Carbachol-induced Accumulation of Inositol Phosphates and Its Modulation by Excitatory Amino Acids in Cortical Slices of Young and Aged Rats with Down-regulation of Muscarinic M-1 Receptors

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Journal Neurochem Res

Specialties Chemistry
Neurology

Date 1994 Oct 1

PMID 7891849

Citations 5

Authors

A Pintor

S Fortuna

H Michalek

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Abstract

The effects of a subacute intoxication with diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DPF) on total muscarinic acetylcholine receptor sites (mAChRs) and M-1 AChRs were evaluated in the cerebral cortex of young (2-4 months) and aged (22-24 months) Fischer 344 rats. Since M-1 AChRs are coupled to the metabolism of phosphoinositides, carbachol-induced accumulation of inositol phosphates (IP) and its inhibition by glutamate and NMDA was also measured in the cortical slices. DFP treatment caused about 75% inhibition of cholinesterase and 35% down-regulation of mAChRs (measured as [3H]quinuclidinyl benzylate binding) in both young and aged rats. The down-regulation of M-1-ACHRs (measured as [3H]pirenzepine binding) was more pronounced in aged (30%) than in young (17%) DFP-treated rats. There was a significant increase in carbachol-induced IP accumulation in aged, with respect to young, untreated rats. DFP treatment caused a considerable decrease in such IP accumulation in aged but not in young rats. Glutamate and NMDA antagonized carbachol-induced IP accumulation in untreated young and aged rats (and the effects of NMDA were reversed by carboxy-piperazinyl-propyl phosphonic acid). In DFP-treated rats such antagonism was somewhat less pronounced. The data appear of interest in relation to the use of anticholinesterase compounds in the therapy of senile dementia of Alzheimer's type. They suggest that beside their primary action (increasing brain ACh levels) such compounds also act on post-receptor mechanisms and on the interactions between cholinergic and glutamatergic neurotransmitter systems.

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