期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
卷 15, 期 9, 页码 1331-1342出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145711001581
关键词
Cannabinoid; COMT; HPLC analysis; prepulse inhibition; social behaviour; tolcapone
资金
- Science Foundation Ireland [07/IN.1/B960, 02/CE/B124, 07/CE/B1368]
- Health Research Board of Ireland [PD/2007/20]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) through the Irish Government's National Development Plan
- GlaxoSmithKline
- European Community's Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013, 201714]
- American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society (ANMS)
Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) is an important enzyme in the metabolism of dopamine and disturbance in dopamine function is proposed to be central to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. Clinical epidemiological studies have indicated cannabis use to confer a 2-fold increase in risk for subsequent onset of psychosis, with adolescent-onset use conveying even higher risk. There is evidence that a high activity COMT polymorphism moderates the effects of adolescent exposure to cannabis on risk for adult psychosis. In this paper we compared the effect of chronic adolescent exposure to the cannabinoid WIN 55212 on sensorimotor gating, behaviours related to the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, anxiety- and stress-related behaviours, as well as ex-vivo brain dopamine and serotonin levels, in COMT KO vs. wildtype (WT) mice. Additionally, we examined the effect of pretreatment with the COMT inhibitor tolcapone on acute effects of this cannabinoid on sensorimotor gating in C57BL/6 mice. COMT KO mice were shown to be more vulnerable than WT to the disruptive effects of adolescent cannabinoid treatment on prepulse inhibition (PPI). Acute pharmacological inhibition of COMT in C57BL/6 mice also modified acute cannabinoid effects on startle reactivity, as well as PPI, indicating that chronic and acute loss of COMT can produce dissociable effects on the behavioural effects of cannabinoids. COMT KO mice also demonstrated differential effects of adolescent cannabinoid administration on sociability and anxiety-related behaviour, both confirming and extending earlier reports of COMT x cannabinoid effects on the expression of schizophrenia-related endophenotypes.
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