Abstract
The uptake of tyrosine into rat retina and brain was studied in vivo after its peripheral injection alone or in combination with other amino acids. Both retinal and brain tyrosine levels increased monotonically for at least 60 min after tyrosine administration. When tyrosine was injected along with branched-chain amino acids, but not with acidic amino acids, such increments in retinal and brain tyrosine levels were significantly attenuated. The postinjection tyrosine levels in retina and brain paralleled better the serum ratio of tyrosine to the sum of the other large neutral amino acids (which include the branched-chain amino acids) than the serum tyrosine level alone. These results suggest that tyrosine uptake into rat retina, like that into brain, is mediated by a competitive transport system shared among the large neutral amino acids.
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