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Biochemical and electrophysiological approaches were used to assess the possible changes in 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) 5-HT1A receptors in the rat brain after a long-term treatment with cericlamine [2-(3,4-dichlorobenzyl)-2-dimethylamino-1-propanol], a novel serotonin reuptake inhibitor with antidepressant properties. Possible changes in other serotonin receptor binding sites (5-HT2A, 5-HT2C and 5-HT3) were also investigated after this treatment. Cericlamine was injected for 2 weeks at a dose (16 mg/kg i.p., twice daily) that ensured complete prevention of 4-methyl-alpha-ethyl-meta-tyramine-induced depletion of brain serotonin. In vitro binding and quantitative autoradiographic studies showed that neither 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C nor 5-HT3 receptor binding sites in various brain areas were affected by the 14-day treatment with cericlamine. Although forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was significantly increased in hippocampal homogenates from cericlamine-treated rats, the reduction in this enzymatic activity due to 5-HT1A receptor stimulation by 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) was unchanged in these animals as compared with controls. In contrast, in vitro and in vivo electrophysiological recordings of serotoninergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus revealed a clearcut functional desensitization of somatodendritic 5-HT1A autoreceptors. Thus the potency of 8-OH-DPAT and ipsapirone to depress the firing rate of these neurons in brain stem slices was significantly reduced after the 2-week treatment with cericlamine. In vivo, the potency of an injection of cericlamine to inhibit the discharge of serotoninergic neurons was also markedly less in rats that had been pretreated for 2 weeks with this drug as compared with controls. However, the inhibitory effects of systemically injected 8-OH-DPAT and ipsapirone on the electrical activity of serotoninergic neurons were as pronounced in cericlamine-treated rats as in controls. In addition, the reduction in serotonin synthesis due to an acute treatment with 8-OH-DPAT (0.1 or 0.3 mg/kg s.c.) was not significantly different in both groups of rats. These data support the idea that postsynaptic (in the hippocampus) and somatodendritic (in the dorsal raphe nucleus) 5-HT1A receptors are differently regulated in the rat brain, because only the latter receptors desensitized after a long-term blockade of serotonin reuptake by cericlamine. They also suggest that the inhibitory influence of systemically administered direct 5-HT1A agonists such as 8-OH-DPAT and ipsapirone on the electrical and metabolic activity of serotoninergic neurons does not result solely from the stimulation of somatodendritic 5-HT1A autoreceptors.
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PMID:Central pre- and postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors in rats treated chronically with a novel antidepressant, cericlamine. 813 56

The Fusarium mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) is a potent emetic agent. While the basic mechanisms which invoke and mediate emesis are still poorly understood, various neurotransmitters appear to be involved. The action of these transmitters can be blocked by various receptor-specific antagonists. The current study investigated the efficacy of several classes of receptor antagonists to block the emetic effect of DON. Following anti-emetic pretreatment, pigs were administered the toxin (i.v., 80 micrograms/kg, or oral, 300 micrograms/kg) and the onset of emesis was monitored. Certain specific serotonin (5HT3)-receptor antagonists (ICS 205-930, BRL 43694 A) were found to efficaciously prevent DON-induced vomiting. These observations support the hypothesis that serotonin plays an important role in chemically induced emesis. Also moderately effective, but requiring high doses, were the 5HT2-receptor antagonists, cyproheptadine and sulpiride. A variety of compounds possessing strong anticholinergic activity were also efficacious. These, however, apparently act directly at the emetic center and thus are capable of preventing emesis regardless of the cause, including chemically induced vomiting. Non-effective were the antihistaminic and antidopaminergic anti-emetics; except, those which also possessed considerable anticholinergic activity, and i.v. administered chlorpromazine which has been speculated to block specific receptors found in the brain's chemoreceptor trigger zone (CTZ) reportedly involved in initiating emesis.
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PMID:The efficacy of various classes of anti-emetics in preventing deoxynivalenol-induced vomiting in swine. 816 50

