Oral contraceptives, salpingo-oophorectomy and hormone replacement therapy in BRCA1-2 mutation carriers
Biglia, N.; Mariani, L.; Ponzone, R.; Sismondi, P.
Maturitas 60(2): 71-77
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0378-5122 PMID: 18472232 DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2008.03.004Document Number: 201657
Exposure to self-administered drugs is sufficient to produce drug-seeking in animal models. In many cases priming injections of drugs that share discriminative stimulus properties with the self-administered drug also can lead to drug-seeking, suggesting that exposure might precipitate relapse. The present investigation examined the ability of MDMA or cocaine priming injections to reinstate extinguished drug-seeking in rats. Priming injections of cocaine (0-20.0 mg/kg) and MDMA (0.0-10.0 mg/kg) reinstated extinguished drug-taking for both the cocaine- and MDMA-trained rats. In a separate group of cocaine-trained rats that received repeated exposure to 10.0 mg/kg MDMA, the initial exposure to MDMA (10.0 mg/kg, i.p.) failed to reinstate extinguished responding but MDMA became an effective prime for reinstatement of extinguished cocaine-taking behavior with repeated exposure. Effects of MDMA in MDMA-trained rats was greater than the effect in cocaine-trained rats suggesting that extensive experience with MDMA self-administration might have sensitized rats to this effect. These findings show that extinguished MDMA self-administration, like self-administration of other drugs of abuse, can be reinstated by exposure to psychostimulants thereby precipitating relapse.
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