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Bensing PC, Moye C, Leong KC. Oxytocin attenuates cocaine-associated place preference via the dorsal hippocampus in male and female rats. Physiol Behav 2024; 282:114599. [PMID: 38823754 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2024.114599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/03/2024]
Abstract
Cocaine addiction is the third largest cause of overdose-related deaths in the United States. Research investigating therapeutic targets for cocaine reward processes is key to combating this issue. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) has been shown to reduce cocaine reward processes, though specific mechanisms are not understood. This study examines the effect of intra-dorsal hippocampal (DH) OXT on the expression of cocaine context associations using a conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm. In this paradigm, one of two visually distinct chambers is paired with a drug. With repeated pairings, control animals display preference for the drug-associated context by spending more time in that context at test. In the present study, four conditioning days took place where male and female rats were injected with either cocaine or saline and placed into the corresponding chamber. On test day, rats received infusions of OXT or saline (VEH) into the DH and were allowed access to both chambers. The results show that while VEH-infused rats displayed cocaine CPP, OXT-infused rats did not prefer the cocaine-paired chamber. These findings implicate the DH as necessary in the mechanism by which OXT acts to block the expression of cocaine-context associations, providing insight into how OXT may exert its therapeutic effect in cocaine reward processes.
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- Paige C Bensing
- Department of Psychology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
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Zuniga A, Han J, Miller-Crews I, Agee LA, Hofmann HA, Drew MR. Extinction training suppresses activity of fear memory ensembles across the hippocampus and alters transcriptomes of fear-encoding cells. Neuropsychopharmacology 2024:10.1038/s41386-024-01897-0. [PMID: 38877180 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-024-01897-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 05/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/16/2024]
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Contextual fear conditioning has been shown to activate a set of "fear ensemble" cells in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) whose reactivation is necessary and sufficient for expression of contextual fear. We previously demonstrated that extinction learning suppresses reactivation of these fear ensemble cells and activates a competing set of DG cells-the "extinction ensemble." Here, we tested whether extinction was sufficient to suppress reactivation in other regions and used single nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) of cells in the dorsal dentate gyrus to examine how extinction affects the transcriptomic activity of fear ensemble and fear recall-activated cells. Our results confirm the suppressive effects of extinction in the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus and demonstrate that this same effect extends to fear ensemble cells located in the dorsal CA1. Interestingly, the extinction-induced suppression of fear ensemble activity was not detected in ventral CA1. Our snRNA-seq analysis demonstrates that extinction training markedly changes transcription patterns in fear ensemble cells and that cells activated during recall of fear and recall of extinction have distinct transcriptomic profiles. Together, our results indicate that extinction training suppresses a broad portion of the fear ensemble in the hippocampus, and this suppression is accompanied by changes in the transcriptomes of fear ensemble cells and the emergence of a transcriptionally unique extinction ensemble.
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- Alfredo Zuniga
- Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, The College of Wooster, 1189 Beall Ave, Wooster, OH, 44691, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
- Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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- Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
- Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
- Institute for Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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Lombardi AM, Wong H, Bower ME, Milstead R, Borski C, Schmitt E, Griffioen M, LaPlante L, Ehringer MA, Stitzel J, Hoeffer CA. AKT2 modulates astrocytic nicotine responses in vivo. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.31.596856. [PMID: 38854016 PMCID: PMC11160815 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.31.596856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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A better understanding of nicotine neurobiology is needed to reduce or prevent chronic addiction, ameliorate the detrimental effects of nicotine withdrawal, and increase successful cessation of use. Nicotine binds and activates two astrocyte-expressed nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs), α4β2 and α7. We recently found that Protein kinase B-β (Pkb-β or Akt2) expression is restricted to astrocytes in mice and humans. To determine if AKT2 plays a role in astrocytic nicotinic responses, we generated astrocyte-specific Akt2 conditional knockout (cKO) and full Akt2 KO mice for in vivo and in vitro experiments. For in vivo studies, we examined mice exposed to chronic nicotine for two weeks in drinking water (200 μg/mL) and following acute nicotine challenge (0.09, 0.2 mg/kg) after 24 hrs. Our in vitro studies used cultured mouse astrocytes to measure nicotine-dependent astrocytic responses. We validated our approaches using lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exposure inducing astrogliosis. Sholl analysis was used to measure glial fibrillary acidic protein responses in astrocytes. Our data show that wild-type (WT) mice exhibit increased astrocyte morphological complexity during acute nicotine exposure, with decreasing complexity during chronic nicotine use, whereas Akt2 cKO mice showed increased astrocyte morphology complexity. In culture, we found that 100μM nicotine was sufficient for morphological changes and blocking α7 or α4β2 nAChRs prevented observed morphologic changes. Finally, we performed conditioned place preference (CPP) in Akt2 cKO mice and found that astrocytic AKT2 deficiency reduced nicotine preference compared to controls. These findings show the importance of nAChRs and Akt2 signaling in the astrocytic response to nicotine.
