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Martín-Sánchez A, González-Pardo H, Alegre-Zurano L, Castro-Zavala A, López-Taboada I, Valverde O, Conejo NM. Early-life stress induces emotional and molecular alterations in female mice that are partially reversed by cannabidiol. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2022; 115:110508. [PMID: 34973413 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2021.110508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Revised: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Gender is considered as a pivotal determinant of mental health. Indeed, several psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression are more common and persistent in women than in men. In the past two decades, impaired brain energy metabolism has been highlighted as a risk factor for the development of these psychiatric disorders. However, comprehensive behavioural and neurobiological studies in brain regions relevant to anxiety and depression symptomatology are scarce. In the present study, we summarize findings describing cannabidiol effects on anxiety and depression in maternally separated female mice as a well-established rodent model of early-life stress associated with many mental disorders. Our results indicate that cannabidiol could prevent anxiolytic- and depressive-related behaviour in early-life stressed female mice. Additionally, maternal separation with early weaning (MSEW) caused long-term changes in brain oxidative metabolism in both nucleus accumbens and amygdalar complex measured by cytochrome c oxidase quantitative histochemistry. However, cannabidiol treatment could not revert brain oxidative metabolism impairment. Moreover, we identified hyperphosphorylation of mTOR and ERK 1/2 proteins in the amygdala but not in the striatum, that could also reflect altered brain intracellular signalling related with to bioenergetic impairment. Altogether, our study supports the hypothesis that MSEW induces profound long-lasting molecular changes in mTOR signalling and brain energy metabolism related to depressive-like and anxiety-like behaviours in female mice, which were partially ameliorated by CBD administration.
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- Ana Martín-Sánchez
- Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group (GReNeC-NeuroBio), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Neuroscience Research Program, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijóo, Oviedo, Spain; Instituto de Neurociencias del Principado de Asturias (INEUROPA), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain
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- Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group (GReNeC-NeuroBio), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group (GReNeC-NeuroBio), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijóo, Oviedo, Spain; Instituto de Neurociencias del Principado de Asturias (INEUROPA), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Neurobiology of Behaviour Research Group (GReNeC-NeuroBio), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; Neuroscience Research Program, IMIM-Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Laboratory of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijóo, Oviedo, Spain; Instituto de Neurociencias del Principado de Asturias (INEUROPA), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria del Principado de Asturias (ISPA), Oviedo, Spain
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Santoro ML, Santos CM, Ota VK, Gadelha A, Stilhano RS, Diana MC, Silva PN, Spíndola LMN, Melaragno MI, Bressan RA, Han SW, Abílio VC, Belangero SI. Expression profile of neurotransmitter receptor and regulatory genes in the prefrontal cortex of spontaneously hypertensive rats: relevance to neuropsychiatric disorders. Psychiatry Res 2014; 219:674-9. [PMID: 25041985 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.05.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2014] [Accepted: 05/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) strain was shown to be a useful animal model to study several behavioral, pathophysiological and pharmacological aspects of schizophrenia and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. To further understand the genetic underpinnings of this model, our primary goal in this study was to compare the gene expression profile of neurotransmitter receptors and regulators in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and nucleus accumbens (NAcc) of SHR and Wistar rats (control group). In addition, we investigated DNA methylation pattern of promoter region of the genes differentially expressed. We performed gene expression analysis using a PCRarray technology, which simultaneously measures the expression of 84 genes related to neurotransmission. Four genes were significantly downregulated in the PFC of SHR compared to Wistar rats (Gad2, Chrnb4, Slc5a7, and Qrfpr) and none in nucleus accumbens. Gad2 and Qrfpr have CpG islands in their promoter region. For both, the promoter region was hypomethylated in SHR group, and probably this mechanism is not related with the downregulation of these genes. In summary, we identified genes that are downregulated in the PFC of SHR, and might be related to the behavioral abnormalities exhibited by this strain.
