Amphetamine-induced effects on neuropeptide Y in the rat brain.
Journal Title: Pharmacological Reports - Year 2005, Vol 57, Issue 3
Abstract
Repeated (+)-amphetamine sulfate (AMPH) administration (5 mg/kg sc twicedaily for 6 days and once on day 7) markedly and reversibly decreased (until 96 h after the final dose)neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactivity (NPY-LI) in the rat striatum (caudate-putamen) and nucleus accumbens,and had no effect on NPY-LI in the hippocampus. No significant alterations were detected in the hybridizationsignal of NPY mRNA4 and 24 h after the end of AMPH treatment. A single dose of AMPH (5 mg/kg sc) administeredto rats 4 and 24 h prior to sacrifice had no effect on NPY-LI in the brain structures studied. Moreover,AMPH injected 8 days after the last dose of repeated AMPH administration did not change NPY-LI up to72 h. The minimal dose of haloperidol, the strong mixed dopaminergic D(2)/D(1) receptor antagonist, (0.75mg/kg injected ip 30 min before each of the multiple AMPH administrations) that was sufficient to completelyblock stereotypy and hyperlocomotion elicited by multiple AMPH administrations enhanced the AMPH-induceddecrease in the striatal and accumbens NPY-LI. Our results suggest that NPY neurons in the striatum,nucleus accumbens and hippocampus are not directly involved in the acute behavioral response to AMPH(stereotypy and hyperlocomotion) as well as in the initiation and expression of AMPH-induced behavioralsensitization.
Authors and Affiliations
Ewa Obuchowicz, Jadwiga Turchan, Ryszard Przewłocki, Zbigniew Herman
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