title: Rat striatal monoamine oxidase-B inhibition by l-deprenyl and rasagiline: its relationship to 2-phenylethylamine-induced stereotypy and Parkinson's disease.
abstract: Rats were injected intraperitoneally with varying doses of l-deprenyl (selegiline) followed 2h later by 30 mg kg(-1) 2-phenylethylamine (PEA), administered in the same way, and the stereotypic behavioural response elicited was assessed. l-Deprenyl alone at doses of up to 5 mg kg(-1) caused no significant behavioural response. Administration of PEA without prior l-deprenyl treatment resulted in only a modest increase in stereotypic behaviour and this was not significantly enhanced by the prior administration 1 mg kg(-1) l-deprenyl. When the administered dose of l-deprenyl was increased to 2.5 or 5 mgkg(-1), however, the stereotypic behavioural response to PEA was greatly potentiated and in the latter case persisted for 60 min. A dose of 2.5 mg kg(-1) l-deprenyl and 1 mg kg(-1) rasagiline was shown to result in over 90% inhibition of the monoamine oxidase (MAO)-B from rat liver and striatum, whereas the inhibition of MAO-A was about 60 and 40% in liver and striatum, respectively. The recovery of MAO-B activity in rat striatum and liver following a single i.p. injection of 5 mg kg(-1) l-deprenyl gave first-order rate constants of 1.80 and 7.15 h(-1), respectively, which corresponded to half-lives of 9.23 and 2.33 days. Similar results were obtained with rasagiline. The corresponding indices of stereotypic response to PEA (30 mg kg(-1); i.p.) during recovery from the single dose of l-deprenyl were initially high, but had started to decline by the third day after l-deprenyl treatment and was not significant after day 4. At that time, less than 20% of the striatal monoamine oxidase-B activity had been regained, whereas the recovery of the liver enzyme was about 65%. These data are discussed in terms of the suggested involvement of PEA potentiation in the anti-parkinsonian actions of l-deprenyl and rasagiline and the duration of the 'wash-out' period used in studies on the effects of l-deprenyl on patients with Parkinson's disease. The longer duration of the recovery of brain monoamine oxidase B after its selective inhibition and the corresponding behavioural responses of the animals to PEA at same time points, indicate that PEA may have a major pharmacological role in the mechanism of the antiParkinson action of l-deprenyl and rasagiline. Brain monoamine oxidase B inhibition has previously been shown to significantly increases brain PEA and which is capable of releasing dopamine endogenously or that formed from L-dopa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Eve Topf and US National Parkinson Foundation Centers for Neurodegenerative Diseases, The B. Rappaport Family-Medical Research Institute, 31096 Haifa, Israel. youdim@techunix.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: M B H
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Youdim
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Tipton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000201:enzymology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004357:Drug Synergism; D007189:Indans / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase / Q000187:drug effects*; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010302:Parkinson Disease, Secondary / Q000139:chemically induced; D010627:Phenethylamines / Q000494:pharmacology; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012642:Selegiline / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior
chemical_list: D007189:Indans; D008996:Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors; D010627:Phenethylamines; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; C031967:rasagiline; D012642:Selegiline; C029261:phenethylamine; D008995:Monoamine Oxidase