Cytophotometric analyses of thalamic neuronal RNA in soman intoxicated rats |
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Authors: | Lee J. Martin Jeffrey A. Doebler Tsung-Ming Shih Adam Anthony |
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Affiliation: | 1. Histochemistry Laboratories, Biology Department The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA;2. Basic Pharmacology Branch, US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010, USA |
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Abstract: | Quantitative azure B-RNA cytophotometry was used to monitor metabolic responses of individual neurons within the ventrobasal nuclear complex (VBC) and nucleus reticularis (NR) of the rat thalamus following administration of soman (0.5, 0.9 or 1.5 LD50, sc). A dose-dependent depression in brain acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was evidenced. With respect to thalamic RNA responses, a complex pattern of RNA alterations was evidenced, with these two regions generally exhibiting opposite patterns of dose-related RNA changes. With sub-lethal dosages of soman, RNA accumulation was evidenced in the acetylcholine (ACh) mediated excitatory VBC region and RNA depletion in the ACh mediated inhibitory NR neurons. With a lethal dose, an opposite RNA response pattern observed in both thalamic regions. It is postulated that the observed RNA response pattern with sub-lethal dosages of soman is what one would anticipate with cholinergic brainstem reticular formation activation. The absence of such a response with lethal doses strongly suggests some disruption of functional excitatory cholinergic activity and perhaps also an impairment of inhibitory cholinergic synaptic activity. |
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