Electroconvulsive shock increases preproenkephalin messenger RNA abundance in rat hypothalamus.
AUTOR(ES)
Yoshikawa, K
RESUMO
Daily administration of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) to rats for 10 days increased the content of [Met5]enkephalin in the hypothalamus and the striatum by 64% and 45%, respectively. The effect of ECS on the relative abundance of mRNA coding for the enkephalin precursor preproenkephalin was investigated. Analysis by cell-free translation of polyadenylylated RNA and immunoprecipitation of preproenkephalin revealed ECS-elicited increases of 79% and 14% in preproenkephalin mRNA activity in the hypothalamus and striatum, respectively. ECS treatment did not affect the general translational activity of total polyadenylylated RNA from these brain regions. A 32P-labeled probe prepared from a rat preproenkephalin cDNA clone hybridized with an apparently single species of polyadenylylated RNA of approximately equal to 1450 nucleotides from both hypothalamus and striatum. Dot-blot hybridization of polyadenylylated RNA with the rat probe indicated that ECS elicits a 76% increase in the preproenkephalin mRNA abundance in the hypothalamus and no significant change in the striatum. These results suggest that ECS treatment leads to enhanced biosynthesis of the enkephalin precursor in hypothalamic neurons.
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