Streptozotocin-Induced Decreases in Serotonin Turnover Are Prevented by Thyroidectomy
作者:
William N. Henley,
Linda L. Bellush,
期刊:
Neuroendocrinology
(Karger Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 56,
issue 3
页码: 354-363
ISSN:0028-3835
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1159/000126249
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Thyroidectomy;Hypothyroid;Streptozotocin;Diabetes;Serotonin
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Although characterized as hypothyroid, streptozotocin-diabetic rats have reduced serotonin turnover (5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid/serotonin, 5-HIAA/ 5-HT) in brain stem, while hypothyroid rats have increased 5-HIAA/5-HT. In the present study the two treatments were combined to determine if they affected 5-HIAA/5-HTthrough the same mechanism. In addition, an alternative method was used to assess 5-HT activity in thyroidectomized (TX) rats, i.e. measurement of 5-HT disappearance after inhibition of tryptophan hydroxylase with/7-chlorophenylalanine (PCPA). Adult male rats were first TX (experiment 1) or given methimazole (METH; experiment 3). Two weeks later, diabetes (DB) was induced with streptozotocin in hypothyroid rats and euthyroid controls. Two weeks later, functional measurements were taken. Rats were then killed, and spinal cord and brain stem serotonin turnover (5-HIAA/5-HT), as well as plasma T3, T4 and corticosterone (CORT) concentrations were measured. TX attenuated diabetic hyperphagia and weight loss. DB alone led to moderate reductions in T3 and T4, but the hormones were barely detectable in plasma of TX and METH rats. CORT was elevated in DB but was not affected by TX. Open field activity was not affected by DB or TX. TX and METH significantly increased 5-HIAA/5-HT in both spinal cord and brain stem. TX also led to enhanced disappearance of 5-HT after PCPA. DB significantly reduced 5-HIAA/5-HT, suggesting independent effects of the treatments. However, DB-TX rats still had significantly higher 5-HIAA/5-HT than control-sham surgery rats, while DB-METH rats had 5-HIAA/5-HT indistinguishable from controls. In both cases, prior induction of primary hypothyroidism interfered with the expected diabetes-induced reduction in 5-HTturnover.
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