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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-5
pubmed:abstractText
Neurotensin (NT) is a tridecapeptide neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. It has been implicated in the therapeutic effects of neuroleptics. Central activity of NT can only be demonstrated by direct injection into the brain, since it is readily degraded by peptidases in the periphery. We have developed many NT(8-13) analogs that are resistant to peptidase degradation and can cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). In this study, we report on one of these analogs, NT77L. NT77L induced hypothermia (ED(50)=6.5 mg/kg, i.p.) but induced analgesia only at the highest dose examined (20 mg/kg, i.p.). Like the atypical neuroleptic clozapine, NT77L blocked the climbing behavior in rats induced by the dopamine agonist apomorphine (600 microg/kg) with an ED(50) of 5.6 mg/kg (i.p.), without affecting the licking and the sniffing behaviors. By itself NT77L did not cause catalepsy, but it moderately reversed haloperidol-induced catalepsy with an ED(50) of 6.0 mg/kg (i.p.). Haloperidol alone did not lower body temperature, but it potentiated the body temperature lowering effect of NT77L. In studies using in vivo microdialysis NT77L showed similar effects on dopamine turnover to those of clozapine, and significantly different from those of haloperidol in the striatum. In the prefrontal cortex, NT77L significantly increased serotonergic transmission as evidenced by increased 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid:5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HIAA:5-HT) ratio. Thus, NT77L selectively caused hypothermia, over antinociception, while exhibiting atypical neuroleptic-like effects.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
919
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Analgesics, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Antipsychotic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Blood-Brain Barrier, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Body Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Catalepsy, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Corpus Striatum, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Dopamine, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Haloperidol, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Hypothermia, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Injections, Intraperitoneal, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Neurotensin, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Peptide Fragments, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Prefrontal Cortex, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:11689157-Serotonin
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Neurotensin analog selective for hypothermia over antinociception and exhibiting atypical neuroleptic-like properties.
pubmed:affiliation
Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, and Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA. boules.mona@mayo.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't