title: The AF64a-treated mouse: possible model for central cholinergic hypofunction.
abstract: A loss in the number of functional, sodium ion-dependent, high-affinity choline transport sites was observed in the cortex and hippocampus of mice given an intracerebroventricular injection of 65 nanomoles of AF64A (ethylcholine mustard aziridinium ion) 3 days earlier. Such an effect was not observed in the striatum. This effect of AF64A represents a long-term neurochemical deficit at cholinergic nerve terminals in some brain regions which can lead to a persistent deficiency in central cholinergic transmission. The AF64A-treated animal may thus be a model for certain psychiatric or neurological disorders that appear to involve central cholinergic hypofunction.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001388:Aziridines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001389:Azirines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001692:Biological Transport / Q000187:drug effects; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism; D002794:Choline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000378:metabolism; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D051379:Mice; D012964:Sodium / Q000494:pharmacology; D013574:Synaptosomes / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D001388:Aziridines; D001389:Azirines; D012964:Sodium; C044894:ethylcholine aziridinium; D002794:Choline