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- Andrew M. Lombardi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80303
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
- Linda Crnic Institute, Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO 80045
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Magalhães DM, Stewart NA, Mampay M, Rolle SO, Hall CM, Moeendarbary E, Flint MS, Sebastião AM, Valente CA, Dymond MK, Sheridan GK. The sphingosine 1-phosphate analogue, FTY720, modulates the lipidomic signature of the mouse hippocampus. J Neurochem 2024; 168:1113-1142. [PMID: 38339785 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.16073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Revised: 12/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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The small-molecule drug, FTY720 (fingolimod), is a synthetic sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) analogue currently used to treat relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in both adults and children. FTY720 can cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and, over time, accumulate in lipid-rich areas of the central nervous system (CNS) by incorporating into phospholipid membranes. FTY720 has been shown to enhance cell membrane fluidity, which can modulate the functions of glial cells and neuronal populations involved in regulating behaviour. Moreover, direct modulation of S1P receptor-mediated lipid signalling by FTY720 can impact homeostatic CNS physiology, including neurotransmitter release probability, the biophysical properties of synaptic membranes, ion channel and transmembrane receptor kinetics, and synaptic plasticity mechanisms. The aim of this study was to investigate how chronic FTY720 treatment alters the lipid composition of CNS tissue in adolescent mice at a key stage of brain maturation. We focused on the hippocampus, a brain region known to be important for learning, memory, and the processing of sensory and emotional stimuli. Using mass spectrometry-based lipidomics, we discovered that FTY720 increases the fatty acid chain length of hydroxy-phosphatidylcholine (PCOH) lipids in the mouse hippocampus. It also decreases PCOH monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) and increases PCOH polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). A total of 99 lipid species were up-regulated in the mouse hippocampus following 3 weeks of oral FTY720 exposure, whereas only 3 lipid species were down-regulated. FTY720 also modulated anxiety-like behaviours in young mice but did not affect spatial learning or memory formation. Our study presents a comprehensive overview of the lipid classes and lipid species that are altered in the hippocampus following chronic FTY720 exposure and provides novel insight into cellular and molecular mechanisms that may underlie the therapeutic or adverse effects of FTY720 in the central nervous system.
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- Daniela M Magalhães
- Instituto de Farmacologia e Neurociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, Portugal
- School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
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- School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
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- Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK
- 199 Biotechnologies Ltd, London, UK
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- School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
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- Instituto de Farmacologia e Neurociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto de Farmacologia e Neurociências, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
- Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Lisboa, Portugal
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- School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
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Zuniga A, Han J, Miller-Crews I, Agee LA, Hofmann HA, Drew MR. Extinction Training Suppresses Activity of Fear Memory Ensembles Across the Hippocampus and Alters Transcriptomes of Fear-Encoding Cells. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.12.31.573787. [PMID: 38260411 PMCID: PMC10802378 DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.31.573787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
Contextual fear conditioning has been shown to activate a set of "fear ensemble" cells in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) whose reactivation is necessary and sufficient for expression of contextual fear. We previously demonstrated that extinction learning suppresses reactivation of these fear ensemble cells and activates a competing set of DG cells - the "extinction ensemble." Here, we tested whether extinction was sufficient to suppress reactivation in other regions and used single nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) of cells in the dorsal dentate gyrus to examine how extinction affects the transcriptomic activity of fear ensemble and fear recall-activated cells. Our results confirm the suppressive effects of extinction in the dorsal and ventral dentate gyrus and demonstrate that this same effect extends to fear ensemble cells located in the dorsal CA1. Interestingly, the extinction-induced suppression of fear ensemble activity was not detected in ventral CA1. Our snRNA-seq analysis demonstrates that extinction training markedly changes transcription patterns in fear ensemble cells and that cells activated during recall of fear and recall of extinction have distinct transcriptomic profiles. Together, our results indicate that extinction training suppresses a broad portion of the fear ensemble in the hippocampus, and this suppression is accompanied by changes in the transcriptomes of fear ensemble cells and the emergence of a transcriptionally unique extinction ensemble.
