Abstract
Serotonin 5-HT 1B receptors modulate behavioral responses to cocaine, but the effects of cocaine on endogenous 5-HT 1B receptor expression are not known. Therefore, we examined the effect of binge cocaine administration on 5-HT1B mRNA expression in rat brain. We found that chronic, but not acute, binge cocaine exposure increased 5-HT 1B mRNA by ∼80% in nucleus accumbens shell and dorsal striatum. Surprisingly, 5-HT 1B mRNA was increased in nucleus accumbens shell after chronic vehicle treatment as well, but this effect was driven by animals that were housed with cocaine-treated animals. Thus, 5-HT 1B mRNA is upregulated by repeated exposure to cocaine and perhaps by social stress as well; both of these factors are relevant to the risk for relapse in cocaine addiction.
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