乙酰胆碱对大鼠丘脑束旁核和中脑网状结构痛反应神经元电活动的影响

在54只大鼠上,用两支微电极同时记录神经元放电的方法,研究了脑室注射乙酰胆碱(ACh)对丘脑束旁核(Pf)和中脑网状结构(RF)痛反应神经元电活动的影响。结果表明,当脑内ACh含量增加时,Pf和RF中两个痛兴奋神经元(PEN)的电活动同时减弱,两个痛抑制神经元(PIN)的电活动同时加强,Pf中一个PEN电活动减弱的同时RF中一个PIN电活动加强,或者相反。阿托品可以阻断ACh的上述作用。这提示,ACh对不同中枢痛反应神经元的电活动的影响是通过M胆碱能受体而实现的。     

乙酰胆碱对大鼠丘脑束旁核痛兴奋和痛抑制神经元放电的影响

本实验观察了脑室注射乙酰胆碱(ACh)对丘脑束旁核(Pf)痛兴奋神经元(PEN)和痛抑制神经元(PIN)电活动的影响,并与吗啡的作用进行了比较。结果表明,脑内ACh增加可使PEN放电潜伏期延长,频率降低,持续时程缩短;可使PIN的完全抑制时程缩短。腹腔注射吗啡与ACh的作用相似。M胆碱受体阻断剂阿托品能阻断ACh对PEN和PIN的作用,但不影响吗啡对PEN和PIN的作用。说明吗啡镇痛不是通过胆碱能转递而实现的。     

微电泳乙酰胆碱和阿托品对大鼠丘脑束旁核痛敏神经元电活动的影响

在30只大鼠上,用多管微电极细胞外记录和离子微电泳方法,观察了乙酰胆碱(ACh)和阿托品对丘脑束旁核(Pf)神经元电活动的影响。结果表明,微电泳ACh可加强痛敏神经元的电活动,并使部分自发放电神经元对伤害性刺激产生反应。阿托品可以阻断ACh的上述作用。微电泳阿托品能减少痛敏神经元的电活动。这些结果提示,在Pf神经元的活动中,ACh可以直接作用于M受体发挥其兴奋作用。     

新生大鼠脑低氧缺血早期对纹状体胆碱能系统的影响

采用7日龄大鼠右侧颈总动脉结扎合并高温、低氧环境制作新生动物脑低氧缺血模型,观察了脑低氧缺血对新生动物纹状体胆碱能系统的影响。乙酰胆碱(ACh)放射免疫测定结果表明,低氧缺血损伤后24h,两侧纹状体ACh含量均比正常对照组明显下降。乙酰胆碱酯酶(AChE)组织化学图象定量提示,脑低氧缺血后24h,纹状体内拟胆碱能神经元数量未见减少,而胞体内AChE染色强度略有下降。胆碱能递质和该标志酶在新生鼠脑低氧缺血早期的一致改变,证明发育中纹状体胆碱能系统对低氧缺血敏感。鉴于动物不结扎动脉仅作低氧处理者双侧纹状体ACh含量出现与低氧缺血组相同的改变,故提示缺氧可能是造成胆碱能系统早期损伤的直接原因。     

大鼠肠道内NOS与AChE、VIP阳性神经元的分布关系研究

应用一氧化氮合酶 (NOS)、乙酰胆碱酯酶 (ACh E)组织化学及血管活性肠肽 (VIP)免疫组织化学方法 ,光镜下比较观察大鼠肠道内 NOS、ACh E、VIP阳性神经元的形态学特征。结果显示 ,肠肌间丛 NOS阳性神经元胞体大小不等 ,形态不一 ,NOS、ACh E和 VIP阳性神经元的分布密度为 ACh E>NOS>VIP,在不同的肠段和层次分布密度有差异 ,NOS与 ACh E存在共染。在肌间丛和粘膜下丛 ,少数 VIP与 NOS共染。在粘膜下丛 ,三种阳性神经元的分布密度为 ACh E>VIP>NOS。在肌间丛和粘膜下丛 ,可见 VIP阳性末梢环抱 NOS阳性神经元胞体 ,两者呈终扣样接触。上述结果提示 NOS阳性神经元与 ACh E、 VIP阳性神经元有密切的形态学联系。在消化道功能调节上 ,它们可能起协调作用。     