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- Marcos Leite Santoro
- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biophysics and Investigation Center for Gene Therapy, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biophysics and Investigation Center for Gene Therapy, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Clinical Neurosciences (LiNC), Sao Paulo, Brazil; Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Santoro ML, Ota VK, Stilhano RS, Silva PN, Santos CM, Diana MC, Gadelha A, Bressan RA, Melaragno MI, Han SW, Abílio VC, Belangero SI. Effect of antipsychotic drugs on gene expression in the prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). Schizophr Res 2014; 157:163-8. [PMID: 24893910 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2014.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2013] [Revised: 04/03/2014] [Accepted: 05/05/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Antipsychotic drugs (APDs) are the standard treatment for schizophrenia. The therapeutic effect of these drugs is dependent upon the dopaminergic D2 blockade, but they also modulate other neurotransmitter pathways. The exact mechanisms underlying the clinical response to APDs are not fully understood. In this study, we compared three groups of animals for the expression of 84 neurotransmitter genes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and nucleus accumbens (NAcc). Each group was treated with a different APD (risperidone, clozapine or haloperidol), and with a non-treated group of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs), which is an animal model for schizophrenia. This study also explored whether or not differential expression was regulated by DNA methylation in the promoter region (PR). In the clozapine group, we found that Chrng was downregulated in the NAcc and six genes were downregulated in the PFC. In the haloperidol group, Brs3 and Glra1 were downregulated, as was Drd2 in the clozapine group and Drd3, Galr3 and Gabrr1 in the clozapine and haloperidol groups. We also encountered four hypermethylated CG sites in the Glra1 PR, as well as three in the risperidone group and another in the haloperidol group, when compared to non-treated rats. Following the APD treatment, the gene expression results revealed the involvement of genes that had not previously been described, in addition to the activity of established genes. The investigation of the involvement of these novel genes can lead to better understanding about the specific mechanisms of action of the individual APDs studied.
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- Marcos Leite Santoro
- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 740, Edifício Leitao da Cunha, 1° andar, CEP 04023-900 São Paulo, Brazil; LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 740, Edifício Leitao da Cunha, 1° andar, CEP 04023-900 São Paulo, Brazil; LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biophysics and Investigation Center for Gene Therapy, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Mirassol 207, CEP:04044-010, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 740, Edifício Leitao da Cunha, 1° andar, CEP 04023-900 São Paulo, Brazil; LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil
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- LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Pedro de Toledo 669, 5th floor, CEP: 04039032, Brazil
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- LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Pedro de Toledo 669, 5th floor, CEP: 04039032, Brazil
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- LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil
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- LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 740, Edifício Leitao da Cunha, 1° andar, CEP 04023-900 São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Biophysics and Investigation Center for Gene Therapy, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Mirassol 207, CEP:04044-010, Brazil
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- LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil; Department of Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Pedro de Toledo 669, 5th floor, CEP: 04039032, Brazil
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- Genetics Division, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Rua Botucatu, 740, Edifício Leitao da Cunha, 1° andar, CEP 04023-900 São Paulo, Brazil; LiNC - Interdisciplinary Lab of Clinical Neurosciences, Department of Psychiatry, UNIFESP, Rua Pedro de Toledo, 669, 3° floor, CEP 05039-032 São Paulo, Brazil.
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di Michele F, Prichep L, John ER, Chabot RJ. The neurophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Int J Psychophysiol 2005; 58:81-93. [PMID: 15979751 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2005.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2004] [Revised: 01/08/2005] [Accepted: 01/27/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Recent reviews of the neurobiology of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) have concluded that there is no single pathophysiological profile underlying this disorder. Certainly, dysfunctions in the frontal/subcortical pathways that control attention and motor behavior are implicated. However, no diagnostic criteria or behavioral/neuroimaging techniques allow a clear discrimination among subtypes within this disorder, especially when problems with learning are also considered. Two major Quantitative EEG (QEEG) subtypes have been found to characterize AD/HD. Here we review the major findings in the neurophysiology of AD/HD, focusing on QEEG, and briefly present our previous findings using a source localization technique called Variable Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (VARETA). These two techniques represent a possible objective method to identify specific patterns corresponding to EEG-defined subtypes of AD/HD. We then propose a model representing the distribution of the neural generators in these two major AD/HD subtypes, localized within basal ganglia and right anterior cortical regions, and hippocampal, para-hippocampal and temporal cortical regions, respectively. A comprehensive review of neurochemical, genetic, neuroimaging, pharmacological and neuropsychological evidence in support of this model is then presented. These results indicate the value of the neurophysiological model of AD/HD and support the involvement of different neuroanatomical systems, particularly the dopaminergic pathways.
