Methamphetamine selectively damages dopaminergic innervation to the nucleus accumbens core while sparing the shell

Synapse

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 153-160

  Broening, Harry W ^a,b   Pu, Cunfeng ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Hyperthermia; Neurotoxicity; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; METHAMPHETAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABUSE; HYPERTHERMIA; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; DOPAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM;

EID: 0030742292     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199710)27:2<153::AID-SYN6>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Albers, D.S., and Sonsalla, P.K. (1995) Methamphetamine-induced hyperthermia and dopaminergic neurotoxicity in mice: Pharmacological profile of protective and nonprotective agents. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 275:1104-1114.
2. Allin, R., Russell, V.A., Lamm, M.C.L., and Taljaard, J.J.F. (1988) Regional distribution of monoamines in the nucleus accumbens of the rat. Neurochem. Res., 13:937-942.
3. Bardo, M.T., and Hammer, R.P., Jr. (1991) Autoradiographic localization of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in rat nucleus accumbens: Resistance to differential rearing conditions. Neuroscience, 45:281-290.
4. Berendse, H.W., Groenewegen, H.J., and Lohman, A.H.M. (1992) Compartmental distribution of ventral striatal neurons projecting to the mesencephalon in the rat. J. Neurosci., 12:2079-2103.
5. Bowyer, J.F., and Holson, R.R. (1995) Methamphetamine and amphetamine neurotoxicity. In: Handbook of Neurotoxicology. L.W. Chang and R.S. Dyer, eds. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, pp. 845-870.
6. Bowyer, J.F., Tank, A.W., Newport, G.D., Slikker, W., Jr., Ali, S.F., and Holson, R.R. (1992) The influence of environmental temperature on the transient effects of methamphetamine on dopamine levels and dopamine release in rat striatum. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 260:817-824.
7. Bowyer, J.F., Gough, B., Slikker, W., Jr., Lipe, G.W., Newport, G.D., and Holson, R.R. (1993) Effects of a cold environment on methamphetamine-induced dopamine release in the caudate putamen of female rats. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 44:87-98.
8. Bowyer, J.F., Davies, D.L., Schmued, L., Broening, H.W., Newport, G.D., Slikker, W., Jr., and Holson, R.R. (1994) Further studies of the role of hyperthermia in methamphetamine neurotoxicity. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 268:1571-1580.
9. Bowyer, J.F., Clausing, P., Schmued, L., Davies, D.L., Binienda, Z., Newport, G.D., Scallet, A.C., and Slikker, W. (1996) Parenterally administered 3-nitropropionic acid and amphetamine can combine to produce damage to terminals and cell bodies in the striatum. Brain Res., 712:221-229.
10. Brog, J.S., Salyapongse, A., Deutch, A.Y., and Zahm, D.S. (1993) The patterns of afferent innervation of the core and shell in the "accumbens" part of the rat ventral striatum: Immunohistochemical detection of retrogradely transported Fluoro-Gold. J. Comp. Neurol., 338:255-278.
11. Brunswick, D.J., Benmansour, S., Tejani-Butt, S.M., and Hauptmann, M. (1992) Effects of high-dose methamphetamine on monoamine uptake sites in rat brain measured by quantitative autoradiography. Synapse, 11:287-293.
12. Chan, P., Di Monte, D.A., Luo, J.-J., DeLanney, L.E., Irwin, I., and Langston, J.W. (1994) Rapid ATP loss caused by methamphetamine in the mouse striatum: Relationship between energy impairment and dopaminergic neurotoxicity. J. Neurochem., 62:2484-2487.
13. Deutch, A.Y., and Cameron, D.S. (1992) Pharmacological characterization of dopamine systems in the nucleus accumbens of the rat. Neuroscience, 46:49-56.
14. Fischer, J.F., and Cho, A.K. (1979) Chemical release of dopamine from striatal homogenates: Evidence for an exchange diffusion model. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 208:203-209.
15. Freed, C., Revay, R., Vaughan, R.A., Kriek, E., Grant, S., Uhl, G.R., and Kuhar, M.J. (1995) Dopamine transporter immunoreactivity in rat brain. J. Comp. Neurol., 359:340-349.
16. Heimer, L., de Olmos, J., Alheid, G.F., and Záborszky, L. (1991a) "Perestroika" in the basal forebrain: Opening the border between neurology and psychiatry. Prog. Brain Res., 87:109-165.
17. Heimer, L., Zahm, D.S., Churchill, L., Kalivas, P.W., and Wohltmann, C. (1991b) Specificity in the projection patterns of accumbal core and shell in the rat. Neuroscience, 41:89-125.
