Lack of self-administration of cocaine in dopamine D1 receptor knock-out mice
Lack of self-administration of cocaine in dopamine D1 receptor knock-out mice
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DOI:
10.1523/jneurosci.2284-07.2007
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发表时间:
2007-11-28
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Xu, Ming
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作者:
Caine, S. Barak;Thomsen, Morgane;Xu, Ming
Evidence suggests a critical role for dopamine in the reinforcing effects of cocaine in rats and primates. However, self- administration has been less often studied in the mouse species, and, to date, "knock-out" of individual dopamine- related genes in mice has not been reported to reduce the reinforcing effects of cocaine. We studied the dopamine D-1 receptor and cocaine self-administration in mice using a combination of gene- targeted mutation and pharmacological tools. Two cohorts with varied breeding and experimental histories were tested, and, in both cohorts, there was a significant decrease in the number of D-1 receptor knock- out mice that met criteria for acquisition of cocaine self- administration ( 2 of 23) relative to wild- type mice ( 27 of 32). After extinction of responding with saline self-administration, dose - response studies showed that cocaine reliably and dose dependently maintained responding greater than saline in all wild- type mice but in none of the D-1 receptor knock- out mice. The D-1-like agonist SKF 82958 (2,3,4,5,-tetrahydro-6-chloro-7,8-dihydroxy- 1-phenyl-1H-3-benzazepine hydrobromide) and the D-2-like agonist quinelorane both functioned as positive reinforcers in wild-type mice but not in D-1 receptor mutant mice, whereas food and intravenous injections of the opioid agonist remifentanil functioned as positive reinforcers in both genotypes. Finally, pretreatment with the D-1- like antagonist SCH 23390 [R-(+)-8-chloro-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro- 3-methyl-5-phenyl-1H-3-benzazepine-7- 01] produced surmountable antagonism of the reinforcing effects of cocaine in the commonly used strain C57BL/ 6J. We conclude that D-1 receptor knock- out mice do not reliably self- administer cocaine and that the D-1 receptor is critical for the reinforcing effects of cocaine and other dopamine agonists, but not food or opioids, in mice.