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- Flavia di Michele
- Brain Research Labs, New York University School of Medicine, 27th and 1st Ave., 8th Floor Old Bellevue Admin. Bldg., New York, NY 10016, USA
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Sagvolden T, Russell VA, Aase H, Johansen EB, Farshbaf M. Rodent models of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2005; 57:1239-47. [PMID: 15949994 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 334] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2004] [Revised: 12/15/2004] [Accepted: 02/01/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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An ideal animal model should be similar to the disorder it models in terms of etiology, biochemistry, symptomatology, and treatment. Animal models provide several advantages over clinical research: simpler nervous systems, easily interpreted behaviors, genetic homogeneity, easily controlled environment, and a greater variety of interventions. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder of childhood onset that is characterized by inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. Its diagnosis is behaviorally based; therefore, the validation of an ADHD model must be based in behavior. An ADHD model must mimic the fundamental behavioral characteristics of ADHD (face validity), conform to a theoretical rationale for ADHD (construct validity), and predict aspects of ADHD behavior, genetics, and neurobiology previously uncharted in clinical settings (predictive validity). Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) fulfill many of the validation criteria and compare well with clinical cases of ADHD. Poor performers in the five-choice serial reaction time task and Naples high-excitability rats (NHE) are useful models for attention-deficit disorder. Other animal models either focus on the less important symptom of hyperactivity and might be of limited value in ADHD research or are produced in ways that would not lead to a clinical diagnosis of ADHD in humans, even if ADHD-like behavior is displayed.
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- Terje Sagvolden
- Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Department of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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Riddle DR, Forbes ME. Regulation of cytochrome oxidase activity in the rat forebrain throughout adulthood. Neurobiol Aging 2005; 26:1035-50. [PMID: 15748784 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2004] [Revised: 08/02/2004] [Accepted: 09/28/2004] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Measures of metabolic activity can provide useful indices of the effects of aging on neural function, since sustained changes in neural activity alter metabolic demand and the activity of metabolic enzymes. Previous reports of effects of aging on key enzymes for oxidative metabolism are mixed, however, with some reports that activity declines in the aging brain and others that activity remains stable or increases. We used high-resolution, quantitative histochemistry to test whether cytochrome oxidase (CO) activity changes in the forebrain during adulthood and senescence, measuring activity in each layer of the hippocampus and several cerebral cortical areas. In most forebrain regions, average cytochrome oxidase activity was slightly higher in middle-aged than in young adult rats but did not differ between middle-aged and old rats. Thus, there was no significant change in cytochrome oxidase activity with senescence. Additional analyses indicated that cytochrome oxidase activity is regulated regionally in the brain, as well as focally, and that differences in regional regulation may contribute to variation in CO activity among individuals, which was greater in young and old rats than in middle-aged animals.
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- D R Riddle
- Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1010, USA.
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Sergeant J. EUNETHYDIS -- searching for valid aetiological candidates of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or Hyperkinetic Disorder. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2004; 13 Suppl 1:I43-9. [PMID: 15322956 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-004-1005-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND To step up research in ADHD, exchange of ideas, working together on key theoretical models and cooperative studies are necessary. OBJECTIVE To report about a European approach with strong links to the rest of the world. METHOD European Network on Hyperkinetic Disorders (Eunethydis) studies of Attention -- Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Hyperkinetic Disorder (HKD) is briefly reviewed in the context of the international effort to discover the aetiology of the disorder. RESULTS There are promising neurobiological, neurophysiological and neuropsychological candidates to explain the nature of ADHD/HKD. CONCLUSION Eunethydis has shown to be a fruitful platform for ADHD research and has good resources for its further development.
