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Binding of [3H]PDB has been measured in the present study to determine the levels of protein kinase C in the neuronal and astrocytic glial cells in culture from rat brain. Binding of [3H]PDB to homogenates of cultured neuronal cells from the brains of normotensive and hypertensive rats was time-dependent and specific. The relative potency for competition by various phorbol esters to [3H]PDB binding was TPA > β-PDD > POE > α-PDD ≥4αphorbol. Scatchard analysis showed that neuronal cultures from normotensive rat brains contained 2–3 fold more phorbol ester receptors compared with the glial cultures from the same brains. No differences in theK d andB max were observed between neuronal cultures from normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rat brains. These studies suggest that the phorbol ester receptors are primarily localized in neuronal cells.
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Raizada, M.K., Morse, C.A., Gonzales, R.A. et al. Receptors for phorbol esters are primarily localized in neurons: Comparison of neuronal and glial cultures. Neurochem Res 13, 51–56 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00971854
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