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Chang WL, Hen R. Adult Neurogenesis, Context Encoding, and Pattern Separation: A Pathway for Treating Overgeneralization. ADVANCES IN NEUROBIOLOGY 2024; 38:163-193. [PMID: 39008016 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62983-9_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
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In mammals, the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus is one of two brain regions (with the subventricular zone of the olfactory bulb) that continues to generate new neurons throughout adulthood, a phenomenon known as adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) (Eriksson et al., Nat Med 4:1313-1317, 1998; García-Verdugo et al., J Neurobiol 36:234-248, 1998). The integration of these new neurons into the dentate gyrus (DG) has implications for memory encoding, with unique firing and wiring properties of immature neurons that affect how the hippocampal network encodes and stores attributes of memory. In this chapter, we will describe the process of AHN and properties of adult-born cells as they integrate into the hippocampal circuit and mature. Then, we will discuss some methodological considerations before we review evidence for the role of AHN in two major processes supporting memory that are performed by the DG. First, we will discuss encoding of contextual information for episodic memories and how this is facilitated by AHN. Second, will discuss pattern separation, a major role of the DG that reduces interference for the formation of new memories. Finally, we will review clinical and translational considerations, suggesting that stimulation of AHN may help decrease overgeneralization-a common endophenotype of mood, anxiety, trauma-related, and age-related disorders.
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- Wei-Li Chang
- Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Division of Systems Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
- Division of Systems Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
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Barth AM, Jelitai M, Vasarhelyi-Nagy MF, Varga V. Aversive stimulus-tuned responses in the CA1 of the dorsal hippocampus. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6841. [PMID: 37891171 PMCID: PMC10611787 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42611-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Throughout life animals inevitably encounter unforeseen threatening events. Activity of principal cells in the hippocampus is tuned for locations and for salient stimuli in the animals' environment thus forming a map known to be pivotal for guiding behavior. Here, we explored if a code of threatening stimuli exists in the CA1 region of the dorsal hippocampus of mice by recording neuronal response to aversive stimuli delivered at changing locations. We have discovered a rapidly emerging, location independent response to innoxious aversive stimuli composed of the coordinated activation of subgroups of pyramidal cells and connected interneurons. Activated pyramidal cells had higher basal firing rate, more probably participated in ripples, targeted more interneurons than place cells and many of them lacked place fields. We also detected aversive stimulus-coupled assemblies dominated by the activated neurons. Notably, these assemblies could be observed even before the delivery of the first aversive event. Finally, we uncovered the systematic shift of the spatial code from the aversive to, surprisingly, the reward location during the fearful stimulus. Our results uncovered components of the dorsal CA1 circuit possibly key for re-sculpting the spatial map in response to abrupt aversive events.
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- Albert M Barth
- Subcortical Modulation Research Group, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, 1083, Hungary.
- Cerebral Cortex Research Group, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, 1083, Hungary.
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- Subcortical Modulation Research Group, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, 1083, Hungary
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- Subcortical Modulation Research Group, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, 1083, Hungary.
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Nichols ES, Blumenthal A, Kuenzel E, Skinner JK, Duerden EG. Hippocampus long-axis specialization throughout development: A meta-analysis. Hum Brain Mapp 2023. [PMID: 37209288 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023] Open
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The human adult hippocampus can be subdivided into the head, or anterior hippocampus and its body and tail, or posterior hippocampus, and a wealth of functional differences along the longitudinal axis have been reported. One line of literature emphasizes specialization for different aspects of cognition, whereas another emphasizes the unique role of the anterior hippocampus in emotional processing. While some research suggests that functional differences in memory between the anterior and posterior hippocampus appear early in development, it remains unclear whether this is also the case for functional differences in emotion processing. The goal of this meta-analysis was to determine whether the long-axis functional specialization observed in adults is present earlier in development. Using a quantitative meta-analysis, long-axis functional specialization was assessed using the data from 26 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, which included 39 contrasts and 804 participants ranging in age from 4 to 21 years. Results indicated that emotion was more strongly localized to the anterior hippocampus, with memory being more strongly localized to the posterior hippocampus, demonstrating long-axis specialization with regard to memory and emotion in children similar to that seen in adults. An additional analysis of laterality indicated that while memory was left dominant, emotion was processed bilaterally.