免疫活性细胞中的非神经元型胆碱能系统

本文对淋巴细胞、巨噬细胞、粒细胞、肥大细胞及胶质细胞等免疫活性细胞中非神经元型胆碱能系统的特点、药理学和病理生理学意义进行了综述。免疫活性细胞,尤其是淋巴细胞中存在完整、独立的胆碱能系统。与神经元型胆碱能系统相比,该系统具有不同特点,如乙酰胆碱(ACh)的合成存在于整个细胞内;ACh可能储存于细胞中某种储存结构,也可能不需储存,而是按需合成并直接释放。免疫活性细胞中的非神经元型胆碱能系统对机体免疫功能及炎症过程可能发挥重要的调控作用。对该系统的深入研究将有助于进一步阐明免疫性疾病、炎症/感染性疾病和神经退行性疾病等的病理生理和发现药物治疗的新靶标。     

大白鼠脊髓、脑干和海马乙酰胆碱酯酶活性的研究

采用乙酰胆碱酯酶 (ACh E)组织化学方法 ,观察了大白鼠脊髓、脑干和海马等脑区 ACh E阳性神经元的活性。结果显示 :(1)脊髓 :脊髓前角、后角神经元 ACh E均为中等阳性 ( ) ,脊髓中间外侧核 ACh E呈强阳性 ( )。 (2 )脑干 :延髓中的三叉神经脊束核、舌下神经核 ACh E均呈强阳性 ( ) ,中缝大核 ACh E呈中等阳性 ( ) ;脑桥的蓝斑核 ACh E呈强阳性 ( ) ,而三叉神经中脑核等核团 ACh E呈中等阳性 ( ) ;中脑的非脑神经核团红核、黑质 ACh E呈阳性 (+ )或中等阳性 ( ) ,脑神经核团动眼神经核和动眼神经副交感核 ACh E呈强阳性 ( )。 (3)海马 :海马 CA3区 ACh E为强阳性( ) ,CA2 和 CA1 区为中等阳性 ( )。本实验表明 ACh E阳性神经元广泛分布于中枢神经系统不同脑区 ,为进一步探讨 ACh在中枢神经系统中的作用提供了形态学资料。     

乙酰胆碱抗体制成

ACh 一般储存于胆碱纯神经元的囊泡中,分子量小,缺乏抗原性,而且不稳定。要制得抗ACh 的抗体,首先必须建立起一套克服ACh 分子化学结构上的缺陷的免疫学方法。Geffard 等为了保持ACh 的结构同时赋予其抗原性,用化学方法给胆碱分子接上戊二酸酐(GA)及多肽(蛋白质),经此修饰后的胆碱-戊二酸酐-蛋白质与ACh 极相似,而且具有抗原性;继而免疫动物即可制得针对ACh 的抗体。他们又对组     

吡虫啉对意大利蜜蜂乙酰胆碱酯酶的亚致死效应

【目的】确定吡虫啉对意大利蜜蜂Apis mellifera的致死中浓度,探究吡虫啉对意大利蜜蜂乙酰胆碱酯酶的亚致死效应。【方法】本文采用药膜法、点滴法和饲喂法测定吡虫啉对意大利蜜蜂的毒力曲线,及蜜蜂接触吡虫啉后头部乙酰胆碱酯酶活性的变化。应用RT-q PCR技术研究饲喂LC5浓度吡虫啉后,蜜蜂乙酰胆碱酯酶基因Ace1和Ace2的m RNA相对表达量。【结果】饲喂法、点滴法和药膜法3种方法测定的吡虫啉对意大利蜜蜂的致死中浓度分别是7.15 mg/L、0.078 ng/蜂和51 ng/cm2。3种作用方式下,吡虫啉均抑制了乙酰胆碱酯酶活性;随着浓度增加,ACh E酶活性处于下降状态,但降低较少。LC5浓度的吡虫啉对蜜蜂ACh E活性具有明显影响,24 h内ACh E活性呈现增强-抑制-增强的趋势。饲喂蜜蜂LC5亚致死浓度的吡虫啉后,Ace1和Ace2被诱导表达,但在1、2和16 h与对照无明显差异。【结论】亚致死浓度的吡虫啉对蜜蜂乙酰胆碱酯活性具有抑制作用,并且存在明显的剂量效应和时间效应,对Ace1和Ace2具有诱导效应,酶活性水平和m RNA相对表达水平不一致。     

