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Effects of Dopamine D(2)-like Receptor Agonists in Mice Trained to Discriminate Cocaine From Saline: Influence of Feeding Condition

Effects of Dopamine D(2)-like Receptor Agonists in Mice Trained to Discriminate Cocaine From Saline: Influence of Feeding Condition

Gregory T Collins, Jonathan A Jackson, Wouter Koek, Charles P France

Eur J Pharmacol. 2014 Apr 15;729:123-31.

PMID: 24561049

Abstract:

In rats, the discriminative stimulus effects of direct- and indirect-acting dopamine receptor agonists are mediated by multiple dopamine receptor subtypes and the relative contribution of dopamine D2 and D3 receptors to these effects varies as a function of feeding condition. In these studies, free-fed and food-restricted mice were trained to discriminate 10.0mg/kg cocaine using a two-lever discrimination procedure in which responding was maintained by food. Both groups of mice acquired the discrimination; however, free-fed mice responded at lower rates than food-restricted mice. Dopamine D3 receptor agonists, pramipexole and quinpirole, increased cocaine-appropriate responding (>85%) in food-restricted, but not in free-fed mice. The dopamine D2 receptor agonist, sumanirole, and the nonselective dopamine receptor agonist, apomorphine, failed to increase cocaine-appropriate responding in either group. Free-fed mice were more sensitive than food-restricted mice to the rate-decreasing effects of dopamine receptor agonists and these effects could not be overcome by increasing the magnitude of reinforcement. Because feeding condition did not alter quinpirole-induced hypothermia, it is unlikely that differences in the discriminative stimulus or rate-decreasing effects of dopamine D2-like receptor agonists were due to differences in the pharmacokinetic properties of the drugs. Although these results suggest that the discriminative stimulus effects of cocaine are mediated by both dopamine D2 and D3 receptors in food-restricted mice, the increased sensitivity of free-fed mice to the rate-decreasing effects of dopamine D2-like receptor agonists limited conclusions about the impact of feeding conditions on the relative contribution of dopamine D2 and D3 receptors to the discriminative stimulus effects of cocaine.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP179386448	Sumanirole maleate		179386-44-8	Price
AP73625624	(±)-Quinpirole dihydrochloride		73625-62-4	Price

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