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- Emily S Nichols
- Faculty of Education, Western University, London, Canada
- Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Canada
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- Cervo Brain Research Centre, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Faculty of Education, Western University, London, Canada
- Western Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Canada
- Pediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Canada
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Amohashemi E, Reisi P, Alaei H. The role of NMDA glutamate receptors in the lateral habenula on morphine-induced conditioned place preference in rats. Synapse 2023. [PMID: 37122079 DOI: 10.1002/syn.22273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The lateral habenula (LHb) has received special attention due to its role in modulating motivated behavior, stress response, and rewarding and aversive stimuli through monoamine transmission. In the present study, the involvement of the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors of the LHb in the expression and acquisition phases of morphine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) was studied in male rats. Bilateral injections of agonist/antagonist (MK-801) of NMDA receptor were performed during the conditioning sessions of the acquisition phase. In other separate groups, drugs were also injected into the LHb before the test session during the expression phase of CPP. A 5-day CPP bias paradigm was used to study the effect of injections of NMDA and MK-801 into the LHb on morphine reward-related behavior. Different doses of NMDA plus morphine reduced the CPP score during the acquisition phase, whereas MK-801 significantly increased conditioning scores during the acquisition phase of CPP. The injection of agonists and antagonists of NMDA receptors in LHb had no significant effect on CPP scores and locomotion during the expression phase of CPP, whereas the motor activity in the acquisition phase was affected by the drugs. The reduction effect of NMDA on the CPP scores during the acquisition phase was blocked by pretreatment with MK-801. Our findings also suggest that NMDA receptors in the LHb may be involved in the acquisition phase of morphine-induced CPP.
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- Elahe Amohashemi
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Amirteymori H, Veisi A, Khaleghzadeh-Ahangar H, Mozafari R, Haghparast A. Involvement of orexin-2 receptors in the CA1 region of the hippocampus in the extinction and reinstatement of methamphetamine-induced conditioned place preference in the rats. Peptides 2023; 160:170926. [PMID: 36565856 DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2022.170926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2022] [Revised: 12/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
The present study, regarding the orexin receptors having a pivotal role in reward-related psychostimulant use disorder (PUD), aimed to investigate the role of orexin-2 (OX2) receptors in the CA1 region of the hippocampus (HPC) in the extinction and reinstatement of methamphetamine (METH)-induced conditioned place preference (CPP). In the first set of investigations, to determine the role of OX2 receptors in the extinction of METH-induced CPP, rats were daily given (during the extinction) bilaterally intra-CA1 region different doses of TCS OX2 29 (1, 3, 10, and 30 nmol/0.5 μl 12% DMSO) as the selective OX2 receptor antagonist. Then, to demonstrate the role of OX2 receptors in the reinstatement of METH-induced CPP after the extinction was established, each rat bilaterally received TCS OX2 29 at the same doses in the CA1 region before injection of the sub-threshold (priming) dose of METH (0.25 mg/kg, sc) on the reinstatement day. The data revealed that the administration of TCS OX2 29 in the CA1 region reduces the mean extinction latency and suppresses the reinstatement of METH-seeking behavior in extinguished rats. Additionally, the potency of TCS OX2 29 to inhibit the reinstatement phase was higher compared to the potency of this drug to modulate the extinction phase of METH-induced CPP. Accordingly, it could be concluded that the blockade of the OX2 receptors in this area might be an essential application and potential therapeutics in treating METH use disorder.
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- Haleh Amirteymori
- Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Behbahan, Iran.
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran; Immunoregulation Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Basic Sciences, Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Griffin WC, Lopez MF, Woodward JJ, Becker HC. Alcohol dependence and the ventral hippocampal influence on alcohol drinking in male mice. Alcohol 2023; 106:44-54. [PMID: 36328184 PMCID: PMC9868110 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2022.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
Examining neural circuits underlying persistent, heavy drinking provides insight into the neurobiological mechanisms driving alcohol use disorder. Facilitated by its connectivity with other parts of the brain such as the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the ventral hippocampus (vHC) supports many behaviors, including those related to reward seeking and addiction. These studies used a well-established mouse model of alcohol (ethanol) dependence. After surgery to infuse DREADD-expressing viruses (hM4Di, hM3Dq, or mCherry-only) into the vHC and position guide cannula above the NAc, male C57BL/6J mice were treated in the CIE drinking model that involved repeated cycles of chronic intermittent alcohol (CIE) vapor or air (CTL) exposure alternating with weekly test drinking cycles in which mice were offered alcohol (15% v/v) 2 h/day. Additionally, smaller groups of mice were evaluated for either cFos expression or glutamate release using microdialysis procedures. In CIE mice expressing inhibitory (hM4Di) DREADDs in the vHC, drinking increased as expected, but CNO (3 mg/kg intraperitoneally [i.p.]) given 30 min before testing did not alter alcohol intake. However, in CTL mice expressing hM4Di, CNO significantly increased alcohol drinking (∼30%; p < 0.05) to levels similar to the CIE mice. The vHC-NAc pathway was targeted by infusing CNO into the NAc (3 or 10 μM/side) 30 min before testing. CNO activation of the pathway in mice expressing excitatory (hM3Dq) DREADDs selectively reduced consumption in CIE mice back to CTL levels (∼35-45%; p < 0.05) without affecting CTL alcohol intake. Lastly, activating the vHC-NAc pathway increased cFos expression and evoked significant glutamate release from the vHC terminals in the NAc. These data indicate that reduced activity of the vHC increases alcohol consumption and that targeted, increased activity of the vHC-NAc pathway attenuates excessive drinking associated with alcohol dependence. Thus, these findings indicate that the vHC and its glutamatergic projections to the NAc are involved in excessive alcohol drinking.
