Life Sciences 1995-01-01

Endothelin-1 and endothelin-3 modulate dopaminergic neurons through different mechanisms.

K Horie, A Morita, H Yokogoshi

Index: Life Sci. 57(8) , 735-41, (1995)

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Abstract

Novel vasoconstrictor peptides, endothelin-1 (ET-1) and endothelin-3 (ET-3), are also known as neuropeptides or neuromodulators. When either ET-1 or ET-3 was administered to the rat striatum via a microinjection needle, the dopamine release from the striatum dose-dependently increased. Pretreatment with a glutamate receptor blocker, glutamate diethyl ester hydrochloride, inhibited the dopamine release induced by ET-3, whereas it further enhanced the dopamine release by ET-1. This suggests that ET-1 directly induces the dopamine release, whereas the action of ET-3 is mediated by glutamate receptors. We postulate that this difference may result from the different distributions of endothelin receptors: ETA receptors may be present on the dopaminergic neurons, but ETB receptors on the glutamatergic neurons.

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