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- Joseph Sergeant
- Free University, Clinical Neuropsychology, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Conejo NM, González-Pardo H, Vallejo G, Arias JL. Involvement of the mammillary bodies in spatial working memory revealed by cytochrome oxidase activity. Brain Res 2004; 1011:107-14. [PMID: 15140650 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/23/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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In view of the inconclusive findings relating the nuclei of the mammillary bodies (MB) with spatial memory, we evaluated the oxidative metabolic activity of the medial and lateral nuclei of the mammillary bodies (MB) after training young rats (30 days) of both sexes in the Morris water maze. Different groups were trained in spatial working (WM) or reference memory (RM) tasks, respectively. The corresponding naïve groups swam for the same amount of time as the trained groups but without the escape platform. Control groups were added that had not been manipulated in any way. No sex-related differences were detected in the working memory task although males exhibited better reference memory than females. Cytochrome oxidase (CO) activity, an endogenous metabolic marker for neuronal activity, was measured in all the groups. CO activity increased significantly in both MB nuclei of male and female rats only in the spatial working memory group. In addition, high CO activity in the lateral nucleus of the MB was linearly correlated with lower escape latencies in both sexes after training in the working memory task. No CO activity changes were found in the basolateral amygdala (BL) in any of the experimental groups. This nucleus was used as a control brain region because of its participation in emotional behavior. The results suggest a specific role of the MB nuclei in spatial working memory in both sexes.
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- Nélida M Conejo
- Laboratory of Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Oviedo, Plaza Feijoo, s/n E-33003, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
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Results of behavioral genetic investigations using family twin and adoption studies converge with those of molecular genetic studies in showing that genes influence susceptibility to'attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). These finding suggest that genetic mechanisms that predispose individuals to ADHD are complex. It seems likely that the disorder is caused by the combined actions of several genes. It is equally clear that aberrant genes create a vulnerability to the disorder that is not expressed in all environments. The literature about the genetics of adult ADHD is relatively small, but it suggests not only that the persistent form of ADHD is familial, but that it is more familial than the nonpersistent form. More work from twin and molecular genetic studies is needed to determine if the increased familiality of persistent ADHD reflects the actions of genes or of familial environmental causes.
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- Stephen V Faraone
- Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Child Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, WRN 705, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114-3139, USA.
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Doyle AE, Faraone SV. Familial links between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and bipolar disorder. Curr Psychiatry Rep 2002; 4:146-52. [PMID: 11914177 DOI: 10.1007/s11920-002-0049-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Although family, twin, and adoption studies indicate that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a familial condition with a robust genetic component, molecular genetic studies of candidate genes have produced inconsistent findings. One of the challenges to elucidating the genetic architecture of ADHD is its potential genetic heterogeneity. Therefore, efforts are needed to identify etiologically homogeneous subgroups of subjects with ADHD for use in genetic studies. The current article reviews evidence suggesting that parsing ADHD subjects based on comorbidity with conduct and bipolar disorders may yield familial subtypes that are suitable for genetic analyses.
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- Alysa E Doyle
- Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, ACC-725, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Sergeant JA, Geurts H, Oosterlaan J. How specific is a deficit of executive functioning for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Behav Brain Res 2002; 130:3-28. [PMID: 11864714 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(01)00430-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 507] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A selective review of research in the executive functioning (EF) is given for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), higher functioning autism (HFA) and Tourette syndrome. The review is restricted due to changes in the classification of the disorder in recent years and secondly the heterogeneity of EF is restricted to five key areas of concern, inhibition, set shifting, working memory, planning, and fluency. The review makes clear that there are strong differences between child psychopathological groups and controls on these EFs. However, future research will be needed to identify an EF deficit or profile, which is specific for these disorders.