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- William C Griffin
- Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
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- Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States; Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States
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- Charleston Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States; Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States; Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29425-0742, United States
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Functional dissociation along the rostrocaudal axis of Japanese quail hippocampus. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0277414. [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The mammalian hippocampus (Hp) can be functionally segregated along its septotemporal axis, with involvement of dorsal hippocampus (dHp) in spatial memory and ventral hippocampus (vHp) in stress responses and emotional behaviour. In the present study, we investigate comparable functional segregation in proposed homologues within the avian brain. Using Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica), we report that bilateral lesions of the rostral hippocampus (rHp) produce robust deficits in a spatial Y-maze discrimination (YMD) test while sparing performance during contextual fear conditioning (CFC), comparable to results from lesions to homologous regions in mammals. In contrast, caudal hippocampus (cHp) lesions failed to produce deficits in either CFC or YMD, suggesting that, unlike mammals, both cHp and rHp of birds can support emotional behavior. These observations demonstrate functional segregation along the rostrocaudal axis of the avian Hp that is comparable in part to distinctions seen along the mammalian hippocampal septotemporal axis.
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Involvement of AMPA receptors of lateral habenula in the expression and acquisition phases of morphine-induced place preference. Brain Res 2022; 1798:148150. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Khezri A, Mohsenzadeh MS, Mirzayan E, Bagherpasand N, Fathi M, Abnous K, Imenshahidi M, Mehri S, Hosseinzadeh H. Quetiapine attenuates the acquisition of morphine-induced conditioned place preference and reduces ERK phosphorylation in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE 2022; 48:422-432. [PMID: 35658689 DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2022.2069574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Background: Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic that antagonizes dopamine and serotonin receptors. It has been suggested that quetiapine can be used to treat substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder. Opioids modulate dopaminergic functions associated with conditioned reinforcement and these effects can be measured via the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm. Opioids' unconditioned effects are regulated by several proteins, including extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and cAMP-responsive element-binding (CREB).Objective: To assess the effect of quetiapine on morphine-induced CPP and motor activity levels, and on the levels of ERK and CREB proteins in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex.Methods: 42 male rats were exposed to a CPP protocol, in which they underwent a conditioning paradigm with saline, quetiapine (40 mg/kg), morphine (10 mg/kg), morphine plus quetiapine (10, 20, or 40 mg/kg), or morphine plus memantine (7.5 mg/kg, a positive control drug) (n = 6 per group). The rats were tested for CPP and exploratory activity. Levels of ERK and CREB proteins in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex were also measured.Results: Quetiapine co-administered with morphine inhibited morphine-induced CPP [F (6, 70) = 11.67, p < .001] and morphine's effects on motor activity (p < .001). Morphine enhanced ERK phosphorylation in the hippocampus (p < .001) and cerebral cortex (p < .001), an effect inhibited by quetiapine.Conclusion: Quetiapine attenuates morphine-induced CPP and locomotion and these effects are associated with a reduction of ERK phosphorylation in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex. These results suggest that quetiapine should be further explored as a potential treatment for opioid use disorder.