The binding of [3H]endo-N-(8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1.]oct-3-yl)- 2,3-dihydro-3-ethyl-2-oxo-1H-benzimidazole-1-carboxamide hydrochloride ([3H]BIMU-1) a benzimidazolone with high affinity for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)3 and 4 5-HT3 and 5-HT4 receptors, was characterized in NG-108 cells and guinea pig hippocampus. Specific, heat-sensitive, binding of [3H]BIMU-1 was detected in both NG-108 cells and guinea pig hippocampus. In NG-108 cell membranes, a portion of the specific binding was displaced by 5-HT3 receptor ligands with affinities and specificity consistent with the labeling of 5-HT3 receptors. The residual specific binding was insensitive to serotonin (Ki > 1 mM) but was displaced by haloperidol (Ki of 50 nM). In guinea pig hippocampal membranes [3H]BIMU-1 binding was insensitive to serotonin but was displaced by haloperidol, and 1,3-di-o-tolyl-guanidine with affinities appropriate for the labeling of a sigma binding site (Ki of 6.3 and 31 nM, respectively). The affinity profile of ligands displacing [3H] BIMU-1 binding in guinea pig hippocampus was consistent with the selective labeling of a sigma-2 binding site because the sigma-1 selective benzomorphans, (+)-pentazocine and (+)-N-allylnormetazocine, only weakly displaced the binding (Ki greater than 1 microM). The affinity of BIMU-1 for sigma-2 binding sites (Ki = 32 nM) was 200-fold greater than that for sigma-1 binding sites (Ki = 6.3 microM), dopamine (D1 and D2), other serotonin (5-HT1A, 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C) and muscarinic (M1, M2, M3 and M4) receptors (Ki > 10 microM). The distribution of haloperidol-sensitive [3H]BIMU-1 binding was also consistent with the labeling of sigma-2 binding sites. These data suggest that [3H]BIMU-1 selectively labels sigma-2 binding sites in guinea pig hippocampus. [3H]BIMU-1, under appropriate experimental conditions, is thus the first sigma-2 binding site radioligand to be characterized.
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PMID:[3H]BIMU-1, a 5-hydroxytryptamine3 receptor ligand in NG-108 cells, selectively labels sigma-2 binding sites in guinea pig hippocampus. 824 71

Supraspinal opioid analgesia is mediated in part by connections between the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) and rostral ventral medulla (RVM) which includes the nuclei raphe magnus and reticularis gigantocellularis. Serotonergic 5HT2 and 5HT3 receptor subtypes appear to participate in this pathway since general and selective serotonergic antagonists microinjected into the RVM significantly reduced morphine analgesia elicited from the PAG. Since both an enkephalinergic pathway between the PAG and RVM and intrinsic enkephalinergic cells in the RVM exist, the present study evaluated the abilities of general (naltrexone), mu-selective (beta-funaltrexamine: B-FNA) and delta 2-selective (naltrindole) opioid receptor subtype antagonists microinjected into the RVM to alter morphine (2.5 micrograms) analgesia elicited from the PAG as measured by the tail-flick and jump tests. Mesencephalic morphine analgesia was significantly reduced after pretreatment in the RVM with naltrexone (1-10 micrograms), B-FNA (0.5-5 micrograms) or naltrindole (0.5-5 micrograms). Naltrexone in the RVM failed to alter basal nociceptive thresholds and none of the opioid antagonists were effective in reducing mesencephalic morphine analgesia when they were microinjected into placements lateral or dorsal to the RVM. These data indicate that mu and delta 2 opioid receptors in the RVM modulate the transmission of opioid pain-inhibitory signals from the PAG.
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PMID:Medullary mu and delta opioid receptors modulate mesencephalic morphine analgesia in rats. 825 87

In rabbits fed with hypercholesterolemic diet the normal coronary vasodilator response to serotonin is replaced by vasoconstriction sensitive to 5HT2 receptor blockade. These experiments were designed to determine the receptor subtype involved in the contractile response of large isolated coronary arteries (without endothelium) taken from control and atherosclerotic rabbits. In both tissues the agonists' rank potency was 5-carboxamidotryptamine > serotonin (5HT) > sumatriptan > 8-OHDPAT: (+/-)-8-Hydroxydipropylaminotetralin HBr > 2-methylserotonin. In arteries from young rabbits, 5HT and sumatriptan induced contractions which were not influenced by ketanserin up to 3 x 10(-8) M. However, the 5HT2 antagonist at the concentration of 10(-6) M induced a significant rightward shift of the concentration-response curves. The contractions to the two serotoninergic agonists were competitively inhibited by methiothepin. NAN 190, a 5HT1A antagonist, LY 53857, a 5HT1C and 5HT2 antagonist, cyanopindolol, a 5HT1A and 5HT1B antagonist and ICS 205-930, a 5HT3 and 5HT4 antagonist (up to 10(-6) M) did not inhibit the contractile response to 5HT. Rauwolscine (10(-6) M) significantly shifted the concentration-response curves to the two agonists. Very similar results were obtained in coronary arteries from atherosclerotic rabbits. These data demonstrate that in rabbit epicardial coronary artery smooth muscle, the receptor involved in the serotoninergic response is a 5HT1-like subtype, possibly a 5HT1D. In this preparation, under our experimental conditions, there was no evidence for the presence of 5HT2 receptors. The induction of atherosclerosis did not induce significant changes in the serotoninergic response in these large coronary arteries, illustrating the marked heterogeneity between microvasculature and large arteries in the rabbit heart.
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PMID:Serotoninergic receptor subtype in coronary artery smooth muscle from young and atherosclerotic rabbit. 830 47

