Silencing dopamine D3-receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell in vivo induces changes in cocaine-induced hyperlocomotion
- Bahi, Amine Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Boyer, Frederic Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bussard, Gaelle Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Dreyer, Jean-Luc Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, Fribourg, Switzerland
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15.07.2005
Published in:
- European Journal of Neuroscience. - 2005, vol. 21(12), no. 3415
English
The dopamine D₃ receptor (D₃R) is an important pharmacotherapeutic target for its potential role in psychiatric disorders and drug dependence. To further explore its function in rats, a regulatable lentivirus, Lenti-D3, holding the rat D₃R cDNA, has been constructed as well as three nonregulatable lentiviruses, Lenti-D3-siRNA1, Lenti-D3-siRNA2 and Lenti-D3-siRNA3, expressing small hairpin RNAs, aimed at silencing D₃R expression and specifically targeted against different regions of the D₃R mRNA. In vitro, Lenti-D3 expressed D₃R and could efficiently be blocked with Lenti-D3-Sils. These viruses were stereotaxically injected into the shell part of the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and effects of passive cocaine delivery on locomotor activity were assessed. Manipulations of D₃R levels induced changes in the locomotor stimulant effects of cocaine as compared to control treatment. Suppression of dopamine (DA) D₃R in the NAcc by means of local knockdown (with Lenti-D3-Sils) increased locomotor stimulant effects, whereas its overexpression with Lenti-D3 drastically reduced them. The latter effects could be reversed when animals were fed doxycycline, which prevented lentiviral-mediated DA D₃R overexpression in the NAcc. Gene expression assessed by quantitative RT-PCR confirmed very efficient gene knockdown in vivo in animals treated with Lenti-D3-Sils (> 93% silencing of D₃R gene). Thus D₃R expression significantly contributes to behavioural changes associated with chronic cocaine delivery.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Médecine
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biology
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- RERO DOC 5131
- DOI 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04157.x
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/299871
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