Substitution therapy with amphetamine-isotherapic attenuates amphetamine toxicological aspects of addiction.

Autor: Segat HJ; Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), RS, Brazil. Electronic address: hecson_segat@hotmail.com., Metz VG; Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, UFSM, RS, Brazil., Rosa HZ; Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, UFSM, RS, Brazil., Dias VT; Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, UFSM, RS, Brazil., Barcelos RCS; Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, UFSM, RS, Brazil., Dolci GS; Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, UFSM, RS, Brazil., Burger ME; Pós-Graduação em Bioquímica Toxicológica, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), RS, Brazil; Pós-Graduação em Farmacologia, UFSM, RS, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Neuroscience letters [Neurosci Lett] 2019 Jan 18; Vol. 690, pp. 138-144. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Oct 05.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2018.10.007
Abstrakt: Introduction: amphetamine (AMPH) is related to development of addiction, anxiety-like behaviors and impairments of memory after chronic use. In the current experiment, an ultra-high dilution (10 -24 mg/mL) of AMPH was used, consisting of the AMPH isotherapic (AMPH-ISO), which can be used as a replacement therapy to treat AMPH addiction.
Aim: To verify the influence of AMPH-ISO on toxicological aspects of AMPH addiction.
Methods: Rats received d,l-AMPH (4.0 mg/kg, i.p.) in the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm (8 days). Then, half of each experimental group (AMPH or saline) received AMPH-ISO/vehicle (0.2 mL per rat, once a day), for fourteen days. On the fifteenth day, animals were re-assessed in the CPP paradigm (to verify relapse behaviors) after a single dose of AMPH (2.0 mg/kg). Subsequently, anxiety-like behaviors were quantified, followed by ex vivo assays in the pre-frontal cortex.
Results: AMPH-ISO prevented relapse-like behavior of AMPH and reduced anxiety-like behavior per se in animals co-treated with AMPH. Molecular analysis evidenced that AMPH-ISO modulated dopaminergic targets (dopamine transporter, tyrosine hydroxylase and D1-R), whose immunoreactivity was increased by AMPH. Also, AMPH-ISO increased catalase activity and NPSH levels and reduced lipid peroxidation and protein carbonyl levels in the prefrontal cortex.
Conclusion: This study shows that an ultra-high dilution of AMPH may be a useful alternative which can contribute with AMPH addiction treatment.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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