title: No change in rat cerebral cortex calmodulin content following chronic treatment with lithium, reserpine, imipramine, and lithium combined with reserpine or imipramine.
abstract: Rats were treated 2-3 weeks with lithium, reserpine, imipramine, and combinations of lithium with reserpine or imipramine. Lithium was given in the diet, while the other drugs were dissolved in 0.9% saline and given intraperitoneally twice daily. The control and lithium groups received only vehicle injections. Twenty-four hours after the last injection the rats were decapitated and the cerebral cortex dissected. The tissue was sliced and the noradrenaline-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation determined or the tissue was homogenized and centrifuged at 10,000 X g for 30 min. and the calmodulin content determined in the pellet and the supernatant. Reserpine treatment was found to cause an 50% increase in the noradrenaline-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation, while treatment with imipramine and the combination lithium-imipramine decreased the noradrenaline-stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation by 40%. The tissue content of calmodulin was, however, found unaltered by all treatments.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002147:Calmodulin / Q000378:metabolism*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism*; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D004338:Drug Combinations; D004347:Drug Interactions; D007099:Imipramine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008094:Lithium / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D009638:Norepinephrine / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012110:Reserpine / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D002147:Calmodulin; D004338:Drug Combinations; D012110:Reserpine; D008094:Lithium; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D007099:Imipramine; D009638:Norepinephrine