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NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
卷 298, 期 3, 页码 187-190出版社
ELSEVIER SCI IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01746-8
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1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline; 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline; cigarette smoke; burley tobacco; bright tobacco; dopaminergic neurotoxins; Parkinson's disease; rat brain
1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroisoquinoline (TIQ) and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta -carboline (THPC) are two endogenous or exogenous dopaminergic proneurotoxicants supposedly involved in the etiology of Parkinson's disease. We investigated whether the chronic administration of a twice daily dose of a cigarette smoke solution might modify the endogenous concentrations of TIO and THPC in rat brain. Using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC-MS) we found a significant reduction in the brain levels of both proneurotoxins after 30 days of treatment. The reduction in the brain levels of both compounds was more significant using Burley rather than Bright tobacco. These results suggest that cigarette smoke may prevent the accumulation of these proneurotoxins in the brain, which corroborate the involvement of the reaction between both TIQ and THPC with some components of tobacco smoke as a neuroprotective mechanism for Parkinson's disease. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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