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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
Volume 99, Issue 7, Pages 1885-1901Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24843
Keywords
brain slices; electrically stimulated; GABA‐ A and GABA‐ B receptors; rat model of schizophrenia; RRID; SCR_002798; RRID; SCR_002865; RRID; SCR_014468; RRID; SCR_018426; RRID; SCR_018460
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- Wellcome Trust
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Republic of Turkey Ministry of National Education Studentship
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Dysregulation of GABAergic control of dopamine function may be important in behavioral deficits in schizophrenia, and sustained disruption of GABA-B modulation of accumbal dopamine release can occur due to long-term functional changes.
Dopamine signaling in nucleus accumbens (NAc) is modulated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acting through GABA-A and GABA-B receptors: dysregulation of GABAergic control of dopamine function may be important in behavioral deficits in schizophrenia. We investigated the effect of GABA-A (muscimol) and GABA-B (baclofen) receptor agonists on electrically stimulated dopamine release. Furthermore, we explored whether drug-induced changes were disrupted by pretreatment with phencyclidine, which provides a well-validated model of schizophrenia. Using brain slices from female rats, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry was used to measure electrically stimulated dopamine release in NAc shell. Both muscimol and baclofen caused concentration-dependent attenuation of evoked dopamine release: neither effect was changed by dihydro-beta-erythroidine, a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist, or the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-type glutamate receptor antagonist, 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX), precluding indirect mechanisms using these transmitter systems in the GABAergic actions. In slices taken from rats pretreated with phencyclidine, the attenuation of evoked dopamine release by baclofen was abolished, but the attenuation by muscimol was unaffected. Since phencyclidine pretreatment was followed by drug-free washout period of at least a week, the drug was not present during recording. Therefore, disruption of GABA-B modulation of dopamine is due to long-term functional changes resulting from the treatment, rather than transient changes due to the drug's presence at test. This enduring dysregulation of GABA-B modulation of accumbal dopamine release provides a plausible mechanism through which GABA dysfunction influences accumbal dopamine leading to behavioral changes seen in schizophrenia and may provide a route for novel therapeutic strategies to treat the condition.
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