Abstract
Abstract— The effects of lithium chloride in vitro and in vivo were investigated on Na‐K ATPase and Mg ATPase activities in synaptic plasma membrane, mitochondrial and synaptic vesicle fractions prepared from rat brain. In vitro, lithium chloride (10−3‐10−8m) had no effect on ATPase activity in any of the fractions studied. Lithium chloride given chronically by i.p. injection (30 mg/rat/day) for 9 days had little effect on synaptic plasma membrane ATPases. Dietary administration of lithium chloride (60 mmol/kg food) produced a small but significant increase in synaptic plasma membrane Mg ATPase activity after 3 weeks administration and mitochondrial Mg ATPase activity after 1 week. There was no effect on synaptic plasma membrane Na‐K ATPase activity. Salt supplementation reduced the toxic effects of lithium administration and it is suggested that toxicity may account for some of the previously reported changes in synaptic membrane ATPases produced by lithium.
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