The effect of active immunization with a conjugate of dopamine and bovine serum albumin on the development of an experimental MPTP-induced depressive syndrome and on the monoamine metabolism in the brain of rats |
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Authors: | Krupina N A Popkova E V Orlova I N Vetrilé L A Kryzhanovski? G N Basharova L A Evseev V A Iordanskaia T E Pankova N B |
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Institution: | Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow. |
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Abstract: | Active immunization with dopamine conjugated with bovine serum albumin (DA-BSA) or BSA with complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) partly suppressed the development of the MPTP-induced depressive syndrome in rats preventing the appearance of "behavioral despair" symptoms: increase in immobility time and higher index of depression in forced-swim test. In DA-BSA-immunized rats the content of DOPA, DA, HVA, NA, and 5-HN in caudate putamen and that of NA in the frontal cortex was increased, while in BSA-immunized rats the content of 5-HT in both brain areas and that of DOPAC in the frontal cortex was decreased both in rats with reduced depressive syndrome and in saline control as compared with intact animals a day after the last drug injection. In DA-BSA-immunized rats with reduced depressive syndrome the increase in DA and 5-HT content in caudate putamen was less expressed and DOPAC content was lower than in saline control. In BSA-immunized depressive rats DA content in the frontal cortex was also reduced as compared to control. |
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