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Pramipexole induced place preference after L-dopa therapy and nigral dopaminergic loss: linking behavior to transcriptional modifications

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Rationale

Impulsive-compulsive disorders (ICD) in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been described as behavioral or substance addictions including hypersexuality, gambling, or compulsive medication use of the dopamine replacement therapy (DRT).

Objectives

A remaining challenge is to understand the neuroadaptations leading to reward bias in PD patients under DRT.

Methods

To this end, the appetitive effect of the D2/D3 agonist pramipexole was assessed after chronic exposure to l-dopa in an alpha-synuclein PD rat model.

Results

Association of progressive nigral loss and chronic l-dopa was required to observe a pramipexole-induced place preference. This behavioral outcome was inhibited by metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) antagonism while transcriptional profiling highlighted regulations potentially related to the context of psychostimulant addiction.

Conclusion

This study provides evidences strongly suggesting that PD-like lesion and l-dopa therapy were concomitant factors involved in striatal remodeling underlying the pramipexole-induced place preference. Molecular and pharmacological data suggest a key involvement of the glutamatergic pathway in this behavioral outcome.

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This work was funded by grants from the Fondation de France and the Fédération Française des Groupements de Parkinsoniens. Authors thank The Michael J. Fox Foundation for providing the AAV vectors.

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  1. Poppy Winlow

    Present address: Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, LS29JT, Leeds, UK

  2. Sarah Dremier

    Present address: Euroscreen SA, 6041, Gosselies, Belgium

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  1. UFR Medicine, Université d’Auvergne, 28 Place Henri Dunant, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Simon Loiodice, David Dardou, Omar Ouachikh, Aziz Hafidi & Franck Durif

  2. Department of Non-Clinical Development, UCB Biopharma SPRL, Chemin du Foriest 1, 1420, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium

    Simon Loiodice, Poppy Winlow, Sarah Dremier, Etienne Hanon & Andre Nogueira da Costa

  3. Neurology Department, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, 28 Place Henri Dunant, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France

    Franck Durif

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Loiodice, S., Winlow, P., Dremier, S. et al. Pramipexole induced place preference after L-dopa therapy and nigral dopaminergic loss: linking behavior to transcriptional modifications. Psychopharmacology 234, 15–27 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4430-7

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