英文摘要 |
By using an in vivo microdialysis technique, extracellular dopamine (DA) and cocaine concentration in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) after intravenous cocaine injection (1.5 mg/kg in group A and 3.0 mg/kg in group B) were evaluated in adult male Sprague-Dawley rate anesthetized with chloral hydrate (400 mg/ kg, i.p., with 80 mg/kg/h supplements). Dialysate samples were collected at 20-min intervals for a 100-min period and were analyzed for DA content by an HPLC/electrochemical detector, and for cocaine content by an HPLC /ultraviolet ' . detector. After intravenous (i.v.) cocaine injection, both DA and cocaine concentrations is the dialysate reached maximum within 20 minutes, correlated nicely, and then rapidly declined. The maximal DA increase was 214.0±20.3% for the high dose group and 118.7±5.0%, for the low dose group. The DA baseline concentration in dialysate was 0.390±0.058nM. The maximal cocaine concentration was 0.20±0.08µM, and 0.6±0.08µM respectively. By using an in vivo calibration method for microdidalysis, the in vivo reccovery of cocaine in the mPFC was obtained as 33±5%. The actual extracellular cocaine concentration was therefore calculated to be 1.84±0.64µM in group A dnd 4.00±0.94µgM in group B. Form the results, extracellular cocaine concentraion was found to be higly correlated with a DA percentile increase over the 100 min period of time. After first-order linear regression, the correlation coefficient was 0.976. In summary, in vivo microdialysis is not only a sampling technique for determining the drug concentration at a specific area in live subjects, but is also useful simultaneously to observe the changes of endogenous compound. Therefore, microdialysis technique is a popluar research tool with great potential in the immediate future and is a valuable new state of the art to be introduced into our research society. |