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	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Human health sciences : Psychiatry Human health sciences : Pharmacy, pharmacology & toxicology Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Neurosciences & behavior
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Title :	Evidence that the relations between novelty-induced activity, locomotor stimulation and place preference induced by cocaine qualitatively depend upon the dose: A multiple regression analysis in inbred C57BL/6J mice
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	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 >]
	Tirelli, Ezio [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences cognitives > Neuroscience comportementale et psychopharmacologie expér. >]
Publication date :	2005
Journal title :	Behavioural Brain Research
Publisher :	Elsevier Science
Volume :	158
Issue/season :	2
Pages :	201-210
Audience :	International
ISSN :	0166-4328
City :	Amsterdam
Country :	The Netherlands
Keywords :	[en] cocaine ; C57BL/6J mice ; locomotion ; conditioned place preference ; novelty ; multiple regression analysis
Abstract :	[en] It has been speculated that an individual's response to novelty is a reliable predictor of its vulnerability to develop addiction. However, the relationships between response to novelty and the development of drug-induced conditioned place preference are still unclear. The present study investigates the relationships between locomotor responses to novelty, cocaine-induced locomotor stimulation and conditioned place preference in C57BL/6J mice with multiple regression analyses. Four groups of mice receiving saline, 4, 8 or 12 mg/kg cocaine (i.p.) were submitted to an 8-day unbiased counterbalanced place conditioning protocol. Levels of locomotion on the pre-conditioning session were used as a score of locomotor response to a novel environment. The locomotor activity on the first cocaine-pairing session of the conditioning procedure served as a measure of the locomotion-activating response to a single injection of cocaine. Cocaine-induced dose-dependent locomotor stimulant effects and a significant place preference at all tested doses. A positive correlation was found between the locomotor responses to novelty and the locomotor stimulant effects of cocaine, but was significant only for the highest dose of cocaine (12 mg/kg). In contrast, there was a negative correlation between the locomotor response to novelty and the conditioned place preference induced by 4 mg/kg cocaine. Finally, the locomotor stimulant effects of cocaine do not correlate with cocaine-induced conditioned place preference at any tested dose of cocaine. The relationships between locomotor response to novelty and both cocaine-induced stimulant and rewarding effects can be differentially affected by the dose in inbred C57BL/6J mice. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Research units :	Centre de Neurosciences Cognitives et Comportementales
Funders :	Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Communauté française de Belgique) - F.R.S.-FNRS
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/1485
DOI :	10.1016/j.bbr.2004.08.020

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