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Tyrosine Hydroxylase mRNA Expression by Dopaminergic Neurons in Culture: Effect of 1 -Methyl-4-Phenylpyridinium Treatment
Tyrosine Hydroxylase mRNA Expression by Dopaminergic Neurons in Culture: Effect of 1 -Methyl-4-Phenylpyridinium Treatment
- Source :
- Journal of Neurochemistry. 57:527-532
- Publication Year :
- 1991
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1991.
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Abstract
- To enable us to study expression of tyrosine hydroxylase [TH; tyrosine 3-monooxygenase; L-tyrosine tetrahydropteridine:oxygen oxidoreductase (3-hydroxylating); EC 1.14.16.2] as a measure of dopaminergic neuron function in future experiments, methods were developed to quantify TH mRNA levels in cultures of dopaminergic mesencephalic cells. The model of selective dopaminergic toxicity of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) was used to verify the specificity of our methods. Fetal (embryonic day 15) rat ventral mesencephalic cell cultures were treated with 15 microM MPP+ for 48 h, conditions previously shown to reduce the number of TH-immunoreactive neurons, TH activity, and dopamine uptake to 5-10% of control values. This treatment decreased the number of neurons labeled by TH in situ hybridization to 9% of untreated controls and caused a strong reduction of the abundance of TH mRNA in Northern blots. Our findings establish TH mRNA expression as a parameter for future studies of toxic and trophic effects on cultured dopaminergic neurons, and they support the view that MPP+ destroys dopaminergic neurons.
- Subjects :
- 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium
Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
Dopamine
Gene Expression
In situ hybridization
Biology
Biochemistry
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
chemistry.chemical_compound
Mesencephalon
medicine
Animals
Neurotoxin
RNA, Messenger
Tyrosine
Cells, Cultured
Neurons
Tyrosine hydroxylase
MPTP
Dopaminergic
Brain
Rats, Inbred Strains
Blotting, Northern
Embryo, Mammalian
Molecular biology
Rats
chemistry
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14714159 and 00223042
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Neurochemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....959a9130135f1ddbafc57f99e2132583
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1991.tb03782.x