Chronic Adolescent Exposure to Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in COMT Mutant Mice: Impact on Psychosis-Related and Other Phenotypes
| Autor: | Lieve Desbonnet, David Cotter, Catherine A. Coughlan, Magdalena Hryniewiecka, Joseph A. Gogos, Colm M. P. O’Tuathaigh, Mary Cannon, Orna Tighe, Áine T. Behan, John L. Waddington, Maria Karayiorgou |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Psychosis Elevated plus maze medicine.medical_specialty Catechol O-Methyltransferase Spatial memory Mice Random Allocation Internal medicine mental disorders medicine Animals Dronabinol Tetrahydrocannabinol Psychiatry Pharmacology Mice Knockout Catechol-O-methyl transferase organic chemicals Age Factors medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Endocrinology Phenotype Psychotic Disorders Endophenotype Mutation Exploratory Behavior Anxiety Original Article Female Psychopharmacology medicine.symptom Psychology medicine.drug |
| Popis: | Cannabis use confers a two-fold increase in the risk for psychosis, with adolescent use conferring even greater risk. A high–low activity catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) polymorphism may modulate the effects of adolescent Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) exposure on the risk for adult psychosis. Mice with knockout of the COMT gene were treated chronically with THC (4.0 and 8.0 mg/kg over 20 days) during either adolescence (postnatal days (PDs) 32–52) or adulthood (PDs 70–90). The effects of THC exposure were then assessed in adulthood across behavioral phenotypes relevant for psychosis: exploratory activity, spatial working memory (spontaneous and delayed alternation), object recognition memory, social interaction (sociability and social novelty preference), and anxiety (elevated plus maze). Adolescent THC administration induced a larger increase in exploratory activity, greater impairment in spatial working memory, and a stronger anti-anxiety effect in COMT knockouts than in wild types, primarily among males. No such effects of selective adolescent THC administration were evident for other behaviors. Both object recognition memory and social novelty preference were disrupted by either adolescent or adult THC administration, independent of genotype. The COMT genotype exerts specific modulation of responsivity to chronic THC administration during adolescence in terms of exploratory activity, spatial working memory, and anxiety. These findings illuminate the interaction between genes and adverse environmental exposures over a particular stage of development in the expression of the psychosis phenotype. |
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