Amphetamine-induced rotation and l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in the rat 6-OHDA model: a correlation study

Tronci, Elisabetta, Shin, Eunju ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8865-6834, Björklund, Anders and Carta, Manolo 2012. Amphetamine-induced rotation and l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in the rat 6-OHDA model: a correlation study. Neuroscience Research 73 (2) , pp. 168-172. 10.1016/j.neures.2012.03.004

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Abstract

The present study investigated whether the rotation rate induced by amphetamine in 6-OHDA-lesioned rats was predictive of development of l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID) and success of the lesion procedure in our experimental settings. We collected data from 312 6-OHDA-lesioned rats (from different sets of experiments). Rats were subjected to the amphetamine-induced rotation test (2.5 mg/kg) and chronically treated with l-DOPA (6 mg/kg) to establish dyskinesia. A poor correlation was present between amphetamine-induced rotation and LID. Moreover, no correlation was found between amphetamine-induced rotation and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) positive cell number in the lesioned substantia nigra pars compacta, while there was a weak correlation between the percentage of TH positive cell number and LID. These results indicate that the amphetamine-induced rotation test is a poor predictor of the 6-OHDA-lesion success, as well as of the development of LID at the dose of amphetamine used here. Our data also suggest that all rats with amphetamine-induced rotation ≥3 turns/min should be included in dyskinesia studies, as they showed the same propensity to develop dyskinesia. Moreover, SERT expression levels suggest that reduced striatal and pallidal serotonin innervation might have contributed to the lower dyskinesia levels observed in a subset of amphetamine-responsive rats.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0168-0102
Date of Acceptance:	8 March 2012
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2022 09:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81019

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