The inability to maintain drug abstinence is often referred to as relapse and consists of a process by which an abstaining individual slips back into old behavioral patterns and substance use. Animal models of relapse have been developed over the last decades and significantly contributed to shed light on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying vulnerability to relapse. The most common procedure to study drug-seeking and relapse-like behavior in animals is the “extinction-reinstatement model.” Originally elaborated by Pavlov and Skinner, the concepts of reinforced operant responding were applied to addiction research not before 1971 (Stretch et al., Can J Physiol Pharmacol 49:581–589, 1971), and the first report of a reinstatement animal model as it is now used worldwide was published only 10 years later (De Wit and Stewart, Psychopharmacology 75:134–143, 1981). According to the proposed model, opioids are typically self-administered intravenously, as humans do, and although rodents are most often employed in these studies, a variety of species including nonhuman primates, dogs, cats, and pigeons can be used. Several operant responses are available, depending on the species studied. For example, a lever press or a nose poke response typically is used for rodents, whereas a panel press response typically is used for nonhuman primates. In this chapter we describe a simple and easily reproducible protocol of heroin-seeking reinstatement in rats, which proved useful to study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying relapse to heroin and vulnerability factors enhancing the resumption of heroin-seeking behavior.

Analysis of opioid-seeking behavior through the intravenous self-administration reinstatement model in rats

Fadda P.;
2021-01-01

Abstract

The inability to maintain drug abstinence is often referred to as relapse and consists of a process by which an abstaining individual slips back into old behavioral patterns and substance use. Animal models of relapse have been developed over the last decades and significantly contributed to shed light on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying vulnerability to relapse. The most common procedure to study drug-seeking and relapse-like behavior in animals is the “extinction-reinstatement model.” Originally elaborated by Pavlov and Skinner, the concepts of reinforced operant responding were applied to addiction research not before 1971 (Stretch et al., Can J Physiol Pharmacol 49:581–589, 1971), and the first report of a reinstatement animal model as it is now used worldwide was published only 10 years later (De Wit and Stewart, Psychopharmacology 75:134–143, 1981). According to the proposed model, opioids are typically self-administered intravenously, as humans do, and although rodents are most often employed in these studies, a variety of species including nonhuman primates, dogs, cats, and pigeons can be used. Several operant responses are available, depending on the species studied. For example, a lever press or a nose poke response typically is used for rodents, whereas a panel press response typically is used for nonhuman primates. In this chapter we describe a simple and easily reproducible protocol of heroin-seeking reinstatement in rats, which proved useful to study the neurobiological mechanisms underlying relapse to heroin and vulnerability factors enhancing the resumption of heroin-seeking behavior.
2021
978-1-0716-0883-8
978-1-0716-0884-5
Drug priming; Drug-associated cues; Drug-associated cues; Heroin-seeking; Reinstatement; Relapse; Stress
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