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  • Title: Behavioral sensitization to methamphetamine in the rat: an ontogenic study.
    Author: Fujiwara Y, Kazahaya Y, Nakashima M, Sato M, Otsuki S.
    Journal: Psychopharmacology (Berl); 1987; 91(3):316-9. PubMed ID: 3104953.
    Abstract:
    The behavioral effect of repeated methamphetamine (MAP) treatment was observed in young rat to establish the ontogenetic period crucial to methamphetamine sensitization. Animals were treated with MAP (2 mg/kg, SC) once daily for 5 days (Group 1: postnatal days 2-6, G-2: 7-11, G-3: 12-16, G-4: 17-21, G-5: 22-26, G-6: 27-31). Control animals were similarly treated with an equal volume of saline. On the 35th postnatal day, all rats were challenged with MAP (2 mg/kg, IP). Behavioral sensitization to MAP was not found in G-1, G-2, G-3 or G-4, although responsiveness to MAP was observed in rats after the 2nd postnatal day. The animals in G-5 and G-6 showed hypersensitivity to MAP in locomotor activity and stereotyped behavior. These findings indicate that the period crucial to behavioral sensitization to MAP corresponds to the period of presynaptic dopamine autoreceptor formation in the rat brain.
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