Subcellular Distribution of Tyrosine Hydroxylase in Some Catecholaminergic Rat Brain Areas Determined by a Quantitative Immunoblot Assay

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Abstract
The subcellular distribution of the protein tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) after fractionation of rat brain tissue was studied by a sensitive technique of immunoblot quantification in the depaminergic nigrostriatal and the dorsal noradrenergic pwahways and in the ventrolateral medulla. This repartition indicates that in all catecholaminergic regions of the cell bodies studied, the contribution of the nerve endings to the total TH amount is very low (< 7%), in contrast to that observed in the terminal fields. The correlative subcellular determination of the TH amount and activity in the same tissue could be a useful approach for studying experimentally induced mechanisms of catecholamine synthesis modulation in different brain catecholaminergic pathways.

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