Previous work from our laboratory showed that cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, reverses three nicotine-induced behavioral effects in freshwater planarians: motility decrease, seizure-like movements, and withdrawal-like behaviors. The present work explored whether cotinine, a nicotine metabolite, antagonized the nicotine-induced effects on planarian motility in a concentration-dependent manner. We found that nicotine decreased planarian motility at nicotine concentrations above 60 μM but increased planarian velocity at concentrations equal to or below 50 μM, in agreement with previous data. Cotinine did not affect planarian motility at a concentration range between 250 and 2750 μM. Furthermore, we found that cotinine alleviated the 100 μM nicotine-induced motility decrease in a concentration-dependent manner and reversed the low nicotine concentration motility increase, albeit in a concentration-independent manner. The apparent concentration-dependent alleviation of >60 μM nicotine-induced motility decrease by cotinine suggests an orthosteric relationship between nicotine and cotinine. On the other hand, the evident concentration-independent cotinine alleviation of the increase in motility induced by 50 μM nicotine suggests an allosteric relationship. Our data is consistent with the existing literature about the relationship between nicotine and cotinine in various models, reinforcing the case for the usefulness of the planarian model in pharmacological studies.
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