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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-5-8
pubmed:abstractText
Because brain extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) levels are near detection limits in microdialysis samples, an acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor such as neostigmine is often added to microdialysis perfusates to increase ACh levels in the dialysate, a practice that raises concerns that the inhibitor might alter the results. Two experiments compared functional differences in ACh release with and without neostigmine. In the first experiment, 30-60% increases in extracellular ACh concentrations in the hippocampus were evident during food-rewarded T-maze training with 20-500 nm neostigmine in the perfusate but no increases were seen without neostigmine. In the second experiment, 78% increases in ACh release in the hippocampus were seen after injections of the GABA(A) receptor antagonist, bicuculline, into medial septum only if neostigmine (50 nm) was included in the perfusate. These findings suggest that, in the hippocampus, endogenous brain AChEs are very efficient at removing extracellular ACh, obscuring differences in ACh release in these experiments. Therefore, inclusion of AChE inhibitors in the microdialysis perfusate may be necessary under some conditions for observations of functional changes in release of ACh in the hippocampus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0022-3042
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
97
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
697-706
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Acetylcholine, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Analysis of Variance, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Bicuculline, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Cholinesterase Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Drug Interactions, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Extracellular Space, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-GABA Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Maze Learning, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Microdialysis, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Neostigmine, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Perfusion, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:16579834-Rats, Sprague-Dawley
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Microdialysis measures of functional increases in ACh release in the hippocampus with and without inclusion of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in the perfusate.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural