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An in vivo study of the effect of 5-HT and sympathetic nerves on transferrin and transthyretin mRNA expression in rat choroid plexus and meninges

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Author

  • Pilar Blay
  • Christer Nilsson
  • Stefan Hansson
  • Christer Owman
  • Angela R Aldred
  • Gerhard Schreiber

Summary, in English

Brain expression of transferrin (Tf) and transthyretin (TTR) mRNA has been demonstrated in different species, TTR being found only in the choroid plexus. We report here that both these mRNAs are also expressed in the meninges. In vitro studies have shown that Tf secretion by the rat choroid plexus is stimulated by 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) while sympathetic nerves regulate different transport functions in the same tissue. We have used various in vivo models to study the neuroendocrine regulation of Tf and TTR mRNA expression in the choroid plexus and meninges. Destruction of the serotonergic nerves in the brain by either raphe nuclei lesion or intraventricular injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT), which both decreased brain 5-HT levels significantly, did not affect Tf or TTR mRNA levels in choroid plexus and meninges, but increased TTR mRNA in liver. Intraventricular injection of 10 or 100 pmol 5-HT did not change the expression of these proteins in any of the tissues studied. Removal of the sympathetic innervation to the choroid plexus by cervical sympathectomy did not affect Tf or TTR mRNA levels in choroid plexus and liver, nor the incorporation of radioactive leucine into protein in various parts of the brain. In conclusion, our results do not support a regulatory role in vivo for neuronally derived 5-HT or sympathetic nerve activity on Tf and TTR mRNA expression in rat choroid plexus and meninges.

Department/s

Publishing year

1994

Language

English

Pages

148-154

Publication/Series

Brain Research

Volume

662

Issue

1-2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Neurosciences

Keywords

  • Transferrin
  • Transthyretin
  • 5-Hydroxytryptamine
  • Choroid plexus
  • Meninges
  • Sympathetic nerve
  • Raphe nuclei
  • Cerebrospinal fluid

Status

Published

Research group

  • Drug Target Discovery

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1872-6240