Changes in nucleus accumbens dopamine transmission associated with fixed- and variable-time schedule-induced feeding

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2714-2723

  Richardson, Nicole R ^a   Gratton, Alain ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expectancy; Food reward; Incentive motivation; Instrumental conditioning; Prediction; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; UP-REGULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 44649174971     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06236.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Anstrom, K.K. Woodward, D.J. (2005) Restraint increases dopaminergic burst firing in awake rats. Neuropsychopharmacology, 30, 1832 1840.
2. Baldo, B.A. Kelley, A.E. (2007) Discrete neurochemical coding of distinguishable motivational processes: insights from nucleus accumbens control of feeding. Psychopharamcology, 191, 439 459.
3. Blackburn, J.R., Phillips, A.G., Jakubovic, A. Fibiger, H.C. (1989) Dopamine and preparatory behavior. II. A neurochemical analysis. Behav. Neurosci., 103, 15 23.
4. Blackburn, J.R., Pfaus, J.C. Phillips, A.G. (1992) Dopamine functions in appetitive and defensive behaviors. Prog. Neurobiol., 39, 247 279.
5. Brake, W.G., Sullivan, R.M. Gratton, A. (2000) Perinatal distress leads to lateralized medial prefrontal cortical dopamine hypofunction in adult rats. J. Neurosci., 20, 5538 5543.
6. Breukelaar, J.W. Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. (1998) Timing ability and numerical competence in rats. J. Exp. Psychol. Anal. Behav. Process, 24, 84 97.
7. Buhusi, C.V. Meck, W.H. (2005) What makes us tick? Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 6, 755 765.
8. Capella, P., Ghasemzadeh, B., Mitchell, K. Adams, R.N. (1990) Nafion-coated carbon fibre electrodes for neurochemical studies in brain tissue. Electroanalysis, 2, 175 182.
9. Chance, W.T., Foley-Nelson, T., Nelson, J.L. Fisher, J.E. (1987) Neurotransmitter alterations associated with feeding and satiety. Brain Res., 416, 228 234.
10. Collier, G., Johnson, D.F. Morgan, C. (1997) Meal patterns of cats encountering variable food procurement cost. J. Exp. Anal. Behav., 67, 303 310.
11. Doherty, M.D. Gratton, A. (1996) Medial prefrontal cortical D1 receptor modulation of the meso-accumbens dopamine response to stress: an electrochemical study in freely-behaving rats. Brain Res., 715, 86 97.
12. Doherty, M.D. Gratton, A. (1997) NMDA receptors in nucleus accumbens modulate stress-induced dopamine release in nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area. Synapse, 26, 225 234.
13. Fleshler, M. Hoffman, H.S. (1962) A progression for generating variable-interval schedules. J. Exp. Anal. Behav., 5, 529 530.
14. Gawley, D.J., Timberlake, W. Lucas, G.A. (1988) Anticipatory drinking in rats: compensatory adjustments in the local rate of intake. Physiol. Behav., 42, 297 302.
15. Gerhardt, G.A. Hoffman, A.F. (2001) Effects of recording media composition on the responses of Nafion-coated carbon fiber microelectrodes measured using high-speed chronoamperometry. J. Neurosci. Meth., 109, 13 21.
16. Gerhardt, G.A., Oke, A.F., Nahy, G., Moghaddam, B. Adams, R.N. (1984) Nafion-coated electrodes with high selectivity for CNS electrochemistry. Brain Res., 290, 390 395.
17. Gerhardt, G.A., Kasir, C., Pivik, C., Dickinson, S.D., Sabeti, J. Zahniser, N.R. (1999) Methodology for coupling local application of dopamine and other chemicals with rapid in vivo electrochemical recordings in freely-moving rats. J. Neurosci. Meth., 87, 67 76.
18. Glaser, P.E.A., Thomas, T.C., Joyce, B.M., Castellanos, F.X. Gerhardt, G.A. (2005) Differential effects of amphetamine isomers on dopamine release in the rat striatum and nucleus accumbens core. Psychopharnacology, 178, 250 258.
19. Gratton, A. (1996) In vivo analysis of the role of dopamine in stimulant and opiate self-administration. J. Psychiat. Neurosci., 21, 264 279.
20. Gratton, A. Wise, R.A. (1994) Drug- and behavior-associated changes in dopamine-related electrochemical signals during intravenous cocaine self-administration in rats. J. Neurosci., 14, 4130 4146.
21. Heffner, T.G., Hartman, J.A. Seiden, L.S. (1980) Feeding increases dopamine metabolism in the rat brain. Science, 208, 1168 1170.
22. Hernandez, L. Hoebel, B.G. (1988) Food reward and cocaine increase extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens as measured by microdialysis. Life Sci., 42, 1705 1712.
23. Hinton, S.C. Meck, W.H. (1997) The 'internal clocks' of circadian and interval timing. Endeavor, 21, 82 87.
24. Holland, P.C., Hamlin, P.A. Parsons, J.P. (1997) Temporal specificity in serial feature-positive discrimination learning. J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav., 23, 95 109.
