PMID- 2924116 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19890427 LR - 20190614 IS - 0006-8993 (Print) IS - 0006-8993 (Linking) VI - 478 IP - 1 DP - 1989 Jan 23 TI - Alterations of muscarinic cholinergic receptors in the hippocampal formation of stressed rat: in vitro quantitative autoradiographic analysis. PG - 187-92 AB - Alterations in muscarinic cholinergic (mACh) binding sites in the hippocampal formation of rats after immobilization stress (IM-stress) lasting 0.5 or 3 h were quantitated using a computer-assisted image analysis system on autoradiograms following labeling of frozen sections with [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB). The concentration of acetylcholine (ACh) in the rat hippocampus after IM-stress was also measured and showed no significant change compared to control. IM-stress for 0.5 h produced significant increases in the concentration of mACh binding sites in the whole hippocampal formation and in two subdivisions studied (CA1 plus CA2 and dentate gyrus); after 3 h of stress, the increase remained significant only in the dentate gyrus. These findings suggest that IM-stress induce a hypersensitivity of the septo-hippocampal cholinergic system and the 'up-regulation' of postsynaptic mACh receptors is more lasting in the dentate gyrus than in the hippocampus as a whole. FAU - Mizukawa, K AU - Mizukawa K AD - Department of Anatomy, Okayama University Medical School, Japan. FAU - Takayama, H AU - Takayama H FAU - Sato, H AU - Sato H FAU - Ota, Z AU - Ota Z FAU - Haba, K AU - Haba K FAU - Ogawa, N AU - Ogawa N LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Netherlands TA - Brain Res JT - Brain research JID - 0045503 RN - 0 (Receptors, Muscarinic) RN - 6581-06-2 (Quinuclidinyl Benzilate) RN - N9YNS0M02X (Acetylcholine) SB - IM MH - Acetylcholine/metabolism MH - Animals MH - Autoradiography MH - Cholinergic Fibers/*metabolism MH - Hippocampus/*metabolism/physiopathology MH - Male MH - Quinuclidinyl Benzilate/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Inbred Strains MH - Receptors, Muscarinic/*metabolism MH - Restraint, Physical MH - Stress, Physiological/*metabolism OID - NASA: 89167622 EDAT- 1989/01/23 00:00 MHDA- 1989/01/23 00:01 CRDT- 1989/01/23 00:00 PHST- 1989/01/23 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1989/01/23 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1989/01/23 00:00 [entrez] AID - 0006-8993(89)91496-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/0006-8993(89)91496-0 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Brain Res. 1989 Jan 23;478(1):187-92. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(89)91496-0.