Rotational behaviour elicited by intracerebral injections of apomorphine and pergolide in 6-hydroxy-dopamine-lesioned rats. II: The striatum of the rat is heterogeneously organized for rotational behaviour

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HERRERA-MARSCHITZ, M., FORSTER, C. & UNGERSTEDT, U. 1985. Rotational behaviour elicited by intracerebral injections of apomorphine and pergolide in 6-hydroxy-dopamine-lesioned rats. II: The striatum of the rat is hetergeneously organized for rotational behaviour. Acta Physiol Scand 125, 529–535. Received 12 March 1985, accepted 22 May 1985. ISSN 0001–6772. Department of Pharmacology, Karolinska institutet, S-104 01 Stockholm, Sweden. The present study compares the role of the nucleus accumbens and the striatum, as well as various regions of the striatum, in the ability of intracerebral injections of the dopamine agonists apomorphine and pergolide to elicit rotational behaviour in 6-hydroxy-dopamine-lesioned rats. We found that apomorphine and pergolide elicit rotational behaviour when injected into the denervated striatum, but not when injected into the ipsilateral nucleus accumbens. The striatum seems heterogeneously organized as regards rotational behaviour since maximal-apomorphine rotation was elicited from the corpus of the striatum as compared to the effects produced by injections into the head and the tail of the striatum. This topographical distribution is similar to the distribution of dopamine-stimulated cyclic AMP. The pergolide response is more evenly distributed in the striatum. It is suggested that the difference in the topographical distribution of the ability of apomorphine and pergolide to elicit rotational behaviour reflects a regional distribution of dopamine receptors in the striatum of the rat.

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