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- Title
Rasagiline, an inhibitor of MAO‐B, decreases colonic motility through elevating colonic dopamine content.
- Authors
Liu, C.‐Z.; Zhang, X.‐L.; Zhou, L.; Wang, T.; Quan, Z.‐S.; Zhang, Y.; Li, J.; Li, G.‐W.; Zheng, L.‐F.; Li, L.‐S.; Zhu, J.‐X.
- Abstract
Background: Dopamine (DA) is a negative modulator of gut motility. Monoamine oxidase‐B (MAO‐B) is an important metabolic enzyme degrading DA. Rasagiline, an irreversible MAO‐B inhibitor, is used to treat Parkinson's disease because of its neuroprotective effect and increasing central DA. However, it is unclear whether MAO‐B exists in the colon and rasagiline increases colonic DA, thereby affecting colonic motility. Methods: Immunohistochemistry, western blotting, enzyme activity assay, colonic motility recording, gut transit test, and high‐performance liquid chromatography‐electrochemical detection were employed in this study. Key Results: Monoamine oxidase‐B was distributed in the colonic muscular layers including neurons and glias of rat and human. When oral treatment of rats with rasagiline for 4 weeks, in vitro colonic motility was significantly reduced, but it was greatly reversed by SCH‐23390, an antagonist of DA D1 receptor. The rasagiline‐treated rats also manifested decreased MAO‐B activity and increased DA content in the colonic muscular layer, but no alterations were detected in the protein expressions of D1 and D2 receptors, and MAO‐A and MAO‐B, as well as in the content of 5‐hydroxytryptamine and noradrenaline. Moreover, acute administration of rasagiline did not affect the colonic motility in vitro and the colonic DA level in rats, although MAO‐B activity was significantly inhibited. Conclusions & Inferences: Monoamine oxidase‐B is abundant in the colonic muscular layer including myenteric plexus of rat and human. Long‐term administration of rasagiline can increase colonic DA thereby inhibiting colonic motility, suggesting that colonic MAO‐B could be a potential drug target for colonic dysmotility. Monoamine oxidase‐B was distributed in the colonic muscular layers including neurons and glias of rat and human. Long‐term treatment of rasagiline significantly inhibited colonic monoamine oxidase‐B activity and increased the dopamine content, which may contribute to colonic hypomotility.
- Subjects
MONOAMINE oxidase inhibitors; MOTILITY of the colon; EFFECT of drugs on the colon; LABORATORY rats; MYENTERIC plexus; DOPAMINE; PROTEIN expression
- Publication
Neurogastroenterology & Motility, 2018, Vol 30, Issue 11, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1350-1925
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/nmo.13390