- Title
- Differential effects of chronic methamphetamine treatment on high-frequency oscillations and responses to acute methamphetamine and NMDA receptor blockade in conscious mice
- Creator
- Hudson, Matthew R.; Foreman, Joshua; Rind, Gil; Manning, Elizabeth E.; Jones, Nigel C.; van den Buuse, Maarten
- Relation
- Brain sciences Vol. 12, Issue 11, no. 1503
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12111503
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Dysregulation of high-frequency neuronal oscillations has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Chronic methamphetamine (METH) use can induce psychosis similar to paranoid schizophrenia. The current study in mice aimed to determine the effect of chronic METH treatment on ongoing and evoked neuronal oscillations. C57BL/6 mice were treated with METH or vehicle control for three weeks and implanted with extradural recording electrodes. Two weeks after the last METH injection, mice underwent three EEG recording sessions to measure ongoing and auditory-evoked gamma and beta oscillatory power in response to an acute challenge with METH (2 mg/kg), the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 (0.3 mg/kg), or saline control. A separate group of mice pretreated with METH showed significantly greater locomotor hyperactivity to an acute METH challenge, confirming long-term sensitisation. Chronic METH did not affect ongoing or evoked gamma or beta power. Acute MK-801 challenge reduced ongoing beta power whereas acute METH challenge significantly increased ongoing gamma power. Both MK-801 and METH challenge suppressed evoked gamma power. Chronic METH treatment did not modulate these acute drug effects. There were minor effects of chronic METH and acute METH and MK-801 on selected components of event-related potential (ERP) waves. In conclusion, chronic METH treatment did not exert neuroplastic effects on the regulation of cortical gamma oscillations in a manner consistent with schizophrenia, despite causing behavioural sensitisation.
- Subject
- methamphetamine; mice; neural oscillations; gamma power; sensitisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1483810
- Identifier
- uon:51211
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-3425
- Rights
- © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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