Selective inhibition of monoamine oxidase in monoaminergic neurons in the rat brain.

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Ask AL, Fagervall I, Ross SB

Selective inhibition of monoamine oxidase in monoaminergic neurons in the rat brain.

Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol. 1983 Sep;324(2):79-87.

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Abstract

The prevention by six reversible and selective monoamine oxidase-A (MAO-A) inhibitors (alpha-ethyl-tryptamine, harmaline, 4-methoxyamphetamine, amiflamine [FLA 336(+)], N-desmethylamiflamine [FLA 788(+)] and N,N-desmethylamiflamine [FLA 668(+)] of the phenelzine-induced irreversible MAO inhibition in the rat brain was examined. By using crude synaptosome preparations of hypothalamus and striatum incubated with low substrate concentrations of 14C-serotonin (1 X 10(-7) M), 14C-noradrenaline (2.5 X 10(-7) M) and 14C-dopamine (2.5 X 10(-7) M) in the absence and presence of selective amine uptake inhibitors (alaproclate, maprotiline and amfonelic acid, respectively), it was possible to determine the deaminating activities inside and outside the specific aminergic synaptosomes. Thus, with this technique the protection of MAO by the reversible inhibitors administered orally 1 h prior to the subcutaneous injection of phenelzine against the phenelzine effect could be determined inside and outside the specific aminergic neurons. It was found that alpha-ethyltryptamine, 4-methoxyamphetamine and particularly amiflamine and FLA 788(+) were more potent inside than outside the serotonergic neurons. FLA 668(+) was a selective inhibitor of noradrenergic MAO, to which also 4-methoxyamphetamine, amiflamine and FLA 788(+), but not alpha-ethyltryptamine had some preference. Harmaline had no certain preference for MAO in any of the aminergic neurons. At high doses of FLA 668(+) a preference for dopaminergic MAO was observed. Since pretreatment of the rats with norzimeldine or desipramine antagonized the preferences for serotonergic or noradrenergic MAO, it is plausible to conclude that the compounds showing these preferences are accumulated in the neurons by the membranal uptake systems.

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Drug	Target	Kind	Organism	Pharmacological Action	Actions
4-Methoxyamphetamine	Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] A	Protein	Humans	Unknown	Inhibitor	Details
4-Methoxyamphetamine	Amine oxidase [flavin-containing] B	Protein	Humans	Unknown	Inhibitor	Details