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A newly developed cytofluorimetric scanning technique was applied in a pharmacological study to investigate the influence of reserpine (10 mg/kg) on the axonal transport of norepinephrine (NE), dopamine-β-hydroxylase (DBH), tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), and neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like immunoreactivities (LI) in the adrenergic axons of the sciatic nerve of rat. Early after reserpine (18 hr and 24 hr after the reserpine injection) the amounts of NE accumulated proximal to a 12-hr crush werenil or very low, as observed in earlier studies. DBH-LI, TH-LI, and NPY-LI accumulations were also depressed but only to about 50% of control accumulations. This decrease in amounts of transported substances was probably caused by a decrease in protein synthesis and also a lowered velocity of fast axonal transport initially after reserpine, when body temperature is low. The amounts of accumulated NE, DBH-LI, TH-LI, and NPY-LI were normalized around day 2 after reserpine, but on day 4 NE, DBH-LI, and in some rats also TH-LI accumulated in supranormal amounts. However, NPY-LI accumulations were normal, indicating that DBH, butrot NPY, was trans- synaptically induced in rat sympathetic neurons, and that the biochemical composition of axonally transported organelles is altered for some days after reserpine.
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Dahlström, A., Bööj, S., Goldstein, M. et al. The synthesis of NPY and DBH is independently regulated in adrenergic nerves after reserpine. Neurochem Res 12, 221–225 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00972129
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