抑制乙酰胆碱酯酶对乙酰胆碱受体也有影响

通常认为,乙酰胆碱酯酶(AChE)通过水解乙酰胆碱(ACh)影响突触传递。抑制AChE.ACh水解减少,其突触后效应增强。然而,Fossier等最近在加利福尼亚海螺(aplysia Californica)的离休口腔神经节(buccal、ganglion)制备发现,抑制AChE对乙酰胆碱受体(AChR)也有影响。Fossier等在生理营养液连续灌流下,固定该制备突触前、后神经元的膜电位,并维持突触后神经元的Cl~-翻转电位不变,观察灌流液中添加各种AChE抑制剂后该神经节中的胆碱能中间神经元对胆碱类激动剂的突触后电流(PSC)反应的变化。发现:经有机磷类AChE抑制剂处理后,该制备不仅对ACh的PSC反应增强为静息电流的269±32%,而且对不被AChE水解的卡巴可(carbachol)的反应也增强为176±7%。经氨基甲酸酯类AChE抑制剂普鲁斯的明(prostigmine)和肟类化合物contrathion(AChE有机磷中毒的复活剂,也是一种迅速可逆的AChE强抑制剂)处理后,其PSC反应类似。     

CITRATE AS THE PRECURSOR OF THE ACETYL MOIETY OF ACETYLCHOLINE

Abstract— Rat brain cortex slices were incubated with glucose labeled with either ³H or ¹⁴C in the 6-position. The ³H/¹⁴C ratios and the incorporation of radioactivity into lactate, citrate, malate and acetylcholine were determined. While the ³H/¹⁴C ratio of lactate was close to that of glucose, the ratios in the acetyl moiety of acetylcholine and the acetyl (C-4,5) portion of citrate decreased in a similar proportion. This was interpreted as indirect evidence for the participation of citrate as a precursor to the acetyl moiety of acetylcholine. Two inhibitors of the citrate cleavage pathway: n -butylmalonate, an inhibitor of citrate transport and (-)-hydroxycitrate, an inhibitor of ATP-citrate lyase were studied for their effect on acetylcholine synthesis. N -butylmalonate (10 mM) and (-)-hydroxycitrate (7.5 mM) led to a decrease in the per cent of ¹⁴C recovered as acetylcholine. In each instance the ³H/¹⁴C ratio in acetylcholine was higher in the presence of inhibitor while the corresponding ratios in lactate and citrate (C-4.5) remained unchanged. From the results, it is suggested that citrate is involved in the transport mechanism of acetyl units from its site of synthesis in mitochondria to the site of acetylcholine synthesis in the cytosol.     

THE USE OF MICROWAVE HEATING TO INACTIVATE CHOLINESTERASE IN THE RAT BRAIN PRIOR TO ANALYSIS FOR ACETYLCHOLINE

Abstract— Heating with 2450 MHz microwave radiation has been investigated as a means for animal sacrifice concurrent with enzyme inactivation. Uniform inactivation of cholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.8) in the entire brain can be effected in the rat within 4 s and in the mouse within 2 s without destruction of acetylcholine. The acetylcholine content in the whole brain of a rat was found to be 25.4 ± 1.5 nmol/g after irradiation, in comparison to 13.8 ± 1.7 nmol/g after standard methods of sacrifice. In the mouse whole brain, the comparable acetylcholine contents were 25.5 ± 2.6 and 13.7 ± 1.7 nmol/g, respectively. The value of this procedure for rapid inactivation of enzymes in the study of acetylcholine turnover is discussed.     

