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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 1, 2001, 21(23):9438-9444
Different Requirements for cAMP Response Element Binding Protein
in Positive and Negative Reinforcing Properties of Drugs of
Abuse
Carrie L.
Walters and
Julie A.
Blendy
Department of Pharmacology, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
Addiction is a complex process that relies on the ability of an
organism to integrate positive and negative properties of drugs of
abuse. Therefore, studying the reinforcing as well as aversive
components of drugs of abuse in a single model system will enable us to
understand the role of final common mediators, such as cAMP response
element-binding protein (CREB), in the addiction process. To this end,
we analyzed mice with a mutation in the and isoforms of the
CREB gene. Previously we have shown that CREB
mutant mice in a mixed genetic background show attenuated signs of
physical dependence, as measured by the classic signs of withdrawal. We
have generated a uniform genetically stable F1 hybrid (129SvEv/C57BL/6) mouse line harboring the CREB mutation. We have found the functional activity of CREB in these F1 hybrid mice to be dramatically reduced compared with their wild-type littermates. These mice maintain a
reduced withdrawal phenotype after chronic morphine. We are now poised
to examine a number of complex behavioral phenotypes related to
addiction in a well defined CREB-deficient mouse model.
We demonstrate that the aversive properties of morphine are still
present in CREB mutant mice despite a reduction of physical withdrawal.
On the other hand, these mice do not respond to the reinforcing
properties of morphine in a conditioned place preference paradigm. In
contrast, CREB mutant mice demonstrate an enhanced response to the
reinforcing properties of cocaine compared with their wild-type
controls in both conditioned place preference and sensitization
behaviors. These data may provide the first paradigm for differential
vulnerability to various drugs of abuse.
Key words:
mice; CREB; morphine; cocaine; conditioned place
preference; sensitization
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