Reduction of cerebral cortical [3H]ouabain binding site (Na+,K(+)-ATPase) density in dementia as evaluated in fresh human cerebral cortical biopsies

Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research
T A SchmidtK Kjeldsen

Abstract

Na+,K(+)-ATPase density in human cerebral cortex was for the first time studied by vanadate facilitated [3H]ouabain binding to intact samples. Fresh human cerebral cortical biopsies were obtained as a result of diagnostic frontal lobe biopsy from patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) syndrome and associated dementia. For control measurements post-mortem samples were obtained from patients without clinically observed dementia. [3H]ouabain binding kinetics were evaluated: when incubating samples in 1 microM [3H]ouabain binding equilibrium was obtained after 6 h of incubation, non-specific uptake and retention amounted to only 2.3% of total uptake and retention of [3H]ouabain and release of specifically bound [3H]ouabain during washout in the cold occurred only slowly (T1/2 = 37 h). Evaluation of receptor affinity for ouabain was in agreement with a heterogeneous population of [3H]ouabain binding sites. [3H]Ouabain binding was significantly reduced after frozen storage of samples before measurements. Post-mortem degradation of cerebral [3H]ouabain binding sites occurred only slowly (T1/2 = 75 h). No significant variation in [3H]ouabain binding site density was observed between the cerebral lobes with occipital, parieta...Continue Reading

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