Hyperactivity response to apomorphine and amphetamine in the mouse: the importance of the nucleus accumbens and caudate‐putamen
Hyperactivity response to apomorphine and amphetamine in the mouse: the importance of the nucleus accumbens and caudate‐putamen
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小鼠对阿扑吗啡和安非他明的过度活跃反应:伏隔核和尾壳核的重要性
DOI:
10.1111/j.2042-7158.1979.tb13494.x
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发表时间:
1979
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
V. Nohria
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作者:
Brenda Costaix;R. Naylor;V. Nohria
A disadvantage to the use of locomotor hyperactivity responses in normal animals (such as those measured in photocell cages or in activity wheels) as tests for the specific locomotor depressant actions of neuroleptic agents is their general failure to detect atypical neuroleptics such as sulpiride. Interest has, therefore, focused on a hyperactivity response in the mouse to apomorphine which will detect sulpiride and similar agents and allow the elimination of non-neuroleptic agents such as metoclopramide by simple drug interactions (protais et al 1976; Costall et a1 1978). Of two brain regions known to be important for motor control, the nucleus accumbens and striatum (see review by Costall & Naylor 1977), the striatum, rather than the nucleus accumbens, has been indicated by brain lesion studies to be the site at which apomorphine can induce the hyperactivity response, which has been quantified as a climbing behaviour (Protais et a1 1976). However, it is difficult to reconcile this finding with the novelty of climbing behaviour to ‘detect’the actions of sulpiride and other atypical agents since changes in the mesolimbic regions such as the nucleus accumbens are now considered to be at least as important as changes in striatal function for the neuroleptic effect (Costall & Naylor 1976; Waldmeier & Maitre 1976; Elliott et a1 1977). This has been exemplified by studies on circling behaviour, which can be modulated by neuroleptic agents, showing that whilst striatal damage may cause asymmetry, it is the nucleus accumbens which can provide a component of motor drive (Pycock & Marsden 1978). Therefore, the present studies were designed to re-evaluate the importance of the nucleus accumbens and striatum for the induction of climbing behaviour induced by apomorphine in the mouse. Comparisons were made with amphetamine-induced hyperactivity since apomorphine failed to induce a locomotor hyperactivity, expressed in a form other than climbing, in the strain of mouse used. Amphetamine was also selected on the basis of its ability to cause hyperactivity via the mesolimbic areas (Costall & Naylor 1977).The studies used male albino mice, BKW strain, 25-30 g at the beginning of an experiment or 35-40 g at the time of operation. Stereotaxic surgery was carried out using a Kopf stereotaxic instrument and bars and incisor bar (raised 2.0 mm above the inter-aural line) supplied for the rat. Mice were anaesthetized with chloral hydrate, 450 mg kg-* ip, and eletrolesions were induced in the caudate-putamen using a stainless steel electrode (0.65 mm diam.) Insulated except at the tip, and passing 1.5 mA for* Correspondence.