Quinpirole, but not muscimol, infused into the nucleus accumbens disrupts prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle in rhesus macaques.
Neuropharmacology
; 235: 109563, 2023 09 01.
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ABSTRACT
Sensorimotor gating is the ability to suppress motor responses to irrelevant sensory inputs. This response is disrupted in a range of neuropsychiatric disorders. Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response (ASR) is a form of sensorimotor gating in which a low-intensity prepulse immediately precedes a startling stimulus, resulting in an attenuation of the startle response. PPI is conserved across species and the underlying circuitry mediating this effect has been widely studied in rodents. However, recent work from our laboratories has shown an unexpected divergence between the circuitry controlling PPI in rodents as compared to macaques. The nucleus accumbens, a component of the basal ganglia, has been identified as a key modulatory node for PPI in rodents. The role of the nucleus accumbens in modulating PPI in primates has yet to be investigated. We measured whole-body PPI of the ASR in six rhesus macaques following (1) pharmacological inhibition of the nucleus accumbens using the GABAA agonist muscimol, and (2) focal application of the dopamine D2/3 agonist quinpirole (at 3 doses). We found that quinpirole, but not muscimol, infused into the nucleus accumbens disrupts prepulse inhibition in monkeys. These results differ from those observed in rodents, where both muscimol and quinpirole disrupt prepulse inhibition.
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Prepulse Inhibition
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Nucleus Accumbens
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Animals
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En
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Neuropharmacology
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2023
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