title: Distribution of alpha1-adrenoceptor subtype proteins in different tissues of neonatal and adult rats.
abstract: Distribution of alpha(1)-adrenoceptor (alpha(1)AR) subtype (alpha(1A), alpha(1B), alpha(1D)) proteins in brain, heart, kidney, and liver of 1-week-old rats and in brain, heart, aorta, kidney, liver, vas deferens, prostate, and adrenal glands of adult rats was investigated by Western analysis, using receptor subtype specific polyclonal antibodies. High levels of immunoreactive alpha(1A)AR and alpha(1D)AR in brain and heart and of alpha(1B)AR in liver and heart of neonatal rats were detected. In adult rat tissues, the abundance of alpha(1A)AR protein was most marked in the brain, intermediate in heart, aorta, liver, vas deferens, and adrenals, and minimal in the kidney and prostate; relative to other tissues, the expression of alpha(1B)AR was higher in brain and heart and that of alpha(1D)AR in brain. All the three receptor subtypes increased with age in the brain cortex, whereas the abundance of alpha(1B)AR increased in the heart but decreased in the liver; alpha(1A)AR and alpha(1D)AR in liver, kidney, and heart were not affected by age. It is concluded that alpha(1)AR subtypes are widely expressed in different neonatal and adult rat tissues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Peri
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chemtob
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Varma
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D015153:Blotting, Western; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018340:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-1 / Q000032:analysis* / Q000145:classification / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D018340:Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-1