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Rewarding electrical brain stimulation: Similar thresholds for flinders sensitive line hypercholinergic and flinders resistant line hypocholinergic rats

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authors

  • Matthews, K.
  • Baldo, B. A.
  • Markou, A.
  • Lown, O.
  • Overstreet, D. H.
  • Koob, George

publication date

  • June 1996

journal

  • Physiology & Behavior  Journal

abstract

  • Flinders Sensitive Line hypercholinergic rats, which exhibit augmented hypothermic responses to the cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine and to the muscarinic agonist oxotremorine, have been proposed to represent a useful animal model for some aspects of human depression. With disturbance of reward processes considered to be a core feature of depression, the present studies were designed to investigate the neuropharmacology of brain stimulation-reward (BSR) in Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rats, Flinders Resistant Line (FRL) rats, and outbred control Sprague-Dawley rats. All animals were tested in a rate-free, current-threshold brain stimulation-reward paradigm, following acute challenges with the monoamine reuptake inhibitor cocaine, the dopamine D1 receptor antagonist SCH-23390, the cholinergic muscarinic antagonist scopolamine, and the serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine. Baseline BSR thresholds did not differ across the three groups. For all groups, cocaine lowered thresholds, SCH-23390 and scopolamine-elevated thresholds, while fluoxetine had no significant effect. Thresholds for the three groups were not differentially affected by pharmacological locomotor activity relative to outbred Sprague-Dawley controls. These results suggest that both Flinders lines exhibit behavioral differences from outbred control rats, but not with regard to reward processes as assessed by rewarding electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Cholinesterase Inhibitors
  • Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
  • Electrodes
  • Male
  • Medial Forebrain Bundle
  • Muscarinic Agonists
  • Muscarinic Antagonists
  • Parasympathetic Nervous System
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Receptors, Dopamine D1
  • Reward
  • Self Stimulation
  • Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
  • Species Specificity
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keywords

  • Flinders Sensitive and Resistant Line rats
  • SCH-23390
  • brain stimulation reward
  • cocaine
  • fluoxetine
  • scopolamine
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0031-9384

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02212-0

PubMed ID

  • 8737906
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 1155

end page

  • 1162

volume

  • 59

issue

  • 6

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