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Noradrenalin‐Inducible Cyclic‐AMP Accumulation in Rat Cerebral Cortex: Changes During Complete Global Ischemia
Author(s) -
Lin Marina R.,
Henteleff Harvey B.,
Nemoto Edwin M.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
journal of neurochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.75
H-Index - 229
eISSN - 1471-4159
pISSN - 0022-3042
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1983.tb11326.x
Subject(s) - ischemia , cerebral cortex , cortex (anatomy) , neuroscience , chemistry , medicine , endocrinology , biology
Neurologic dysfunction after cerebral ischemic insults may be due not only to neuronal death, but also to a possibly reversible failure in synaptic transmission. Because noradrenaline (NA)‐inducible cyclic‐AMP (cAMP) accumulation in brain may reflect the integrity of synaptic transmission mechanisms and brain viability, we studied its changes in cerebral cortex after various durations of decapitation ischemia. Unanesthetized rats were decapitated and the brains were kept at 37°C for times ranging from 0 to 60 min. Cerebral cortical slices were incubated in vitro and NA (11.2 μ M )‐induced cAMP accumulation was evaluated over 10 min. At 0 min of ischemia, NA‐induced cAMP accumulation was 56 pmol/mg protein/10 min. Between 0 and 20 min of ischemia, a linear eightfold increase, to 435 × 49 pmol/mg protein/10 min, occurred in NA‐induced cAMP accumulation, with no further increase after longer durations of ischemia. The mechanisms modulating the increase in cortical NA‐inducible cAMP accumulation with a maximum response after 20 min of ischemia remain to be defined.