Prenatal Cadmium and Ethanol Increase Amphetamine-Evoked Dopamine Release in Rat Striatum
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2006
Description
To explore interactive deleterious effects of the teratogens ethanol and cadmium, pregnant rats were given cadmium (CdCl2, 50 ppm) and/or ethanol (10%), or tap water (controls) in the drinking water for the entire 21 days of pregnancy. At 3 months after birth, in vivo microdialysis was used to determine that there was a 4000% evoked release of DA by AMPH (AMPH, 4.0 mg/kg i.p.) in the striatum of rats exposed prenatally to both ethanol and cadmium, vs. a 2000% evoked release by AMPH in rats exposed prenatally to only ethanol or cadmium or tap water. Haloperidol (HAL)-evoked DA release was suppressed in groups exposed prenatally to ethanol, while HAL-evoked DOPAC and HVA release was greatest after co-exposure to prenatal cadmium and ethanol. These in vivo microdialysis results indicate that ontogenetic co-exposure to cadmium, and ethanol produces a long-lived suppressive effect on HAL-evoked DA release and a long-lived enhancing effect on AMPH-evoked DA release in rat striatum. These findings clearly demonstrate that there is marked alteration in dopaminergic regulation after ontogenetic cadmium and ethanol co-exposure, which in this regard resembles the reaction of the striatonigral pathway on AMPH-evoked DA release in rats with behavioral sensitization.
Citation Information
Nowak, Przemysław; Dabrowska, Joanna; Bortel, Aleksandra; Izabela, Biedka; Kostrzewa, Richard M.; and Brus, Ryszard. 2006. Prenatal Cadmium and Ethanol Increase Amphetamine-Evoked Dopamine Release in Rat Striatum. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. Vol.28(5). 563-572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ntt.2006.07.002 PMID: 17005368 ISSN: 0892-0362