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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 31, 2004, 24(13):3235-3241; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0112-04.2004

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Constitutive Activity of the Serotonin2C Receptor Inhibits In Vivo Dopamine Release in the Rat Striatum and Nucleus Accumbens

Philippe De Deurwaerdère,¹ Sylvia Navailles,¹ Kelly A Berg,² William P. Clarke,² and Umberto Spampinato¹

¹Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5541–Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Boîte Postale 31, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France, and ²Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas, Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900

Numerous research has pointed out that serotonin2c (5-HT_2C) receptor, a subtype of 5-HT receptors belonging to the G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily, modulates the activity of mesencephalic dopamine (DA) neurons, the dysfunction of which is involved in devastating diseases such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, and drug addiction. In the present study, using in vivo intracerebral microdialysis and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells expressing 5-HT_2C receptors to identify appropriate 5-HT_2C receptor ligands, we sought to determine whether the property of 5-HT_2C receptors to spontaneously activate intracellular signaling pathways in vitro (constitutive activity) participates in the tonic inhibitory control that they exert on DA release in the rat striatum and nucleus accumbens in vivo. In CHO cells, the purported antagonist 5-methyl-1-(3-pyridylcarbamoyl)-1,2,3,5-tetrahydropyrrolo[2,3-f] indole hydrochloride (SB 206553), but not 6-chloro-5-methyl-1-[6-(2-methylpiridin-3-yloxy)pyridin-3-yl carbamoyl] indoline (SB 242084), decreased basal inositol phosphate accumulation, thus behaving as a 5-HT_2C inverse agonist. Its effect was prevented by SB 242084. In vivo, SB 206553 (1–10 mg/kg) elicited a dose-dependent and clear-cut increase in accumbal and striatal DA release compared with SB 242084 (1–10 mg/kg), and the 5-HT_2C agonist S-2-(6-chloro-5-fluoroindol-1-yl)-1-methylethylamine hydrochloride (Ro-60-0175) (0.3–3 mg/kg) inhibited DA release. Pretreatment by SB 242084 reversed the change in DA release elicited by Ro-60-0175 and SB 206553. Furthermore, SB 206553-stimulated DA release was insensitive to reduction of 5-HT neuronal function induced by the 5-HT_1A agonist (±)-8-hydroxy-2-dipropylaminotetralin or intra-raphe injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine neurotoxin. The obtained results provide the first in vivo evidence that constitutive activity of the 5-HT_2C receptor tonically inhibits mesencephalic DA neurons and underscore the need for a better understanding of the pathophysiological role of constitutive receptor activity.

Key words: DA release; striatum; nucleus accumbens; 5-HT_2C receptor; rat; constitutive activity

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Received Sep 16, 2003; revised February 13, 2004; accepted February 13, 2004.

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