Cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization in adolescent rats endures until adulthood: Lack of association with GluR1 and NR1 glutamate receptor subunits and tyrosine hydroxylase

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-114

  Marin, Marcelo T ^a   Cruz, Fábio C ^a   Planeta, Cleopatra S ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Behavioral sensitization; Cocaine; Glutamate receptors; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG REEXPOSURE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COCAINE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 50449098859     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.06.018     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Adriani W., and Laviola G. A unique hormonal and behavioral hyporesponsivity to both forced novelty and d-amphetamine in periadolescent mice. Neuropharmacology 39 (2000) 334-346
2. Araujo A.P.N., DeLucia R., Scavone C., and Planeta C.P. Repeated predictable or unpredictable stress: effects on cocaine-induced locomotion and cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase activity. Behav Brain Res 139 (2003) 75-81
3. Bolanos C.A., Glatt S.J., and Jackson D. Subsensitivity to dopaminergic drugs in periadolescent rats: a behavioral and neurochemical analysis. Dev Brain Res 111 (1998) 25-33
4. Boudreau A.C., and Wolf M.E. Behavioral sensitization to cocaine is associated with increased AMPA receptor surface expression in the nucleus accumbens. J Neurosci 25 (2005) 9144-9151
5. Cadoni C., Solinas M., and Di Chiara G. Psychostimulant sensitization: differential changes in accumbal shell and core dopamine. Eur J Pharmacol 388 (2000) 69-76
6. Churchill L., Swanson C.J., Urbina M., and Kalivas P.W. Repeated cocaine alters glutamate receptor subunit levels in the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area of rats that develop behavioral sensitization. J Neurochem 42 (1999) 2397-2403
7. Covington H.E., and Miczek K.A. Repeated social-defeat stress, cocaine or morphine: effects on behavioral sensitization and intravenous cocaine self-administration "binges". Psychopharmacology 158 (2001) 388-398
8. Crews F., He J., and Hodge C. Adolescent cortical development: a critical period of vulnerability for addiction. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 86 (2007) 189-199
9. De Vries T.J., Schoffelmeer A.N., Binnekade R., Mulder A.H., and Vanderschuren L.J.M.J. Drug-induced reinstatement of heroin- and cocaine-seeking behaviour following long-term extinction is associated with expression of behavioural sensitization. Eur J Neurosci 10 (1998) 3565-3571
10. Fitzgerald L.W., Ortiz J., Hamedani A.G., and Nesther E.J. Drugs of abuse and stress increased the expression of GluR1 and NMDAR1 glutamate receptor subunits in the rat ventral tegmental área: common adaptations among cross-sensitizing agents. J Neurosci 16 (1996) 274-282
11. Frantz K.J., O, Dell L.E., and Parsons L.H. Behavioral and neurochemical responses to cocaine in periadolescent and adult rats. Neuropsychopharmacology 32 (2007) 625-637
12. Hemby S.E., Horman B., and Tang W. Differential regulation of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits following cocaine self-administration. Brain Res 1064 (2005) 75-82
13. Henry D.J., and White F.J. The persistence of behavioral sensitization to cocaine parallels enhanced inhibition of nucleus accumbens neurons. J Neurosci 15 (1995) 6287-6299
14. Hope B.T., Crombag H.S., Jedynak J.P., and Wise R.A. Neuroadaptations of total levels of adenylate cyclase, protein kinase A, tyrosine hydroxylase, cdk5 and neurofilaments in the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area do not correlate with expression of sensitized or tolerant locomotor responses to cocaine. J Neurochem 92 (2005) 536-545
15. Hope B.T., Simmons D.E., Mitchell T.B., Kreuter J.D., and Mattson B.J. Cocaine-induced locomotor activity and Fos expression in nucleus accumbens are sensitized for 6 months after repeated cocaine administration outside the home cage. Eur J Neurosci 24 (2006) 867-875
16. Kalivas P.W., and Stewart J. Dopamine transmission in the initiation and expression of drug- and stress-induced sensitization of motor activity. Brain Res Rev 16 (1991) 223-244
17. Kalivas P.W., Pierce R.C., Cornish J., and Sorg B.A. A role for sensitization in craving and relapse in cocaine addiction. J Psychopharmacol 12 (1998) 49-53
18. Kelley A.E., Schochet T., and Landry C.F. Risk taking and novelty seeking in adolescence: introduction to part I. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1021 (2004) 27-32
19. Laviola A., Wood R.D., Kuhn C., Francis R., and Spear L.P. Cocaine sensitization in periadolescent and adult rats. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 275 (1995) 345-357
20. Lu W., and Wolf M.E. Repeated amphetamine administration alters AMPA receptor subunit expression in rat nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex. Synapse 32 (1999) 119-131
