CHEMBL5733167

Serotonin Transporter Binding Assay: Brains from male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing 200-225 g (Taconic Labs, Germantown, N.Y.) were removed, midbrain dissected and rapidly frozen. Membranes were prepared by homogenizing tissues in 20 volumes (w/v) of 50 mM Tris containing 120 mM NaCl and 5 mM KCl, (pH 7.4 at 25° C.), using a Brinkman Polytron and centrifuged at 50,000xg for 10 min at 4° C. The resulting pellet was resuspended in buffer, recentrifuged and resuspended in buffer to a concentration of 15 mg/mL. Ligand binding experiments were conducted in assay tubes containing 0.5 mL buffer for 60 min at room temperature. Each tube contained 1.4 nM [3H]Citalopram (Amersham Biosciences, Piscataway, N.J.) and 1.5 mg midbrain tissue (original wet weight). Nonspecific binding was determined using 10 mM fluoxetine. Incubations were terminated by rapid filtration through Whatman GF/B filters, presoaked in 0.3% polyethylenimine, using a Brandel R48 filtering manifold (Brandel Instruments Gaithersburg, Md.). The filters were washed twice with 3 mL cold buffer and transferred to scintillation vials. Beckman Ready Value (3.0 mL) was added and the vials were counted the next day using a Beckman 6000 liquid scintillation counter (Beckman Coulter Instruments, Fullerton, Calif.).