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Stimulation of adenosine A2 receptors (with the selective adenosine A2 agonist CGS 21680) in rat striatal membrane preparations, produces a decrease in both the affinity of D2 receptors and the transduction of the signal from the D2 receptor to the G protein. This intramembrane A2-D2 interaction might be responsible for the behavioural depressant effects of adenosine agonists and for the behavioural stimulant effects of adenosine antagonists such as caffeine and theophylline. Dopamine denervation induces an increase in the intramembrane A2-D2 interaction, which may underlie the observed higher sensitivity to the behavioural effects induced by adenosine antagonists found in these animals. The present study was designed to examine if chronic treatment with haloperidol, which also produces dopamine receptor supersensitivity, is also associated with an increase in the intramembrane A2-D2 interaction in the neostriatum and with a higher sensitivity to the behavioural effects induced by adenosine antagonists. The data showed that: (i) haloperidol pretreatment causes a higher binding of the D2 antagonist [3H] raclopride in striatal membrane preparations due to an increase in the number of D2 receptors without changes in their affinity for the antagonist (increase in Bmax without changes in kd); (ii) GCS 21680 decreases the affinity of dopamine for the D2 receptor, by increasing the equilibrium dissociation constants of high (Kh) and low affinity (K1) dopamine D2 binding sites and increases the proportion of high affinity binding sites (Rh); (iii) a low dose of CGS 21680 (3 nM), which is ineffective in membrane preparations from neostriatum of nontreated animals, is effective in membranes from the striatum of haloperidol-pretreated animals; (iv) the nonselective adenosine antagonist theophylline (20 mg/kg SC) causes a higher motor activation in rats pretreated with haloperidol. The possible relevance of these results for the pathophysiology and treatment of tardive dyskinesias is discussed.
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Ferré, S., Schwarcz, R., Li, X.M. et al. Chronic haloperidol treatment leads to an increase in the intramembrane interaction between adenosine A2 and dopamine D2 receptors in the neostriatum. Psychopharmacology 116, 279–284 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02245329
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