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- Ali Khezri
- School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Pharmaceutical Research Center, Pharmaceutical Technology Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Pharmaceutical Research Center, Pharmaceutical Technology Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Pharmaceutical Research Center, Pharmaceutical Technology Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Pharmacodynamics and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
- Pharmaceutical Research Center, Pharmaceutical Technology Institute, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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Hippocampus-sensitive and striatum-sensitive learning one month after morphine or cocaine exposure in male rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2022; 217:173392. [PMID: 35513118 PMCID: PMC9796089 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2022.173392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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These experiments examined whether morphine and cocaine alter the balance between hippocampal and striatal memory systems measured long after drug exposure. Male rats received injections of morphine (5 mg/kg), cocaine (20 mg/kg), or saline for five consecutive days. One month later, rats were trained to find food on a hippocampus-sensitive place task or a striatum-sensitive response task. Relative to saline controls, morphine-treated rats exhibited impaired place learning but enhanced response learning; prior cocaine exposure did not significantly alter learning on either task. Another set of rats was trained on a dual-solution T-maze that can be solved with either place or response strategies. While a majority (67%) of control rats used place solutions, morphine treatment one month prior resulted in the exclusive use of response solutions (100%). Prior cocaine treatment did not significantly alter strategy selection. Molecular markers related to learning and drug abuse were measured in the hippocampus and striatum one month after drug exposure in behaviorally untested rats. Protein levels of glial-fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an intermediate filament specific to astrocytes, increased significantly in the hippocampus after morphine exposure, but not after cocaine exposure. Exposure to morphine or cocaine did not significantly change levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) or a downstream target of BDNF signaling, glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β), in the hippocampus or striatum. Thus, exposure to morphine resulted in a long-lasting shift from hippocampal toward striatal dominance during learning, an effect that may be associated with lasting alterations in hippocampal astrocytes. Cocaine produced changes in the same direction, suggesting that use of a higher dose or longer duration of exposure might produce effects comparable to those seen with morphine.
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Di Franco N, Drutel G, Roullot-Lacarrière V, Julio-Kalajzic F, Lalanne V, Grel A, Leste-Lasserre T, Matias I, Cannich A, Gonzales D, Simon V, Cota D, Marsicano G, Piazza PV, Vallée M, Revest JM. Differential expression of the neuronal CB1 cannabinoid receptor in the hippocampus of male Ts65Dn Down syndrome mouse model. Mol Cell Neurosci 2022; 119:103705. [PMID: 35158060 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2022.103705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022] Open
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Down syndrome (DS) or Trisomy 21 is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation with severe learning and memory deficits. DS is due to the complete or partial triplication of human chromosome 21 (HSA21) triggering gene overexpression and protein synthesis alterations responsible for a plethora of mental and physical phenotypes. Among the diverse brain target systems that affect hippocampal-dependent learning and memory deficit impairments in DS, the upregulation of the endocannabinoid system (ECS), and notably the overexpression of the cannabinoid type-1 receptor (CB1), seems to play a major role. Combining various protein and gene expression targeted approaches using western blot, qRT-PCR and FISH techniques, we investigated the expression pattern of ECS components in the hippocampus (HPC) of male Ts65Dn mice. Among all the molecules that constitute the ECS, we found that the expression of the CB1 is altered in the HPC of Ts65Dn mice. CB1 distribution is differentially segregated between the dorsal and ventral part of the HPC and within the different cell populations that compose the HPC. CB1 expression is upregulated in GABAergic neurons of Ts65Dn mice whereas it is downregulated in glutamatergic neurons. These results highlight a complex regulation of the CB1 encoding gene (Cnr1) in Ts65Dn mice that could open new therapeutic solutions for this syndrome.
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- Nadia Di Franco
- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.
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McReynolds JR, Carreira MB, McIntyre CK. Post-training intra-basolateral complex of the amygdala infusions of clenbuterol enhance memory for conditioned place preference and increase ARC protein expression in dorsal hippocampal synaptic fractions. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2021; 185:107539. [PMID: 34648950 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The basolateral complex of the amygdala (BLA) is critically involved in modulation of memory by stress hormones. Noradrenergic activation of the BLA enhances memory consolidation and plays a necessary role in the enhancing or impairing effects of stress hormones on memory. The BLA is not only involved in the consolidation of aversive memories but can regulate appetitive memory formation as well. Extensive evidence suggests that the BLA is a modulatory structure that influences consolidation of arousing memories through modulation of plasticity and expression of plasticity-related genes, such as the activity regulated cytoskeletal-associated (Arc/Arg 3.1) protein, in efferent brain regions. ARC is an immediate early gene whose mRNA is localized to the dendrites and is necessary for hippocampus-dependent long-term potentiation and long-term memory formation. Post-training intra-BLA infusions of the β-adrenoceptor agonist, clenbuterol, enhances memory for an aversive task and increases dorsal hippocampus ARC protein expression following training on that task. To examine whether this function of BLA noradrenergic signaling extends to the consolidation of appetitive memories, the present studies test the effect of post-training intra-BLA infusions of clenbuterol on memory for the appetitive conditioned place preference (CPP) task and for effects on ARC protein expression in hippocampal synapses. Additionally, the necessity of increased hippocampal ARC protein expression was also examined for long-term memory formation of the CPP task. Immediate post-training intra-BLA infusions of clenbuterol (4 ng/0.2 µL) significantly enhanced memory for the CPP task. This same memory enhancing treatment significantly increased ARC protein expression in dorsal, but not ventral, hippocampal synaptic fractions. Furthermore, immediate post-training intra-dorsal hippocampal infusions of Arc antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs), which reduce ARC protein expression, prevented long-term memory formation for the CPP task. These results suggest that noradrenergic activity in the BLA influences long-term memory for aversive and appetitive events in a similar manner and the role of the BLA is conserved across classes of memory. It also suggests that the influence of the BLA on hippocampal ARC protein expression and the role of hippocampal ARC protein expression are conserved across classes of emotionally arousing memories.
