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NEUROPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 198, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108764
Keywords
Reward; Orexin-1 receptors; Medial prefrontal cortex; Morphine; Food; Conditioned place preference; Rat
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- Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran [1398/9823]
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The study demonstrated that Orx1Rs in the mPFC regulate the reward-related effects of morphine- and food-induced reward behaviors.
Self-control problems are a typical character of drug addiction and excessive food consumption and it has been shown that natural rewards and drugs of abuse share parts of the same neural substrate and reward processing in the brain. Different brain areas are involved in natural and drug reward processing including the mesolimbic pathway, amygdala, nucleus accumbens (NAc), and prefrontal cortex. Considering the important role of orexins in the addictive behavior and the presence of orexin-1 subtype receptors (Orx1R) in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), this study investigated the role of mPFC in natural- and drug-reward seeking behaviors to deepen our understanding of possible similarities or differences. To induce food- or morphine-conditioned place preference (CPP), adult male Wistar rats underwent CPP testing and received intra-mPFC doses of SB334867 (3, 10, or 30 nM/0.5 mu l DMSO 12%), as an Orx1R antagonist, during the acquisition or expression phases of the CPP test. Results indicated that microinjection of Orx1R antagonist into the mPFC had similar effects on both morphineand food-induced CPP and attenuated CPP scores in the acquisition and expression phases of the CPP test. The data demonstrated that Orx1Rs in the mPFC regulate the reward-related effects of morphine- and food-induced reward.
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