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Impaired Emotional-Like Behavior and Serotonergic Function During Protracted Abstinence from Chronic Morphine

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Goeldner, Celia, Lutz, Pierre-Eric, Darcq, Emmanuel, Halter, Thomas, Clesse, Daniel, Ouagazzal, Abdel-Mouttalib, Kieffer, Brigitte L.·2011·Biological Psychiatry

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Background Opiate abuse is a chronic relapsing disorder, and maintaining prolonged abstinence remains a major challenge. Protracted abstinence is characterized by lowered mood, and clinical studies show elevated comorbidity between addiction and depressive disorders. At present, their relationship remains unclear and has been little studied in animal models. Here we investigated emotional alterations during protracted abstinence, in mice with a history of chronic morphine exposure.Methods C57BL6J mice were exposed to a chronic intermittent escalating morphine regimen (20-100 mg/kg). Physical dependence (naloxone-precipitated withdrawal), despair-related behaviors (tail suspension test), and social behaviors were examined after 1 or 4 weeks of abstinence. Stress hormones and forebrain bioamine levels were analyzed at the end of morphine regimen and after 4 weeks of abstinence. Finally, we examined the effects of chronic fluoxetine during abstinence on morphine-induced behavioral deficits.Results Acute naloxone-induced withdrawal was clearly measurable after 1 week, and became undetectable after 4 weeks. In contrast, social and despair-related behaviors were unchanged after 1 week, but low sociability and despair-like behavior became significant after 4 weeks. Chronic morphine regimen increased both corticosterone levels and forebrain serotonin turnover, but only serotonergic activity in the dorsal raphe remained impaired after 4 weeks. Remarkably, chronic fluoxetine prevented depressive-like behavioral deficits in 4-week abstinent mice.Conclusions During protracted abstinence, the immediate consequences of morphine exposure attenuate, whereas fluoxetine-sensitive emotional alterations strengthen with time. Our study establishes a direct link between morphine abstinence and depressive-like symptoms and strongly suggests that serotonin dysfunction represents a main mechanism contributing to mood disorders in opiate abstinence.

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Authors
Goeldner, C., Lutz, P.-E., Darcq, E., Halter, T., Clesse, D., Ouagazzal, A.-M., & Kieffer, B. L.
Affiliations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Corresponding author
Kieffer, Brigitte L.
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-02
Volume
69
Issue
3
Pages
236-244
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1963916634
Cited by
163
References
78
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FWCI
3.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • European Union (GENADDICT/FP6 005166)
  • Fondation de la Recherche Médicale
  • National Institutes of Health (NIAAA AA-16658, NIDA DA-16768)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
Keywords
morphine withdrawal, opioid withdrawal, depression, serotonin, dorsal raphe nucleus, fluoxetine, naloxone-precipitated withdrawal, social behavior, despair-like behavior, corticosterone, mood disorders, chronic morphine exposure
MeSH terms
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Animals, Corticosterone, Disease Models, Animal, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Emotions, Fluoxetine, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Morphine, Morphine Dependence, Raphe Nuclei, Serotonin, Social Behavior, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Time Factors, Prosencephalon, Mice

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