Changes in the dopaminergic system in the hypothalamus and midbrain of rats at chronic complex alcohol-morphine intoxication-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Changes in the dopaminergic system in the hypothalamus and midbrain of rats at chronic complex alcohol-morphine intoxication

Published:2021-06-04 Issue:2 Volume:18 Page:212-219
ISSN:2524-2350
Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Medical series
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Short-container-title:Vescì Nac. akad. navuk Belarusì, Ser. med. navuk

Author:

Vialichko I. M.¹,Lelevich S. V.¹,Lelevich V. V.¹

Affiliation:

1. Grodno State Medical University

Abstract

Recently, there have been more and more indications of alcoholic pathology burdened by drug use and vice versa. It is evident that the dopamine system plays an important role in the development of addiction when using drugs and alcohol. Experimentally, the long-term combined effect of psychoactive substances on neuromendatory changes in the dopaminergic system in the brain is poorly understood and requires more detailed consideration.The aim of the study was to examine the changes in the dopaminergic system in the hypothalamus and midbrain of rats during chronic alcohol intoxication, as well as a complex administration of morphine and ethanol.The experiments were carried out on white outbred male rats. Using the HPLC method, the levels of dopamine and its metabolites were determined in the regions of the brain during chronic alcohol intoxication, as well as with a combined administration of morphine and ethanol with various durations (7, 14 and 21 days).Chronic alcohol intoxication led to the signs of acceleration of the dopamine turnover only in the hypothalamus on the 7th and 14th days and its accumulation during three weeks of alcoholization. In the midbrain, a decrease in the concentration of the neurotransmitter was revealed when ethanol was injected for 7 days. Co-administration of surfactants was accompanied by slightly different changes: complex 7- and 21-day alcohol-morphine intoxication is accompanied by the dopamine accumulation in the hypothalamus and the decrease in the neurotransmitter turnover in the midbrain on the 14th and 21st days.

Publisher

Publishing House Belorusskaya Nauka

Subject

General Medicine

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