Opiate tolerance by heroin self-administration: an fMRI study in rat

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine : Official Journal of the Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Zheng-Xiong XiShi-Jiang Li

Abstract

Functional MRI (fMRI) was employed to determine whether repeated heroin self-administration (SA) produces tolerance or sensitization in the brain of heroin-SA rats. Twelve rats were evenly divided into saline and heroin (0.06 mg/kg, 4 hr/day) SA groups. There was a progressive increase in drug-SA behavior and daily heroin intake during the 8-9 days of heroin-SA training. Within 24 hr after the last session of daily SA, acute heroin (0.1 mg/kg) administration induced regional blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals in both groups of rats. The positive BOLD signals appeared mainly in the cortical regions, including the prefrontal cortex, cingulate, and olfactory cortex, while the negative BOLD signals were predominantly located in subcortical regions such as caudate and putamen, nucleus accumbens, thalamus, and hypothalamus. However, the number of activated voxels or BOLD-signal intensity was significantly less in heroin-SA rat in regions of prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, and thalamus, etc., compared to the changes in the saline control rats. Application of gamma-vinyl GABA (100 mg/kg), an irreversible GABA-transaminase inhibitor, failed to block opiate actions in the heroin-SA rats. Together, these data suggest that r...Continue Reading

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