1. The behavioural effects of the 5-HT1B receptor agonists, RU 24969 and CGS 12066B, have been investigated in C57/B1/6 mice. 2. RU 24969 (1-30 mg kg-1) produced intense and prolonged hyperlocomotion and other behavioural changes. 3. CGS 12066B caused similar effects, but they were much less pronounced, inconsistent and transient irrespective of whether this drug was given i.p. (1-15 mg kg-1) or i.c.v. (0.2-40 micrograms). However, CGS 12066B (7.5 and 15 mg kg-1) caused a dose-related inhibition of RU 24969 (7.5 mg kg-1)-induced hyperlocomotion indicating that the former is a 5-HT1B partial agonist. 4. RU 24969 (7.5 mg kg-1 i.p.)-induced hyperlocomotion was inhibited by the (-)-, but not (+)-isomers of pindolol (4 mg kg-1) and propranolol (20 mg kg-1) but not by metoprolol (10 mg kg-1) or ICI 118,551 (5 mg kg-1), consistent with an involvement of 5-HT1A or 5-HT1B receptors. 5. The response was not altered by the selective 5-HT1A receptor antagonist, WAY 100135 (5 mg kg-1, s.c.), the 5-HT2A/5-HT2C receptor antagonist, ritanserin (0.1 mg kg-1), the selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, ondansetron (1 mg kg-1) or the non-selective 5-HT receptor antagonists methysergide (3 mg kg-1) and metergoline (3 mg kg-1). 6. Although spiroxatrine (0.1 mg kg-1) and ketanserin (1 mg kg-1) inhibited RU 24969-induced hyperlocomotion, these effects were probably due to antagonism of dopamine D2 receptors and alpha 1-adrenoceptors respectively. 7. Taken together, these results indicate that RU 24969-induced hyperlocomotion results specifically from activation of central 5-HTIB receptors.8. Lesioning of 5-HT neurones with 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (75 microg, i.c.v.) or depletion with pchlorophenylalanine(200 mg kg-1, i.p. for 14 days) had no effect on RU 24969-induced hyperlocomotiondemonstrating that the 5-HTIB receptors involved are postsynaptic and that they do not show super sensitivity.9. The involvement of other monoamine neurotransmitter systems in RU 24969-induced hyperlocomotionwas also examined. The response was inhibited by the al-adrenoceptor antagonist, prazosin(1 mg kg-1), the dopamine DI receptor antagonist, SCH 23390 (0.05 mg kg-1) and the dopamine D2 receptor antagonist, BRL 34778 (0.03 mg kg-1), but not by the M2-adrenoceptor antagonist, idazoxan(1 mg kg-1). Lesioning noradrenergic neurones with N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine(100 mg kg-1) markedly attenuated this behaviour. These results show that the hyperlocomotion is expressed via noradrenergic and dopaminergic neurones acting on alpha 1-adrenoceptors, DI and D2 receptors.10. RU 24969 decreased brain concentrations of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid whilst simultaneously increasing 5-HT, consistent with the reduction of 5-HT neuronal activity by activation of 5-HTlA and 5-HTIB autoreceptors. RU 24969 increased brain 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol, but not noradrenaline, concentrations which supports the involvement of noradrenergic neurones in the expression of hyperlocomotion. RU 24969 did not alter dopamine, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid or homovanillic acid concentrations in the nucleus accumbens suggesting that the dopaminergic neurones terminating there are not directly involved.
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PMID:Evidence that RU 24969-induced locomotor activity in C57/B1/6 mice is specifically mediated by the 5-HT1B receptor. 830 9

The roles of 5-hydroxytryptaminergic (5HT) neurons and receptor subtypes in mediating the effects of stress on the activity of periventricular hypophysial dopaminergic (PHDA) neurons and the secretion of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha MSH) were examined in female rats. Periventricular hypophysial dopaminergic neuronal activity was estimated by measuring concentrations of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid in the intermediate lobe of the pituitary. Brief exposure to diethylether followed by 30 min of supine restraint decreased intermediate lobe 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid concentrations and increased plasma concentrations of alpha MSH. These stress-induced effects were not observed in animals in which 5HT neurons had been previously destroyed by 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine or inhibited by the administration of the 5HT1A receptor agonist 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propyl-amino)-tetralin. Pretreatment of rats with the 5HT2 receptor antagonist MDL-11,939 blocked the inhibitory effects of stress on intermediate lobe 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid concentrations and the corresponding increase in plasma alpha MSH concentrations, whereas the 5HT3 receptor antagonist ondansetron was without effect. These results reveal that 5HT neurons, acting via 5HT2 receptors, mediate the inhibitory effects of stress on periventricular hypophysial dopaminergic neurons and the consequent increase in secretion of alpha MSH.
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PMID:5HT2 receptors mediate the effects of stress on the activity of periventricular hypophysial dopaminergic neurons and the secretion of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone. 838 38