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- Joseph A Sergeant
- Klinische Neuropsychologie, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Denney CB. Stimulant effects in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: theoretical and empirical issues. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 2001; 30:98-109. [PMID: 11294083 DOI: 10.1207/s15374424jccp3001_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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The explanatory utility of a theory or model of ADHD or any disorder depends fundamentally on its capacity to address issues of causality. What causes a particular child to develop ADHD? What mechanisms are responsible for temporal and setting-related variations in symptom severity, and how are these mechanisms affected by pharmacological intervention? And, what processes determine whether gains in one domain will propagate across one or more others? It should be evident from the foregoing discussion that comprehensive answers to such questions are most likely to emerge through implementation of research strategies that (a) integrate biological and psychological levels of explanation, (b) permit analysis of causal hypotheses, and (c) address mechanisms involved in both etiology and mediation of treatment response. Although extant neurobiological studies of ADHD are as compelling as they are exciting, they are limited by a troubling reductionistic emphasis. The predominant animal models focus on a narrow range of behaviors that are presumed to be central to ADHD because of the topographic similarity they bear to those represented by the diagnostic criteria incorporated into the diagnostic nomenclature. These models would become increasingly valuable to the extent that future research examined the extent to which ecologically relevant behaviors (e.g., social behavior) are compromised in the animal strains and whether the observed compromises are parallel to the correlates of ADHD observed in humans. Similarly, human molecular genetic studies have provided a glimpse into the possible role that genes related to dopaminergic neurotransmission may play in the etiology of ADHD. Yet, the features of ADHD have been conceptualized in these investigations as a unitary collection of characteristics, and this has precluded analysis of what specific syndromal feature (if any single one) is affected by the implicated genes. It is intriguing to speculate whether varying combinations of genes governing properties of DA receptors and reuptake molecules are associated with different patterns of symptom severity or responses to stimulant medications. As testing procedures for determining genotypes with respect to these features become more affordable and available, it should become increasingly feasible to examine such issues empirically. Research on the utility of stimulant drugs as a treatment for ADHD also has yielded useful information. Although the effects of MPH are of short duration, the breadth of their impact is impressive. The clinical effectiveness of these medications is no longer in doubt, and patterns of relations among outcome measures represent a potentially fruitful target of scientific inquiry. Finally, data supporting a neurobiological substrate for ADHD, evidence indicating that task and setting variables moderate the expression of the syndrome's diagnostic features (see Barkley, 1998, for a review), and the causal emphasis of the conceptual model with which the discussion began collectively argue for a diathesis-stress conception of the syndrome. And, as foregoing comments make clear, task and setting variables and the mechanisms through which they influence symptom expression are as important to the phenomenon as are neurobiological predisposing causes. This has significant implications for assessment strategies employed in diagnosis and evaluation of treatment-outcome. Specifically, it suggests that theory-based experimental manipulations of task and setting variables designed to impose challenge on hypothesized core features of the disorder are more likely to yield insights into the causal mechanisms governing behavioral organization in affected children than strategies emphasizing static identification of diagnostic correlates. It is hoped that such an approach will accelerate the discovery of increasingly effective assessment and intervention strategies.
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- C B Denney
- Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822-2216, USA.
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Sagvolden T. Behavioral validation of the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as an animal model of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2000; 24:31-9. [PMID: 10654658 DOI: 10.1016/s0149-7634(99)00058-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 388] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A good model of a disorder is one that: (a) mimics, although in a simpler form than the full-blown clinical case, the fundamentals of the behavioral characteristics, in this case of people with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD;face validity); (b) conforms with a theoretical rationale for the disorder (construct validity); and (c) is able to predict aspects of behavior, genetics and neurobiology previously uncharted in the clinics (predictive validity). This article discusses the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) and some other putative animal models of AD/HD. It is argued that although other strains and species may be hyperactive and/or show attention deficits following genetic, environmental or pharmacological interventions, the SHR is presently the only strain shown to have the major behavioral symptoms of AD/HD. This does not mean that investigating other models cannot give valuable information.
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- T Sagvolden
- Department of Physiology, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Papa M, Sellitti S, Sadile AG. Remodeling of neural networks in the anterior forebrain of an animal model of hyperactivity and attention deficits as monitored by molecular imaging probes. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2000; 24:149-56. [PMID: 10654672 DOI: 10.1016/s0149-7634(99)00052-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Remodeling of neural networks in the anterior forebrain of an animal model of hyperactivity and attention deficits as monitored by molecular imaging probes. These studies report on the remodeling of neural networks which are likely to be the consequences of the segmental defect in the anterior forebrain of an animal model of hyperactivity and attention-deficit, the juvenile prehypertensive male spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). Molecular biology and microscope imaging techniques were used such as: (i) dopamine (DA) D-1 and D-2 receptors by radioligand binding studies; (ii) the Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII); (iii) transcription factors (TF) such as c-FOS by Immunocytochemistry; and (iv) the respiratory chain enzyme cytochrome-oxidase (C.O.), as markers of neuronal activity in the anterior forebrain of SHR and Wistar Kyoto normotensive (WKY) controls rats. Microcomputer-assisted high-resolution image analysis using DA receptor binding and C.O., as probes revealed by cross-correlations among different regions within brain an altered cross-talk in the anterior forebrain of the SHR as compared to the controls. In particular, an altered cross-talk was also observed within the amygdala complex in the SHR by CaMKII and c-FOS expression. Therefore, the hypothesized segmental defect in the anterior forebrain of the SHR produces network consequences leading to behavioral alteration in the attentional activity and emotional domains. Subchronic treatment with metilphenidate (MP) that is known to block the reuptake of biogenic amines (mainly DA) produced network remodeling which are known to be paralleled by behavioral modifications in the attentive activity and emotional domains. Imperspective, the results from this model system that features the main aspects of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), can be useful for the understanding of the neural substrates of hyperactivity and attention deficits and possibly for an early diagnosis and appropriate treatment of ADHD children.
