Serotonin and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid in discrete areas of the brainstem of suicide victims and control patients.
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The authors measured enkephalin and 5-HIAA levels in the CSF and enkephalin levels in plasma, after intrathecal morphine in 15 patients with terminal cancer.
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High levels of serotonin and 5-HIAA were found in the urine of a group of 102 oligospermic and azoospermic men. These levels were significantly higher than those of normal fertile men.
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It is found that serotonin content in the brain areas and heart of rats with low alcohol motivation decreases after 5 months of chronic consumption of 48% ethanol solution in a dose of 4 g/kg; in animals with high alcohol motivation serotonin content decreases only in the hypothalamus. Under chronic alcoholization for 1 and 12 months no considerable changes were found in serotonin level of the studied tissues. 60 min after intraperitoneal administration of 20% ethanol solution in a dose of 3 g/kg in intact animals there occurs an increase of serotonin content in the brain hemispheres and heart and its decrease in the hypothalamus; in rat with low alcohol motivation after taking ethanol for 5 months this administration evokes a decrease of serotonin content in the hypothalamus and truncus cerebri; in rats with high alcohol motivation--its decrease in the hypothalamus. Excretion of 5-oxyindoleacetic acid with urine decreases 10 months after alcohol intoxication. When rats were not given ethanol after its chronic taking for 3 months serotonin oxidation was intensified for the first day, which was not observed after 7-month alcoholization of animals.
Twenty minutes after immunization the activation of the serotoninergic system was observed. High level of serotonin metabolism was retained for 24 h after immunization. Change of serotonin level in immunocompetent organs and adrenals took place later than in the brain.
A routine simultaneous assay for the title compounds is described, which uses a cation-exchange resin for separations, and standard fluorometric methods for analyses. Practicability of the ion-exchange chromatography is enhanced by means of a novel apparatus, and the procedure has the flexibility to permit extension to other endogenous compounds using published techniques.
Studies of neurotransmitter kinetics based on intraventricular injections of radio-labeled metabolites have been limited by several problems, including the inability of most investigators to recover more than 45% of the infected isotope from brain homogenates within several minutes after the injection...
Ipsapirone (TVX Q 7821), a compound with a high affinity for the 5-HT1A receptor-subtype, decreased by itself 5-HIAA level and reduced 5-HIAA accumulation after probenecid administration in the rat hypothalamus. The reduced 5-HIAA level and 5-HIAA/5-HT ratio after the 5-HT1A selective agonist 8-OH-DPAT was not antagonized by pretreatment with ipsapirone.
Major depression comorbid with panic disorder has a more severe clinical picture and adverse course than either disorder alone, and both conditions are associated with abnormalities in the serotonin system. Therefore, we hypothesized that central serotonergic function in the patients with comorbid panic disorder would be more disturbed than in major depression alone. Concentrations of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) monoamine metabolites of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine were assayed by high-pressure liquid chromatography, and compared in female subjects with DSM-IV-diagnosed major depressive disorder and a lifetime diagnosis of panic disorder (MDD+PD, n=13), major depressive disorder and no lifetime panic disorder (MDD-, n=35), and a healthy volunteer (HV, n=15) group. All subjects were free of antidepressant medication for at least 14 d prior to the lumbar puncture procedure. CSF 5-hydroxylindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) was higher in the MDD+PD group (124.0+/-43.0 nmol/l) compared with the MDD- group (100.1+/-28.8 nmol/l, p=0.03) and the HV group (93.3+/-33.6 nmol/l, p=0.02). The MDD- group and HV group did not differ in CSF 5-HIAA. There were no group differences in the CSF metabolites of norepinephrine and dopamine, 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol and homovanillic acid respectively. Higher CSF 5-HIAA in women with comorbid major depressive disorder and lifetime panic disorder is indicative of greater serotonin release, increased serotonin metabolism, and/or decreased 5-HIAA clearance in this group. This difference in pathophysiology is potentially related to the greater morbidity and poorer treatment response of this group.