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  • Title: Neurotransmitter receptor alterations in Huntington's disease: autoradiographic and homogenate studies with special reference to benzodiazepine receptor complexes.
    Author: Whitehouse PJ, Trifiletti RR, Jones BE, Folstein S, Price DL, Snyder SH, Kuhar MJ.
    Journal: Ann Neurol; 1985 Aug; 18(2):202-10. PubMed ID: 2994554.
    Abstract:
    In vitro receptor autoradiography was used to construct semiquantitative maps of subtypes of muscarinic cholinergic (labeled with [3H]N-methylscopolamine), benzodiazepine ([3H]flunitrazepam), gamma-aminobutyric acid ([3H]muscimol), dopamine, and serotonin ([3H]spiperone) receptors in frontal cortex, parietal cortex, caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus in tissue sections from 5 patients with clinically well-evaluated Huntington's disease and 5 controls matched with respect to age, sex, and postmortem delay. Homogenates were prepared from the remaining cortical and striatal tissue and used to characterize pharmacologically these same receptors, as well as histamine, adenosine, and nitrendipine receptors. Neuronal loss and gliosis were assessed in the contralateral formalin-fixed caudate and putamen. All binding sites measured (except serotonin) were reduced relative to control values in striatum primarily because of changes in the number of receptors rather than in affinity. Autoradiographic studies generally revealed that these changes were greater in the caudate than the putamen, paralleling the more severe neuropathological changes present in the caudate. In addition, autoradiographic studies demonstrated an increase in gamma-aminobutyric acid-related receptors in the globus pallidus. In the cortex, receptor alterations were limited to an increase in the number of benzodiazepine receptors in the frontal cortex which was most prominent in superficial cortical layers.
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