title: Relationships of 5-hydroxytryptamine immunoreactive terminal-like varicosities to 5-hydroxytryptamine-2A receptor-immunoreactive neuronal processes in the rat forebrain.
abstract: The distributions of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)-immunoreactive (IR) varicosities and 5-hydroxytryptamine-2A receptor (5-HT2A)-IR neuronal structures in the rat brain have previously been described individually. Using double labeling immunocytochemistry, the relationships between 5-HT2A-IR and 5-HT-IR elements in the forebrain of male rats has been studied at the light microscopic level. In neocortical regions (frontal, parietal and retrosplenial cortex), the strongest 5-HT2A-IR was found in the apical dendrites of pyramidal cells in layers III-V, while 5-HT-IR terminal-like varicosities were present in all layers but most prominently in the outer layers. In other forebrain regions, the olfactory bulb, the hippocampal formation, and the islands of Calleja and Calleja magna, localized discrepancies were present between the 5-HT2A-IR neuronal profiles and the 5-HT-IR terminal-like varicosities. Hardly any additional juxtapositions between the 5-HT2A-IR neuronal profiles and 5-HT-IR terminal-like varicosities were revealed when the intraneuronal level of 5-HT was increased by monoamine oxidase inhibitor pretreatment (nialamide, 250 mg/kg, 3 h). Thus, in most forebrain regions, there were overall few juxtapositions between 5-HT terminal-like varicosities and 5-HT2A-IR neuronal structures. This observation suggests that 5-HT2A receptor mediated 5-HT transmission in the rat forebrain is mainly a volume transmission process mediated via short distance diffusion in the extra-cellular space.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Division of Cellular and Molecular Neurochemistry, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. anders.jansson@neuro.ki.se
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jansson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tinner
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bancila
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vergé
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Steinbusch
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Agnati
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fuxe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D003712:Dendrites / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D020670:Islands of Calleja / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D019579:Neocortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000378:metabolism / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009833:Olfactory Pathways / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D017729:Presynaptic Terminals / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D016548:Prosencephalon / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D044402:Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012701:Serotonin / Q000378:metabolism*; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D044402:Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin; D012701:Serotonin