18. Hess, A., Desiderio, C., and McAuliffe, W.G. (1990) Acute neuropathological changes in the caudate nucleus caused by MPTP and methamphetamine: Immunohistochemical studies. J. Neurocytol., 19:338-342.
19. Hotchkiss, A.J., and Gibb, J.W. (1980) Long-term effects of multiple doses of methamphetamine on tryptophan hydroxylase and tyrosine hydroxylase activity in rat brain. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 214:257-262.
20. 3H]mazindol autoradiography. J. Neurosci., 5:1513-1521.
21. Jones, S.R., O'Dell, S.J., Marshall, J.F., and Wightman, R.M. (1996) Functional and anatomical evidence for different dopamine dynamics in the core and shell of the nucleus accumbens in slices of rat brain. Synapse, 23:224-231.
22. Kelley, A.E., Stratford, T.R., Foote, S.L., and Berridge, C.W. (1996) Distribution of dopamine-β-hydroxylase (DBH)-like immunoreactive fibers within the nucleus accumbens shell. Soc. Neurosci. Abs., 22:240.12.
23. Liang, N.Y., and Rutledge, C.O. (1982) Comparison of the release of [3H]dopamine from isolated corpus striatum by amphetamine, fenfluramine and unlabeled dopamine. Biochem. Pharmacol., 31:983-992.
24. Marcus, M.M., Nomikos, G.G., and Svensson, T.H. (1996) Differential actions of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs on dopamine release in the core and shell of the nucleus accumbens. Eur. Neuropsychopharmacol., 6:29-38.
25. Marek, G.J., Vosmer, G., and Seiden, L.S. (1990) The effects of monoamine uptake inhibitors and methamphetamine on neostriatal 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) formation, short-term monoamine depletions and locomotor activity in the rat. Brain Res., 516:1-7.
26. Marshall, J.F., O'Dell, S.J., Navarrete, R., and Rosenstein, A.J. (1990) Dopamine high-affinity transport site topography in rat brain: Major differences between dorsal and ventral striatum. Neuroscience, 37:11-21.
27. Marshall, J.F., O'Dell, S.J., and Weihmuller, F.B. (1993) Dopamine-glutamate interactions in methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity. J. Neural Transm. Gen. Sect., 91:241-254.
28. Miller, D.B., and O'Callaghan, J.P. (1994) Environment-, drug- and stress-induced alterations in body temperature affect the neurotoxicity of substituted amphetamines in the C57BL/6J mouse. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 270:752-760.
29. O'Callaghan, J.P., and Miller, D.B. (1994) Neurotoxicity profiles of substituted amphetamines in the C57BL/6J mouse. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 270:741-751.
30. O'Dell, S.J., Weihmuller, F.B., and Marshall, J.F. (1991) Multiple methamphetamine injections induce marked increases in extracellular striatal dopamine which correlate with subsequent neurotoxicity. Brain Res., 564:256-260.
31. O'Dell, S.J., Weihmuller, F.B., and Marshall, J.F. (1993) Methamphetamine-induced dopamine overflow and injury to striatal dopamine terminals: Attenuation by dopamine D1 and D2 antagonists. J. Neurochem., 60:1792-1799.
32. Paxinos, G., and Watson, C. (1986) The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, 2nd ed. Academic Press Inc., San Diego.
33. Pierce, R.C., and Kalivas, P.W. (1995) Amphetamine produces sensitized increases in locomotion and extracellular dopamine preferentially in the nucleus accumbens shell of rats administered repeated cocaine. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 275:1019-1029.
34. Pontieri, F.E., Tanda, G., and Di Chiara, G. (1995) Intravenous cocaine, morphine, and amphetamine preferentially increase extracellular dopamine in the "shell" as compared with the "core" of the rat nucleus accumbens. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 92:12304-12308.
35. Preston, K.L., Wagner, G.C., Schuster, C.R., and Seiden, L.S. (1985) Long-term effects of repeated methylamphetamine administration on monoamine neurons in the rhesus monkey brain. Brain Res., 338:243-248.
36. Pu, C., and Vorhees, C.V. (1993) Developmental dissociation of methamphetamine-induced depletion of dopaminergic terminals and astrocyte reaction in the rat striatum. Dev. Brain Res., 72:325-328.
37. Pu, C., Fisher, J.E., Cappon, G.D., and Vorhees, C.V. (1994) The effects of amfonelic acid, a dopamine uptake inhibitor, on methamphetamine-induced dopaminergic terminal degeneration and astrocytic response in rat striatum. Brain Res., 649:217-224.
