title: The kinetic behaviour of [3H]DOPA in living rat brain investigated by compartmental modelling of static autoradiograms.
abstract: The kinetic behaviour of [3H]DOPA in living rat brain was investigated by compartmental modelling of measured activities from combined metabolite pools in a time-series (180 min) of static autoradiograms from right cerebral hemispheres. Two models of [3H]DOPA uptake and metabolism that incorporated the removal of the decarboxylation product, [3H]dopamine, from brain were significantly more accurate than a model in which [3H]dopamine accumulated irreversibly in situ. Present estimates of [3H]DOPA kinetic constants were compared to previously published results based on the analysis of measured activities from individual metabolite pools separated by chromatographic fractionation of [3H]DOPA metabolites in the left cerebral hemispheres of the same rats. Autoradiographic estimates of DOPA decarboxylase activity with respect to [3H]DOPA in brain (k3DOPA) were under-estimated several-fold relative to chromatographic estimates; this discrepancy is explained by post-mortem enzyme activity and omission of biological compartments from the models. However, autoradiographic estimates of the unidirectional blood-brain clearance of [3H]DOPA (K1DOPA) and monoamine oxidase activity with respect to [3H]dopamine in brain (k7DA') agreed with chromatographic estimates. This concordance represents the first empirical validation of compartmental modelling of autoradiographic data as a method for quantitatively investigating the kinetic behaviour of radiolabelled L-DOPA in living mammalian brain.
authors.affiliation: Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec, Canada. deep@pet.mni.mcgill.ca
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deep
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kuwabara
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gjedde
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cumming
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001345:Autoradiography / Q000379:methods; D001692:Biological Transport; D001812:Blood-Brain Barrier; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D004295:Dihydroxyphenylalanine / Q000378:metabolism*; D004296:Dopa Decarboxylase / Q000378:metabolism; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008657:Metabolic Clearance Rate; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009928:Organ Specificity; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014316:Tritium
chemical_list: D014316:Tritium; D004295:Dihydroxyphenylalanine; D004296:Dopa Decarboxylase; D004298:Dopamine