Effects of Frequency and Pattern of Medial Forebrain Bundle Stimulation on Caudate Dialysate Dopamine and Serotonin

: In vivo microdialysis was employed to detect changes in extracellular dopamine and serotonin in the rat caudate in response to electrical stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle. Extracellular dopamine concentrations increased linearly as a function of the frequency (4–33 Hz) of evenly spaced s...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of neurochemistry 1992-04, Vol.58 (4), p.1491-1498
Hauptverfasser: Manley, Leslie D., Kuczenski, Ronald, Segal, David S., Young, Stephen J., Groves, Philip M.
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Zusammenfassung:: In vivo microdialysis was employed to detect changes in extracellular dopamine and serotonin in the rat caudate in response to electrical stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle. Extracellular dopamine concentrations increased linearly as a function of the frequency (4–33 Hz) of evenly spaced stimuli in both the presence and absence of cocaine added to the dialysate. Because dopamine neurons are known to fire in single‐spike and burst patterns, stimulation pulses were also delivered in a bursting pattern. The response of extracellular dopamine was augmented in both the presence and absence of cocaine when the same number of stimuli were delivered in bursts as compared to an evenly spaced pattern. Serotonin, which was only assessed in the presence of cocaine, similarly increased linearly with frequency, but, in contrast to the dopamine response, levels of serotonin were not augmented by stimuli presented in bursts. These results suggest that microdialysis can be used to detect physiological changes in synaptic transmitter concentrations.
ISSN:0022-3042
1471-4159
DOI:10.1111/j.1471-4159.1992.tb11369.x