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- M Papa
- Institute of Anatomy and Laboratory of Neurophysiological, Behavioral & Neural Networks, F. Bottazzi, II University of Naples, Italy
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Zahm DS. An integrative neuroanatomical perspective on some subcortical substrates of adaptive responding with emphasis on the nucleus accumbens. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2000; 24:85-105. [PMID: 10654664 DOI: 10.1016/s0149-7634(99)00065-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 351] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Neuroanatomical substrates associated in the literature with adaptive responding are discussed, with a focus on the nucleus accumbens. While it is emphasized that the accumbens exhibits multiple levels of complex organization, a fairly complete list of brief descriptions of recent studies devoted specifically to the accumbens shell and core subterritories is presented in tabular format. The distinct patterns of connectivity of the accumbens core and shell and structures related to them by connections are described. Multiple inputs, outputs and abundant reciprocity of connections within the ventral parts of the basal ganglia are emphasized and the implications for "through-put" of impulses is considered. It is noted, at least on neuroanatomical grounds, that there is ample reason to expect feed forward processing from shell and structures with which it is associated to core and structures with which it is associated. Furthermore, the potential for additional feed forward processing involving several forebrain functional anatomical systems, inlcuding the ventral striatopallidum, extended amygdala and magnocellular basal forebrain complex is considered. It is intended that from the considerations recorded here a conceptual framework will begin to emerge that is amenable to further experimental substantiation as regards how multiple basal forebrain systems and the cortices to which they are related by connections work together to fashion a unitary object--the adaptive response.
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- D S Zahm
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, St. Louis University School of Medicine, MO 63104, USA.
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Aspide R, Fresiello A, de Filippis G, Gironi Carnevale UA, Sadile AG. Non-selective attention in a rat model of hyperactivity and attention deficit: subchronic methylphenydate and nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor treatment. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2000; 24:59-71. [PMID: 10654662 DOI: 10.1016/s0149-7634(99)00045-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The involvement of dopamine (DA) and nitric oxide (NO) in the process of non-selective attention (NSA) to environmental stimuli has been investigated in the juvenile Spontaneously Hypertensive rat (SHR). To this aim the frequency and duration of rearing episodes in a novelty situation, which is thought to monitor NSA, have been measured in male SHR and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) control rats following subchronic treatment with methylphenidate (MP; 3 mg/kg) or the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor L-Nitro-arginine-methylester (L-NAME; 1 mg/kg) or vehicle daily for two weeks. Different groups were tested at 0.5 h or 24 h after the last injection in a Làt-maze. Tests were repeated twice at a 24 h interval and lasted 10 min each. Upon first exposure, there was a differential drug effect only in the SHR. In fact, MP and L-NAME yielded a shift to the left and to the right, i.e. towards episodes of lower or higher duration, respectively. This shift was more pronounced in the group tested 0.5 h after the last injection. In contrast, both drugs produced a significant lengthening of the rearing episodes in the SHR only in comparison with the vehicle-treated rats over days of testing. Therefore both MP and L-NAME appear to shear a similar effect on non-selective attention, although the effect of L-NAME is somewhat paradoxical. The latter is likely to be due to increased arginine selective uptake due to negative feedback with the NO production. The consequent increased arginine availability displaces the NOS inhibitor, thus leading to increased NO production. In conclusion, dopamine and nitric oxide play a role in non-selective attention by synaptic and extrasynaptic mechanisms, respectively, in a rat model of hyperactivity and attention-deficits.
