title: Striatal c-fos levels do not correlate with haloperidol-induced behavioral supersensitivity.
abstract: Striatal c-fos levels and stereotyped behavior have been evaluated in chronically haloperidol-treated rats which received subsequent subacute dopamine (DA) agonist treatment to investigate the possible relationship between striatal c-fos and behavioral supersensitivity. Haloperidol treatment (1 mg/kg/day for 21 days) increased apomorphine-induced stereotypies but did not modify striatal c-fos levels. The subacute administration of the DA D-1 agonist SKF38393 (10 mg/kg/day for 5 days) and the combination of the D-1 agonist with the D-2 agonist quinpirole (1 mg/kg/day for 5 days) attenuated apomorphine-induced stereotypies after haloperidol pretreatment. The administration of quinpirole alone, however, did not modify the response to haloperidol. All DA agonists significantly increased c-fos levels after apomorphine injection. The dissociation between haloperidol-induced behavioral supersensitivity and striatal c-fos levels observed in this study suggests that mechanisms different from striatal c-fos induction might be involved, and that striatal c-fos levels are not a good marker of behavioral supersensitivity expression.
authors.affiliation: Department de Medicina, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marin
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonastre
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tolosa
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects*; D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000187:drug effects*; D018491:Dopamine Agonists / Q000494:pharmacology; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D018491:Dopamine Agonists; D016760:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos; D006220:Haloperidol