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Kinetics and autoradiography of high affinity uptake of serotonin by primary astrocyte cultures

DM Katz and HK Kimelberg
Journal of Neuroscience 1 July 1985, 5 (7) 1901-1908; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.05-07-01901.1985
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Abstract

Primary astrocyte cultures prepared from the cerebral cortices of neonatal rats showed significant accumulation of serotonin (5- hydroxytryptamine; [3H]-5-HT). At concentrations in the range of 0.01 to 0.7 microM [3H]-5-HT, this uptake was 50 to 85% Na+ dependent and gave a Km of 0.40 +/- 0.11 microM [3H]-5-HT and a Vmax of 6.42 +/- 0.85 (+/- SEM) pmol of [3H]-5-HT/mg of protein/4 min for the Na+-dependent component. In the absence of Na+ the uptake was nonsaturable. Omission of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor pargyline markedly reduced the Na+- dependent component of [3H]-5-HT uptake but had a negligible effect on the Na+-independent component. This suggest significant oxidative deamination of serotonin after it has been taken up by the high affinity system, followed by release of its metabolite. We estimated that this system enabled the cells to concentrate [3H]-5-HT up to 44- fold at an external [3H]-5-HT concentration of 10(-7) M. Inhibition of [3H]-5-HT uptake by a number of clinically effective antidepressants was also consistent with a specific high affinity uptake mechanism for 5-HT, the order of effectiveness of inhibition being chlorimipramine greater than fluoxetine greater than imipramine = amitriptyline greater than desmethylimipramine greater than iprindole greater than mianserin. Uptake of [3H]-5-HT was dependent on the presence of Cl- as well as Na+ in the medium, and the effect of omission of both ions was nonadditive. Varying the concentration of K+ in the media from 1 to 50 mM had a limited effect on [3H]-5-HT uptake.

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