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- Jayme R McReynolds
- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, United States.
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, United States.
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, United States.
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Wang S, Zeng M, Ren Y, Han S, Li J, Cui W. In vivo reduction of hippocampal Caveolin-1 by RNA interference alters morphine addiction and neuroplasticity changes in male mice. Neurosci Lett 2021; 749:135742. [PMID: 33607203 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Revised: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Prescription opioids are powerful pain-controlling medications that have both benefits and potentially serious risks. Morphine is one of the preferred analgesics that are widely used to treat chronic pain. However, chronic morphine exposure has been found to cause both functional and structural changes in several brain regions, including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), ventral tegmental area (VTA), and hippocampus (HPC), which lead to addictive behavior. Caveolin-1 (Cav-1), a scaffolding protein of membrane lipid rafts (MLRs), has been shown to organize GPCRs and multiple synaptic signaling proteins within the MLRs to regulate synaptic signaling and neuroplasticity. Previously, we showed that in vitro morphine treatment significantly elevates Cav-1 expression and causes neuroplasticity changes. In this study, we confirmed that chronic morphine exposure can significantly increase Cav-1 expression (P < 0.05) and microtubule-associated protein (MAP-2)-positive neuronal dendritic growth in the hippocampus. Moreover, the rewarding effect and dendritic growth in the HPC induced by chronic morphine exposure were significantly inhibited by hippocampal Cav-1 knockdown. Together, these data suggest that Cav-1 in the hippocampus plays an essential role in the neuroplasticity changes that underlie morphine addiction behaviors.
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- Shanshan Wang
- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, #119 Nan Si Huan Xi Lu, Beijing, 100050, PR China; Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, 3350 La Jolla Village Dr., San Diego, CA, 92161, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, #119 Nan Si Huan Xi Lu, Beijing, 100050, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, National Center for Children's Health, #56 Nan Li Shi Lu, Beijing, 100045, PR China
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- Department of Neurobiology and Beijing Institute for Neuroscience, Capital Medical University, #10 You An Men Wai Xi TouTiao, Beijing, 100069, PR China
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- Department of Neurobiology and Beijing Institute for Neuroscience, Capital Medical University, #10 You An Men Wai Xi TouTiao, Beijing, 100069, PR China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tian Tan Hospital, Capital Medical University, #119 Nan Si Huan Xi Lu, Beijing, 100050, PR China.
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Purpose of Review
Current theories of alcohol use disorders (AUD) highlight the importance of Pavlovian and instrumental learning processes mainly based on preclinical animal studies. Here, we summarize available evidence for alterations of those processes in human participants with AUD with a focus on habitual versus goal-directed instrumental learning, Pavlovian conditioning, and Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) paradigms.
Recent Findings
The balance between habitual and goal-directed control in AUD participants has been studied using outcome devaluation or sequential decision-making procedures, which have found some evidence of reduced goal-directed/model-based control, but little evidence for stronger habitual responding. The employed Pavlovian learning and PIT paradigms have shown considerable differences regarding experimental procedures, e.g., alcohol-related or conventional reinforcers or stimuli.
Summary
While studies of basic learning processes in human participants with AUD support a role of Pavlovian and instrumental learning mechanisms in the development and maintenance of drug addiction, current studies are characterized by large variability regarding methodology, sample characteristics, and results, and translation from animal paradigms to human research remains challenging. Longitudinal approaches with reliable and ecologically valid paradigms of Pavlovian and instrumental processes, including alcohol-related cues and outcomes, are warranted and should be combined with state-of-the-art imaging techniques, computational approaches, and ecological momentary assessment methods.