38. Raiteri, M., Cerrito, F., Cervoni, A.M., and Levi, G. (1979) Dopamine can be released by two mechanisms differentially affected by the dopamine transport inhibitor nomifensine. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 208:195-202.
39. Ricaurte, G.A., Schuster, C.R., and Seiden, L.S. (1980) Long-term effects of repeated methylamphetamine administration on dopamine and serotonin neurons in the rat brain: A regional study. Brain Res., 193:153-163.
40. Ricaurte, G.A., Guillery, R.W., Seiden, L.S., Schuster, C.R., and Moore, R.Y. (1982) Dopamine nerve terminal degeneration produced by high doses of methylamphetamine in the rat brain. Brain Res., 235:93-103.
41. Saleem, A., Zhu, Y., Druhan, J., and Aston-Jones, G. (1996) Innervation of the nucleus accumbens shell and ventral tegmental area by dopamine beta-hydroxylase-positive fibers: Possible sites for norepinephrine-dopamine interactions. Soc. Neurosci. Abs., 22:240.11.
42. Schmidt, C.J., and Gibb, J.W. (1985) Role of the dopamine uptake carrier in the neurochemical response to methamphetamine: Effects of amfonelic acid. Eur. J. Pharmacol., 109:73-80.
43. Seiden, L.S., and Vosmer, G. (1984) Formation of 6-hydroxydopamine in caudate nucleus of the rat brain after a single large dose of methylamphetamine. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 21:29-31.
44. Seiden, L.S., Fischman, M.W., and Schuster, C.R. (1976) Long-term methamphetamine induced changes in brain catecholamines in tolerant rhesus monkeys. Drug Alcohol Depend., 1:215-219.
45. 2 dopamine receptor subtypes in mediating the methamphetamine-induced changes in monoamine systems. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 238:932-937.
46. Stephans, S.E., and Yamamoto, B.K. (1994) Methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity: Roles for glutamate and dopamine efflux. Synapse, 17:203-209.
47. Sulzer, D., Maidment, N.T., and Rayport, S. (1993) Amphetamine and other weak bases act to promote reverse transport of dopamine in ventral midbrain neurons. J. Neurochem., 60:527-535.
48. Tan, Y., Brog, J.S., Williams, E.S., and Zahm, D.S. (1995) Morphometric analysis of ventral mesencephalic neurons retrogradely labeled with Fluoro-Gold following injections in the shell, core and rostral pole of the rat nucleus accumbens. Brain Res., 689:151-156.
49. Trulson, M.E., Cannon, M.S., Faegg, T.S., and Raese, J.D. (1985) Effects of chronic methamphetamine on the nigral-striatal dopamine system in rat brain: Tyrosine hydroxylase immunochemistry and quantitative light microscopic studies. Brain Res. Bull., 15:569-577.
50. Voorn, P., Gerfen, C.R., and Groenewegen, H.J. (1989) Compartmental organization of the ventral striatum of the rat: Immunohistochemical distribution of enkephalin, substance P, dopamine, and calcium-binding protein. J. Comp. Neurol., 289:189-201.
51. Wagner, G.C., Ricaurte, G.A., Seiden, L.S., Schuster, C.R., Miller, R.J., and Westley, J. (1980) Long-lasting depletions of striatal dopamine and loss of dopamine uptake sites following repeated administration of methamphetamine. Brain Res., 181:151-160.
52. Wall, S.C., Gu, H., and Rudnick, G. (1995) Biogenic amine flux mediated by cloned transporters stably expressed in cultured cell lines: Amphetamine specificity for inhibition and efflux. Mol. Pharmacol., 47:544-550.
53. Widmann, R., and Sperk, G. (1986) Topographical distribution of amines and major amine metabolites in the rat striatum. Brain Res., 367:244-249.
54. Záborszky, L., Alheid, G.F., Beinfeld, M.C., Eiden, L.E., Heimer, L., and Palkovits, M. (1985) Cholecystokinin innervation of the ventral striatum: A morphological and radioimmunological study. Neuroscience, 14:427-453.
55. Zahm, D.S. (1991) Compartments in rat dorsal and ventral striatum revealed following injection of 6-hydroxydopamine into the ventral mesencephalon. Brain Res., 552:164-169.
56. Zahm, D.S. (1992) An electron microscopic morphometric comparison of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive innervation in the neostriatum and the nucleus accumbens core and shell. Brain Res., 575:341-346.
57. Zahm, D.S., and Brog, J.S. (1992) On the significance of subterritories in the "accumbens" part of the rat ventral striatum. Neuroscience, 50:751-767.