PUBLICATION
Sensitization-dependent nicotine place preference in the adult zebrafish
- Authors
- Pisera-Fuster, A., Rocco, L., Faillace, M.P., Bernabeu, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190304-2
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 92: 457-469 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- Cocaine, Conditioned place preference, Dopamine neuron markers, Nicotine, Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, Sensitization, Zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
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- Conditioning, Classical/drug effects*
- Brain/metabolism
- Animals
- Receptors, Nicotinic/biosynthesis*
- Zebrafish Proteins/biosynthesis
- Homeodomain Proteins/biosynthesis
- Locomotion/drug effects
- Nicotine/pharmacology*
- Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase/biosynthesis
- Cocaine/pharmacology*
- Zebrafish*
- Central Nervous System Sensitization/drug effects*
- PubMed
- 30826460 Full text @ Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry
Citation
Pisera-Fuster, A., Rocco, L., Faillace, M.P., Bernabeu, R. (2019) Sensitization-dependent nicotine place preference in the adult zebrafish. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry. 92:457-469.
Abstract
Sensitization of motor activity is a behavioural test to evaluate the effects of psychostimulants. Conditioned place preference (CPP) is an associative learning procedure to examine the rewarding properties of drugs. We aimed to assess whether motor sensitization to drugs of abuse can make zebrafish more vulnerable to establishing drug-induced CPP. We first evaluated sensitization of locomotor activity of zebrafish to repeated administrations of nicotine and cocaine during 5 days and after 5 days of withdrawal. After withdrawal, when zebrafish were re-exposed to the same dose of nicotine or cocaine locomotor activity was increased by 103% and 166%, respectively. Different groups of zebrafish were sensitized to nicotine or cocaine and trained on a nicotine-CPP task the day after withdrawal. The nicotine dose selected for sensitization was not effective for developing CPP in naïve zebrafish whereas it elicited CPP in zebrafish that were previously sensitized to nicotine or cocaine. Levels of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor β2, α6 and α7 subunit, Pitx3, and tyrosine hydroxylase 1 (TH1) mRNAs were increased in the brain of nicotine- and cocaine-sensitized zebrafish. Nicotine-CPP performed with drug-sensitized zebrafish provoked further enhancements in the expression of α6 and α7 subunit, Pitx3, and TH1 mRNAs suggesting that the expression of these molecules in the reward pathway is involved in both processes. Our findings indicate that repeated exposures to low doses of drugs of abuse can increase subject's sensitivity to the rewarding properties of the same or different drugs. This further suggests that casual drug intake increases the probability of becoming addict.
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