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Volume 13, Issue 4, 16 August 1973, Pages 303-312
Life Sciences

The uptake of [3H]dopamine by homogenates of rat corpus striatum: Effects of cations

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Abstract

The uptake of [3H]dopamine was studied with a synaptosomal preparation of the corpus striatum. The accumulation of dopamine was found to be temperature-dependent and very rapid, but linear over time for at least 5 min. at 37°C with characteristics of saturable kinetics. The optimum concentrations for Na+ and K+ were 150–160 mM and 2.5–4.8 mM, respectively, while uptake was progressively inhibited at concentrations of K+ greater than 5 mM. Rubidium was capable of substituting for potassium whereas cesium was a much less effective replacement. The uptake of DA was blocked by the antibiotics, valinomycin and gramicidin-D which bind K+ or both Na+ and K+, respectively, and thereby might interfere with the transport of cations across neuronal membranes. Similarly, ouabain which blocks the active transport of Na+ markedly antagonized the accumulation of DA into striatal homogenates. In contrast, tetrodotoxin which does not prevent the active transport of Na+, had no effect. Uptake appeared not to require Ca++ and it was not inhibited by increasing total osmolarity to 400 mosM. In general, the cationic requirements for DA-uptake in striatal tissue and its responses to several inhibition of ionic transport, do not appear to be greatly different from those reported for NE with synaptosomes prepared from whole brain.

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