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. 1979 Mar;76(3):1485–1488. doi: 10.1073/pnas.76.3.1485

Immunocytochemical localization of cyclic GMP: Light and electron microscope evidence for involvement of neuroglia

V Chan-Palay *, S L Palay †
PMCID: PMC383278  PMID: 220617

Abstract

Guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) immunoreactivity in the rat's cerebellum was studied with light and electron microscopy by the indirect fluorescence method and the peroxidase-antiperoxidase method. Labeled cells included neuroglial cells in the cerebellar cortex, white matter, and deep nuclei; some stellate and basket cells in the cortex; and some large neurons in the deep nuclei. No evidence was found for sagittal microzonation in the cGMP distribution. In the labeled cells, cGMP immunoreactive sites were localized to surface membranes, organelles, and the cytoplasmic matrix. Specificity was indicated by the same pattern of labeling after treatment with cGMP immunoglobulin that had been adsorbed with adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) and by the failure to label after treatment with normal rabbit sera or with cGMP immunoglobulin that had been adsorbed with 1 mM cGMP. Cerebella treated with cAMP antisera, however, showed immunoreactivity in Purkinje cells, granule cells, and Golgi cells in addition to neuroglia in cortex and deep nuclei. Sequential norepinephrine and glutamate superfusions generally intensified cGMP immunoreactivity, not only in neuroglial cells but also in the background. Under these conditions some Purkinje cells and some granule cells were also labeled. Increased cGMP immunoreactivity was also obtained by treatment with harmaline, γ-aminobutyric acid and aminooxyacetic acid, muscimol, γ-aminobutyric acid, or apomorphine in order of decreasing effectiveness. Serotonin and colchicine produced no detectable increase of cGMP immunoreactivity above normal, and diazepam and sodium pentobarbital decreased it. In these experiments, diethyl ether was preferable to sodium pentobarbital for anesthesia on account of the depressive action of the latter on cGMP immunoreactivity. Thus, drugs that increase cerebellar activity enhance cGMP levels, whereas those that decrease cerebellar activity decrease cGMP levels. However, it is not clear whether these fluctuations in cGMP levels are a direct consequence of neurotransmitter function or are sequelae to other related events. The present study suggests that some neurons and many neuroglial cells are the major sites of cGMP in the cerebellum.

Keywords: cerebellum, cyclic AMP, γ-aminobutyric acid, harmaline, diazepam

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