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- R Aspide
- Department of Human Physiology, F. Bottazzi, Second University of Naples (SUN), Italy
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Aspide R, Gironi Carnevale UA, Sergeant JA, Sadile AG. Non-selective attention and nitric oxide in putative animal models of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Behav Brain Res 1998; 95:123-33. [PMID: 9754884 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(97)00217-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Non-selective attention (NSA) to environmental stimuli has been measured in putative animal models of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), such as the Spontaneously Hypertensive (SHR) and the Naples High-Excitability (NHE) rat lines. A series of experiments has been carried out on male juvenile SHR and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) controls (experiment 1) and on the NHE and two controls, i.e. the Naples Low-Excitability (NLE) and a random-bred (NRB) line (experiment 2). It was done under basal conditions or following a single injection of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor L-nitro-arginine-methylester (L-NAME: 0.1-10 mg/kg, i.p.), or vehicle, 30 min before testing on day 1 and vehicle alone before testing on days 2 and 3 in SHR/WKY (experiment 3) and the Naples lines (experiment 4). The behavior in a Lát maze during three consecutive 10-min exposures at 24-h intervals was monitored by a CCD video camera and analyzed off-line for frequency and duration of rearings on hindlimbs per 1-min blocks. The results demonstrated that both SHR and NHE rats showed a higher frequency of rearings of shorter duration than controls. With time of testing, the duration of rearings tended to increase in the WKY but not the SHR. In the Naples lines the duration tended to increase in all but mostly in the NHE rats. The acute inhibition of NOS by L-NAME significantly increased the duration of rearing episodes both in SHR and NHE rats only at 10 mg/kg in the second part of the testing period. Therefore, NSA, as indexed by the duration of rearings, is defective in both hyperactivity models against different genetic backgrounds. In addition, this impairment is dependent upon nitric oxide (NO), which appears to play a significant role in these processes.
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- R Aspide
- Department of Human Physiology F. Bottazzi, Second University of Naples, Italy
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Carey MP, Diewald LM, Esposito FJ, Pellicano MP, Gironi Carnevale UA, Sergeant JA, Papa M, Sadile AG. Differential distribution, affinity and plasticity of dopamine D-1 and D-2 receptors in the target sites of the mesolimbic system in an animal model of ADHD. Behav Brain Res 1998; 94:173-85. [PMID: 9708848 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(97)00178-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The distribution of dopamine (DA) D-1 and D-2 receptors has been studied by autoradiography in the anterior forebrain of the pre-hypertensive spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as an animal model of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children. Juvenile male SHR and Wistar Kyoto (WKY) controls were given either vehicle or the DA re-uptake blocker methylphenidate (MP; 3 mg/kg, i.p.), daily during a 2-week period. A saturation analysis for the D-1 receptor subfamily was carried out with 0.1-5.0 nM of [3H]SCH23390 and two competition studies for the D-2 receptor subfamily with 4 nM of [3H]raclopride or 5 nM of [3H]quinpirole were carried out with unlabelled spiperone and 7-OH-DPAT as unlabelled displacers on cryostat coronal sections of the anterior forebrain. Quantitative receptor autoradiography and computer-assisted image analysis with reference to co-exposed 3H-microscale standards showed in vehicle-treated SHR higher density of DA D-1/D-5 receptor subtypes in the caudate-putamen (CPU), the nucleus accumbens (ACB) core and shell and the olfactory tubercle (OT), which was associated to a lower affinity. MP treatment normalised the DA D-1/D-5 receptors by decreasing the number of binding sites and increasing the affinity to control level. In addition, MP treatment 'down-regulated' DA D-2/D-4 subtypes in the CPU, ACB and OT, and 'up-regulated' mostly D-3 subtype in CPU, ACB, OT in both rat lines and in the globus pallidus, ventral pallidum and lateral septum in WKY rats only. In contrast, D-3 receptors were 'down-regulated' in the islands of Calleja in both rat lines. Moreover, regional cross-correlative analyses revealed a modulatory influence of DA receptors in the cross-talk within the anterior forebrain, which was altered in the SHR. Thus, the differential distribution and regulation of DA receptor subtypes following DA re-uptake blocker as well as the different regional cross-talk in the target sites of nigrostriatal and mesolimbic DA systems lend support to the DA hypothesis of ADHD in children.
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- M P Carey
- Laboratory Neurophysiology, Behaviour and Neural Networks, Department of Human Physiology F. Bottazzi, Napoli, Italy
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