title: Determination of serum and brain concentrations of neuroprotective and non-neuroprotective doses of MK-801.
abstract: We developed a sensitive and reliable gas chromatographic (GC) technique for the quantitative analysis of MK-801 in brain and serum and applied the technique to investigate tissue concentrations of neuroprotective and non-neuroprotective doses of MK-801 in a neonatal rat model of hypoxic-ischemia. Brain concentrations of MK-801 were a linear function of dose over 4 orders of magnitude. After administration of a neuroprotective dose of MK-801 (29.6 mumol/kg) to control rats, both serum and brain concentrations rose rapidly to approximately 300 nM and approximately 2000 nM, respectively, within 30 min. Approximately 60% of serum and 90% of brain MK-801 were bound leaving the free concentrations in both blood and brain at approximately 100-200 nM. After hypoxic-ischemia, serum MK-801 concentrations were not different from controls but brain concentrations were lowered by 32%. Free brain concentrations of MK-801 after hypoxic-ischemic were 124 nM after 29.6 mumol/kg while after 8.9 mumol/kg (the non-neuroprotective dose) they were 39 nM. In view of the slow kinetics of MK-801 channel blockade, which never reaches equilibrium during the current experiment, this difference in concentration would be expected to result in an 80-fold (or greater) difference in the current flux through NMDA receptor-operated ion-channels as the rate of NMDA receptor-operated ion-channel blockade is concentration dependent.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors: Department of Neuroscience (Brain Research Institute), School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
authors: P H
authors: PH
authors: Schwartz
authors: C G
authors: CG
authors: Wasterlain
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate / Q000097:blood / Q000493:pharmacokinetics* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate