Fatemeh Rezamohammadi, Mehrnoush Rahmani, Ali Ghanbari, Ali Khaleghian, Hossein Miladi-Gorji
Neuroscience letters 2020 Oct 15This study examined the effects of systemic administration of the TrkB receptor antagonist (ANA-12) during induction of morphine dependence on the severity of physical and psychological dependence and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) BDNF levels in morphine-dependent and withdrawn rats. Rats became morphine-dependent by increasing daily doses of morphine for 7 days, along with ANA-12 injection. Then, rats were tested for the severity of physical dependence on morphine (spontaneous withdrawal signs), anxiety-like (the elevated plus maze), depressive-like (sucrose preference test) behaviors after spontaneous morphine withdrawal. Also, the CSF BDNF levels were assessed 2 h after the last dose of morphine and day 13 after morphine withdrawal in morphine-dependent and withdrawn rats. We found that the morphine withdrawal signs were significantly higher in morphine dependent rats receiving ANA-12 on days of 5-7 after morphine withdrawal, also ANA-12 exacerbated overall dependence severity. While, the percentage of time spent in the open arms and sucrose preference were higher in morphine-dependent rats receiving ANA-12 than morphine-dependent rats receiving saline. Also, the ANA-12 injection decreased the CSF BDNF levels following morphine dependence, while increased it after morphine withdrawal. We conclude that the ANA-12 exacerbated the severity of physical morphine dependence but attenuated the anxiety/depressive-like behaviors in morphine-dependent and withdrawn rats. Also, ANA-12 injection was able to reverse the changes in the CSF BDNF levels. Therefore, ANA-12 is not more likely to complete treatment for opiate addiction. Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Fatemeh Rezamohammadi, Mehrnoush Rahmani, Ali Ghanbari, Ali Khaleghian, Hossein Miladi-Gorji. BDNF receptor antagonism during the induction of morphine dependence exacerbates the severity of physical dependence and ameliorates psychological dependence in rats. Neuroscience letters. 2020 Oct 15;737:135332
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