Effects of dopaminergic drugs and acute medial forebrain bundle lesions on striatal acetylcholine levels. |
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Authors: | H Rommelspacher M J Kuhar |
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Affiliation: | From the Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA |
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Abstract: | Placement of radio frequency lesions in the medial forebrain bundle resulted in a 50% depletion of striatal acetylcholine levels but did not change hippocampal levels. A similar result was obtained with the administration of chlorpromazine, haloperidol and pimozide. When these drugs were administered simultaneously with placement of lesions, there was the same 50% depletion of striatal acetylcholine. Apomorphine reversed the depletion due to lesions. These results suggest that the action of antipsychotic drugs on the cholinergic system in the striatum is primarily due to their action at dopamine receptors rather than a direct action on cholinergic receptors which would be due to their anticholinergic activity. |
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