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A cholinergic antagonist blocks cold stress-induced alterations in rat adrenal tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA
M Stachowiak1, E M Stricker, M J Zigmond
1Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
Brain Research
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
The role of nicotinic cholinergic transmission in cold stress-induced alterations in rat adrenomedullary tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) mRNA was investigated by RNA dot-blot hybridization, using a cloned TH cDNA probe. Chlorisondamine, a ganglionic blocking agent, greatly attenuated the induction of TH mRNA levels caused by cold exposure, whereas carbachol and nicotine, cholinergic agonists, increased TH mRNA in control animals. These results suggest that cholinergic nicotinic receptors play a key role in the transsynaptic induction of adrenal TH gene expression.