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Enhancement of dopamine actions on rat nucleus accumbens neurones in vitro after methamphetamine pre-treatment.

 H Higashi, K Inanaga, S Nishi and N Uchimura

Department of Physiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.

1. Intracellular recordings were made from the nucleus accumbens neurons in brain slices from rats previously treated with saline or methamphetamine. 2. In neurones from both methamphetamine- and saline (control)-treated rats, dopamine (0.1 mM) produced three types of responses: a biphasic response consisting of an initial hyperpolarization followed by a depolarization, a monophasic hyperpolarization and a simple depolarization. 3. Haloperidol (1 microM) reversibly suppressed both responses to dopamine; (-)-sulpiride (1 microM) selectively abolished the depolarization and prolonged the hyperpolarization. Forskolin (10 microM) and dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (1 mM) mimicked the hyperpolarization. Both of the latter two substances were more effective in neurones from methamphetamine-treated rats than in neurones from control rats. 4. In slices from methamphetamine-treated rats, the dose-response curve for the dopamine hyperpolarization was shifted to the left of that seen in neurones from control rats by a factor of approximately 100. The dose-response curve for the dopamine depolarization was shifted to the right about 10-fold in neurones from rats treated with methamphetamine. 5. In slices from control rats, dopamine (less than or equal to 0.1 mM) and methamphetamine (less than or equal to 1 microM) had no effect on the EPSPs evoked by focal electrical stimulation of the periaccumbens regions: dopamine (greater than or equal to 10 nM) and methamphetamine (1 microM) markedly depressed the EPSPs in slices from methamphetamine-treated rats. Depolarizations evoked by application of exogenous glutamate were unaffected by dopamine (less than 5 microM). 6. In slices from methamphetamine-treated rats, dopamine (greater than or equal to 10 nM), forskolin (greater than or equal to 1 microM) and dibutyryl adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (1 mM) depressed Ca2+-dependent spikes as well as the EPSPs. Haloperidol (1 microM) completely reversed the depressions of the EPSPs and Ca2+-dependent spikes by dopamine, while (-)-sulpiride (1 microM) was only partially effective. 7. These results indicate that chronic methamphetamine administration leads to enhancement of the actions of dopamine at D1 receptors located on glutamate and/or aspartate nerve terminals and of the dopamine hyperpolarization of principal neurones, which is also mediated by D1 receptors.




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