RATE OF ACCUMULATION OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN DISCRETE REGIONS OF THE RAT BRAIN AFTER DICHLORVOS TREATMENT

Abstract– The time course for accumulation of acetylcholine was measured in rat brain regions after treatment with 15 mg/kg, i.v., dichlorvos. With this dose of dichlorvos 84-96% of the brain cholinester-ase is inhibited within 1 min. After killing and concomitant enzyme inactivation through microwave irradiation, the acetylcholine levels were measured by pyrolysis-gas chromatography. In the brain regions studied, the striatum had the highest rate of accumulation of acetylcholine and the cerebellum had the lowest. The calculated turnover time in minutes for the regions of the brain were cerebral cortex 0.9; hippocampus 1; striatum 1.4; cerebellum 1.7; medulla-pons 2.2; midbrain 4.5; thalamus 5.6.     

ON THE TURNOVER OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN NERVE ENDINGS OF MOUSE BRAIN IN VIVO

Abstract— Acetylcholine is synthesized and stored in the nerve endings from which the liberation of the nerve transmittor is regulated by the nerve activity. The aim of the present investigation was to measure the in vivo turnover of acetylcholine in this subcellular acetylcholine pool. This has been carried out by injecting labelled choline intravenously and then by measuring at different time intervals the ratio between labelled choline and acetylcholine in the fractions obtained after subcellular fractionation. It was found that the ratio radioactive choline to radioactive acetylcholine was the same (2:1) in whole brain and in the nerve ending fraction 2 to 20 min after injection. Since it was assumed that the same ratio is true also for the endogenous compounds the choline pool in the nerve terminals was considered to make up 13 nmoles/g brain. The results also indicate that plasma choline is rapidly equilibrated with the nerve terminals and transformed to acetylcholine at a rate of about 5 nmoles/g brain/min.     

西方蜜蜂毒蕈碱型乙酰胆碱受体基因的生物信息学分析

利用生物信息学方法分析了西方蜜蜂 Apis mellifera毒蕈碱型乙酰胆碱受体的核酸和氨基酸序列,并对其组成成分、疏水/亲水区、跨膜拓扑结构域、分子系统进化关系进行了预测和推断.结果显示,该受体定位在第8条染色体上,由618个氨基酸组成,分子量69 906.5D,等电点(pI)8.56;是G蛋白偶联型受体,含N-糖基化位点、蛋白激酶C磷酸化位点、cAMP/cGMP依赖蛋白激酶磷酸化位点.     

SYNTHESIS OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN DIFFERENT COMPARTMENTS OF BRAIN NERVE TERMINALS IN VIVO AS STUDIED BY THE INCORPORATION OF CHOLINE FROM PLASMA AND THE EFFECT OF PENTOBARBITAL ON THIS PROCESS

The time course of the incorporation of choline from plasma into a high and a low molecular weight fraction from mouse brain synaptosomes was studied. The fractions were obtained from lysed synaptosomes by gel filtration on Sephadex G-25. An extremely rapid incorporation of radioactivity into acetylcholine was found in both fractions and in the time interval 0.25-9 min after the intravenous administration of labelled choline, higher specific radioactivities of acetylcholine were found in the high molecular weight fraction than in the low molecular weight fraction. However, the specific radioactivity of choline in the high molecular weight fraction was much lower than that of acetylcholine. It was found that barbiturate anaesthesia caused a marked decrease in the labelling of acetylcholine in the high molecular weight fraction while the incorporation into the low molecular weight fraction was affected to a much smaller extent. Acetylcholine of the high molecular weight fraction showed properties similar to those of vesicle-bound acetylcholine. The recoveries of labelled and endogenous acetylcholine and choline from the brain homogenates were calculated in different steps of the fractionation procedure. In the fraction containing lysed synaptosomes the recovery of radioactive acetylcholine was lower than that of endogenous acetylcholine. This may indicate the presence of two types of bound acetylcholine in the synaptosomes. Different models for the intraneuronal synthesis of acetylcholine are discussed and it is proposed that a site of acetylcholine synthesis in vivo may be closely associated with some constituent of the high molecular weight fraction and directly coupled with the storage of the transmitter.     

