Tang L C, Cotzias G C
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1977 May;74(5):2126-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.74.5.2126.
The manner in which dyskinesia and intermittency of neurological control had emerged late in the therapy of Parkinsonism with L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (levodopa) had suggested to us that this drug can imprint on the brain a chemical memory of its passage. The majority of authors ascribed these events to denervation hypersensitivity caused by the nigral and other lesions of the disease. By feeding levodopa to mice, however, we induced a state that simulated denervations hypersensitivity, including hyperreaction to single injections of levodopa and increased dopamine-stimulated adenylate cyclase [ATP pyrophosphate-lyase (cyclizing), EC 4.6.1.1] activity in homogenates of caudate nuclei. These phenomena were not caused by actual denervation, because the hypersensitivity declined and disappeared some weeks after the dietary levodopa was stopped.
在使用L-3,4-二羟基苯丙氨酸(左旋多巴)治疗帕金森病的后期出现运动障碍和神经控制间歇性的方式,向我们表明这种药物可以在大脑中留下其通过的化学记忆。大多数作者将这些事件归因于该疾病黑质及其他病变引起的去神经超敏反应。然而,通过给小鼠喂食左旋多巴,我们诱导出一种模拟去神经超敏反应的状态,包括对单次注射左旋多巴的过度反应以及尾状核匀浆中多巴胺刺激的腺苷酸环化酶[ATP焦磷酸裂解酶(环化),EC 4.6.1.1]活性增加。这些现象并非由实际的去神经支配引起,因为在停止喂食左旋多巴几周后,超敏反应会减弱并消失。