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Genetic determinants of susceptibility to the rewarding and other behavioral actions of cocaine.

Abstract
The role of genotype as a determinant of biologically based inter-individual differences in vulnerability to substance abuse has received little systematic investigation except in the case of alcohol. This report describes the use of an animal model, the inbred mouse, to identify and to characterize variants with inherently altered susceptibilities to the rewarding and other behavioral actions of cocaine. Among a battery of nine inbred strains chosen solely for their genetic diversity, genetic polymorphisms commonly occurred which altered the potency and/or efficacy of cocaine to induce conditioned place preference, oral self-administration, motor activity activation, seizures and lethality. These changes in cocaine sensitivity generally were of a behavior-specific and pharmacodynamic nature. One strain, DBA/2J, found to be markedly hyporesponsive to the rewarding action of cocaine, also was hyporesponsive to the rewarding effects of amphetamine, etonitazene, phencyclidine, caffeine and procaine. We speculate that this strain has an inherent generalized appetitive defect. The frequent occurrence and large magnitude of inherent phenotypic changes in cocaine responsiveness which we have identified among inbred mouse strains now permits an analytical genetic study of processes underlying cocaine-mediated reinforcement.
AuthorsT W Seale, J M Carney
JournalJournal of addictive diseases (J Addict Dis) Vol. 10 Issue 1-2 Pg. 141-62 ( 1991) ISSN: 1055-0887 [Print] England
PMID2065114 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Cocaine
Topics
  • Animals
  • Appetitive Behavior (drug effects)
  • Arousal (drug effects, genetics)
  • Brain (drug effects)
  • Cocaine (pharmacology)
  • Genotype
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred Strains (genetics)
  • Models, Genetic
  • Polymorphism, Genetic (genetics)
  • Reward
  • Social Environment
  • Species Specificity
  • Substance-Related Disorders (genetics)

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