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A Conditioned Place Preference Protocol for Measuring Incubation of Craving in Rats
Published on: November 6, 2018
dextro-Morphine attenuates the morphine-produced conditioned place preference via the sigma(1) receptor activation in
Hsiang-en Wu1, Emma T Schwasinger, Maia Terashvili
1Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA.
Abstract:
An unbiased conditioned place preference paradigm was used to evaluate the effect of dextro-morphine on the morphine-produced reward in male CD rats. Morphine sulfate (1-10 mg/kg) given intraperitoneally dose-dependently produced the conditioned place preference. Pretreatment with dextro-morphine at a dose from 0.1 to 3 microg/kg given subcutaneously dose-dependently attenuated the morphine-produced conditioned place preference. However, dextro-morphine at a higher dose 100 microg/kg did not affect the morphine-produced conditioned place preference. Thus, dextro-morphine pretreatment induces a U-shaped dose-response curve for attenuating the morphine-produced conditioned place preference. The attenuation of the morphine-produced conditioned place preference was reversed by the pretreatment with the sigma(1) receptor antagonist BD1047 (N-[2-(3,4-Dichlorophenyl)ethyl]-N-methyl-2-(dimethylamino)ethylamine dihydrobromide. dextro-Morphine or BD1047 given alone did not affect the baseline place conditioning. It is concluded that dextro-morphine attenuated the morphine-produced conditioned place preference via the sigma(1) receptor activation.
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