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  • Title: Naloxone reduces amphetamine-induced stimulation of locomotor activity and in vivo dopamine release in the striatum and nucleus accumbens.
    Author: Hooks MS, Jones DN, Justice JB, Holtzman SG.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1992 Aug; 42(4):765-70. PubMed ID: 1513859.
    Abstract:
    This study tested the possibility that naloxone (NX), an opioid antagonist, reduces the behavioral effects of amphetamine (AMPH) in rats by attenuating the dopaminergic response to AMPH. In the first experiment, adult, male rats were injected SC with either NX (5.0 mg/kg) or saline and 30 min later received doses of AMPH (0.0, 0.1, 0.4, 1.6, and 6.4 mg/kg) cumulatively at 30-min intervals. Gross locomotor counts following AMPH administration were significantly lower for rats pretreated with NX than for rats pretreated with saline. In the second experiment, the same drug treatments were given while performing microdialysis in either the striatum (STR) or nucleus accumbens (NACC). STR rats treated with vehicle showed a larger percentage increase in DA levels following AMPH treatment than did NACC rats treated with vehicle. NX pretreatment did not affect dopamine concentrations in either brain region. However, compared to pretreatment with saline pretreatment with NX significantly decreased the dopaminergic response to AMPH in the STR. There was no difference between the two groups in the peak dopaminergic response to AMPH in the NACC, but there was a significant AMPH x treatment x time interaction due to differences between the groups during the later portion of the response to 6.4 mg/kg AMPH. There was also a difference in locomotor activity following AMPH treatment between NX- and saline-treated subjects during dialysis. These findings suggest that a decrease in the dopaminergic response to AMPH is the mechanism by which NX attenuates behavioral stimulant effects of AMPH. In addition, there is a difference between the STR and NACC in dopaminergic responsiveness to AMPH.
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