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Recovery of function following unilateral denervation, but not unilateral decentralization, of the pineal gland as indicated by measurements of pineal melatonin content and urinary melatonin metabolites.

Abstract：

:The rat pineal gland is an attractive system for studies on the capacity of neural systems to recover following partial injury, allowing both for the creation of precise subtotal lesions and for the measurement of recovery of function at the cellular level. The pineal gland receives overlapping sympathetic innervation from the right and left internal carotid nerves from neurons whose cell bodies are located in the two superior cervical ganglia. This innervation regulates several aspects of pineal metabolism in a circadian fashion, with the most dramatic being a marked increase in the night-time activity of N-acetyltransferase, a key enzyme regulating the rate of melatonin synthesis. We have previously shown that a highly divergent pattern takes place in the night-time activity of this enzyme following two different unilateral lesions of the sympathetic innervation to the gland. Thus, following a unilateral lesion of the internal carotid nerve (unilateral denervation), there is an initial decline in N-acetyltransferase activity; however, normal activity is again seen during the second and subsequent nights. In contrast, a unilateral lesion of the cervical sympathetic trunk, the nerve that innervates the superior cervical ganglion (unilateral decentralization), results in "permanent" impairment of N-acetyltransferase activity. In the present study, we report that the functional capacity of the entire pathway for melatonin synthesis is similarly affected following these lesions, as reflected by the levels of melatonin and of its precursor N-acetylserotonin in the pineal gland, as well as the levels of the main melatonin metabolite 6-hydroxy-melatonin in the urine.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

journal_name

Neuroscience

journal_title

Neuroscience

authors

Kuchel GA,Sherman RL,Zigmond RE

doi

10.1016/0306-4522(90)90411-v

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-01-01 00:00:00

pages

413-20

issue

eissn

0306-4522

issn

1873-7544

pii

0306-4522(90)90411-V

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Recovery of function following unilateral denervation, but not unilateral decentralization, of the pineal gland as indicated by measurements of pineal melatonin content and urinary melatonin metabolites.