Sex- and SERT-Mediated Differences in Stimulated Serotonin Revealed by Fast Microdialysis

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• 作者：Hongyan Yang ; Maureen M. Sampson ; Damla Senturk ; Anne M. Andrews
• 刊名：ACS Chemical Neuroscience
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 19, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：6
• 期：8
• 页码：1487-1501
• 全文大小：781K
• ISSN：1948-7193

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In vivo microdialysis is widely used to investigate how neurotransmitter levels in the brain respond to biologically relevant challenges. Here, we combined recent improvements in the temporal resolution of online sampling and analysis for serotonin with a brief high-K⁺ stimulus paradigm to study the dynamics of evoked release. We observed stimulated serotonin overflow with high-K⁺ pulses as short as 1 min when determined with 2-min dialysate sampling in ventral striatum. Stimulated serotonin levels in female mice during the high estrogen period of the estrous cycle were similar to serotonin levels in male mice. By contrast, stimulated serotonin overflow during the low estrogen period in female mice was increased to levels similar to those in male mice with local serotonin transporter (SERT) inhibition. Stimulated serotonin levels in mice with constitutive loss of SERT were considerably higher yet, pointing to neuroadaptive potentiation of serotonin release. When combined with brief K⁺ stimulation, fast microdialysis reveals dynamic changes in extracellular serotonin levels associated with normal hormonal cycles and pharmacologic vs genetic loss of SERT function.