Abstract：
:We found that chronic lithium diet affects the sensitivity of neuroleptic receptors and the content of amino acids in the brain, and that the changes in adult animals differ from those in young rats. Pregnant rats were kept on lithium diet (pellets with 0.21% Li2CO3 and 0.21% NaCl) during the gestation period and the offspring were kept on lithium for six weeks after delivery. Control rats were kept on normal diet under identical conditions. In corpus striatum and cerebral cortex of lithium-treated young rats a reduction in apparent dissociation constant and no change in (3H)spiperone total binding sites were found, suggesting a sensitization of the neuroleptic receptor; this result was unlike that obtained with adult lithium-treated rats, where the total number of binding sites was decreased. The lithium content of brain was very high (2.32 meq/kg of wet weight), whereas in the serum only 0.75 meq/l was recorded. K+ and Na+ levels increased by 20% and 9% respectively in the brain and remained at normal levels in the serum. Analysis of free amino acids in the cerebral cortex, midbrain, and cerebellum showed increases in GABA and glycine levels in all three regions, a significant increase in taurine in midbrain, and an increase in lysine in cerebral cortex and cerebellum. The results indicate that the effect of chronic dietary lithium given during pregnancy on the neuroleptic receptor in young rats is different from that in adult animals. It produces an increase in the number of the neuroleptic receptor sites instead of the decline in the number of binding sites found in adult rats. It remains to be established whether this effect is related more to the age of the animal tested or to the stage of development of the CNS at which the lithium was administered.
journal_name
Neurochem Resjournal_title
Neurochemical researchauthors
Wajda IJ,Banay-Schwartz M,De Guzman T,Manigault Idoi
10.1007/BF00964703subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-05-01 00:00:00pages
637-48issue
5eissn
0364-3190issn
1573-6903journal_volume
8pub_type
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