RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Muscarinic receptor binding and oxidative enzyme activities in the adult rat superior cervical ganglion: effects of 6-hydroxydopamine and nerve growth factor
JF The Journal of Neuroscience
JO J. Neurosci.
FD Society for Neuroscience
SP 1963
OP 1970
DO 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.03-10-01963.1983
VO 3
IS 10
A1 AM Dombrowski
A1 AA Jerkins
A1 FC Kauffman
YR 1983
UL http://www.jneurosci.org/content/3/10/1963.abstract
AB Administration of 6-hydroxydopamine to adult rats results in changes in the superior cervical ganglion similar to those noted after axotomy; namely, a decrease in muscarinic receptor binding and increases in activities of the oxidative enzymes of the pentose phosphate pathway. These changes were either prevented or attenuated markedly by the systemic administration of nerve growth factor. Administration of nerve growth factor alone did not significantly increase N-methylscopolamine binding in the ganglion or reduce the activities of the oxidative enzymes. Explants of the ganglion maintained in serum-free medium over a period of 3 days demonstrated increases in oxidative enzyme activity and a decrease in N-methylscopolamine binding. Addition of 20 nM nerve growth factor to the culture medium prevented the decline in N- methylscopolamine binding in ganglion explants. The increases in oxidative enzyme activities were unaltered. Addition of high amounts of nerve growth factor, 200 nM, resulted in a significant increase in tyrosine hydroxylase activity but no further increase in N- methylscopolamine binding in ganglion explants. Glucocorticoids added to the culture medium did not affect the muscarinic binding or enzyme activities. Thus, decreases in muscarinic binding activity which occur in the superior cervical ganglion after axotomy or 6-hydroxydopamine treatment may be explained by a loss of nerve growth factor supplied to the ganglion. Increases in the oxidative enzymes of the pentose phosphate pathway that occur in the ganglion after axonal injury appear to involve additional factors.