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SYNAPSE
Volume 57, Issue 3, Pages 160-166Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20168
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mu-opioid receptor; escalating binge cocaine administration; withdrawal
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There is evidence showing that the opioid and adenosine systems play an important role in cocaine addiction; fewer studies have examined their roles in cocaine withdrawal. To determine whether cocaine and/or chronic withdrawal from cocaine alters the specific components of the opioid and adenosine systems, we carried out quantitative autoradiographic mapping of mu-opioid, A(1) and A(2A) adenosine receptors in the brains of rats treated with an escalating dose binge cocaine administration paradigm and of rats chronically withdrawn from cocaine. Male Fischer rats were injected with saline or cocaine (15 x 3 mg/kg/day for 4 days, 20 x 3 mg/kg/day for 4 days, 25 x 3 mg/kg/day for 4 days and 30 x 3 mg/kg/day for 2 days) at 1-h intervals for 14 days. Similarly treated rats were withdrawn from that paradigm for 14 days. A significant increase in [3 H]DAMGO binding to p-receptors was detected in the frontal and cingulate cortex, as well as in the caudate putamen, of long-term withdrawn rats after an escalating dose binge cocaine administration paradigm and in chronic cocaine-treated rats. No significant cocaine-induced change was found in A, or A2A receptor binding in any region analyzed. These results reconfirm that mu-opioid (MOP) receptors undergo upregulation in response to chronic escalating dose binge cocaine administration. This upregulation was shown for the first time to persist at least 14 days into withdrawal after escalating binge cocaine. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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