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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2015

The effect of modafinil on the rat dopamine transporter and dopamine receptors D1-D3 paralleling cognitive enhancement in the radial arm maze.

Yasemin Karabacak, Sunetra Sase, Yogesh D Aher, Ajinkya Sase, Sivaprakasam R Saroja, Ana Cicvaric, Harald Höger, Michael Berger, Vasiliy Bakulev, Harald H Sitte and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2015. 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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Yasemin KarabacakDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Sunetra SaseDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Yogesh D AherDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Ajinkya SaseDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Sivaprakasam R SarojaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Ana CicvaricDepartment of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Harald HögerCore Unit of Biomedical Research, Division of Laboratory Animal Science and Genetics, Medical University of Vienna, Himberg Austria.
Michael BergerCenter of Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Vasiliy BakulevTOSLab, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg Russia.
Harald H SitteInstitute of Pharmacology, Center of Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Johann LebanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Francisco J MonjeDepartment of Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
Gert LubecDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
University of Vienna · ATMedical University of Vienna · AT

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Abstract

A series of drugs have been reported to increase memory performance modulating the dopaminergic system and herein modafinil was tested for its working memory (WM) enhancing properties. Reuptake inhibition of dopamine, serotonin (SERT) and norepinephrine (NET) by modafinil was tested. Sixty male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into six groups (modafinil-treated 1-5-10 mg/kg body weight, trained and untrained and vehicle treated trained and untrained rats; daily injected intraperitoneally for a period of 10 days) and tested in a radial arm maze (RAM), a paradigm for testing spatial WM. Hippocampi were taken 6 h following the last day of training and complexes containing the unphosphorylated or phosphorylated dopamine transporter (DAT-CC and pDAT-CC) and complexes containing the D1-3 dopamine receptor subunits (D1-D3-CC) were determined. Modafinil was binding to the DAT but insignificantly to SERT or NET and dopamine reuptake was blocked specifically (IC50 = 11.11 μM; SERT 1547 μM; NET 182 μM). From day 8 (day 9 for 1 mg/kg body weight) modafinil was decreasing WM errors (WMEs) in the RAM significantly and remarkably at all doses tested as compared to the vehicle controls. WMEs were linked to the D2R-CC and the pDAT-CC. pDAT and D1-D3-CC levels were modulated significantly and modafinil was shown to enhance spatial WM in the rat in a well-documented paradigm at all the three doses and dopamine reuptake inhibition with subsequent modulation of D1-3-CC is proposed as a possible mechanism of action.

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BN-PAGEdopamine receptordopamine transportermodafinilradial arm mazeworking memory

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PMCPMC4541367
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