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Excitotoxic lesions of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus attenuate intravenous cocaine self-administration.

The present experiments investigated the effects of excitotoxic, axon-sparing lesions of the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus (MD) on locomotor activity and i.v. cocaine self-administration. Infusion of quinolinic acid into the MD using a glass micropipette produced well-defined neuronal loss restricted to medial and lateral portions of the MD, sparing adjacent areas such as the lateral habenula and paraventricular thalamic nucleus. MD lesions resulted in delayed habituation to activity cages. In addition, lesioned rats self-administered significantly smaller amounts of cocaine than controls during a 14-day acquisition period, and showed attenuated responding for cocaine doses on the descending limb of the dose-effect function. Since typical titrating patterns of responding were maintained in lesioned rats, and responding on the inactive lever did not differ from sham-operated animals, these present results indicate an enhanced sensitivity to the reinforcing effects of response-contingent cocaine in rats with excitotoxic lesions of the MD.[1]

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  1. Excitotoxic lesions of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus attenuate intravenous cocaine self-administration. Weissenborn, R., Whitelaw, R.B., Robbins, T.W., Everitt, B.J. Psychopharmacology (Berl.) (1998) [Pubmed]
 
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