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Neuropeptide s reinstates cocaine-seeking behavior and increases locomotor activity through corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 in mice

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authors

  • Paneda, C.
  • Huitron-Resendiz, S.
  • Frago, L. M.
  • Chowen, J. A.
  • Picetti, R.
  • de Lecea, L.
  • Roberts, Amanda

publication date

  • April 2009

journal

  • Journal of Neuroscience  Journal

abstract

  • Neuropeptide S (NPS) is a recently discovered neuropeptide that increases arousal and wakefulness while decreasing anxiety-like behavior. Here, we used a self-administration paradigm to demonstrate that intracerebroventricular infusion of NPS reinstates extinguished cocaine-seeking behavior in a dose-dependent manner in mice. The highest dose of NPS (0.45 nM) increased active lever pressing in the absence of cocaine to levels that were equivalent to those observed during self-administration. In addition, we examined the role of the corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 1 (CRF(1)) in this behavior as well as locomotor stimulation and anxiolysis. CRF(1) knock-out mice did not respond to either the locomotor stimulant or cocaine reinstatement effects of NPS, but still responded to its anxiolytic effect. The CRF(1) antagonist antalarmin also blocked the increase in active lever responding in the reinstatement model and the locomotor activating properties of NPS without affecting its anxiolytic actions. Our results suggest that NPS receptors may be an important target for drug abuse research and treatment and that CRF(1) mediates the cocaine-seeking and locomotor stimulant effects of NPS, but not its effects on anxiety-like behavior.

subject areas

  • Analysis of Variance
  • Animals
  • Anxiety
  • Cocaine
  • Cocaine-Related Disorders
  • Conditioning, Operant
  • Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Drug Interactions
  • Extinction, Psychological
  • Injections, Intraventricular
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Knockout
  • Motor Activity
  • Neuropeptides
  • Pyrimidines
  • Pyrroles
  • Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone
  • Self Administration
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3437665

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0270-6474

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1523/jneurosci.5256-08.2009

PubMed ID

  • 19339610
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 4155

end page

  • 4161

volume

  • 29

issue

  • 13

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