Radioligand binding, Northern blot analysis, and changes in [Ca2+]i were used to study serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT)] receptor subtypes in primary cultures of astrocytes from neonatal rat cerebral cortex. Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of 5HT2, but not the 5HT1 or 5HT3 receptor subtypes. Radioligand binding was also used to show the presence of serotonin uptake sites, which had previously been shown to be present by [3H]-5HT uptake, and also alpha 1-adrenergic receptors as has previously been reported by binding studies. Northern blot analysis of cortical astrocyte mRNA demonstrated the presence of transcripts for 5HT2 receptors, but failed to identify mRNA for 5HT1a or 5HT1c receptors. Thus, results from Northern blot analysis correlated with the radioligand binding data which showed only 5HT2 receptors. Equilibrium saturation studies, using 125[I]-LSD to label 5HT2 receptors, yielded a KD of 9 nM and a Bmax of 177 fmol/mg protein. Radioligand binding studies or primary astrocyte cultures prepared from other brain regions also showed the presence of alpha 1-adrenergic, 5HT2 receptor, and 5HT-uptake sites, but no detectable 5HT1a receptors, which were the only 5HT1 receptors studied. Studies demonstrating 5HT-induced, spiperone- and ketanserin-sensitive increases in free [Ca2+]i as measured by FURA-2, showed that the 5HT2 receptors were functional in these cells. These data provide clear evidence for the existence of both 5HT2 receptors and 5HT-uptake sites in the same primary astrocyte cultures from neonatal rat cerebral cortex, with no detectable evidence of 5HT1a or 5HT1c subtypes.
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PMID:Detection of 5-hydroxytryptamine2 receptors by radioligand binding, northern blot analysis, and Ca2+ responses in rat primary astrocyte cultures. 839 35

The effects of three serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] receptor antagonists on cocaine self-administration behavior were investigated. Specifically, the effects of MDL 72222 (a specific 5-HT3 receptor antagonist), ketanserin (a specific 5HT2 receptor antagonist), and methysergide (an aselective 5-HT1/5-HT2 receptor antagonist) on the breaking points reached by rats on a progressive ratio schedule for cocaine reinforcement were examined. Pretreatments with MDL 72222 (7.5-1,920 micrograms/kg, SC), ketanserin (0.4-6.4 mg/kg, IP), and methysergide (2.5-20 mg/kg, IP) failed to alter breaking points from baseline values. Although tested at twice the highest doses previously reported to have significant behavioral effects, the three 5-HT receptor antagonists were without effect. These data suggest that relatively specific blockade of 5-HT receptor subtypes does not influence the reinforcing effects of cocaine.
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PMID:MDL 72222, ketanserin, and methysergide pretreatments fail to alter breaking points on a progressive ratio schedule reinforced by intravenous cocaine. 843 Jan 19

Altered intestinal motility and diarrhea are features of food protein-induced intestinal anaphylaxis in the conscious rat. These experiments were performed to determine the mediator(s) responsible for jejunal circular smooth muscle contraction during this response. Hooded-Lister rats were sensitized by intraperitoneal injection of 10-micrograms egg albumin, and controls were sham-sensitized with saline. Fourteen days later the contractility of the circular muscle in jejunal segments (mucosa intact) was examined in standard tissue baths in response to antigen (Ag) or other agents. While control and sensitized tissues contracted in similar fashion in response to stretch, bethanechol, histamine, or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT), Ag contracted only the segments of sensitized animals. The contractile response was: (1) specific to the sensitizing Ag, as bovine serum albumin did not induce contraction and (2) could be passively transferred with serum containing specific immunoglobulin E antibody (IgE-Ab). Concanavalin A, which degranulates both mucosal and connective tissue-type mast cells, and compound 48/80, which degranulates only connective tissue-type mast cells produced contractile responses. Ag-induced contraction was significantly inhibited by the mucosal and connective tissue-type mast cell stabilizer doxantrazole, but not the connective tissue mast cell stabilizer disodium cromoglycate. Diphenhydramine and cimetidine together significantly inhibited histamine-induced contraction, but failed to effect the Ag-induced contraction in sensitized tissues. While the contractile response to 5HT was reduced in the presence of methysergide (5HT1-receptor antagonist), cinanserin (5HT2-receptor antagonist), and ICS 205-930 (5HT3-receptor antagonist), only cinanserin significantly inhibited the contractile response to Ag. Indomethacin significantly inhibited Ag-induced contraction. Ag-induced contraction was resistant to atropine and tetrodotoxin.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Mediation of anaphylaxis-induced jejunal circular smooth muscle contraction in rats. 844 68


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