Changes of 5-hydroxytryptamine release by different glucose concentration from hippocampal slices exposed to hypoxia.
10.3349/ymj.1995.36.3.271
- Author:
Dong Won KANG
1
;
Young Soo AHN
Author Information
1. Department of Pharmacology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article ; In Vitro
- Keywords:
5-hydroxytryptamine;
glucose;
hypoxia;
hippocampal slice
- MeSH:
Animal;
Cell Hypoxia;
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug;
Glucose/*pharmacology;
Hippocampus/*secretion;
In Vitro;
Male;
Rats;
Rats, Sprague-Dawley;
Serotonin/*secretion
- From:Yonsei Medical Journal
1995;36(3):271-277
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
We have previously reported that the spontaneous release of [3H]5-hydroxytryptamine(5-HT) was markedly decreased by hypoxic insult in rat hippocampal slices. In the present study, the effect of glucose on 5-HT release was examined. Fractional release of [3H]5-HT was measured from an incubation medium exchanged every 10 min for 140 min and after stabilization of [3H]5-HT release, 10 or 20 min period of hypoxia was induced by exchanging the media which have been previously saturated by 95% N2/5% CO2 gas. In the media containing 1, 2, 5, 10 or 20 mM glucose, [3H]5-HT release was stabilized after 40 min of incubation. Exposure to hypoxia decreased [3H]5-HT release up to 60% of the control level in a glucose concentration-dependent manner and recovered gradually after hypoxic periods. However, in the media containing no glucose, the spontaneous release of [3H] 5-HT increased continuously during incubation. Moreover, when hippocampal slices were exposed to hypoxia, the [3H]5-HT release increased up to 150% of the control level and recovered gradually to the control level after hypoxic periods. These results demonstrate that hypoxia inhibits or enhances 5-HT release in the presence or absence of extracellular glucose respectively and suggest that the availability of extracellular glucose is a key factor to determine the direction of 5-HT release under hypoxic condition.
