Dopamine D1 receptor-expressing neurons activity is essential for locomotor and sensitizing effects of a single injection of cocaine
| Autor: | Denis Hervé, Akinori Nishi, Yuki Nakamura, Jean-Antoine Girault, Yukari Nakamura, Sophie Longueville |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Neurons
Chemistry Receptors Dopamine D1 General Neuroscience Stimulation Motor Activity Pharmacology Inhibitory postsynaptic potential Corpus Striatum Mice Dopamine receptor D1 medicine.anatomical_structure Cocaine Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors Dopamine Dopamine receptor medicine Animals Receptor Clozapine Sensitization medicine.drug |
| DOI: | 10.1101/2020.12.19.423602 |
| Popis: | D1 dopamine receptors play an important role in the effects of cocaine. Here we investigated the role of neurons which express these receptors (D1-neurons) in the acute locomotor effects of cocaine and the locomotor sensitization observed after a second injection of this drug. We inhibited D1-neurons using double transgenic mice conditionally expressing the inhibitory Gi-coupled designer receptor exclusively activated by designer drugs (Gi-DREADD) in D1-neurons. Chemogenetic inhibition of D1-neurons by a low dose of clozapine (0.1 mg/kg) decreased the induction of Fos in striatal neurons. It diminished the basal locomotor activity and acute hyper-locomotion induced by cocaine (20 mg/kg). Clozapine 0.1 mg/kg had no effect by itself and did not alter cocaine effects in non-transgenic mice. Inhibition of D1-neurons during the first cocaine administration reduced the sensitization of the locomotor response in response to a second cocaine administration ten days later. At day 11, inhibition of D1-neurons by clozapine stimulation of Gi-DREADD, prevented the expression of the sensitized locomotor response, whereas at day 12, in the absence of clozapine and D1-neurons inhibition, all mice displayed a sensitized response to cocaine. These results show that chemogenetic inhibition of D1-neurons decreases spontaneous and cocaine-induced locomotor activity. It blunts the induction and prevents the expression of sensitization in a two-injection protocol of sensitization but does not alter established sensitization. Our study further supports the central role of D1-neurons in mediating the acute locomotor effects of cocaine and its sensitization. |
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