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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 15, 1998, 18(6):1979-1986
Mechanisms of Amphetamine Action Revealed in Mice Lacking the
Dopamine Transporter
Sara R.
Jones1,
Raul R.
Gainetdinov1,
R. Mark
Wightman2, and
Marc G.
Caron1
1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Laboratories,
Departments of Cell Biology and Medicine, Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, and 2 Department of
Chemistry and Curriculum in Neurobiology, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
Amphetamine (AMPH) inhibits uptake and causes release of dopamine
(DA) from presynaptic terminals. AMPH can act on both vesicular storage
of DA and directly on the dopamine transporter (DAT). To assess the
relative importance of these two processes, we have examined the
releasing actions of AMPH in mice with a genetic deletion of the DAT.
The sequence of actions of AMPH has been determined by following the
real time changes of DA in the extracellular fluid of intact tissue
with fast scan cyclic voltammetry. In striatal slices from wild-type
mice, AMPH causes a gradual (~30 min) increase in extracellular DA,
with a concomitant disappearance of the pool of DA available for
depolarization-evoked release. Conversely, in slices from mice lacking
the DAT, although a similar disappearance of electrically stimulated DA
release occurs, extracellular DA does not increase. Similarly,
microdialysis measurements of DA after AMPH in freely moving animals
show no change in mice lacking the DAT, whereas it increases 10-fold in
wild-type mice. In contrast, redistribution of DA from vesicles to the
cytoplasm by the use of a reserpine-like compound, Ro4-1284, does not
increase extracellular DA in slices from wild-type animals; however,
subsequent addition of AMPH induces rapid (<5 min) release of DA.
Thus, the DAT is required for the releasing action, but not the
vesicle-depleting action, of AMPH on DA neurons, and the latter
represents the rate-limiting step in the effects of AMPH. Furthermore,
these findings suggest that in the absence of pharmacological
manipulation, such as the use of amphetamine, endogenous cytoplasmic DA
normally does not reach sufficient concentrations to reverse the
DAT.
Key words:
amphetamine; dopamine transporter; knockout; mice; voltammetry; Ro4-1284; tetrabenazine; synaptic vesicles; microdialysis; dopamine
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