title: Phenobarbital and 6-aminonicotinamide effect on cerebral enzymatic activities related to energy metabolism in different rat brain areas.
abstract: The effect of phenobarbital (100 mg/kg i.p.) and 6-aminonicotinamide (6AN) (35 mg/kg i.p.) on enzyme activities related to energy transduction was investigated on the homogenate "in toto", non-synaptic mitochondrial fraction and synaptosomal fraction isolated from different rat brain areas (cerebral cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, striatum, and medulla oblongata). 6AN treatment decreased: phosphofructokinase in all the areas tested; lactate dehydrogenase on the homogenate "in toto" in striatum and hypothalamus, and on the synaptosomal fraction in cerebral cortex and corpus striatum; succinate dehydrogenase on non-synaptic mitochondrial fraction in hippocampus and striatum. Finally, aspartate aminotransferase was increased on non-synaptic mitochondrial fraction in striatum and medulla oblongata. Phenobarbital treatment induced an increase of total NADH cytochrome c reductase on mitochondrial fraction in hippocampus and hypothalamus, and a decrease of cytochrome oxidase activity on non-synaptic mitochondrial fraction in hypothalamus and medulla oblongata.
mesh_terms: D015120:6-Aminonicotinamide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000201:enzymology; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000201:enzymology; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000378:metabolism; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000201:enzymology; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000201:enzymology; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000201:enzymology; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D009536:Niacinamide / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D010634:Phenobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010732:Phosphofructokinase-1 / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D009536:Niacinamide; D015120:6-Aminonicotinamide; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D013385:Succinate Dehydrogenase; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D010732:Phosphofructokinase-1; D010634:Phenobarbital