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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 7, 3888-3896, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Neuroscience

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The role of dopamine in intracranial self-stimulation of the ventral tegmental area

HC Fibiger, FG LePiane, A Jakubovic and AG Phillips
Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

The role of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in brain stimulation reward produced by electrical stimulation of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) was investigated in the rat. In the first experiment, extensive 6- hydroxydopamine lesions of the ascending fibers of the mesotelencephalic DA projections resulted in significant changes in intracranial self-stimulation (ICS) rate-current intensity functions when the lesion was ipsilateral to the stimulating electrode. Similar contralateral lesions had no effect on these functions, thus ruling out lesion-induced performance deficits as being responsible for the decreases in ICS rates across the wide range of current intensities that occurred after the ipsilateral lesions. In the second experiment, ICS obtained from electrodes in the VTA resulted in significant increases in the DA metabolites, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and homovanillic acid (HVA) in the striatum, nucleus accumbens, and olfactory tubercle ipsilateral to the stimulating electrode. The ratios of DOPAC and HVA to DA, considered to be indices of DA utilization, were also increased in these brain regions ipsilateral to the electrode. No changes were observed in the contralateral striatum, nucleus accumbens, and olfactory tubercle. Similar increases were observed in stimulated "yoked" animals that received brain stimulation at identical rates and currents but did not lever-press for this stimulation. The third experiment examined the effects of lever- pressing for food on an FR8 schedule of reinforcement on DA utilization in the striatum, nucleus accumbens, and olfactory tubercle. Despite high rates of responding, no effects were observed on DOPAC:DA or HVA:DA ratios in these brain regions.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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