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：1987
卷号：84
期号：14
页码：5073-5077
DOI：10.1073/pnas.84.14.5073
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Hypothalamic neurons and cortical protoplasmic (type 1) astrocytes in dissociated cultures of rat brain express binding sites for antibodies specific for epitopes related to the beta-adrenergic receptor. Undifferentiated glial progenitor cells of the rat optic nerve do not detectably bind these antibodies, but both of the progeny [oligodendroglia and process-bearing (type 2) astrocytes] express immunologically identified beta-adrenergic receptors. Levels of receptor expression are variable: not all cells of each type express receptors nor is expression uniform on a given cell. The data suggest that cells of the central nervous system express beta-adrenergic receptors but that levels of expression may be determined by the differentiated state of the cells.
