title: TH mRNA over-expression in rats with chronic excitotoxic striatal lesions.
abstract: Twenty weeks after ibotenic acid lesions of the striatum, the amount of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in this structure was markedly increased. This was accompanied by a 3-fold increase in TH mRNA levels in the ipsilateral subtantia nigra (SN). Striatal levels of dopamine (DA) and dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) were markedly reduced. In the nucleus accumbens, spared by the lesion, DA neurotransmission was also altered, as evidenced by a reduction of DA and DOPAC, but no increase in TH could be detected. TH mRNA levels were moderately enhanced in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). Thus, lesioning in the striatum induces TH gene activation in both SN and VTA neurones, not strictly related to DA function at the terminal level.
authors.affiliation: Institut Alfred Fessard, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hantraye
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guibert
authors.forename: N F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Biguet
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lavergne
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Leviel
mesh_terms: D015102:3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism; D007051:Ibotenic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D011699:Putamen / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D015102:3,4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid; D007051:Ibotenic Acid; D014446:Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase; D004298:Dopamine