Alteração do comportamento maternal após injeção local de morfina na PAG rostral lateral de ratas lactantes / Maternal behavior disruption through morphine infusion in rostral lateral PAG of lactating rats

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2008

RESUMO

By using pharmacologycal approaches such as systemic injections of morphine, it has been possible to reveal the inhibitory influence of opioids on rat maternal behavior (MB). Also, it has been reported that central infusions of naloxone or CCK into the rostral lateral PAG restore maternal behavior in lactating rats treated with morphine. This research investigates possible interferences of morphine in MB, through central infusions of this drug in rPAGl of lactating rats. This is an efficient paradigm to provide pharmacological and neurophysiological cues in the functional neuroanatomy of maternal behavior. Stereotaxical procedures were used to place cannulas directed to the PAG area, inject morphine into the PAG and evaluate its behavioral effects. Lactating Wistar rats received central infusions of morphine and showed significant differences in the various parameters. Retrieval and nest building were disrupted. This treatment alters latencies of foraging and pup grooming as well. Thus, full maternal behavior (FMB) was inhibited in the opioidergic treatment. The results suggest an involvement of a PAG role in opioidergicmodulation in maternal behavior. This modulation is provided for rPAGl, which have many neuroanatomical relations with another brain sites. These data suggest a role for rPAGl in ongoing of maternal behavior, but not in reflex nurturance behaviors like kyphosis.

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animal maternal behavior amamentação comportamento materno (animal) morphine morfina periaqueductal gray bread feeding substância cinzenta periaquedutal neuroanatomy neuroanatomia

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