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Interactions among ovarian hormones and time of testing on behavioral sensitization and cocaine self-administration.

Abstract：

:Ovarian hormones play a role in the use of drugs of abuse in women. In female rats estradiol has been shown to enhance acquisition of cocaine self-administration and behavioral sensitization induced by repeated cocaine treatment. Experiments were conducted to determine the effects of estradiol and/or progesterone on cocaine self-administration and behavioral sensitization to cocaine (10mg/kg; in animals with unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions). Five groups of ovariectomized females were tested: (1) oil vehicle; (2) estradiol (E); (3) progesterone (P); (4) estradiol and progesterone given concurrently (EPC); (5) estradiol and progesterone given sequentially (EPS: 3 days of estradiol, 1 day progesterone, 1 day oil). All animals were tested during the dark phase of the light:dark cycle at ZT1600 and ZT2000-2100. Behavioral sensitization results: there was substantial conditioned turning throughout the habituation periods, and all animals exhibited behavioral sensitization with repeated cocaine treatment. Multivariate analysis indicated a significant effect of hormone treatment, time of day and day of testing. When individual groups were compared, however, only at ZT1600 did the E-treated and the EPS-treated animals show a trend (p<0.06) for greater behavioral sensitization to cocaine relative to the oil-treated animals. Self-administration results: all groups showed rapid acquisition of cocaine self-administration at 0.3 mg/kg/infusion, so we did not see an effect of ovarian hormones on acquisition, or a difference between groups tested at ZT1600 versus ZT2100 (p<0.05). There was, however, enhanced total intake of cocaine at 0.75 mg/kg/infusion in the E and the EPS groups. Concurrent administration of progesterone with estradiol counteracted the effect of estradiol on cocaine intake at 0.75 mg/kg/infusion, while progesterone alone did not enhance cocaine self-administration.

journal_name

Behav Brain Res

journal_title

Behavioural brain research

authors

Yang H,Zhao W,Hu M,Becker JB

doi

10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-12-03 00:00:00

pages

174-84

issue

eissn

0166-4328

issn

1872-7549

pii

S0166-4328(07)00355-5

journal_volume

184

pub_type

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Interactions among ovarian hormones and time of testing on behavioral sensitization and cocaine self-administration.