title: Spatial learning and morphine-rewarded place preference negatively correlates in mice.
abstract: Accumulating evidence has indicated that there might exist some correlation between opiate reward and certain kinds of learning and memory processes. The present study attempted to investigate the correlation between individual differences in morphine reward and capacities in spatial learning and spontaneous alternation. In the present studies, good-response (GR) and poor-response (PR) mice were respectively selected according to their performance in a spatial learning test involving the Morris water maze or in a spontaneous alternation task using the Y-maze. In a place preference conditioning procedure, morphine (3.0 mg/kg) produced significant conditioned place preference (CPP) in both GR and PR mice selected by using either the Morris water maze or the Y-maze. The PR mice selected with the Morris water maze showed significantly more CPP induced by morphine than the GR mice. However, no detectable difference was observed in morphine-induced CPP between the GR and PR mice selected with the Y-maze. These results suggested that the variation in morphine-induced CPP in mice is somehow differentially related to that of spatial learning but unlikely to that of spontaneous alternation.
authors.affiliation: Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue Yang Road, 200031, Shanghai, China.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pei
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000187:drug effects*; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D009020:Morphine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009294:Narcotics / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012201:Reward
chemical_list: D009294:Narcotics; D009020:Morphine