Kondo Y, Ogawa N, Asanuma M, Matsuura K, Nishibayashi K, Iwata E. Preventive effects of bifemelane hydrochloride on decreased levels of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor and its mRNA in a rat model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion.
Neurosci Res 1996;
24:409-14. [PMID:
8861111 DOI:
10.1016/0168-0102(95)01017-3]
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Abstract
Changes in muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mACh-R) binding and muscarinic cholinergic m1 receptor (m1-R) mRNA levels were determined in a rat model of cerebral hypoperfusion in which hypoperfusion was induced by permanent bilateral occlusion of the common carotid arteries. After 6 weeks of hypoperfusion, mACh-R binding activity was significantly reduced in the frontal cortex (79.0 percent, P <0.01), striatum (74.2 percent, P < 0.01) and hippocampus (78.6 percent, P < 0.01), and the m1-R mRNA levels in the frontal cortex (86.6 percent, P < 0.05) and striatum (89.4 percent, P < 0.05) compared with sham-operated control. Repeated administration of bifemelane hydrochloride (15 mg/kg/day, p.o., once a day from the day of operation for 6 weeks) prevented the hypoperfusion-induced loss of mACh-R binding and m1-R mRNA levels above described. Since the central cholinergic systems play an important role in learning and memory, these findings suggest that bifemelane hydrochloride is useful to treat and/or prevent vascular dementia which is closely related to cerebral hypoperfusion.
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