A single cocaine exposure enhances both opioid reward and aversion through a ventral tegmental area-dependent mechanism
AUTOR(ES)
Kim, Joseph A.
FONTE
National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Repeated exposure to drugs of abuse produces forms of experience-dependent plasticity including behavioral sensitization. Although a single exposure to many addicting substances elicits locomotor sensitization, there is little information regarding the motivational effects of such single exposures. This study demonstrates that a single cocaine exposure enhances both rewarding and aversive forms of opioid place conditioning. Rats were given a single injection of cocaine (15 mg/kg i.p.) in their home cage at different times before conditioning. This treatment enhanced conditioned place preference (CPP) to morphine (2 × 10 mg/kg s.c.) if training began 1 or 5 but not 10 days after the cocaine injection. A single cocaine exposure also enhanced conditioned place aversion (CPA) to the κ-opioid receptor agonist U69593 (2 × 0.16 mg/kg s.c.). Compared to morphine CPP, U69593 CPA was delayed and persistent. It was not observed at 1 day but appeared if the conditioning began 5 or 10 days after the cocaine injection. Although the cocaine-induced enhancements of both morphine CPP and U69593 CPA followed different time courses, suggesting different mechanisms, both effects were blocked by injection of the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist MK-801 (0.5 nmol bilaterally) into the ventral tegmental area, immediately before the cocaine injection. Thus, through a circuit involving the ventral tegmental area, a single cocaine exposure enhanced both μ-opioid receptor reward and κ-opioid receptor aversion.
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