title: Acute and chronic treatment with selective serotonin uptake inhibitors in mice: effects on nociceptive sensitivity and response to 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine.
abstract: The tail-flick and increasing temperature hot-plate tests were employed to study the effects of acute or chronic treatment with zimelidine, alaproclate or chlorimipramine on nociception and response to 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeODMT) in mice. A single dose of the serotonin (5-HT) uptake inhibitors produced antinociception in the hot-plate test but not in the tail-flick test. After chronic administration, reduced tail-flick latencies were demonstrated 24, 48, 72 and 144 h after withdrawal of zimelidine treatment, 48 h after withdrawal of alaproclate and 48 and 96 h after withdrawal of chlorimipramine treatment. The hot-plate response temperatures were slightly lowered after chronic zimelidine treatment but not after treatment with alaproclate or chlorimipramine. The response to 5-MeODMT was not altered by a single dose of the 5-HT uptake inhibitors, however, after withdrawal of chronic treatment this response was increased in the tail-flick test but not in the hot-plate test. It was concluded that acute and chronic treatment with 5-HT uptake inhibitors modulate nociception differently, and that chronic treatment induces supersensitivity of spinal postsynaptic 5-HT receptors. Different modulation of different 5-HT receptor subpopulations by these compounds may possibly contribute to the test-dependent results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Bergen, Årstadveien 19, N-5009 BergenNorway.
authors.forename: Per Kristian
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Eide
authors.forename: Kjell
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hole
mesh_terms: D000409:Alanine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active / Q000187:drug effects; D002997:Clomipramine / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D008732:Methoxydimethyltryptamines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D009619:Nociceptors / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D012701:Serotonin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015031:Zimeldine / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D008732:Methoxydimethyltryptamines; D011985:Receptors, Serotonin; D012702:Serotonin Antagonists; D012701:Serotonin; D015031:Zimeldine; C025293:alaproclate; D002997:Clomipramine; D000409:Alanine