Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2016
Journal / Book Title
Brain Research
Abstract
The atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine remains one of most effective treatments for schizophrenia, given a lack of extrapyramidal side effects, improvements in negative symptoms, cognitive impairment, and in symptoms in treatment-resistant schizophrenia. The adverse effects of clozapine, including agranulocytosis, make finding a safe clozapine-like a drug a goal for drug developers. The drug discrimination paradigm is a model of interoceptive stimulus that has been used in an effort to screen experimental drugs for clozapine-like atypical antipsychotic effects. The present study was conducted to elucidate the receptor-mediated stimulus properties that form this clozapine discriminative cue by testing selective receptor ligands in rats trained to discriminate a 1.25 mg/kg dose of clozapine from vehicle in a two choice drug discrimination task. Full substitution occurred with the 5-HT2A inverse agonist M100907 and the two preferential D4/5-HT2/α1 receptor antagonists Lu 37-114 ((S)-1-(3-(2-(4-(1H-indol-5-yl)piperazin-1-yl)ethyl)indolin-1-yl)ethan-1-one) and Lu 37-254 (1-(3-(4-(1H-indol-5-yl)piperazin-1-yl)propyl)-3,4-dihydroquinolin-2(1H)-one). Partial substitution occurred with the D4 receptor antagonist Lu 38-012 and the α1 adrenoceptor antagonist prazosin. Drugs selective for 5-HT2C, 5-HT6 muscarinic, histamine H1, and benzodiazepine receptors did not substitute for clozapine. The present findings suggest that 5-HT2A inverse agonism and D4 receptor antagonism mediate the discriminative stimulus properties of 1.25 mg/kg clozapine in rats, and further confirm that clozapine produces a complex compound discriminative stimulus.
DOI
10.1016/j.brainres.2016.08.004
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Prus, Adam J.; Wise, Laura E.; Pehrson, Alan; Philibin, Scott D.; Bang-Andersen, Benny; Arnt, Jørn; and Porter, Joseph H., "Discriminative Stimulus Properties of 1.25 Mg/Kg Clozapine in Rats: Mediation by Serotonin 5-HT2 and Dopamine D4 Receptors" (2016). Department of Psychology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 178.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/psychology-facpubs/178
Published Citation
Prus, A. J., Wise, L. E., Pehrson, A. L., Philibin, S. D., Bang-Andersen, B., Arnt, J., & Porter, J. H. (2016). Discriminative stimulus properties of 1.25 mg/kg clozapine in rats: Mediation by serotonin 5-HT2 and dopamine D4 receptors. Brain Research, 1648, 298-305.