Neuropeptide Y and tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA levels in the locus coeruleus show similar increases after reserpine treatment

Neuropeptides ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.J.F. Foster ◽  
S. Biswas ◽  
S.L. Lightman
1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiaki Shishido ◽  
Yoshinori Watanabe ◽  
Isao Matsuoka ◽  
Hironori Nakanishi ◽  
Shin-Ichi Niwa

1989 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
G M Jonakait ◽  
M Rosenthal ◽  
J I Morrell

In situ hybridization was used to examine the appearance of mRNA specific for tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme in catecholamine (CA) biosynthesis, in neural crest derivatives of the rat embryo. These derivatives include sympathetic ganglia and transient catecholaminergic cells of embryonic intestine. Messenger RNA is first detected in sympathetic ganglia at E11.5, the age corresponding to the initial immunocytochemical expression of TH protein. In older embryos increased accumulation of TH-specific mRNA in sympathetic ganglia parallels the increase in TH immunoreactivity. By contrast, mRNA for TH is difficult to detect in embryonic intestines at E11.5 but is found instead in cells clustered at the dorsal boundaries of the pharynx and foregut. Cells expressing TH mRNA are infrequently found in embryonic intestines at any age, even though TH protein is immunohistochemically apparent. Treatment of pregnant rats with doses of reserpine, known to increase circulating levels of glucocorticoid hormones and prolong the expression of TH protein in embryonic gut cells, dramatically but transiently increases the number of gut cells at E12.5 with detectable TH mRNA. After E13.5 TH mRNA is undetectable even in reserpine-treated guts. Reserpine treatment also increases the labeling density in sympathetic ganglia. Taken together, these data are consistent with the hypothesis that the microenvironment of the embryonic intestine affects gene expression directly to alter phenotype. Moreover, although reserpine administration briefly increases TH mRNA levels, the effect is short-lived and does not alter neurotransmitter phenotypic conversion.


Synapse ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark C. Austin ◽  
Sandra L. Cottingham ◽  
Steven M. Paul ◽  
Jacqueline N. Crawley

1990 ◽  
Vol 184 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew L. Gundlach ◽  
Sonya D. Rutherfurd ◽  
William J. Louis

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