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Doyle MR, Beltran NM, Bushnell MSA, Syed M, Acosta V, Desai M, Rice KC, Serafine KM, Gould GG, Daws LC, Collins GT. Effects of access condition on substance use disorder-like phenotypes in male and female rats self-administering MDPV or cocaine. Drug Alcohol Depend 2024; 263:112408. [PMID: 39141975 DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.112408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2024] [Revised: 07/23/2024] [Accepted: 08/06/2024] [Indexed: 08/16/2024]
Abstract
Substance use disorder (SUD) is a heterogeneous disorder, where severity, symptoms, and patterns of use vary across individuals. Yet, when rats self-administer cocaine under short-access conditions, their behavior tends to be well-regulated, though individual differences can emerge with long- or intermittent-access. In contrast, significant individual differences emerge when rats self-administer 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), even under short-access conditions, wherein ~30 % of rats exhibit high levels of drug-taking. This study assessed SUD-like phenotypes of male and female rats self-administering MDPV or cocaine by comparing level of drug intake, responding during periods of signaled drug unavailability, and sensitivity to footshock punishment to determine whether: (1) under short-access conditions, rats that self-administer MDPV will exhibit a more robust SUD-like phenotype than rats that self-administer cocaine; (2) female rats will have a more severe phenotype than male rats; and (3) compared to short-access, long- and intermittent-access to MDPV or cocaine self-administration will result in a more robust SUD-like phenotype. Compared to cocaine, rats that self-administered MDPV exhibited a more severe phenotype, even under short-access conditions. Long- and intermittent-access to cocaine and MDPV temporarily altered drug-taking patterns but did not systematically change SUD-like phenotypes. Behavioral and quantitative autoradiography studies suggest phenotypic differences are not due to expression of dopamine transporter, dopamine D2 or D3 receptors, or 5-HT1B, 5-HT2A, or 5-HT2C receptors. This study suggests individuals who use synthetic cathinones may be at greater risk for developing a SUD, and short-access MDPV self-administration may provide a useful method to study the transition to disordered substance use in humans.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michelle R Doyle
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Drug Design and Synthesis Section, Molecular Targets and Medications Discovery Branch National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA; Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA; South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA.
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Doyle MR, Beltran NM, Bushnell MSA, Syed M, Acosta V, Desai M, Rice KC, Serafine KM, Gould GG, Daws LC, Collins GT. Effects of access condition on substance use disorder-like phenotypes in male and female rats self-administering MDPV or cocaine. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.04.583431. [PMID: 38496609 PMCID: PMC10942381 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.04.583431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024]
Abstract
Substance use disorder (SUD) is a heterogeneous disorder, where severity, symptoms, and patterns of substance use vary across individuals. Yet, when rats are allowed to self-administer drugs such as cocaine under short-access conditions, their behavior tends to be well-regulated and homogeneous in nature; though individual differences can emerge when rats are provided long- or intermittent-access to cocaine. In contrast to cocaine, significant individual differences emerge when rats are allowed to self-administer 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), even under short-access conditions, wherein ~30% of rats rapidly transition to high levels of drug-taking. This study assessed the SUD-like phenotypes of male and female Sprague Dawley rats self-administering MDPV (0.032 mg/kg/infusion) or cocaine (0.32 mg/kg/infusion) by comparing level of drug intake, responding during periods of signaled drug unavailability, and sensitivity to footshock punishment to test the hypotheses that: (1) under short-access conditions, rats that self-administer MDPV will exhibit a more robust SUD-like phenotype than rats that self-administered cocaine; (2) female rats will have a more severe phenotype than male rats; and (3) compared to short-access, long- and intermittent-access to MDPV or cocaine self-administration will result in a more robust SUD-like phenotype. After short-access, rats that self-administered MDPV exhibited a more severe phenotype than rats that self-administered cocaine. Though long- and intermittent-access to cocaine and MDPV self-administration altered drug-taking patterns, manipulating access conditions did not systematically alter their SUD-like phenotype. Evidence from behavioral and quantitative autoradiography studies suggest that these differences are unlikely due to changes in expression levels of dopamine transporter, dopamine D2 or D3 receptors, or 5-HT1B, 5-HT2A, or 5-HT2C receptors, though these possibilities cannot be ruled out. These results show that the phenotype exhibited by rats self-administering MDPV differs from that observed for rats self-administering cocaine, and suggests that individuals that use MDPV and/or related cathinones may be at greater risk for developing a SUD, and that short-access MDPV self-administration may provide a useful method to understand the factors that mediate the transition to problematic or disordered substance use in humans.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michelle R. Doyle
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Drug Design and Synthesis Section, Molecular Targets and Medications Discovery Branch National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD
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- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
