Article
Development of tolerance in D3 dopamine receptor signaling is accompanied by distinct changes in receptor conformation.
Biochemical pharmacology - 15 Mar 2010
Westrich Ligia, Gil-Mast Sara, Kortagere Sandhya, Kuzhikandathil Eldo V
Abstract excerpt
The D3 but not D2 dopamine receptors exhibit a tolerance property in which agonist-induced D3 receptor response progressively decreases upon repeated agonist stimulation. We have previously shown that the D3 receptor tolerance property is not mediated by receptor internalization, persistent agonist binding or a decrease in receptor binding affinity. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that alterations in D3...
Topics
- Animals
- Biotinylation
- Cell Line
- Computer Simulation
- Dopamine
- Humans
- Mice
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Patch-Clamp Techniques
