[Metabolism of homocarnosine and gamma-amino butyric acid in different regions of rat brain under hyperoxia]

Ukr Biokhim Zh (1978). 1978 Sep-Oct;50(5):573-5.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The content of homocarnosine, GAMA, histidine, glutaminic acid and activity of glutamate decarboxylase were studied in four regions of rats brain: cerebral hemispheres, midbrain, diencephalon and cerebellum, in norm and under hyperoxia. A considerable decrease in the content of homocarnosine, GAMA and histidine is observed in all the studied regions of the rat brain in the convulsion stage of oxygen poisoning. A decrease in the glutamate decarboxylase activity is the reason for a drop in the GAMA content. Homocarnosine in the brain is bound functionally with the GAMA level.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / metabolism*
  • Carnosine / analogs & derivatives
  • Carnosine / metabolism*
  • Cerebellum / metabolism
  • Diencephalon / metabolism
  • Dipeptides / metabolism*
  • Histidine / metabolism
  • Hyperbaric Oxygenation*
  • Mesencephalon / metabolism
  • Rats
  • Tissue Distribution
  • gamma-Aminobutyric Acid / metabolism*

Substances

  • Dipeptides
  • homocarnosine
  • Histidine
  • gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
  • Carnosine