title: D-2 dopamine-receptors regulate the release of [3H]dopamine in rat cortical regions showing dopamine immunoreactive fibers.
abstract: Using an antibody raised against dopamine the occurrence of dopamine-containing fibers was demonstrated in the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, parietal neocortex, piriform cortex and entorhinal cortex. In extracts of these cortical regions significant amounts of dopamine, although approximately a 100-fold less than in the neostriatum or nucleus accumbens, were detected with high performance liquid chromatography. The release of [3H]dopamine from slices of all these cortical regions was studied in vitro in a superfusion system and desipramine was used to prevent the uptake of [3H]dopamine in noradrenergic nerve terminals. It appeared that the electrically evoked release of radioactivity was inhibited by drugs stimulating D-2 dopamine-receptors in all the regions studied. Cation-exchange column chromatography revealed that the radioactivity released consisted predominantly of [3H]dopamine, indicating that D-2 receptors mediate the inhibition of the release of [3H]dopamine from dopaminergic nerve terminals. Likewise, in the neostriatum as well as in the nucleus accumbens D-2 receptor stimulation inhibits the release of [3H]dopamine. Therefore it is our conclusion that D-2 receptors regulate the release of dopamine from dopaminergic neurons originating in the ventral tegmental area as well as in the substantia nigra.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000502:physiology; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology; D008032:Limbic System / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011954:Receptors, Dopamine / Q000502:physiology*; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2
chemical_list: D011954:Receptors, Dopamine; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; D004298:Dopamine