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  • Title: Reactivity to amphetamine in perinatally undernourished rats: behavioral and neurochemical correlates.
    Author: Brioni JD, Keller EA, Levin LE, Córdoba N, Orsingher OA.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1986 Mar; 24(3):449-54. PubMed ID: 3703881.
    Abstract:
    Adult rats deprived at perinatal age and then rehabilitated on balanced chow were treated with a multiple amphetamine (AMPH) schedule (2 mg/kg/48 hr) and submitted, on days of injections, to an open-field test. Throughout 11 sessions, deprived rats showed a progressive increase of locomotor activity as compared with controls. Stereotyped activity evaluated during the AMPH treatment did not differ between control and deprived animals. No differences were detected in basal values of the dopaminergic function measured in naive control and deprived animals. By the end of the multiple AMPH treatment, a reduction of striatal DA and DOPAC levels together with a lower apparent DA turnover rate was detected in deprived animals. Besides, DA receptor binding was significantly increased in striatum from deprived rats as compared with controls. These results demonstrate that a repeated AMPH treatment, that was unable to alter the normal behavior of control rats, produced in early undernourished animals a progressive sensitization to AMPH effects, in addition to significant changes in the striatal dopaminergic function.
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