Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20634423›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics2010

Chronic stress enhances the corticosterone response and neurotoxicity to +3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA): the role of ambient temperature.

Bethann N Johnson, Bryan K Yamamoto

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Article in The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bethann N JohnsonDepartment of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Bryan K Yamamoto
Boston University · USUniversity of Toledo · US

Funding

Chronic Stress and MDMA NeurotoxicityR01DA016866 · NIDA · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI YAMAMOTO, BRYAN K · 2003 to 2006
$1.3M
NIDA NIH HHS DA016866NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA016866
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress facilitates drug abuse by humans. In rodents, stress enhances the neurochemical, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responses to psychostimulants. Although chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) enhances the acute hyperthermic and long-term monoamine-depleting effects of the psychostimulant +3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), the roles of hyperthermia and corticosterone (CORT) in mediating the stress-induced enhancement of MDMA-induced serotonin (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) depletions are unknown. Rats were exposed to 10 days of CUS and then challenged with MDMA (5 mg/kg i.p. once every 2 h for a total of four injections). Prior exposure to CUS augmented MDMA-induced hyperthermia and plasma CORT secretion and the long-term depletions in 5-HT content in striatum, hippocampus, and frontal cortex and DA content in striatum. A reduced ambient temperature of 21°C attenuated the hyperthermia, CORT secretion, and 5-HT decreases after MDMA in nonstressed rats. The lower ambient temperature also prevented the augmented hyperthermia, CORT secretion, and enhanced 5-HT and DA depletions after MDMA in chronically stressed rats to levels exhibited by nonstressed, MDMA-treated rats. To investigate the role of CORT on monoamine depletions in response to MDMA, stressed and nonstressed rats were treated with the CORT synthesis inhibitor metyrapone during exposure to MDMA. Metyrapone prevented CORT secretion in both stressed and nonstressed rats but did not modify 5-HT or DA depletions in any brain region examined. This study suggests that enhanced CORT is a consequence of enhanced hyperthermia and the CUS-induced enhancements of MDMA-induced monoamine depletions may be mediated by hyperthermia but not CORT.

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AnimalsBody TemperatureBrain ChemistryChromatography, High Pressure LiquidCorticosteroneDopamineEnzyme InhibitorsHallucinogensHippocampusMaleMetyraponeNeostriatumNeurotoxicity SyndromesN-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetaminePrefrontal CortexRatsCorticosteroneDopamineEnzyme InhibitorsHallucinogensMetyraponeN-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamineSerotonin

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PMID20634423
PMCPMC2957781
OpenAlexW2171690332

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