21. Lu L., Grimm J.W., Shaham Y., and Hope B. Molecular neuroadaptations in the accumbens and ventral tegmental area during the first 90 days of forced abstinence from cocaine self-administration. J Neurochem 85 (2003) 1604-1613
22. Marin M.T., and Planeta C.S. Maternal separation affects the cocaine-induced locomotion and response to novelty in adolescent but not in adult rats. Brain Res 1013 (2004) 83-90
23. Masserano J.M., Baker I., Natsukari N., and Wyatt R.J. Chronic cocaine administration increases tyrosine hydroxylase activity in the ventral tegmental area through glutaminergic- and dopaminergic D2-receptor mechanisms. Neurosci Lett 217 (1996) 73-76
24. McPherson C.S., and Lawrence A.J. Exposure to amphetamine in rats during periadolescence establishes behavioural and extrastriatal neural sensitization in adulthood. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 9 (2006) 377-392
25. Nestler E.J. Molecular basis of long-term plasticity underlying addiction. Nat Rev Neurosci 2 (2001) 119-128
26. Ozawa S., Kamiya H., and Tsuzuki K. Glutamate receptors in the mammalian central nervous system. Prog Neurobiol 54 (1998) 581-618
27. Paxinos G., and Watson C. The rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates (2005), Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego
28. Pierce R.C., Bell K., Duffy P., and Kalivas P.W. Repeated cocaine augments excitatory amino acid transmission in the nucleus accumbens only in rats having developed behavioral sensitization. J Neurosci 16 (1996) 1550-1560
29. Pierce R.C., Reeder D.C., Hicks J., Morgan Z.R., and Kalivas P.W. Ibotenic acid lesions of the dorsal prefrontal cortex disrupt the expression of behavioral sensitization to cocaine. Neuroscience 82 (1998) 1103-1114
30. Planeta C.S., and Marin M.T. Effects of cocaine in periadolescent rats with or without early maternal separation. Braz J Med Biol Res 35 (2002) 1367-1371
31. Robinson T.E., and Becker J.B. Enduring changes in brain and behavior produced by chronic amphetamine administration: a review and evaluation of animal models of amphetamine psychosis. Brain Res Rev 396 (1986) 157-198
32. Robinson T.E., and Berridge K.C. The neural basis of drug craving: an incentive-sensitization theory of addiction. Brain Res Rev 18 (1993) 247-291
33. Scheggi S., Mangiavacchi S., Mais F., Gambarana C., Tagliamonte A., and De Montis M.G. Dizocilpine infusion has a different effect in the development of morphine and cocaine sensitization: behavioral and neurochemical aspects. Neuroscience 109 (2002) 267-274
34. Schmidt E.F., Sutton M.A., Schad C.A., Karanjan D.A., Brodkin E.S., and Self D.W. Extinction training regulates tyrosine hydroxilase during withdraw from cocaine self-administration. J Neurosci 21 (2001) 1-5 RC
35. Sorg B.A., Chen S.Y., and Kalivas P.W. Time course of tyrosine hydroxylase expression after behavioral sensitization to cocaine. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 266 (1993) 424-430
36. Spear L.P. The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 24 (2000) 417-463
37. Sutton M.A., Schmidt E.F., Choi K.H., Schad C.A., Whisler K., Simmons D., Karanian D.A., Monteggia L.M., Neve R.L., and Self D.W. Extinction-induced upregulation in AMPA receptors reduces cocaine-seeking behaviour. Nature 421 (2003) 70-75
38. Tarazi F.I., Tomasini E.C., and Baldessarini R.J. Postnatal development of dopamine and serotonin transporters in rat caudate-putamen and nucleus accumbens septi. Neurosci Lett 254 (1998) 21-24
39. Teicher M.H., Andersen S.L., and Hostetter Jr. J.C. Evidence for dopamine receptor pruning between adolescence and adulthood in striatum but not nucleus accumbens. Dev Brain Res 89 (1995) 167-172
40. Todtenkopf M.S., De Leon K.R., and Stellar J.R. Repeated cocaine treatment alters tyrosine hydroxylase in the rat nucleus accumbens. Brain Res Bull 52 (2000) 407-411
41. Ujike H., and Sato M. Clinical features of sensitization to methamphetamine dependence and psychosis. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1025 (2004) 279-287
42. Ujike H., Tsuchida K., Akiyama K., Fujiwara Y., and Kuroda S. Ontogeny of behavioral sensitization to cocaine. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 50 (1995) 613-617
43. Ushijima I., Carino M.A., and Horita A. Involvement of D1 and D2 dopamine systems in the behavioral effects of cocaine in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 52 (1995) 737-741
44. Vanderschuren L.J.M.J., and Kalivas P.W. Alterations in dopaminergic and glutamatergic transmission in the induction and expression of behavioral sensitization: a critical review of preclinical studies. Psychopharmacology 151 (2000) 99-120
45. Vezina P. Sensitization of midbrain dopamine neuron reactivity and the self-administration of psychomotor stimulant drugs. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 27 (2004) 827-839
46. Zhang Y., Loonam T.M., Noailles P.A., and Angulo J.A. Comparison of cocaine- and methamphetamine-evoked dopamine and glutamate overflow in somatodendritic and terminal field regions of the rat brain during acute, chronic, and early withdrawal conditions. Ann N Y Acad Sci 937 (2001) 93-120