Intravenous self-administration of abused solvents and anesthetics in mice
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Volatile organic solvents, fuels and anesthetics are subject to abuse. The aim of the present study was to evaluate i.v. self-administration of several of these chemicals in drug- and experiment-naive mice using a commercially available vehicle, intralipid. Two strains of mice (DBA/2 and Swiss) were allowed to self-administer toluene (0.0017–0.17 μmol/infusion), 1,1,1-trichloroethane (0.006–0.19 μmol/infusion), ethanol (0.32–1.6 μmol/infusion), cyclohexane (0.0017–0.052 μmol/infusion), propofol (0.01–0.53 μmol/infusion) and flurothyl (0.00042–0.072 μmol/infusion) or their vehicles during 30-min tests. During the test, each nose-poke of the master mouse resulted in a 1.88-μl i.v. infusion to the master mouse and a yoked control mouse. When the delivery line was loaded with a reinforcing drug solution, the number of nose-pokes of the master mice significantly exceeded that for yoked control mice. In the present experiments, significant differences in rates of nose-poking were observed between mice receiving response-contingent and response-noncontingent deliveries of ethanol and toluene in both strains of mice and of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in Swiss mice. These data suggest that the reinforcing effects of abused inhalants can be studied using i.v. self-administration procedures.