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. 1990 Sep;101(1):39–44. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1990.tb12085.x

The effects of acute and chronic lithium treatment on pilocarpine-stimulated phosphoinositide hydrolysis in mouse brain in vivo.

P Whitworth 1, D J Heal 1, D A Kendall 1
PMCID: PMC1917654  PMID: 2178020

Abstract

1. Measurements were made of the in vivo formation of inositol phosphates in the brains of C57/B1/601a mice treated acutely or chronically with lithium chloride (LiCl). 2. A single injection of LiCl (10 mEquiv kg-1, s.c.) 18 h before death increased the accumulation of [3H]-inositol phosphates ([3H]-Ins P's) in the brains of mice injected i.c.v. with [3H]-myo-inositol 24 h previously. 3. Pilocarpine (200 mg kg-1, i.p.) injected 15 min before death further enhanced the formation of [3H]-Ins P's in the brains of LiCl-treated, but not saline-treated, mice. The enhancement due to pilocarpine was abolished by injection of atropine sulphate (10 mg kg-1, i.p.) 10 min earlier. 4. Chronic (14 days) LiCl feeding produced an accumulation of [3H]-Ins P's significantly less than that due to a single injection of LiCl, but the response to pilocarpine was markedly greater in mice chronically fed with LiCl when compared with mice acutely injected with LiCl. 5. Mass measurements of endogenous inositol 1,4,5 triphosphate revealed increases due to pilocarpine and chronic LiCl feeding alone. A combination of the two treatments produced levels greater than either alone. 6. These results demonstrate that LiCl treatment enhances both basal and pilocarpine-stimulated inositol phospholipid hydrolysis in vivo and this might be relevant to its therapeutic effects.

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