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| Reference : The psychostimulant and rewarding effects of cocaine in histidine decarboxylase knockout... |
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| Human health sciences : Psychiatry Human health sciences : Pharmacy, pharmacology & toxicology Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Neurosciences & behavior | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/1456 | |||
| The psychostimulant and rewarding effects of cocaine in histidine decarboxylase knockout mice do not support the hypothesis of an inhibitory function of histamine on reward | |
| English | |
Brabant, Christian  [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biochimie et physiologie humaine et pathologique >] | |
| Quertemont, Etienne [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychologie quantitative >] | |
| Anaclet, Christelle [Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 - UCLB > Département de Médecine Expérimentale > > >] | |
| Lin, Jian-Sheng [Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1 - UCLB > Département de Médecine Expérimentale > > >] | |
| Ohtsu, Hiroshi [Tohoku University > Department of Engineering > > >] | |
| Tirelli, Ezio [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences cognitives > Neuroscience comportementale et psychopharmacologie expér. >] | |
| 2007 | |
| Psychopharmacology | |
| Springer Verlag | |
| 190 | |
| 2 | |
| 251-263 | |
| International | |
| 0033-3158 | |
| Berlin | |
| Germany | |
| [en] cocaine ; histamine ; conditioned place preference ; locomotion ; knockout mouse ; reward | |
| [en] RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Lesion studies have shown that the tuberomammillary nucleus (TM) exerts inhibitory effects on the brain reward system. To determine whether histamine from the TM is involved in that reward inhibitory function, we assessed the stimulant and rewarding effects of cocaine in knockout mice lacking histidine decarboxylase (HDC KO mice), the histamine-synthesizing enzyme. If histamine actually plays an inhibitory role in reward, then it would be expected that mice lacking histamine would be more sensitive to the behavioral effects of cocaine. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The first experiment characterized spontaneous locomotion and cocaine-induced hyperactivity (0, 8, and 16 mg/kg, i.p.) in wild-type and HDC KO mice. The rewarding effects of cocaine were investigated in a second experiment with the place-conditioning technique. RESULTS: The first experiment demonstrated that histidine decarboxylase mice showed reduced exploratory behaviors but normal habituation to the test chambers. After habituation to the test chambers, HDC KO mice were slightly, but significantly, less stimulated by cocaine than control mice. This finding was replicated in the second experiment, when cocaine-induced activity was monitored with the place-conditioning apparatus. Furthermore, a significant place preference was present in both genotypes for 8 and 16 mg/kg cocaine, but not for 2 and 4 mg/kg. CONCLUSIONS: Our data confirm previous results demonstrating that HDC KO mice show reduced exploratory behaviors. However, contrary to the hypothesis that histamine plays an inhibitory role in reward, histamine-deficient mice were not more responsive to the psychostimulant effects of cocaine. | |
| Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales | |
| Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Communauté française de Belgique) - F.R.S.-FNRS | |
| Researchers ; Professionals | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/1456 | |
| 10.1007/s00213-006-0603-0 | |
| The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com |
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