Acetylcholine and muscarinic receptor function in cerebral cortex of diabetic young and old male Wistar rats and the role of muscarinic receptors in calcium release from pancreatic islets
Abstract:We investigated acetylcholine esterase (AChE) activity, acetylcholine and muscarinic M1, M3 receptors kinetics in the cerebral cortex of young and old streptozotocin induced and insulin treated diabetic rats. The role of muscarinic receptors in intracellular calcium release from pancreatic islets was studied in vitro. Wistar rats of 7 and 90-weeks old were used. All studies were done in cerebral cortex. AChE assay was done by spectrophotometric method. Radioreceptor binding assays were done for Acetylcholine, … Show more
“…In the cerebral cortex of 7-week-old STZ rats the number of m 1 -MAChRs decreased by 28 %, while the number of m 3 -MAChRs increased by 30 %. In the cerebral cortex of 90-week-old diabetic rats the number of m 1 -and m 3 -MAChRs increased by 43 and 23 %, respectively, and the level of acetylcholine was significantly increased compared to control (Savitha et al, 2010). These alterations of m 1 -and m 3 -MAChR expression correlate with cholinergic hypofunction in short-term and prolonged STZ-induced DM.…”
“…In the cerebral cortex of 7-week-old STZ rats the number of m 1 -MAChRs decreased by 28 %, while the number of m 3 -MAChRs increased by 30 %. In the cerebral cortex of 90-week-old diabetic rats the number of m 1 -and m 3 -MAChRs increased by 43 and 23 %, respectively, and the level of acetylcholine was significantly increased compared to control (Savitha et al, 2010). These alterations of m 1 -and m 3 -MAChR expression correlate with cholinergic hypofunction in short-term and prolonged STZ-induced DM.…”
“…e degree of alterations and abnormalities in hormonal signaling systems is well correlated with the severity of T1DM and its complications [11,12]. As a result, at the later stages of the disease characterized by pronounced clinical symptoms, there are all reasons to expect the changes in these systems to be much expressed.…”
One of the causes of complications in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is the changes in adenylyl cyclase (AC) signaling system, identi�ed on the early stages of the disease. However, the most signi�cant disturbances in this system occur on the later stages of T1DM, which ultimately leads to severe complications, but functional state of the AC system in late T1DM is poorly understood. e aim of this work was to study alterations in AC system sensitive to biogenic amines and polypeptide hormones in the heart, brain, and testes of male rats with long-term, 7-month, streptozotocin T1DM and to assess the in�uence on them of 135-day therapy with intranasal insulin. It was shown that AC effects of -adrenergic agonists in the heart, serotonin receptor agonists and PACAP-38 in the brain, chorionic gonadotropin and PACAP-38 in the testes, and somatostatin in all investigated tissues in long-term T1DM were drastically decreased. e treatment with intranasal insulin (0.48 IU/day) signi�cantly restored these effects. e results were obtained suggesting that long-term T1DM induces signi�cant alterations in hormone-sensitive AC system in the heart, brain, and testes that are much more pronounced, compared with short-term T1DM, and include a large number of hormonal regulations.
“…The sections were observed and photographed using confocal imaging system (Leica SP 5). The Pixel intensity of each image was calculated using LAS software from Lyca (Savitha et al, 2009a(Savitha et al, , 2009b.…”
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