Phencyclidine and corticosteroids induce apoptosis of a subpopulation of striatal neurons: a neural substrate for psychosis?

Neuroscience
I J MitchellD J Barber

Abstract

Phencyclidine, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist and indirect dopamine agonist, has neuroprotective properties. Phencyclidine, however, can also exert toxic effects and causes degeneration of neurons in the retrosplenial cortex. In this paper we demonstrate that acute administration of a high dose of phencyclidine to rats, (80 mg/kg), also causes death of a subpopulation of striatal neurons. The dying cells exhibited many of the morphological and biochemical features of cells undergoing apoptosis as revealed by a silver methenamine stain, propidium iodide fluorescence histochemistry and a TUNEL procedure. The majority of the dying cells tended to be clustered within the dorsomedial aspect of the striatum. The type of striatal cell undergoing apoptosis was determined by stereotaxically injecting a colloidal gold retrograde anatomical tracer into the major areas of striatal termination prior to the administration of phencyclidine. This procedure demonstrated that phencyclidine induced striatal apoptosis is almost exclusively limited to striatopallidal neurons. A similar series of experiments was conducted to determine whether the synthetic corticosteroid, dexamethasone, also induces apoptosis of striatal ...Continue Reading

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