25. Kiyatkin, E.A. Gratton, A. (1994) Electrochemical monitoring of extracellular dopamine in nucleus accumbens of rats lever-pressing for food. Brain Res., 652, 225 234.
26. Kiyatkin, E.A., Wise, R.A. Gratton, A. (1993) Drug- and behavior-associated changes in dopamine-related electrochemical signals during intravenous heroin self-administration in rats. Synapse, 14, 60 72.
27. Ljungberg, T., Apicella, P. Schultz, W. (1992) Responses of monkey dopamine neurons during learning of behavioral reactions. J. Neurophysiol., 67, 145 163.
28. McCullough, L.D. Salamone, J.D. (1992) Involvement of nucleus accumbens dopamine in the motor activity induced by periodic food presentation: a microdialysis and behavioral study. Brain Res., 592, 29 36.
29. McCullough, L.D., Cousins, M.S. Salamone, J.D. (1993) The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in responding on a continuous reinforcement operant schedule: a neurochemical and behavioral study. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 46, 581 586.
30. Mirenowicz, J. Schultz, W. (1994) Importance of unpredictability for reward responses in primate dopamine neurons. J. Neurophysiol., 72, 1024 1027.
31. Mirenowicz, J. Schultz, W. (1996) Preferential activation of midbrain dopamine neurons by appetitive rather than aversive stimuli. Nature, 379, 449 451.
32. Nishino, H., Ono, T., Muramoto, K., Fukuda, M. Sasaki, K. (1987) Neuronal activity in the ventral tegmental area during motivated bar press feeding in the monkey. Brain Res., 413, 302 313.
33. Paxinos, G. Watson, C. (1986) The rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates. Academic Press, New York.
34. Phillips, A.G., Atkinson, L.J., Blackburn, J.R. Blaha, C.D. (1993) Increased extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens of the rat elicited by a conditional stimulus for food: an electrochemical study. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol., 71, 387 393.
35. Radhakishun, F.S., van Ree, J.M. Westerink, B.H.C. (1988) Scheduled eating increases dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens of food-deprived rats as assessed with on-line brain dialysis. Neurosci. Lett., 85, 351 356.
36. Richardson, N.R. Gratton, A. (1996) Changes in nucleus accumbens dopamine efflux during operant responding for food: an electrochemical study in rat. J. Neurosci., 16, 8160 8169.
37. Richardson, N.R. Gratton, A. (1998) Changes in medial prefrontal cortical dopamine levels associated with response-contingent food reward: an electrochemical study in rat. J. Neurosci., 18, 9130 9138.
38. Roitman, M.F., Stuber, G.D., Phillips, P.E.M., Wightman, R.M. Carelli, R.M. (2004) Dopamine operates as a subsecond modulator of food seeking. J. Neurosci., 24, 1265 1271.
39. Romo, R. Schultz, W. (1990) Dopamine neurons in the monkey midbrain: contingencies of responses to acute touch during self-initiated arm movements. J. Neurophysiol., 63, 592 606.
40. Salamone, J.D., Cousins, M.S., McCullough, L.D., Carriero, D.L. Berkowitz, R.J. (1994) Nucleus accumbens dopamine release increases during instrumental lever pressing for food but not free food consumption. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 49, 25 31.
41. Schultz, W. (1986) Responses of midbrain dopamine neurons to behavioral trigger stimuli in the monkey. J. Neurophysiol., 56, 1439 1461.
42. Schultz, W. (1997) Dopamine neurons and their role in reward mechanisms. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol., 7, 191 197.
43. Schultz, W. (1998) The phasic reward signal of primate dopamine neurons. Adv. Pharmacol., 42, 686 690.
44. Schultz, W. Romo, R. (1990) Dopamine neurons of the monkey midbrain: contingencies of responses to stimuli eliciting immediate behavioral reactions. J. Neurophysiol., 63, 607 624.
45. Schultz, W., Apicella, P. Ljungberg, T. (1993) Responses on monkey dopamine neurons to reward and conditioned stimuli during successive steps of learning a delayed response task. J. Neurosci., 13, 900 913.
46. Sullivan, R.M. Gratton, A. (1998) Relationships between stress-induced increases in medial prefrontal cortical dopamine and plasma corticosterone levels in rats: role of cerebral laterality. Neuroscience, 83, 81 91.
47. Weatherford, S.C., Greenberg, D., Melville, L.D., Jerome, C., Gibbs, J. Smith, G.P. (1991) Failure to detect increases in brain dopamine metabolism in rats sham feeding sucrose and corn oil. Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 39, 1025 1028.
48. Yoshida, M., Yokoo, H., Mizoguchi, K., Kawahara, H., Tsuda, A., Nishikawa, T. Tanaka, M. (1992) Eating and drinking cause increased dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in the rat: measurement by in vivo microdialysis. Neurosci. Lett., 139, 73 76.