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- タイトル
- タイトル(英)
- Overexpression of tyrosine hydroxylase in dopaminergic neurons increased sensitivity to methamphetamine.
- 参照URL
- https://researchmap.jp/ymoriya/published_papers/41329284
- 著者
- 著者(英)
- Yuka Nago-Iwashita,Yuki Moriya,Satoshi Hara,Ryohei Ogawa,Rina Aida,Katsuya Miyajima,Takenobu Shimura,Shin-Ichi Muramatsu,Soichiro Ide,Kazutaka Ikeda,Hiroshi Ichinose
- 担当区分
- 概要
- 概要(英)
- Drug abuse is one of the great social problems in the world and a major healthcare challenge. It is supposed that sensitivity and reactivity to abuse drugs may vary from person to person, while its molecular basis is largely unknown. Dopaminergic neurons are deeply involved in addiction, and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step of the biosynthesis of dopamine (DA). We investigated the effects of increased TH expression on the metabolism of DA and reactivity to methamphetamine (METH), a drug of abuse, in mice. Wild-type TH (WT-TH) or the S40E mutant of TH (S40E-TH), which is an active form of TH mimicking phosphorylated TH at the 40th serine, was expressed in midbrain dopaminergic neurons using an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector. The biochemical analysis showed that the turnover rates of DA in the nerve terminals were increased by the expression of WT-TH and S40E-TH, while there were few changes in the DA contents. Next, we administered METH to TH-overexpressing mice. We found that the S40E-TH-expressing mice responded to lower doses of METH than the control mice and WT-TH mice. The stereotyped behaviors appeared first in S40E-TH mice and then in WT-TH and control mice in this order. These data showed that the TH activity and expression level differentially affect DA metabolism in the nerve terminals from that in the cell bodies and that the TH activity and expression level are one of the determining factors for sensitivity and reactivity to METH. We suggest that TH may be a drug target for ameliorating sensitivity to drugs of abuse.
- 出版者・発行元
- 出版者・発行元(英)
- 誌名
- 誌名(英)
- Neurochemistry international
- 巻
- 164
- 号
- 開始ページ
- 105491
- 終了ページ
- 105491
- 出版年月
- 2023年1月25日
- 査読の有無
- 招待の有無
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- ISSN
- DOI URL
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuint.2023.105491
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