title: Augmentation of dopamine release by (-)-stepholidine from rabbit and rat caudate slices.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the effect of (-)-stepholidine (SPD) on dopamine (DA) release evoked by electric stimulation on slices of rabbit caudate nucleus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Slices of rabbit caudate nucleus were preincubated with [3H]DA and then perfused and stimulated electrically.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Quinpirole (Qui), a selective DA D2 receptor agonist, reduced [3H]DA overflow elicited by 24 mA electric stimulation (IC50 = 0.12, 95% confidence limits 0.09-0.17 mumol . L-1). SPD markedly increased the potential of the stimulation-evoked [3H]DA overflow in a dose-dependent manner and reversed Qui (1 mumol . L-1)-induced attenuation of [3H]DA release. The pA2 value calculated from the data of [3H]DA overflow for SPD was 7.495. In the experiments with rat caudate nucleus slices, SPD (0.1 mmol . L-1) increased the [3H]DA outflow from 3.3 +/- 0.2% to 6.5 +/- 0.5% of the tissue [3H]DA content, which was further enhanced by the protein kinase C (PKC) activator phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDB, 1 mumol . L-1) to 10.1 +/- 1.0% of the total [3H]DA in the tissue.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SPD is a presynaptic D2 autoreceptor antagonist and induces a synergic effect on [3H]DA release process with PKC.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
authors.forename: Z J
authors.initials: ZJ
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: G Z
authors.initials: GZ
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: H Y
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001599:Berberine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D018492:Dopamine Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D065127:Dopamine D2 Receptor Antagonists; D015240:Phorbol 12,13-Dibutyrate / Q000494:pharmacology; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000819:agonists; D019257:Quinpirole / Q000494:pharmacology; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000819:agonists
chemical_list: D018492:Dopamine Antagonists; D065127:Dopamine D2 Receptor Antagonists; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; D001599:Berberine; C010513:stepholidine; D019257:Quinpirole; D015240:Phorbol 12,13-Dibutyrate; D011493:Protein Kinase C; D004298:Dopamine