LABELLING OF ACETYLCHOLINE IN THE BRAIN OF MICE FED ON A DIET CONTAINING DEUTERIUM LABELLED CHOLINE: STUDIES UTILIZING GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY—MASS SPECTROMETRY

—A method to achieve labelling of the acetylcholine stores of the brain under ideal physiological conditions is described. To this end, mice fed on a choline free diet were supplied with deuterium labelled choline in the drinking water. Labelled and unlabelled choline in plasma and in the brain as well as labelled and unlabelled acetyicholine in the brain were measured by a gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric method. It was found that after 1–25 days on the deuterium choline diet, substantial amounts of the plasma choline and brain acetylcholine were displaced by deuterium choline and deuterium acetylcholine, respectively. Already on the first day, the mole ratio of deuterium choline/total choline in plasma was 0·22, and it approached a maximum of 0·57 on the 14th day. The mole ratios of deuterium acetylcholine/total acetylcholine in the brain were slightly but significantly lower than those of deuterium choline/total choline in plasma 1–14 days, but asymptotically approached the mole ratios of deuterium Ch/total Ch in plasma by 25 days. Intact brains submitted to incubation at room temperature for 10 min increased their total choline content by about 500 per cent. Concurrently, in brains from animals kept on a deuterium choline diet for 1–2 days, the level of deuterium choline rose only by 50 per cent after incubation. Deuterium choline levels increased, however, by 200–300 per cent in the brains from animals kept on the deuterium diet for longer time periods. On the basis of these data it is suggested that: (a) choline in plasma is partly supplied from the food and partly from endogenous sources; (b) plasma choline rapidly equilibrates (less than one day) with a pool of Ch in the brain which is responsible for biosynthesis of acetylcholine; (c) the size of this choline pool is in the order of 34–40 nmol/g.     

THE ISOLATION OF SYNAPTOSOMES FROM THE BRAIN OF A TELEOST FISH, CENTRIOPRISTES STRIATUS

Abstract— The brain of a typical teleost fish, sea bass ( Centrioprisles striatus ), yielded subcellular fractions similar to those previously isolated from mammalian brain upon homogenization and differential and density gradient centrifuging. In particular, a well-defined synaptosomal fraction accounting for most of the bound acetylcholine of the tissue was obtained, although possibly because of the large amount of myelin in fish brain this and other fractions were not as homogeneous as the corresponding ones from guinea pig cerebral cortex. No difficulty was experienced in adapting the methods to the relatively small amounts of tissue (about 200 mg) obtainable from each fish. The isolation of synaptosomes in good yield indicates that teleost central presynaptic terminals have essentially the same physical properties as those of higher forms, permitting detachment and sealing under conditions of moderate liquid shear.     

EFFECT OF PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE ON ACETYLCHOLINE OUTPUT FROM THE CEREBRAL CORTEX OF THE RAT

The effect of sonicated suspensions of phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine injected intravenously on acetylcholine release from the cerebral cortex was investigated in urethane anaesthetized rats. The electroeorticogram was also recorded. Phosphatidylserine caused a dose dependent, calcium dependent increase in acetylcholine output with no electrocorticografic changes. The increase, 75% peak effect after 150 mg/kg, was abolished by septal lesions and pretreatment with pimozide. Phosphatidylserine had no effect on acetylcholine release from brain slices in vitro. Phosphatidylethanolamine was approximately half as active as phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine had no effect on acetylcholine output in vivo. It is concluded that phosphatidylserine exerts an indirect stimulating action on a septio-cortical cholinergic pathway.     

A TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDY OF ACETYLCHOLINE TURNOVER IN MOUSE BRAIN IN VIVO

Abstract— —A method to measure the rate of acetylcholine turnover in mouse brain in vivo has been developed. It is based on the formation of labelled acetylcholine from intravenously injected labelled choline. The isotopic dilution of choline in the brain has been measured by assaying endogenous choline in the brain by an enzymatic method using tritium-labelled acetyl-CoA and purified choline acetyltransferase.
The rate of acetylcholine turnover in the brain could be calculated at 50 n-moles acetylcholine/g/min in conscious mice. In anaesthetized mice and in mice treated with oxotremorine, a decrease of acetylcholine turnover to about 10 n-moles/g/min was found.