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MONITORING NOREPINEPHRINE LEVELS BY MICRODIALYSIS IN THE WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE OF SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RATS
Author(s) -
Cabassi A.,
Bergamaschi E.,
Mutti A.,
Franchini I.,
Borghetti A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
clinical and experimental pharmacology and physiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1440-1681
pISSN - 0305-1870
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1995.tb02980.x
Subject(s) - microdialysis , norepinephrine , adipose tissue , white adipose tissue , endocrinology , medicine , white (mutation) , brown adipose tissue , chemistry , dopamine , biochemistry , gene
Summary 1. To investigate whether microdialysis is suitable to monitor catecholamine in white adipose tissue of conscious rat and to assess eventual differences in norepinephrine (NE) interstitial levels, two groups of 12 male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive Wistar‐Kyoto (WKY) rats, 14–16 weeks old, were compared. 2. A flexible microdialysis probe was implanted subcutaneously in the parascapular region, and perfused with Ringer solution (flow rate: 2.0 μL/min). After a 20min equilibration period, NE levels were monitored over a 120 min period; then, tyramine hydrochloride (0.1 nmol/min) was perfused for 80 min. Dialysates from each 20 min collection period were analysed by HPLC with electrochemical detection for NE. 3. Basal levels of NE (adjusted for the recovery) were higher in SHR compared to WKY (1210.0 ± 140.5 pg/mL dialysate vs 573.3 ± 75.8 pg/mL dialysate; P < 0.001, ANOVA). In both strains tyramine perfusion increased NE concentration in dialysates; the net (i.e. baseline subtracted) NE output was lower (76.3 pg/h, s.e.m. 22.3) in SHR compared with that shown by WKY rats (201.0 pg/h, s.e.m 18.4, P < 0.01). 4. The increased basal levels of NE observed in SHR are associated with a blunted response to tyramine challenge. Since tyramine is known to cause NE release from the cytosol but not from vesicle stores, such a blunted response is consistent with an increased turnover rate of NE or with an accelerated uptake in pre‐synaptic vesicles which, together with the higher basal levels, would suggest increased noradrenergic activity.

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