- South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Banks ML, Czoty PW, Negus SS. Utility of Nonhuman Primates in Substance Use Disorders Research. ILAR J 2017; 58:202-215. [PMID: 28531265 PMCID: PMC5886327 DOI: 10.1093/ilar/ilx014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2016] [Revised: 03/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Substance use disorders (i.e., drug addiction) constitute a global and insidious public health issue. Preclinical biomedical research has been invaluable in elucidating the environmental, biological, and pharmacological determinants of drug abuse and in the process of developing innovative pharmacological and behavioral treatment strategies. For more than 70 years, nonhuman primates have been utilized as research subjects in biomedical research related to drug addiction. There are already several excellent published reviews highlighting species differences in both pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics between rodents and nonhuman primates in preclinical substance abuse research. Therefore, the aim of this review is to highlight three advantages of nonhuman primates as preclinical substance abuse research subjects. First, nonhuman primates offer technical advantages in experimental design compared to other laboratory animals that afford unique opportunities to promote preclinical-to-clinical translational research. Second, these technical advantages, coupled with the relatively long lifespan of nonhuman primates, allows for pairing longitudinal drug self-administration studies and noninvasive imaging technologies to elucidate the biological consequences of chronic drug exposure. Lastly, nonhuman primates offer advantages in the patterns of intravenous drug self-administration that have potential theoretical implications for both the neurobiological mechanisms of substance use disorder etiology and in the drug development process of pharmacotherapies for substance use disorders. We conclude with potential future research directions in which nonhuman primates would provide unique and valuable insights into the abuse of and addiction to novel psychoactive substances.
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- Matthew L Banks
- Matthew L. Banks, PharmD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and currently serves as a scientific member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Paul W. Czoty, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Sidney S. Negus, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and has served as both a scientific member and chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
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- Matthew L. Banks, PharmD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and currently serves as a scientific member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Paul W. Czoty, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Sidney S. Negus, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and has served as both a scientific member and chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
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- Matthew L. Banks, PharmD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and currently serves as a scientific member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Paul W. Czoty, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Sidney S. Negus, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and has served as both a scientific member and chair of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
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Gould RW, Czoty PW, Porrino LJ, Nader MA. Social Status in Monkeys: Effects of Social Confrontation on Brain Function and Cocaine Self-Administration. Neuropsychopharmacology 2017; 42:1093-1102. [PMID: 28025974 PMCID: PMC5506801 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2016] [Revised: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 12/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Individual differences in response to social stress and environmental enrichment may contribute to variability in response to behavioral and pharmacological treatments for drug addiction. In monkeys, social status influences the reinforcing effects of cocaine and the effects of some drugs on cocaine self-administration. In this study, we used male cynomolgus macaques (n=15) living in established social groups to examine the effects of social confrontation on the reinforcing effects of cocaine using a food-drug choice procedure. On the test day, a dominant or subordinate monkey was removed from his homecage and placed into another social pen; 30 min later he was studied in a cocaine-food choice paradigm. For the group, following social confrontation, sensitivity to cocaine reinforcement was significantly greater in subordinate monkeys compared with dominant animals. Examining individual-subject data revealed that for the majority of monkeys (9/15), serving as an intruder in another social group affected cocaine self-administration and these effects were dependent on the social rank of the monkey. For subordinate monkeys, sensitivity to the reinforcing effects of cocaine increased while sensitivity decreased in dominant monkeys. To investigate potential mechanisms mediating these effects, brain glucose metabolism was studied in a subset of monkeys (n=8) using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose ([18F]FDG) with positron emission tomography. Dominant and subordinate monkeys displayed distinctly different patterns of brain glucose metabolism in their homecage, including areas associated with vigilance and stress/anxiety, respectively, and during social confrontation. These data demonstrate that, depending on an individual's social status, the same social experience can have divergent effects on brain function and cocaine self-administration. These phenotypic differences in response to social conditions support a personalized treatment approach to cocaine addiction.
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- Robert W Gould
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
- Department of Radiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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