Topography of dopamine D-1 and D-2 receptor-mediated rotation after intrastriatal injections of dopamine-related drugs in normosensitive rats

Autor: Spiridon Konitsiotis, E. Kafetzopoulos
Rok vydání: 1990
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Zdroj: European Journal of Pharmacology. 179:201-205
ISSN: 0014-2999
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(90)90419-7
Popis: Naive rats were challenged systematically with apomorphine after receiving unilateral dorsal or ventral intracaudate injections of the dopamine D-1 receptor antagonist, SCH23390, or the D-2 receptor antagonist, sulpiride. Sulpiride injections into both the dorsal and ventral striatum induced a robust ipsilateral rotation, while SCH23390 elicited a weaker ipsilateral rotation only on injection into the ventral striatum. Both drugs were ineffective in saline-treated rats, although sulpiride injections into the ventral striatum after systemic saline elicited a small ipsilateral preference. The results from this rotational model mediated by normosensitive receptors indicate that only dopamine D-1 receptors in the ventral striatum mediate rotation while D-2 receptors in both striatal regions mediate rotation. A functional dichotomy between these two neostriatal regions is thus proposed. Eur J Pharmacol
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