Behavioral Neuropharmacology Lab, Medical Department, Building 490, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.
Neuroimage. 2012 Jan 16;59(2):1508-13. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.028. Epub 2011 Aug 26.
Deficits in dopamine D2/D3 receptor (D2R/D3R) binding availability using PET imaging have been reported in obese humans and rodents. Similar deficits have been reported in cocaine-addicts and cocaine-exposed primates. We found that D2R/D3R binding availability negatively correlated with measures of body weight at the time of scan (ventral striatum), at 1 (ventral striatum) and 2 months (dorsal and ventral striatum) post scan in rats. Cocaine preference was negatively correlated with D2R/D3R binding availability 2 months (ventral striatum) post scan. Our findings suggest that inherent deficits in striatal D2R/D3R signaling are related to obesity and drug addiction susceptibility and that ventral and dorsal striatum serve dissociable roles in maintaining weight gain and cocaine preference. Measuring D2R/D3R binding availability provides a way for assessing susceptibility to weight gain and cocaine abuse in rodents and given the translational nature of PET imaging, potentially primates and humans.
使用正电子发射断层扫描(PET)成像技术已经在肥胖的人类和啮齿动物中发现了多巴胺 D2/D3 受体(D2R/D3R)结合可用性的缺陷。在可卡因成瘾者和可卡因暴露的灵长类动物中也报告了类似的缺陷。我们发现,D2R/D3R 结合可用性与扫描时的体重测量值(腹侧纹状体)以及扫描后 1 个月(腹侧纹状体)和 2 个月(背侧和腹侧纹状体)呈负相关。可卡因偏好与扫描后 2 个月(腹侧纹状体)的 D2R/D3R 结合可用性呈负相关。我们的研究结果表明,纹状体 D2R/D3R 信号的固有缺陷与肥胖和药物成瘾易感性有关,腹侧和背侧纹状体在维持体重增加和可卡因偏好方面起着不同的作用。测量 D2R/D3R 结合可用性为评估啮齿动物对体重增加和可卡因滥用的易感性提供了一种方法,鉴于 PET 成像的转化性质,可能还包括灵长类动物和人类。