Dopamine receptor types D1 and D2 can oppose or enhance each other's actions for electrical, biochemical, and psychomotor effects. We report a D1-D2 interaction in homogenized tissue as revealed by ligand binding. D2 agonists lowered the binding of [3H]raclopride to D2 receptors in striatal and anterior pituitary tissues. Pretreating the tissue with the D1-selective antagonist SCH 23390 prevent...

Although the dopamine D1-D2 receptor heteromer has emerging physiological relevance and a postulated role in different neuropsychiatric disorders, such as drug addiction, depression, and schizophrenia, there is a need for pharmacological tools that selectively target such receptor complexes in order to analyze their biological and pathophysiological functions. Since no selective antagonists for...

A graph is (d1, . . . , dr )-colorable if its vertex set can be partitioned into r sets V1, . . . , Vr where themaximum degree of the graph induced by Vi is at most di for each i ∈ {1, . . . , r}. Let Gg denote the class of planar graphs with minimum cycle length at least g . We focus on graphs in G5 since for any d1 and d2, Montassier and Ochem constructed graphs in G4 that are not (d1, d2)-co...

The simultaneous determination of vitamin D2 and its isomers by high-speed liquid chromatography (HSLC) is described. Preferred operating conditions for the resolution and quantitation of vitamin D2 5,6-trans-vitamin D2, ergosterol, lumisterol2, isovitamin D2, isotachysterol2, tachysterol2, and previtamin D2 are as follows: column, "Zorbax" SIL (25 cm x 2.1 mm i.d.); pressure, 100-120 kg/cm2; t...

The striatum receives prominent dopaminergic innervation that is integral to appetitive learning, performance, and motivation. Signaling through the dopamine D2 receptor is critical for all of these processes. For instance, drugs with high affinity for the D2 receptor potently alter timing of operant responses and modulate motivation. Recently, in an attempt to model a genetic abnormality encou...

Leptin has been shown to modulate deiodinase type 1 (D1) and type 2 (D2) enzymes responsible for thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3) conversion. Previously, it was demonstrated that a single injection of leptin in euthyroid fed rats rapidly increased liver, pituitary, and thyroid D1 activity, and simultaneously decreased brown adipose tissue (BAT) and hypothalamic D2 activity. We have now e...

Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is characterized by progressive dementia with two of three core symptoms; Parkinsonism, visual hallucinations or disturbances of consciousness/fluctuating attention. Dementia in Parkinson's disease (PDD) has similar neuropsychiatric characteristics. Reduced nigrothalamic dopamine and altered thalamic D2 receptors may mediate some of the non-motor symptoms of DLB ...

We have used a yeast two-hybrid approach to uncover protein interactions involving the D2-like subfamily of dopamine receptors. Using the third intracellular loop of the D2S and D3 dopamine receptors as bait to screen a human brain cDNA library, we identified filamin A (FLN-A) as a protein that interacts with both the D2 and D3 subtypes. The interaction with FLN-A was specific for the D2 and D3...

Jaśkowski’s logic D2 was formulated with the help of the modal logic S5, [8]–[10]. It was shown (see [12], [16]) that to define D2 one could use normal modal logics weaker than S5. In the present paper we indicate a certain regular modal logic which also defines D2. This logic is the weakest regular modal logic defining D2.