Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors enhance cocaine-induced locomotor activity and dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors enhance cocaine-induced locomotor activity and dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens
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DOI:
10.1016/s0028-3908(02)00381-7
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发表时间:
2003-03-01
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Cunningham, KA
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作者:
Bubar, MJ;McMahon, LR;Cunningham, KA
The role for serotonin (5-HT) in mediating the behavioral effects of cocaine may be related in part to the ability of 5-HT to modulate the function of the dopan-tine (DA) mesoaccumbens pathways. In the present study, the ability of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) fluoxetine (10 mg/kg, IP) and fluvoxamine (10 and 20 mg/kg, IP) to alter cocaine (10 mg/kg, IP)induced hyperactivity and DA release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) was analyzed in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Systemic administration of either fluoxetine or fluvoxamine enhanced cocaine-induced locomotor activity in a dose-dependent manner; fluoxetine (10 mg/kg, IP) also enhanced cocaine (10 mg/kg, IP)-induced DA efflux in the NAc. To test the hypothesis that the NAc serves as the locus of action underlying these effects following systemic cocaine administration, fluoxetine (1 and 3 mug/0.2 mul/side) or fluvoxamine (1 and 3 mug/0.2 mul/side) was microinfused into the NAc shell prior to systemic administration of cocaine (10 mg/kg, IP). Intra-NAc shell infusion of 3 mug of fluoxetine or fluvoxamine enhanced cocaine-induced hyperactivity, while infusion of fluoxetine (1 muM) through the microdialysis probe implanted into the NAc shell enhanced cocaine (10 mg/kg, IP)-induced DA efflux in the NAc. Thus, the ability of systemic injection of SSRIs to enhance cocaine-evoked hyperactivity and DA efflux in the NAc is mediated in part by local actions of the SSRIs in the NAc. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.