Lever pressing responses under a fixed-ratio schedule of mice with 6-hydroxydopamine-induced dopamine depletion in the nucleus accumbens

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-66

  Tsutsui, Yuji ^a   Nishizawa, Kayo ^b   Kai, Nobuyuki ^b   Kobayashi, Kazuto ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

6 Hydroxydopamine; Dopamine; Fixed ratio schedule; Lever pressing responses; Mice; Nucleus accumbens; Operant learning

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; DOPAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FOOD INTAKE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; EATING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXIDOPAMINE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 78049464520     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Aberman J.E., Salamone J.D. Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions make rats more sensitive to high ratio requirements but do not impair primary food reinforcement. Neuroscience 1999, 92:545-552.
2. Adriani W., Boyer F., Gioiosa L., Macri S., Dreyer J.L., Laviola G. Increased impulsive behavior and risk proneness following lentivirus-mediated dopamine transporter over-expression in rats' nucleus accumbens. Neuroscience 2009, 159:47-58.
3. Bensadoun J.C., Mirochnitchenko O., Inouye M., Aebischer P., Zum A.D. Attenuation of 6-OHDA-induced neurotoxicity in alutathione peroxidase transgenic mice. Eur J Neurosci 1998, 10:3231-3236.
4. Caine S.B., Koob G.F. Effects of mesolimbic dopamine depletion on responding maintained by cocaine and food. J Exp Anal Behav 1994, 61:213-222.
5. Cardinal R.N., Pennicott D.R., Sugathapala C.L., Robbins T.W., Everitt B.J. Impulsive choice induced in rats by lesions of the nucleus accumbens core. Science 2001, 292:2499-2501.
6. Christakou A., Robbins T.W., Everitt B.J. Prefrontal cortical-ventral striatal interactions involved in affective modulation of attentional performance: implications for corticostriatal circuit function. J Neurosci 2004, 24:773-780.
7. Cousins M.S., Sokolowski J.D., Salamone J.D. Different effects of nucleus accumbens and ventrolateral striatal dopamine depletions on instrumental response selection in the rat. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1993, 46:943-951.
8. Cousins M.S., Trevitt J., Atherton A., Salamone J.D. Different behavioral functions of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and ventrolateral striatum: a microdialysis and behavioral investigation. Neuroscience 1999, 91:925-934.
9. Correa M., Carlson B.B., Wisniecki A., Salamone J.D. Nucleus accumbens dopamine and work requirements on interval schedules. Behav Brain Res 2002, 137:179-187.
10. Diergaarde L., Pattij T., Poortvliet I., Hogenboom F., de Vries W., Schoffelmeer A.N.M., et al. Impulsive choice and impulsive action predict vulnerability to distinct stages of nicotine seeking in rats. Biol Psychiatry 2008, 63:301-308.
11. Franklin K.B.J., Paxinos G. The mouse brain in stereotaxic coordinates: compact 2008, Academic Press, San Diego, 256 pp. 3rd ed.
12. Hernandez L., Hoebel B.G. Food reward and cocaine increase extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens as measured by microdialysis. Life Sci 1988, 42:1705-1712.
13. Jongen-Rêlo A.L., Kaufmann S., Feldon J. A differential involvement of the shell and core subterritories of the nucleus accumbens of rats in memory processes. Behav Neurosci 2002, 117:150-168.
14. Kodsi M.H., Swerdlow N.R. Quinolinic acid lesions of the ventral striatum reduce sensorimotor gating of acoustic startle in rats. Brain Res 1994, 643:59-65.
15. Koob G.F., Riley S.J., Smith S.C., Robbins T.W. Effects of 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the nucleus accumbens septi and olfactory tubercle on feeding, locomotor activity, and amphetamine anorexia in the rat. J Comp Physiol Psychol 1978, 92:917-927.
16. McCullough L.D., Cousins M.S., Salamone J.D. The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in responding on a continuous reinforcement operant schedule: a neurochemical and behavioral study. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1993, 46:581-586.
17. McKerchar T.L., Zarcone T.J., Fowler S.C. Differential acquisition of lever pressing in inbred and outbred mice: comparison of one-lever and two-lever procedures and correlation with differences in locomotor activity. J Exp Anal Behav 2005, 84:339-356.
18. Messier C., Mrabet O., Destrade C. Locomotor bias produced by intra-accumbens injection of dopamine agonists and antagonists. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1992, 41:177-182.
19. Mingote S., Weber S.M., Ishiwari K., Correa M., Salamone J.D. Ratio and time requirements on operant schedules: effort-related effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions. Eur J Neurosci 2005, 21:1749-1757.
20. Nakazawa K., Quirk M.C., Chitwood R.A., Watanabe M., Yeckel M.F., Sun L.D., et al. Requirement for hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors in associative memory recall. Science 2002, 297:211-218.
21. Pezze M.A., Dalley J.W., Robbins T.W. Differential roles of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens in attentional performance on the five-choice serial reaction time task. Neuropsychopharmacology 2007, 32:273-283.
22. Robbins T.W. The 5-choice serial reaction time task: behavioural pharmacology and functional neurochemistry. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2002, 163:362-380.
23. Salamone J.D., Aberman J.E., Sokolowski J.D., Cousins M.S. Nucleus accumbens dopamine and rate of responding: Neurochemical and behavioral studies. Psychobiology 1999, 27:236-247.
24. Salamone J.D., Kurth P., McCullough L.D., Sokolowski J.D. The effects of nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions on continuously reinforced operant responding: contrasts with the effects of extinction. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1995, 50:437-443.
25. Salamone J.D., Kurth P.A., McCullough L.D., Sokolowski J.D., Cousins M.S. The role of brain dopamine in response initiation: effects of haloperidol and regionally specific dopamine depletions on the local rate of instrumental responding. Brain Res 1993, 628:218-226.
26. Salamone J.D., Steinpreis R.E., McCullough L.D., Smith P., Grebel D., Mahan K. Haloperidol and nucleus accumbens dopamine depletion suppress lever pressing for food but increase free food consumption in a novel food choice procedure. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1991, 104:515-521.
27. Salamone J.D., Wisniecki A., Carlson B.B., Correa M. Nucleus accumbens dopamine depletions make animals highly sensitive to high fixed ratio requirements but do not impair primary food reinforcement. Neuroscience 2001, 105:863-870.
28. Smith G.P. Dopamine and food reward. Prog Psychobiol Physiol Psychol 1995, 16:83-144.
29. Sokolowski J.D., Salamone J.D. The role of accumbens dopamine in lever pressing and response allocation: effects of 6-OHDA injected into core and dorsomedial shell. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1998, 59:557-566.
30. Tai C.T., Cassaday H.J., Feldon J., Rawlins J.N. Both electrolytic and excitotoxic lesions of nucleus accumbens disrupt latent inhibition of learning in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 1995, 64:36-48.
31. Verdejo-García A., Bechara A., Recknor E.C., Pérez-García M. Negative emotion-driven impulsivity predicts substance dependence problems. Drug Alcohol Depend 2007, 91:213-219.
32. Wise R.A., Rompré P.P. Brain dopamine and reward. Annu Rev Psychol 1989, 40:191-225.
33. Wise R.A., Spindler J., De Witt H., Gerber G.J. Neurolepticinduced " anhedonia" in rats: Pimozide blocks reward quality of food. Science 1978, 201:262-264.