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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-2-20
pubmed:abstractText
The effect of chronic levodopa administration on the functional activity of the basal ganglia and its output regions was evaluated by means of the 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) autoradiographic technique in rats with a unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of the nigrostriatal pathway. The rates of local cerebral glucose utilization were studied under basal conditions as well as in response to challenge with a selective D1 or D2 dopamine-receptor agonist. Levodopa (100 mg/kg/d, i.p.) was administered for 19 d either continuously via infusion with an osmotic pump or intermittently by twice-daily injections. Following a 3-d washout, glucose utilization was found to be decreased by both levodopa regimens in the nucleus accumbens; intermittent levodopa also decreased glucose utilization in the entopeduncular nucleus, subthalamic nucleus, ventrolateral thalamus, ventromedial thalamus, ventroposterolateral thalamus, and lateral habenula. In control (lesioned and treated chronically with saline) rats, the D1 agonist SKF 38393 (5 mg/kg, i.v.) increased 2-DG uptake in the substantia nigra pars reticulata and entopeduncular nucleus ipsilateral to the lesion by 84% and 56%, respectively. Both continuous and intermittent levodopa blunted the SKF 38393-induced elevation in glucose metabolism in the substantia nigra pars reticulata, while intermittent levodopa also attenuated the increase in the entopeduncular nucleus. The D2 agonist quinpirole (0.4 mg/kg, i.v.) did not increase glucose utilization in any brain region in control animals; following intermittent levodopa treatment, however, quinpirole increased 2-DG uptake by 64% in the subthalamic nucleus and by 39% in the deep layers of the superior colliculus on the ipsilateral side.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0270-6474
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3889-95
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:1980132-2,3,4,5-Tetrahydro-7,8-dihydroxy-1-phenyl-1H-3-benzazepine, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Autoradiography, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Basal Ganglia, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Carbon Radioisotopes, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Deoxyglucose, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Dopamine Agents, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Ergolines, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Glucose, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Levodopa, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Male, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Neural Pathways, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Quinpirole, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Rats, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Receptors, Dopamine, pubmed-meshheading:1980132-Thalamus
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Chronic levodopa treatment alters basal and dopamine agonist-stimulated cerebral glucose utilization.
pubmed:affiliation
Experimental Therapeutics Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article