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Initial velocity of uptake of dopamine (DA) has been measured in the presence of 1μM cocaine as a function of both [DA] and [Na]. Although DA uptake is overwhelmingly dependent on sodium, it appears that a small amount of DA uptake takes place in the absence of sodium. This contrasts with a previous study of the sodium dependence of uptake without cocaine (referred to below as control), in which uptake was found to be 100% sodium dependent. The data were fitted to several rapid equilibrium models and the minimal best fit model identified. The interaction of transporter (C), DA (S), and Na+ (Na) in this present model is identical to the reaction scheme found previously to fit control data (no cocaine). Whereas the control model required translocation only as CNa2S, in the presence of cocaine (I), two additional translocated species are required to fit the data (CS and CNaS). Another previous study of the interaction of carrier and cocaine at a constant [Na]0 predicted that cocaine interacts with a transporter site other than the DA binding site and that uptake takes place as CS and CSI. The present results are consistent with the assumption that the CS and CNaS forms of the present model are actually CSI and CNaSI, since they are required to fit a model of the sodium dependence in the presence of cocaine, but are not required in the absence of cocaine.
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Wheeler, D.D., Edwards, A.M., Chapman, B.M. et al. Effects of cocaine on sodium dependent dopamine uptake in rat striatal synaptosomes. Neurochem Res 19, 49–56 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00966728
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