title: The role of dopamine and noradrenaline in temperature control of normal and reserpine-pretreated mice.
abstract: Drugs with the common property of stimulating dopamine receptors, have been tested for their effects on core temperature in control and reserpine-pretreated mice. Apomorphine, amantadine, amphetamine, L-dopa and atropine all produced a fall in mouse oesophageal temperature, their efficacy correlating with their ability to activate central dopamine receptors. Amphetamine and L-dopa had a biphasic effect the initial fall being followed by a rise. In reserpine-pretreated mice only amphetamine, apomorphine, L-dopa and D.L-threo-dihydroxyphenyl-serine effectively reversed hypothermia. Amphetamine had the highest efficacy of all the drugs tested. The sum of the effects of apomorphine and D.L-threo-dihydroxyphenylserine was equivalent to the effect of amphetamine alone. It is suggested that in control mice dopaminergic mechanisms mediate the hypothermia and noradrenergic mechanisms the hyperthermia. In reserpine-pretreated mice both systems are involved in the mechanisms restoring body temperature to normal.
mesh_terms: D000547:Amantadine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001058:Apomorphine / Q000494:pharmacology; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000187:drug effects; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation / Q000187:drug effects*; D003913:Dextroamphetamine / Q000494:pharmacology; D004298:Dopamine / Q000502:physiology*; D015103:Droxidopa / Q000494:pharmacology; D004947:Esophagus / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D007980:Levodopa / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000502:physiology*; D012110:Reserpine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D007980:Levodopa; D012110:Reserpine; D000547:Amantadine; D015103:Droxidopa; D001058:Apomorphine; D003913:Dextroamphetamine; D004298:Dopamine; D009638:Norepinephrine