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Influence of olfactory bulbectomy and subsequent imipramine treatment on 5-hydroxytryptaminergic presynapses in the rat frontal cortex: behavioural correlates.

Abstract：

:1. Alterations of 5-hydroxytryptaminergic mechanisms are thought to play a special role in the pathogenesis of depression and antidepressant treatments are assumed to restore these changes. 2. We have used one of the most reliable models of depression, the olfactory bulbectomized rat to study the long term consequences of this manipulation and of subchronic imipramine treatment on two parameters of 5-hydroxytryptaminergic presynapses, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) transporter density and tryptophan hydroxylase apoenzyme concentration, in the frontal cortex as well as on active avoidance learning several weeks after bulbectomy. 3. The Bmax value of [3H]-paroxetine binding and the concentration of the 5-HT synthesizing enzyme were both significantly elevated in the frontal cortex of bulbectomized rats compared to sham-operated controls. 4. Imipramine treatment, either by daily injections or by subcutaneous implantation of slow release imipramine-containing polymers reduced the elevated tryptophan hydroxylase apoenzyme levels in the frontal cortex of bulbectomized, but not of sham-operated control rats and restored the deficient learning performance of bulbectomized rats. 5. Both effects were more pronounced after continuous drug administration by imipramine-releasing polymers compared to daily i.p. injections. 6. These findings indicate that bulbectomy leads to a compensatory 5-hydroxytryptaminergic hyperinnervation of the frontal cortex. Chronic antidepressant treatment seems to attenuate the increased output of the 5-hydroxytryptaminergic projections in the frontal cortex through the destabilization of the rate limiting enzyme of 5-HT synthesis of the 5-hydroxytryptaminergic nerve endings in this brain region.

journal_name

Br J Pharmacol

journal_title

British journal of pharmacology

authors

Grecksch G,Zhou D,Franke C,Schröder U,Sabel B,Becker A,Huether G

doi

10.1038/sj.bjp.0701530

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1725-31

issue

eissn

0007-1188

issn

1476-5381

journal_volume

122

pub_type

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Influence of olfactory bulbectomy and subsequent imipramine treatment on 5-hydroxytryptaminergic presynapses in the rat frontal cortex: behavioural correlates.