Abstract：
:Evidence that brain glutamatergic activity is pathologically elevated in bipolar disorder suggests that mood stabilizers are therapeutic in the disease in part by downregulating glutamatergic activity. Such activity can involve the second messenger, arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n - 6). We tested this hypothesis with regard to valproic acid (VPA), when stimulating glutamatergic N-methyl-D: -aspartate (NMDA) receptors in rat brain and measuring AA and related responses. An acute subconvulsant dose of NMDA (25 mg/kg i.p.) or saline was administered to unanesthetized rats that had been treated i.p. daily with VPA (200 mg/kg) or vehicle for 30 days. Quantitative autoradiography following intravenous [1-(14)C]AA infusion was used to image regional brain AA incorporation coefficients k*, markers of AA signaling. In chronic vehicle-pretreated rats, NMDA compared with saline significantly increased k* in 41 of 82 examined brain regions, many of which have high NMDA receptor densities, and also increased brain concentrations of the AA metabolites, prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) and thromboxane B(2) (TXB(2)). VPA pretreatment reduced baseline concentrations of PGE(2) and TXB(2), and blocked the NMDA induced increases in k* and in eicosanoid concentrations. These results, taken with evidence that carbamazepine and lithium also block k* responses to NMDA in rat brain, suggest that mood stabilizers act in bipolar disorder in part by downregulating glutamatergic signaling involving AA.
journal_name
Neurochem Resjournal_title
Neurochemical researchauthors
Basselin M,Chang L,Chen M,Bell JM,Rapoport SIdoi
10.1007/s11064-008-9700-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2008-11-01 00:00:00pages
2229-40issue
11eissn
0364-3190issn
1573-6903journal_volume
33pub_type
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