Reversal of stress-induced anhedonia by the atypical antidepressants,fluoxetine and maprotiline |
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Authors: | Richard Muscat Mariusz Papp Paul Willner |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, City of London Polytechnic, Old Castle Street, E1 7NT London, UK;(2) Present address: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta;(3) Present address: Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland |
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Abstract: | Chronic exposure to mild unpredictable stress has previously been found to depress the consumption of palatable sweet solutions. In the present study this effect was reversed by chronic (9 weeks) treatment with the atypical antidepressants, fluoxetine and maprotiline (5 mg/kg/day); the non-antidepressant chlordiazepoxide was ineffective. Stressed animals were also subsensitive to food reward in the place conditioning procedure; however, fluoxetine and maprotiline treated animals showed normal place preference conditioning. Acute pretreatment with raclopride (100 µg/kg) selectively reversed the recovery of sucrose drinking in antidepressant-treated stressed animals. These results extend previous reports of the efficacy of tricyclic antidepressants in this paradigm, and support the hypothesis of a dopaminergic mechanism of antidepressant action. |
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Keywords: | Stress Sucrose drinking Place preference conditioning Reward Fluoxetine Maprotiline Chlordiazepoxide Rats |
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