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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 9, Pages 1567-1570Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01771.x
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A(2A) adenosine receptors; A(2A) knockout mice; A(2A) receptor occupancy; basal ganglia; SCH 58261
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The selective A(2A) receptor antagonist [H-3]SCH 58261 was injected intravenously in mice and the radioactivity accumulating in various brain regions was determined by tissue sampling. Radioactivity levels in regions of interest such as the striatum were highest 15 min after injection and quickly declined thereafter (30 min and 1 h postinjection) in a time-dependent manner. The amount of labelling was ranked as follows: striatum (4.6 +/-0.3 fmol/mg protein) >> cortex > hippocampus > pons = hypothalamus > cerebellum (0.5 +/-0.05 fmol/mg protein). Specific labelling of the A(2A) receptor occurred in striatum and cortex because significantly less radioactivity accumulated in these areas from adenosine A(2A) receptor knockout mice as compared to wild-type littermates. In control outbred CD1 mice, a striatum-to-cerebellum ratio of 7.6 +/-0.6 was found. At 30 min postinjection, the nonselective adenosine receptor antagonist caffeine reduced the radioactivity due to [H-3]SCH 58261 in the striatum by 32% at 1 mg/kg i.p. and by 66% at the stimulant dose of 6.25 mg/kg i.p. Radioactivity in the striatum was lowered, respectively, by 66 and 86% 30 min after injection of 3 or 10 mg/kg i.p. doses of unlabelled SCH 58261. The present results indicate that [H-3]SCH 58261 directly labels striatal A(2A) receptors in vivo. Thus [H-3]SCH 58261 is an excellent tool for studying brain distribution and A(2A) receptor occupancy of various compounds ranging from xanthines, such as caffeine, to other A(2A) antagonists.
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