Acute administration of the selective D3 receptor antagonist SB-277011A blocks the acquisition and expression of the conditioned place preference response to heroin in male rats
Acute administration of the selective D3 receptor antagonist SB-277011A blocks the acquisition and expression of the conditioned place preference response to heroin in male rats
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10.1002/syn.10188
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发表时间:
2003-06-01
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2.3
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Hagan, JJ
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Ashby, CR;Paul, M;Hagan, JJ
Limbic brain areas, such as the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, are believed to play a role in mediating the action of addictive drugs (Gardner, 1997). Dopamine innervation of these limbic areas appears to be involved in the reward and/or incentive motivation produced by addictive drugs (Berridge and Robinson, 1998). Much work has been devoted to the role of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in mediating addictive drug action (Platt et al., 2002). However, less attention has been paid to the dopamine D3 receptor and addiction, despite significant D3 receptor presence in limbic brain loci implicated in addiction (Shafer and Levant, 1998). Moreover, the role of the D3 receptor in addiction remains largely undefined due to a lack of compounds with high selectivity for D3 compared to D2 and other neurotransmitter receptors. Recently, it has been reported that the compound SB-277011A is a potent, brain penetrant, and highly selective D3 receptor antagonist (Reavill et al., 2000; Stemp et al., 2000). SB-277011A has high affinity for both human and rat D3 receptors, with a 100–150-fold selectivity over D2 receptors and significant selectivity compared to 66 other receptors, enzymes, and ion channels (Reavill et al., 2000). We have previously shown that acute systemic administration of SB-277011A in male rats: 1) blocked cocaine’s enhancement of electrical brain-stimulation reward, 2) dose-dependently attenuated cocaine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP), and 3) dosedependently attenuated cocaine-triggered reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior (Vorel et al., 2002). Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that SB-277011A attenuates the secondary reinforcing properties of cocaine (DiCiano et al., 2002; Everitt et al., 2001) and cocaine-induced conditioned hyperactivity (LeFoll et al., 2002), suggesting that the D3 dopamine receptor plays a key role in mediating the control of drug-seeking behavior.In order to extend our previous CPP findings with SB-277011A to an addictive drug of the opiate class, the current study was undertaken to examine the effect of SB-277011A on the acquisition and expression of heroin-induced CPP response in male Sprague-Dawley rats.