Differential Effects of Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Methanandamide in CB1 Knockout and Wild Type Mice by CASSANDRA Y. BASKFIELD
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Mice devoid of CB1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1-/mice) provide a unique opportunity to further investigate the role of CB1 receptors in exocannabinoid and endocannabinoid effects. CB1-/mice (N=18) and their wild type littermates (CB1+/+ mice; N=12) were placed in standard mouse operant chambers and trained to lever press under a fixed-ratio 10 schedule of reinforcement. When stable lever press responding under the fixed ratio10 schedule had been established, cannabinoids and non-cannabinoids were administered to both groups. CB1+/+ mice acquired the lever press response more readily than CB1-/mice. ∆-THC decreased lever press responding in CB1+/+ mice only, whereas methanandamide, a metabolically stable endocannabinoid analog, produced similar response rate decreases in both genotypic groups. Similar to ∆-THC, another endocannabinoid analog O-1812 decreased responding in CB1+/+ mice, but not in CB1-/mice. The CB1 receptor antagonist SR141716A, blocked the effects of ∆-THC, but not those of methanandamide. As methanandamide binds poorly to CB2 receptors, these results suggest possible non-CB1, non-CB2 mechanisms of action for methanandamideinduced behavioral disruption of lever press responding. Ethanol and morphine elicited greater response decreases in CB1-/mice than in CB1+/+ mice, suggesting a possible role of CB1 receptors in the rate disruptive effects of these drugs. In contrast, diazepam did not produce between group differences, suggesting that CB1 receptors are not involved in diazepam-induced disruption of lever press responding. This article has not been copyedited and formatted. The final version may differ from this version. JPET Fast Forward. Published on January 12, 2004 as DOI: 10.1124/jpet.103.055376 at A PE T Jornals on N ovem er 3, 2017 jpet.asjournals.org D ow nladed from
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