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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-9-14
pubmed:abstractText
Neuroprotective activity of estrogens is reported in Alzheimer disease and recently has also been suggested for Parkinson disease, a disease affecting more men than women. To characterize this estrogenic activity, we studied the effects of 17beta- and 17alpha-estradiol treatment (1 microg twice daily 5 days before, during the day of four MPTP (15 mg/kg) injections, and for the following 5 days) on dopamine striatal toxicity induced by the neurotoxin MPTP in retired breeder male C57BL/6 mice. Striatal dopamine concentrations and its metabolites dihydroxyphenylacetic acid and homovanillic acid measured by HPLC in MPTP mice that received 17beta-estradiol were comparable to control animals, whereas MPTP mice treated with saline or 17alpha-estradiol showed important decreases of dopamine and its metabolites. Striatal serotonin and its metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentrations remained unchanged after MPTP and treatments with steroids. Striatal [(3)H]GBR 12935 binding autoradiography to the dopamine transporter was as extensively decreased and correlated with dopamine depletion in MPTP mice, whereas this transporter mRNA decrease in the substantia nigra pars compacta was less pronounced. Treatment with steroids did not significantly change [(3)H]GBR 12935 binding, whereas dopamine transporter mRNA levels were not significantly different from controls. Under the present paradigm in retired breeder male mice, our results show dopaminergic and stereospecificity of estradiol to augment dopamine levels in MPTP-lesioned mice without protecting against the extensive loss of dopamine terminals and moderate cell body loss.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Estradiol, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/GBR 12935, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Homovanillic Acid, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Glycoproteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Transport Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Piperazines, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA, Messenger, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Estrogen, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tritium
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0887-4476
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
37
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
245-51
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10891861-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Corpus Striatum, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Dopamine, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Estradiol, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Homovanillic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-MPTP Poisoning, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Piperazines, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Radioligand Assay, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Receptors, Estrogen, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Substantia Nigra, pubmed-meshheading:10891861-Tritium
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Stereospecific prevention by 17beta-estradiol of MPTP-induced dopamine depletion in mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre de Recherches en Endocrinologie Moléculaire, Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't