L-Methamphetamine and selective MAO inhibitors decrease morphine-reinforced and non-reinforced behavior in rats; Insights towards selegiline's mechanism of action
L-Methamphetamine and selective MAO inhibitors decrease morphine-reinforced and non-reinforced behavior in rats; Insights towards selegiline's mechanism of action
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DOI:
10.1016/j.pbb.2006.10.022
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发表时间:
2006-12-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Grasing, Kenneth
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作者:
He, Shuangteng;Grasing, Kenneth
Selegiline is an inhibitor of type B monoamine oxidase (MAO) with psychostimulant effects that can decrease morphine-rein forced and non-reinforced responding. The present study was undertaken to compare the effects of MAO inhibition and treatment with L-methamphetamine, the major psychostimulant metabolite of selegiline, on these behaviors. After rats acquired a stable pattern of morphine self-administration under a progressive ratio schedule, chronic treatment was initiated with vehicle, L-methamphetamine, clorgyline (a selective inhibitor of MAO-A), or rasagiline (a selective inhibitor of MAO-B); with both MAO inhibitors administered at a dose selective for one MAO isoform and a higher dose that inhibited both isoforms. Rats were evaluated for up to four cycles of opiate dependence maintained by morphine self-administration and withdrawal during, which extinction responding was recorded. Most behavioral measures (92.4%) did not differ in animals evaluated during an initial and subsequent cycles of dependence and withdrawal. All active treatments attenuated non-reinforced responding during extinction. Morphine reinforcement was also decreased by each of the three active treatments, but greater and more prolonged effects were observed following inhibition of MAO-B with rasagiline. Responding during either cue- or morphine-induced reinstatement was attenuated by either clorgyline or rasagiline administered at nonselective doses, but not by either compound administered at selective dose levels. Treatment with L-methamphetamine did not produce sigificant effects on cue-induced reinstatement, but decreased non-reinforced responding during morphine-induced reinstatement. These findings indicate that morphine reinforcement and different non-reinforced behaviors differ greatly in their susceptibility to modification by psychostimulant treatment or MAO inhibition. Published by Elsevier Inc.