Histofluorescence study on monoamine entry into the brain before and after opening of the blood-brain barrier by various mechanisms
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Acta Neuropathologica
- Vol. 47 (2), 145-150
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00717038
Abstract
The relationship between exogenous, circulating monoamines to the wall of cerebral microvessels, and the entrance of these amines into the cerebral parenchyma was studied by the formaldehyde histofluorescence technique in rats. No monoamine fluorescence could be detected in the wall tissue of the microvessels (pericytes and andothelial cells) unless either MAO or COMT were inhibited; these are integral to the blood-brain barrier mechanisms to monoamines. After transient opening of the morphologic blood-brain barrier by either a hypertonic of hypertensive insult, the amine fluorescence in the walls of the microvessels was intensified compared to that which was noted after monoamine oxidase inhibition by itself. Following opening of the structural blood-brain barrier, the circulating amines also passed through into the neuropil where they were concentrated within neurons, as demonstrated by prior depletion of endogenous monoamine transmitters by reserpine. Thus, both enzymatic and morphologic mechanisms in the blood-brain barrier ar involved in impeding the passage of monoamines into the cerebral parenchyma.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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