Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4329908 | Brain Research | 2008 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Repeated low-dose morphine treatment facilitates delayed-escape behaviour of hippocampus-dependent Morris water maze and morphine withdrawal influences hippocampal NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity. Here, we examined whether and how morphine withdrawal influenced delayed-escape behaviour and NR2A/2B expression ratio of hippocampal synaptosomes. We found that both delayed-escape behaviour and NR2A/2B expression ratio showed an inverted-U curve and peaked on 4-day withdrawal during a 20-day withdrawal period. Furthermore, treatment of the glucocorticoid receptor antagonist RU38486 for 3Â days reduced delayed-escape behaviour and NR2A/2B ratio on 4-day withdrawal to a level similar to those of 18-h withdrawal. In contrast, elevated-platform stress enabled delayed-escape behaviour of 18-h withdrawal to a higher level similar to that of 4-day withdrawal, but had no significant effect on the NR2A/2B ratio. Similar behavioural effects were also found after intrahippocampal infusions of the NMDAR antagonist AP-5 or NR2B-containing NMDAR antagonist Ro25-6981 for 3Â days. These findings suggest that delayed-escape behaviour enabled by repeated low-dose morphine treatment may be a useful and simple rat model for studying addictive memories to be retrieved by stress exposure.
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Zhifang Dong, Weixia Zhong, Meng Tian, Huili Han, Rongrong Mao, Jun Cao, Nan Sui, Tianle Xu, Jianhong Luo, Lin Xu,