BIPHASIC EFFECTS OF INTRA-ACCUMBENS HISTAMINE ADMINISTRATION ON SPONTANEOUS MOTOR-ACTIVITY IN THE RAT - A ROLE FOR CENTRAL HISTAMINE-RECEPTORS
BIPHASIC EFFECTS OF INTRA-ACCUMBENS HISTAMINE ADMINISTRATION ON SPONTANEOUS MOTOR-ACTIVITY IN THE RAT - A ROLE FOR CENTRAL HISTAMINE-RECEPTORS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1476-5381.1988.tb11767.x
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发表时间:
1988-12-01
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
BENNETT, GW
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作者:
BRISTOW, LJ;BENNETT, GW
The effect of intra-accumbens injection of histamine and related compounds on the spontaneous motor activity of the rat has been investigated. Microinjections of histamine (1-200 .mu.g) induced dose-dependent, biphasic changes in rat activity consisting of an initial brief hypoactivity response followed by a marked hyperactivity phase. The histamine metabolite, n-tele-methylhistamine was without effect. Pretreatment with the H1-receptor antagonist mepyramine (10 .mu.g) blocked the hypoactivity response and markedly attentuated histamine-induced hyperactivity. In contrast, pretreatment with the H2-receptor antagonist SKF93479 had no effect on histamine-induced behavior. Microinjection of the H1-receptor agonist 2-thiazolylethylamine induced a marked hyperactivity response, but unlike the response to histamine, there was no initial hypoactivity. The H2-receptor agonist dimaprit had no apparent behavioral effects following intra-accumbens injection. Intra-accumbens injection of the non-selective histamine agonists n.alpha.-methylhistamine or n.alpha., n.alpha.-dimethylhistamine induced both marked hypoactivity and hyperactivity responses which were comparable with the effects of histamine. The present results demonstrate a histamine, H2-receptor-mediated arousal in the nucleus accumbens which follows transitory hypoactivity, possibly due to activation of presynaptic H3-receptors.