [3H]-5-HT were RU24969 = 5-carboxyamidotryptamine HCl = CGS 12066B greater than 5-methoxytryptamine greater than 5-HT. Compounds with activity at 5-HT1A, 5-HT1C, 5-HT2 or 5-HT3 sites were inactive. A correlation analysis of selective 5-HT1B compounds comparing the pKD for displacement of [125I]ICYP vs. the IC50 for inhibition of [3H]-5-HT release demonstrated the pharmacological similarity of the presynaptic inhibitory 5-HT autoreceptor and the 5-HT receptor site defined by [125I]ICYP binding in spinal cord synaptosomes (r = 0.791, P = .0193). Although [125I]ICYP binding was unaltered, alpha-2 agonists such as clonidine, norepinephrine and UK 14304 [5-bromo-6-[2-imidazolin-2-ylamino]-quinoxaline) as well as the alpha-2 antagonists rauwolscine and yohimbine also decreased the K(+)-stimulated release of [3H]-5-HT and phentolamine, an alpha-2 antagonist increased release. The action of these alpha-2 compounds to alter [3H]-5-HT release suggests the presence of heteroreceptors localized on 5-HT terminals in the spinal cord. These results point out that [125I]ICYP identifies the 5-HT1B receptor, and affinity of compounds for this site predicts action at the 5-HT1B autoreceptor.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Characterization of 5-hydroxytryptamine1B receptors in rat spinal cord via [125I]iodocyanopindolol binding and inhibition of [3H]-5-hydroxytryptamine release. 173 11

The affinity of a new serotonin (S) derivative, serotonin-O-carboxymethyl-glycyl-tyrosinamide (S-CM-GTNH2), for the various 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)1 receptor subtypes was tested using quantitative autoradiography on rat and guinea pig brain sections. In the rat, S-CM-GTNH2 is 57 and 24 times more potent at 5-HT1B sites (IC50 = 28 nM) than at 5-HT1A (IC50 = 1600 nM) and 5-HT1C sites (IC50 = 670 nM), respectively. In the guinea pig, the affinity of S-CM-GTNH2 for 5-HT1D sites (IC50 = 67 nM) is 21 times higher than at 5-HT1A sites (IC50 = 1400 nM). S-CM-GTNH2 shows a low affinity (less than 10 microM) for 5-HT2 and 5-HT3 binding sites. This new ligand is therefore highly specific for 5-HT1B and 5-HT1D binding sites and can be used to further characterize the involvement of these subtypes in physiological studies focusing particularly on behavioral effects.
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PMID:Pharmacological characterization of serotonin-O-carboxymethyl-glycyl-tyrosinamide, a new selective indolic ligand for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)1B and 5-HT1D binding sites. 176 84

Enteric neural 5-HT receptors were analyzed and related to possible physiological actions of 5-HT. Receptors were identified electrophysiologically with intracellular microelectrodes and by studies of the binding of radioligands. Radioligand binding was assessed by rapid filtration and by radioautography. Three subtypes of 5-HT receptor, 5-HT1P, 5-HT3, and 5-HT1A, were identified. 5-HT1P receptors were found to mediate slow depolarizations of myenteric neurons that were associated with a decrease in membrane conductance. These responses were inhibited by 5-HTP-DP and by BRL 24924 and mimicked by 5- and 6-hydroxyindalpine. 5-HT1P receptors were labeled with high affinity by 3H-5-HT and were located on both submucosal and myenteric neurons and on processes of intrinsic neurons in the lamina propria. Serotonergic EPSPs were found to be mediated by 5-HT1P receptors; it is postulated that 5-HT1P receptors may be involved in initiation of the peristaltic reflex and in the regulation of gastic emptying. 5-HT3 receptors have been shown to be responsible for fast depolarizations of myenteric and submucosal neurons associated with a rise in membrane conductance. These responses are antagonized by ICS 205-930 and mimicked by 2-methyl-5-HT. 5-HT1A receptors have been reported by others to mediate hyperpolarizing responses of myenteric neurons associated with a rise in membrane conductance. Hyperpolarizing responses are also elicited by the 5-HT1A agonist, 8-OH-DPAT. No physiological role has yet been identified for 5-HT3 or 5-HT1A receptors in the ENS.
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PMID:Serotonin: its role and receptors in enteric neurotransmission. 177 68


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