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Differential sensitivity to cocaine in spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats.

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:Physiological, pharmacological and toxicological responses to two regimens of cocaine administration were compared between spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. An initial experiment examined renal excretory and hemodynamic function in response to an acute volume load in anesthetized SHR and WKY following subacute cocaine treatment (20 mg/kg, s.c., twice a day for 9 days). Anticipated renal responses to volume loading were obtained but the responses of cocaine-treated SHR and WKY did not differ from vehicle-treated rats. A second group of experiments compared responses to continuous i.v. infusions of cocaine (1.25 mg/kg.min). In freely moving animals, no differences were noted between SHR and WKY in the increases in mean blood pressure (MBP) and heart rate (HR) produced during cocaine infusion. The elapsed time-to-onset of convulsions (Tc) elicited by cocaine was similar in both strains. However, when rats were subjected to restraint during the infusion period, pressor and tachycardic responses were observed to be significantly less in WKY than in SHR or in freely moving rats of either strain. Restraint also differentially affected rectal temperature (RT) responses to cocaine. Hypothermic responses to cocaine were observed in all WKY. Both hypothermic and hyperthermic responses were observed in SHR. A significant correlation was demonstrated between the Tc and the maximal change in RT produced during cocaine infusion. Division of SHR into two arbitrary groups was made, based on the direction of cocaine-induced change in RT. A significant (p less than 0.01) shortening of the Tc was obvious in SHR (8 of 15) in whom cocaine produced a hyperthermia. These animals were designated SHRH. The mean value for Tc in those SHR which demonstrated a lowering in RT (SHRL; 7 of 15) in response to cocaine was similar to that for WKY. Moreover, the SHRH evidenced significantly greater increases in HR, but not MBP, to cocaine infusion than did SHRL. The results indicate that restraint stress causes expression of a significant heterogeneity in the RT response of SHR to cocaine. The magnitude and direction of the RT responses are negatively correlated with sensitivity to the convulsive effects of cocaine in SHR. Stress may modify toxic responses to cocaine by interactions with body temperature homeostasis.

journal_name

Life Sci

journal_title

Life sciences

authors

Ishizuka Y,Rockhold RW,Kirchner K,Hoskins B,Ho IK

doi

10.1016/0024-3205(89)90254-3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-01-01 00:00:00

pages

223-32

issue

eissn

0024-3205

issn

1879-0631

pii

0024-3205(89)90254-3

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Differential sensitivity to cocaine in spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar-Kyoto rats.