Time course of striatal ΔFosB‐like immunoreactivity and prodynorphin mRNA levels after discontinuation of chronic dopaminomimetic treatment
- 31 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 17 (3) , 661-666
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02469.x
Abstract
ΔFosB-like proteins are particularly stable transcription factors that accumulate in the brain in response to chronic perturbations. In this study we have compared the time-course of striatal FosB/ΔFosB-like immunoreactivity and prodynorphin mRNA expression after discontinuation of chronic cocaine treatment to intact rats and chronic L-DOPA treatment to unilaterally 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesioned rats. The animals were killed between 3 h and 16 days after the last drug injection. In both treatment paradigms, the drug-induced FosB/ΔFosB immunoreactivity remained significantly elevated in the caudate putamen even at the longest withdrawal period examined. The concomitant upregulation of prodynorphin mRNA, a target of ΔFosB, paralleled the time-course of ΔFosB-like immunoreactivity in the 6-OHDA-lesion/L-DOPA model, but was more transient in animals treated with cocaine. These results suggest that ΔFosB-like proteins have exceptional in vivo stability. In the dopamine-denervated striatum, these proteins may exert sustained effects on the expression of their target genes long after discontinuation of L-DOPA pharmacotherapy.Keywords
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