Differential Uptake of Lithium Isotopes by Rat Cerebral Cortex and Its Effect on Inositol Phosphate Metabolism |
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Authors: | William R. Sherman Ling Y. Munsell Yun-Hua H. Wong |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Twenty hours following the subcutaneous administration of 5 mEq/kg doses of 6LiCl and 7LiCl to two groups of rats, the cerebral cortex molar ratio of 6Li+/7Li+ is 1.5. The effects of the lithium isotopes on cortex myo-inositol and myo-inositol-l-phosphate levels are the same as we have reported earlier: a Li+ concentration-dependent lowering of myo-inositol and increase in myo-inositol-1-phosphate. Thus 6LiCl, when administered at the same dose as 7LiCl, produces the larger effect on inositol metabolism. When the 6LiCl and 7LiCl doses were adjusted to 5 mEq/kg and 7 mEq/kg, respectively, the cortical lithium myo-inositol and myo-inositol-1-phosphate levels of each group of animals became approximately equal, suggesting that the isotope effect occurs at the level of tissue uptake, but not on inositol phosphate metabolism. The inhibition of myo-inositol-1-phosphatase by the two lithium isotopes in vitro showed no differential effect. The isotope effect on cerebral cortex uptake of lithium is in the same direction as that reported by others for erythrocytes and for the CSF/plasma ratio, but of larger magnitude. |
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Keywords: | Lithium isotopes Rat cerebral cortex myo-Inositol myo-Inositol-1-phosphate myo-Inositol-1-phosphatase Phosphoinositides |
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