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[Dynamic changes of 5-HT, DA and their metabolin in rat striatum during exhaustive exercise and recovery]
Dong-Sheng Yang1, Xiao-Li Liu, De-Cai Qiao
1College of Physical Education and Sports, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
Objective:
To study the dynamic characteristics of serotonin (5-HT), dopamine (DA) and their metabolin changes in brain during the development of exercise-induced central fatigue.
Methods:
Coupling of microdialysis and capillary electrophoresis-laser induced fluorescence detection method were used to continuously monitored the changes of DA, tryptophan (Trp), tyrosine (Tyr), 5-HT and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in striatum extracellular fluid during the exhaustive exercise and recovery time.
Results:
The concentrations of Trp, 5-HT, 5-HIAA in striatum extracellular fluid had no remarkable changes in the early time of exercise (P < 0.05), while they significantly increased during the later time of exercise and whole recovery time (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). The concentrations of DA and Tyr significantly increased over basal level in the later exercise time, exhaust and recovery time (P < 0.05, P < 0.01). DA/5-HT significantly increased in the initial time of exercise (P < 0.05, P < 0.01), while decreased during the later exercise time, the nadir occurred at 15 minutes before rats exhausted. DA/5-HT slightly recovered back to basal level during the recovery time, and there was no significant difference during later exercise, exhausted and recovery time compared with basal level (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:
The changes of DA and 5-HT in striatum have phase characteristics. Both of them significantly increase during the development of exercise-induced fatigue. However, the 5-HT plays the dominant role in the dynamic changes of them.
