Methamphetamine-Induced Rapid and Reversible Reduction in the Activities of Tryptophan Hydroxylase and Dopamine Transporters: Oxidative Consequences?(a)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Glen R HansonAnnette E Fleckenstein

Abstract

Treatment with high doses of methamphetamine (METH) results in dramatic changes in extrapyramidal monoaminergic systems. Elevated concentrations of extracellular dopamine (DA), caused by METH administration, are thought to contribute to these effects due to the oxidative potential of this reactive catecholamine. According to this hypothesis monoaminergic cellular elements, which are vulnerable to oxidative modification, may be especially sensitive to high-dose METH treatments. We confirmed this possibility by observing that both tryptophan hydroxylase (the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin) and the DA transporter, proteins particularly susceptible to oxidative modification, were rapidly (within 30 min), but reversibly (returned to control levels by 36 hr) inactivated by a single administration of METH. These findings suggest that there also may be other cellular elements similarly altered by METH treatment due to oxidative mechanisms.

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