Different Mechanisms of ?-Adrenoceptor Down-Regulation by Chronic Imipramine and Electroconvulsive Treatment: Possible Role for Protein Kinase C
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 57 (3) , 904-910
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-4159.1991.tb08236.x
Abstract
The aim of this study was to find out how protein kinase C (PKC) is involved in down-regulation of the beta-adrenoceptor in cortical slices of rats subjected to antidepressant treatments. The responses of the cyclic AMP generating system to forskolin, isoproterenol, and noradrenaline were tested in the absence and presence of a PKC activator, 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA). The antidepressive treatments applied were chronic administration of imipramine and electroconvulsive shock. The potentiating effect of the phorbol ester on cyclic AMP response to isoproterenol was retained in imipramine-treated animals and even accentuated in rats subjected to electroconvulsive treatment; the TPA effect on noradrenaline-induced cyclic AMP response was blunted in rats receiving imipramine, but augmented in those receiving electroconvulsive treatment. In imipramine-treated rats the beta-down-regulation was still evident in the presence of TPA; after electroconvulsive treatment the phorbol ester-induced potentiation was so high that no significant beta-down-regulation could be observed. No procedure affected the response to forskolin. The beta-down-regulation that develops during chronic imipramine treatment differs from that caused by chronic electroconvulsive treatment; in both cases it is not related to the direct effect on adenylate cyclase.Keywords
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