Parenterally administered 3-nitropropionic acid and amphetamine can combine to produce damage to terminals and cell bodies in the striatum

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作者
Bowyer, JF
Clausing, P
Schmued, L
Davies, DL
Binienda, Z
Newport, GD
Scallet, AC
Slikker, W
机构
[1] Division of Neurotoxicology, Natl. Ctr. for Toxicological Res., HFT-132, Jefferson
关键词
3-nitropropionic acid; amphetamine; neurotoxicity; dopamine; caudate-putamen;
D O I
10.1016/0006-8993(95)01417-9
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The combined effects of amphetamine (AMPH) and 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NPA) were investigated to determine how the energy depletion proposed to be produced by AMPH interacts with an inhibitor of mitochondrial respiration to produce striatal neurotoxicity. Neither two doses (2 h apart) of 3.75 mg/kg AMPH alone nor a single dose of 30 mg/kg 3-NPA i.p. produced neurotoxicity in the striatum or lowered striatal dopamine content in rat. Administration of 40 mg/kg of 3-NPA alone almost invariably produced either lethality or did not produce neurotoxicity in the striatum of surviving animals. However, 30 mg/kg of 3-NPA administered along with 2 doses of 3.75 mg/kg AMPH to 47 animals produced striatal damage in the 31 survivors with 15 of the surviving rats showing muscle rigidity/catatonia for several days after dosing, along with decreased food consumption. Thirteen of these 15 rats showed degeneration of axons and cell bodies in the medial caudate-putamen with minimal damage to the globus pallidus. However, two rats exhibited hindlimb paralysis and signs of axonal and neuronal soma degeneration in the thalamus and cerebellar nuclei as well as striatum. Sixteen of the rats given both AMPH and 3-NPA exhibited only torpidity and loss of muscle tone 1-3 h after dosing. Such rats showed no signs of neuronal cell degeneration in the striatum, but did show significant dopamine depletions (60% of control) and reductions in tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity at 14 days postexposure. The mitochondrial dysfunction produced by 3-NPA combined with activation of neuronal pathways by AMPH may have predisposed terminals, axons and cell bodies in striatum to degeneration.
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