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  • Title: Site and mechanism of behavioral tolerance to cocaine: a study of dopamine release in Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats.
    Author: Yu ZJ, Jin C, Rockhold RW, Hoskins B, Ho IK.
    Journal: Neurochem Res; 1993 Nov; 18(11):1203-9. PubMed ID: 8255373.
    Abstract:
    Wistar-Kyoto and spontaneously hypertensive rats received i.v. infusions of cocaine hydrochloride (60 mg/kg per day) for 3, 7, and 14 days, or saline for 7 days. Acute cocaine challenge (40 mg/kg, s.c.) was given to treated and control rats 24 hr after the termination of each infusion period. There were no strain differences in brain levels of cocaine during cocaine infusion, nor after cocaine challenges. There were no strain differences in resting levels of [3H]dopamine release. Release of [3H]dopamine decreased in nuclei accumbens of 7- and 14-day cocaine-infused animals. Release of [3H]dopamine was maximal in both brain regions 2 hr after acute cocaine challenge. After 14 days of cocaine infusion, cocaine challenge in both strains reduced [3H]dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, but not in the striatum; the reduction being greater in Wistar-Kyoto rats. The behavioral tolerance which accompanies similar cocaine infusion regimens may be related to striatal "tolerance" to cocaine-induced dopamine release.
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