Journal: ACS Chemical Neuroscience
Article Title: Increased Synaptic ATP Release and CD73-Mediated Formation of Extracellular Adenosine in the Control of Behavioral and Electrophysiological Modifications Caused by Chronic Stress
doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00810
Figure Lengend Snippet: Repeated restrain stress triggered an increased density of vesicular nucleotide transporters and of ecto-5′-nucleotidase (CD73) in hippocampal and frontocortical nerve terminals. Male adult Wistar rats (8–10 weeks old) were subject to a protocol of restraint stress (4 h/day) during 14 days, evaluated behaviorally during 3 additional days, and then sacrificed for preparation of hippocampal and frontocortical synaptosomes. The immunoreactivity of vesicular nucleotide transporters (vNUT) (A, C) and of CD73 (B, D) was increased in synaptosomes from the hippocampus (A, B) and from the frontal cerebral cortex (C, D) of rats subject to repeated restraint stress (red) compared to control (black, equivalent to the dashed line corresponding to 100%), with representative Western blots shown below each bar graph. Data are the mean SEM of n = 6 different rats: * p < 0.05 and ** p < 0.01 one-tailed Student’s t test vs 100% (control).
Article Snippet: Western blot analyses of hippocampal synaptosomes were performed as described previously., , Briefly, the levels of ecto-5′-nucleotidase (CD73) were assessed using a previously validated rabbit polyclonal anti-CD73 antibody (1:300, Sigma, SAB5701396), and the levels of vesicular nucleotide transporters (vNUT, SLC17A9, solute carrier family 17 member 9) were estimated using a rabbit polyclonal anti-VNUT antibody (1:500; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, sc-86312), validated by others, after labeling with a secondary goat anti-rabbit IgG antibody conjugated with alkaline phosphatase (1:20,000) (GE Healthcare, Chicago, USA).
Techniques: Western Blot, One-tailed Test