title: Enhancement of dopamine actions on rat nucleus accumbens neurones in vitro after methamphetamine pre-treatment.
abstract: 1. Intracellular recordings were made from the nucleus accumbens neurons in brain slices from rats previously treated with saline or methamphetamine. 2. In neurones from both methamphetamine- and saline (control)-treated rats, dopamine (0.1 mM) produced three types of responses: a biphasic response consisting of an initial hyperpolarization followed by a depolarization, a monophasic hyperpolarization and a simple depolarization. 3. Haloperidol (1 microM) reversibly suppressed both responses to dopamine; (-)-sulpiride (1 microM) selectively abolished the depolarization and prolonged the hyperpolarization. Forskolin (10 microM) and dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (1 mM) mimicked the hyperpolarization. Both of the latter two substances were more effective in neurones from methamphetamine-treated rats than in neurones from control rats. 4. In slices from methamphetamine-treated rats, the dose-response curve for the dopamine hyperpolarization was shifted to the left of that seen in neurones from control rats by a factor of approximately 100. The dose-response curve for the dopamine depolarization was shifted to the right about 10-fold in neurones from rats treated with methamphetamine. 5. In slices from control rats, dopamine (less than or equal to 0.1 mM) and methamphetamine (less than or equal to 1 microM) had no effect on the EPSPs evoked by focal electrical stimulation of the periaccumbens regions: dopamine (greater than or equal to 10 nM) and methamphetamine (1 microM) markedly depressed the EPSPs in slices from methamphetamine-treated rats. Depolarizations evoked by application of exogenous glutamate were unaffected by dopamine (less than 5 microM). 6. In slices from methamphetamine-treated rats, dopamine (greater than or equal to 10 nM), forskolin (greater than or equal to 1 microM) and dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (1 mM) depressed Ca2+-dependent spikes as well as the EPSPs. Haloperidol (1 microM) completely reversed the depressions of the EPSPs and Ca2+-dependent spikes by dopamine, while (-)-sulpiride (1 microM) was only partially effective. 7. These results indicate that chronic methamphetamine administration leads to enhancement of the actions of dopamine at D1 receptors located on glutamate and/or aspartate nerve terminals and of the dopamine hyperpolarization of principal neurones, which is also mediated by D1 receptors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Higashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inanaga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Uchimura
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D000818:Animals; D003994:Bucladesine / Q000494:pharmacology; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology; D005576:Colforsin / Q000494:pharmacology; D004298:Dopamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000494:pharmacology; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008297:Male; D008564:Membrane Potentials / Q000187:drug effects; D008694:Methamphetamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D011954:Receptors, Dopamine / Q000502:physiology; D012686:Septal Nuclei / Q000502:physiology*; D013469:Sulpiride / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D011954:Receptors, Dopamine; D005576:Colforsin; D008694:Methamphetamine; D003994:Bucladesine; D013469:Sulpiride; D006220:Haloperidol; D002118:Calcium; D004298:Dopamine