PMID- 16529908 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060628 LR - 20161128 IS - 0892-0362 (Print) IS - 0892-0362 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 2 DP - 2006 Mar-Apr TI - Prenatal cocaine alters dopamine and sigma receptor binding in nucleus accumbens and striatum in dams and adolescent offspring. PG - 173-80 AB - Maternal cocaine abuse is a societal problem with serious impact on both mother and child. Few studies exist that study the mother/offspring dyad of neurological effects of maternal cocaine abuse. The present study was designed to study alterations in D2, D3 and sigma receptor density in nucleus accumbens and striatum of dams and male and female offspring following gestational cocaine. Long-Evans female rats were implanted with an intravenous (i.v.) access port prior to breeding and were administered saline or 3.0 mg/kg of cocaine from gestational day (GD) GD8-20 (1 injection/day-GD8-14, 2 injections/day-GD15-20). Offspring were raised by maternal dams and allowed to mature until postnatal days 31-35, at which time dams and offspring were sacrificed for assay of radioligand binding. In dams, decreased D2 (24.6%) and D3 (36.9%) binding was observed in striatum. Female offspring displayed no differences in receptor binding in either region. Male offspring displayed decreased D2 receptor binding (27.1%) in nucleus accumbens and increased D3 (75.2% and 33.5%) and sigma receptor binding (73.4% and 53.1%) in accumbens and striatum, respectively. Collectively, these data clearly demonstrate that male offspring exhibit significant alterations in D2, D3 and sigma receptor binding. These results suggest that dams and offspring display long-lasting alterations (5 weeks) in dopamine receptor binding. These alterations in dopamine and sigma receptor binding in offspring following prenatal cocaine and rearing by maternal dams are sex specific and could have profound effects on the development of behavior. FAU - Silvers, J M AU - Silvers JM AD - University of South Carolina, Department of Psychology, Physiology and Pharmacology, Program in Behavioral Neuroscience, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. silversj@gwm.sc.edu FAU - Wallace, D R AU - Wallace DR FAU - Harrod, S B AU - Harrod SB FAU - Mactutus, C F AU - Mactutus CF FAU - Booze, R M AU - Booze RM LA - eng GR - DA013965/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DA013137-04S1/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DA013137-05/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - DA014401/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - DA013137/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - DA009160/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 DA013137/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States GR - HD043680/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20060309 PL - United States TA - Neurotoxicol Teratol JT - Neurotoxicology and teratology JID - 8709538 RN - 0 (Benzamides) RN - 0 (Guanidines) RN - 0 (Isotopes) RN - 0 (Pyrrolidines) RN - 0 (Receptors, Dopamine) RN - 0 (Receptors, sigma) RN - 0 (Tetrahydronaphthalenes) RN - 107188-87-4 (epidepride) RN - I5Y540LHVR (Cocaine) RN - LL2P01I17O (1,3-ditolylguanidine) RN - RR7D75YDF4 (7-hydroxy-2-N,N-dipropylaminotetralin) SB - IM MH - Analysis of Variance MH - Animals MH - Animals, Newborn MH - Autoradiography/methods MH - Behavior, Animal/drug effects MH - Benzamides/pharmacokinetics MH - Cocaine/toxicity MH - Corpus Striatum/*drug effects/metabolism MH - Female MH - Gestational Age MH - Guanidines/*pharmacokinetics MH - Isotopes/pharmacokinetics MH - Male MH - Nucleus Accumbens/*drug effects/metabolism MH - Pregnancy MH - Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects/chemically induced/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding/drug effects MH - Pyrrolidines/pharmacokinetics MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Receptors, Dopamine/classification/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Receptors, sigma/drug effects/*metabolism MH - Sex Factors MH - Tetrahydronaphthalenes/pharmacokinetics EDAT- 2006/03/15 09:00 MHDA- 2006/06/29 09:00 CRDT- 2006/03/15 09:00 PHST- 2005/07/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2006/01/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2006/01/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2006/03/15 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/06/29 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/03/15 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0892-0362(06)00022-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ntt.2006.01.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurotoxicol Teratol. 2006 Mar-Apr;28(2):173-80. doi: 10.1016/j.ntt.2006.01.009. Epub 2006 Mar 9.