Rats classified as low or high cocaine locomotor responders: A unique model involving striatal dopamine transporters that predicts cocaine addiction-like behaviors
| Autor: | Bruce H. Mandt, Toni L. Richards, Gaynor A. Larson, Jacki M. Rorabaugh, Christopher M.C. Ng, Nancy R. Zahniser, Dorothy J. Yamamoto, Kelsey Barcomb, Richard M. Allen, Anna M. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cognitive Neuroscience
Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins media_common.quotation_subject Motor Activity Pharmacology Article Cocaine-Related Disorders Behavioral Neuroscience Basal (phylogenetics) Cocaine In vivo Animals media_common Dopamine transporter Behavior Animal biology Addiction Transporter Corpus Striatum Conditioned place preference Rats Disease Models Animal Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology biology.protein Stimulus control Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 37:1738-1753 |
| ISSN: | 0149-7634 |
| Popis: | Individual differences are a hallmark of drug addiction. Here, we describe a rat model based on differential initial responsiveness to low dose cocaine. Despite similar brain cocaine levels, individual outbred Sprague-Dawley rats exhibit markedly different magnitudes of acute cocaine-induced locomotor activity and, thereby, can be classified as low or high cocaine responders (LCRs or HCRs). LCRs and HCRs differ in drug-induced, but not novelty-associated, hyperactivity. LCRs have higher basal numbers of striatal dopamine transporters (DATs) than HCRs and exhibit marginal cocaine inhibition of in vivo DAT activity and cocaine-induced increases in extracellular DA. Importantly, lower initial cocaine response predicts greater locomotor sensitization, conditioned place preference and greater motivation to self-administer cocaine following low dose acquisition. Further, outbred Long-Evans rats classified as LCRs, versus HCRs, are more sensitive to cocaine’s discriminative stimulus effects. Overall, results to date with the LCR/HCR model underscore the contribution of striatal DATs to individual differences in initial cocaine responsiveness and the value of assessing the influence of initial drug response on subsequent expression of addiction-like behaviors. |
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