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  • 标题:Preferential synaptic relationships between substance P-immunoreactive boutons and neurokinin 1 receptor sites in the rat spinal cord
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  • 作者:A. L. McLeod ; J. E. Krause ; A. C. Cuello
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:1998
  • 卷号:95
  • 期号:26
  • 页码:15775-15780
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.95.26.15775
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Substance P plays an important role in the transmission of pain-related information in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Recent immunocytochemical studies have shown a mismatch between the distribution of substance P and its receptor in the superficial laminae of the dorsal horn. Because such a mismatch was not observed by using classical radioligand binding studies, we decided to investigate further the issue of the relationship between substance P and its receptor by using an antibody raised against a portion of the carboxyl terminal of the neurokinin 1 receptor and a bispecific monoclonal antibodies against substance P and horseradish peroxidase. Light microscopy revealed a good correlation between the distributions of substance P and the neurokinin 1 receptor, both being localized with highest densities in lamina I and outer lamina II of the spinal dorsal horn. An ultrastructural double-labeling study, combining preembedding immunogold with enzyme-based immunocytochemistry, showed that most neurokinin 1 receptor immunoreactive dendrites were apposed by substance P containing boutons. A detailed quantitative analysis revealed that neurokinin 1 receptor immunoreactive dendrites received more appositions and synapses from substance P immunoreactive terminals than those not expressing the neurokinin 1 receptor. Such preferential innervation by substance P occurred in all superficial dorsal horn laminae even though neurokinin 1 receptor immunoreactive dendrites were a minority of the total number of dendritic profiles in the above laminae. These results suggest that, contrary to the belief that neuropeptides act in a diffuse manner at a considerable distance from their sites of release, substance P should act on profiles expressing the neurokinin 1 receptor at a short distance from its site of release.
  • 关键词:receptor mismatch ; dorsal horn ; tachykinin
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