ABSTRACT
The regulation of extracellular levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) (5-HT) in the striatum and ventral hippocampus was studied using in vivo microdialysis in awake, unrestrained wild-type 5-HT(1A) and 5-HT(1B) receptor knockout mice. Systemic administration of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine evoked a significant dose-dependent increase in extracellular 5-HT in both the striatum and hippocampus at both 2.5 mg/kg (i.p.) and 20 mg/kg (i.p.) in wild-type mice. In 5-HT(1A) receptor knockout mice, the response to 2.5 mg/kg fluoxetine was significantly augmented in the striatum but not the hippocampus, whereas the response to 20 mg/kg fluoxetine was significantly greater in both brain regions. In 5-HT(1B) receptor knockout mice, the increase of extracellular 5-HT was augmented in the hippocampus but not the striatum at both doses of fluoxetine. The response pattern to fluoxetine alone in 5-HT receptor mutant mice corresponded with the effects of fluoxetine given with either the 5-HT(1A) receptor antagonist WAY 100635 (0.1 mg/kg i.p.) or the 5-HT(1B/1D) receptor antagonist GR 127935 (0.056 mg/kg) in wild-type mice. These results indicate common topographical regulation of 5-HT release in different brain regions by genetic mutation and pharmacological challenges. The 5-HT(1A) autoreceptor plays a larger role in regulating 5-HT release in the striatum and possibly other brain regions innervated by the dorsal raphe nucleus, whereas the role of the 5-HT(1B) receptor is relatively greater in the hippocampus and possibly other brain regions innervated by the median raphe nucleus.
Subject(s)
Autoreceptors/drug effects , Autoreceptors/genetics , Brain Chemistry/genetics , Brain Chemistry/physiology , Receptors, Serotonin/genetics , Receptors, Serotonin/metabolism , Serotonin/metabolism , Animals , Area Under Curve , Extracellular Space/metabolism , Fluoxetine/pharmacology , Hippocampus/metabolism , Male , Mice , Mice, Knockout , Microdialysis , Neostriatum/drug effects , Neostriatum/metabolism , Piperazines/pharmacology , Pyridines/pharmacology , Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1B , Receptors, Serotonin, 5-HT1 , Serotonin Antagonists/pharmacology , Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/pharmacologyABSTRACT
Plasticity in serotonergic transmission in serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptor mutants was examined by measuring the regulation of extracellular 5-HT levels in the striatum and ventral hippocampus of 5-HT(1A) and 5-HT(1B) receptor knockout mice using in vivo microdialysis. The efficacy of genetic deletion was verified by showing blunted regulation of extracellular 5-HT with selective 5-HT receptor agonists. 5-HT(1A) receptor knockout mice failed to demonstrate reduction of extracellular 5-HT in response to systemic administration of the 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist R-8-hydroxydipropylaminotetralin (R-8-OH-DPAT) and 5-HT(1B) receptor knockout mice failed to demonstrate reduction of extracellular 5-HT in response to systemic administration of the 5-HT(1B) receptor agonist CP 94,253. Plasticity also developed to deletion of the complementary autoreceptor. 5-HT(1A) receptor knockout mice demonstrated a significantly greater response to CP 94,253 in the striatum, but not the ventral hippocampus, suggesting the development of enhanced sensitivity of striatal 5-HT(1B) receptors. In 5-HT(1B) receptor knockout mice, R-8-OH-DPAT evoked a significantly diminished response in the ventral hippocampus, but not the striatum, suggesting the potential desensitization of 5-HT(1A) receptors in the median raphe nucleus. The pattern of regional compensations between somatodendritic and terminal autoreceptors was confirmed by pharmacological challenges using the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine combined with either a 5-HT(1A) (WAY 100635) or a 5-HT(1B/1D) (GR 127935) receptor antagonist. The regional pattern of compensation may be determined by the preferential role of 5-HT(1A) or 5-HT(1B) receptors in regulating 5-HT release. Taken together, these results demonstrate the development of regional plasticity between complementary somatodendritic and terminal autoreceptors after the genetic deletion of 5-HT(1A) or 5-HT(1B) receptors.
Subject(s)
Gene Deletion , Receptors, Serotonin/deficiency , Receptors, Serotonin/genetics , Serotonin/metabolism , 8-Hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin/pharmacology , Animals , Area Under Curve , Fluoxetine/pharmacology , Genotype , Male , Mice , Mice, Knockout , Microdialysis , Piperazines/pharmacology , Pyridines/pharmacology , Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1B , Receptors, Serotonin, 5-HT1 , Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction , Serotonin Antagonists/pharmacology , Serotonin Receptor Agonists/pharmacology , Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/pharmacologyABSTRACT
The ability of selective serotonin (5-HT) receptor agonists to reduce the extracellular concentration of 5-HT was examined in the striatum of awake, unrestrained mice by in vivo microdialysis. Systemic administration of either 8-OH-PIPAT (R-(+)-trans-8-hydroxy-2-[N-n-propyl-N-(3'-iodo-2'-propenyl)] aminotetralin), a novel 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist, or CP 94,253, a selective 5-HT(1B) receptor agonist, resulted in significant dose-related reductions of striatal 5-HT. The effect of 8-OH-PIPAT (1.0 mg/kg) was blocked by pretreatment with WAY 100635 (0.1 mg/kg), a selective 5-HT(1A) receptor antagonist, but it was not blocked by pretreatment with GR 127935 (0.056 mg/kg), a selective 5-HT(1B/1D) receptor antagonist. The effect of CP 94,253 (1.0 mg/kg) was blocked by pretreatment with GR 127935 (0.056 mg/kg) but was not blocked by pretreatment with WAY 100635 (0.1 mg/kg). Neither WAY 100635 nor GR 127935 altered extracellular 5-HT levels at the doses that were able to completely block the effects of either 8-OH-PIPAT or CP 94,253. The present findings suggest that, on systemic administration, both 8-OH-PIPAT and CP 94,253 are potent and selective agonists at the somatodendritic 5-HT(1A) autoreceptor and terminal 5-HT(1B/1D) autoreceptor, respectively, and are each able to cause decreases in extracellular levels of 5-HT in the mouse striatum by activating a distinct set of receptors.
