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  • Title: Aging: effects on beta-carboline binding in hippocampal subfields.
    Author: Zobrist RH, Komiskey HL, Murray TF, Hayton WL.
    Journal: Neurobiol Aging; 1984; 5(1):49-53. PubMed ID: 6330592.
    Abstract:
    The CA1 and CA4/area dentata subfields of the hippocampus in young, mature and old rats were examined for age-related change in propyl beta-carboline-3-carboxylate (PrCC) binding. 3H-PrCC bound with high affinity (Kd = 0.82 nM) to one binding site when ethyl beta-carboline-3-carboxylate was used to delineate specific binding. An age dependent change in the maximum number of 3H-PrCC binding sites in the CA1 and CA4/area dentate subfields of the hippocampus were assessed by using a saturating (6 nM) concentration of 3H-PrCC. Although 3H-PrCC specific binding at a saturating concentration (6 nM) was significantly less in both the CA1 and CA4/area dentata subfields of the senescent rat, the magnitude of the decrease was greater in the CA1 region. In addition, the affinity of the 3H-PrCC binding site in both subfields probably did not vary significantly with age. Therefore, the CA1 and CA4/area dentate of the rat hippocampus may not only lose BZ1 receptors or the BZ1 receptor conformation with age, but the severity of receptor or receptor conformation loss varies with the subfield.
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