Influence of olfactory bulbectomy and subsequent imipramine treatment on 5-hydroxytryptaminergic presynapses in the rat frontal cortex: behavioural correlates

British Journal of Pharmacology
G GreckschG Huether

Abstract

1. Alterations of 5-hydroxytryptaminergic mechanisms are thought to play a special role in the pathogenesis of depression and antidepressant treatments are assumed to restore these changes. 2. We have used one of the most reliable models of depression, the olfactory bulbectomized rat to study the long term consequences of this manipulation and of subchronic imipramine treatment on two parameters of 5-hydroxytryptaminergic presynapses, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) transporter density and tryptophan hydroxylase apoenzyme concentration, in the frontal cortex as well as on active avoidance learning several weeks after bulbectomy. 3. The Bmax value of [3H]-paroxetine binding and the concentration of the 5-HT synthesizing enzyme were both significantly elevated in the frontal cortex of bulbectomized rats compared to sham-operated controls. 4. Imipramine treatment, either by daily injections or by subcutaneous implantation of slow release imipramine-containing polymers reduced the elevated tryptophan hydroxylase apoenzyme levels in the frontal cortex of bulbectomized, but not of sham-operated control rats and restored the deficient learning performance of bulbectomized rats. 5. Both effects were more pronounced after continuous drug adm...Continue Reading

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