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The corticostriatal system mediates the "paradoxical" contraversive rotation but not the striatal hyperexpression of Fos induced by amphetamine early after 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of the nigrostriatal pathway.

Abstract
In rats with unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesion of the nigrostriatal pathway, amphetamine produces ipsiversive rotational behavior and activation of Fos in the intact striatum, but practically no activation of Fos in the denervated striatum. However, a seemingly paradoxical contraversive rotation, accompanied by intense striatal Fos activation in the lesioned striatum, has been observed during the first few days postlesion. In the present work, behavioral tests and immunohistochemistry for Fos protein and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) were combined to study striatal changes 36 h after 6-OHDA lesion and particularly the possible involvement of glutamatergic corticostriatal afferents. Injection of amphetamine (0.5 mg/kg or 5 mg/kg) induced contraversive rotation and strong and evenly distributed Fos expression in the lesioned striatum; in the contralateral striatum, however, Fos density was lower than in nonlesioned rats. Pretreatment with the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor antagonist MK-801 (either 0.5 mg/kg or 5 mg/kg) did not significantly affect the hyperexpression of Fos in the lesioned striatum, but suppressed the contraversive rotation. Similarly, rats that were subjected to corticostriatal deafferentation (confirmed by sensory neglect tests) and 6-OHDA lesion (1 week or 3 weeks later) showed no significant reduction in the striatal Fos hyperexpression induced by amphetamine (0.5 mg/kg or 5 mg/kg) and no significant rotational asymmetry. In conclusion, the present results indicate that glutamatergic corticostriatal afferents are essential for the contraversive rotational behavior but not the striatal hyperexpression of Fos observed in response to amphetamine early after 6-OHDA lesion, and suggest that intense dopaminergic stimulation of striatal neurons is sufficient for induction of Fos, but that concurrent glutamatergic stimulation is necessary for the motor response.
AuthorsE Lopez-Martin, G Rozas, J Rodriguez, M J Guerra, J L Labandeira-Garcia
JournalExperimental brain research (Exp Brain Res) Vol. 120 Issue 2 Pg. 153-63 (May 1998) ISSN: 0014-4819 [Print] Germany
PMID9629957 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Central Nervous System Stimulants
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
  • Oxidopamine
  • Amphetamine
  • Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
Topics
  • Afferent Pathways (drug effects)
  • Amphetamine (pharmacology)
  • Animals
  • Attention (physiology)
  • Central Nervous System Stimulants (pharmacology)
  • Cerebral Cortex (drug effects)
  • Corpus Striatum (drug effects)
  • Female
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • Oxidopamine
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos (biosynthesis)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Rotation
  • Sensation (physiology)
  • Substantia Nigra (drug effects)
  • Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase (analysis)

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