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Zhou Y, Yan E, Cheng D, Zhu H, Liu Z, Chen X, Ma L, Liu X. The Projection From Ventral CA1, Not Prefrontal Cortex, to Nucleus Accumbens Core Mediates Recent Memory Retrieval of Cocaine-Conditioned Place Preference. Front Behav Neurosci 2020; 14:558074. [PMID: 33304246 PMCID: PMC7701212 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.558074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Drug-paired cues inducing memory retrieval by expressing drug-seeking behaviors present a major challenge to drug abstinence. How neural circuits coordinate for drug memory retrieval remains unclear. Here, we report that exposure of the training chamber where cocaine-conditioned place preference (CPP) was performed increased neuronal activity in the core of nucleus accumbens (AcbC), ventral CA1 (vCA1), and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), as shown by elevated pERK and c-Fos levels. Chemogenetic inhibition of neuronal activity in the vCA1 and AcbC, but not mPFC, reduced the time spent in the cocaine-paired compartment, suggesting that the vCA1 and AcbC are required for the retrieval of cocaine-CPP memory and are key nodes recruited for cocaine memory storage. Furthermore, chemogenetic inhibition of the AcbC-projecting vCA1 neurons, but not the AcbC-projecting mPFC neurons, decreased the expression of cocaine-CPP. Optogenetic inhibition of the vCA1–AcbC projection, but not the mPFC–AcbC projection, also reduced the preference for the cocaine-paired compartment. Taken together, the cue-induced natural recall of cocaine memory depends on vCA1–AcbC circuits. The connectivity from the vCA1 to the AcbC may store the information of the cue–cocaine reward association critically required for memory retrieval. These data thus provide insights into the neural circuit basis of retrieval of drug-related memory.
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- Yiming Zhou
- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, School of Basic Medical Sciences and the Institutes of Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Mollick JA, Hazy TE, Krueger KA, Nair A, Mackie P, Herd SA, O'Reilly RC. A systems-neuroscience model of phasic dopamine. Psychol Rev 2020; 127:972-1021. [PMID: 32525345 PMCID: PMC8453660 DOI: 10.1037/rev0000199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We describe a neurobiologically informed computational model of phasic dopamine signaling to account for a wide range of findings, including many considered inconsistent with the simple reward prediction error (RPE) formalism. The central feature of this PVLV framework is a distinction between a primary value (PV) system for anticipating primary rewards (Unconditioned Stimuli [USs]), and a learned value (LV) system for learning about stimuli associated with such rewards (CSs). The LV system represents the amygdala, which drives phasic bursting in midbrain dopamine areas, while the PV system represents the ventral striatum, which drives shunting inhibition of dopamine for expected USs (via direct inhibitory projections) and phasic pausing for expected USs (via the lateral habenula). Our model accounts for data supporting the separability of these systems, including individual differences in CS-based (sign-tracking) versus US-based learning (goal-tracking). Both systems use competing opponent-processing pathways representing evidence for and against specific USs, which can explain data dissociating the processes involved in acquisition versus extinction conditioning. Further, opponent processing proved critical in accounting for the full range of conditioned inhibition phenomena, and the closely related paradigm of second-order conditioning. Finally, we show how additional separable pathways representing aversive USs, largely mirroring those for appetitive USs, also have important differences from the positive valence case, allowing the model to account for several important phenomena in aversive conditioning. Overall, accounting for all of these phenomena strongly constrains the model, thus providing a well-validated framework for understanding phasic dopamine signaling. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Jessica A Mollick
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado Boulder
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ErbB4 Null Mice Display Altered Mesocorticolimbic and Nigrostriatal Dopamine Levels as well as Deficits in Cognitive and Motivational Behaviors. eNeuro 2020; 7:ENEURO.0395-19.2020. [PMID: 32354758 PMCID: PMC7242816 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0395-19.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2019] [Revised: 02/26/2020] [Accepted: 02/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Natural genetic variants of Neuregulin1 (NRG1) and its cognate receptor ErbB4 are associated with a risk for schizophrenia. Whereas most studies on NRG1-ErbB4 signaling have focused on GABAergic interneurons, ErbB4 is also expressed by midbrain dopaminergic neurons where it modulates extracellular dopamine (DA) levels. Here, we report that extracellular steady-state levels of DA are reduced in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC; −65%), hippocampus (−53%) and nucleus accumbens (NAc; −35%), but are elevated in the dorsal striatum (+25%) of ErbB4 knock-out mice (ErbB4 KOs) relative to wild-type controls. This pattern of DA imbalance recapitulates the reported prefrontal cortical reduction and striatal increase of DA levels in schizophrenia patients. Next, we report on a battery of behavioral tasks used to evaluate locomotor, cognitive and motivational behaviors in ErbB4 KOs relative to controls. We found that ErbB4 KOs are hyperactive in a novel open field but not in their familiar home cage, are more sensitive to amphetamine, perform poorly in the T-maze and novel object recognition (NOR) tasks, exhibit reduced spatial learning and memory on the Barnes maze, and perform markedly worse in conditioned place preference (CPP) tasks when associating cued-reward palatable food with location. However, we found that the poor performance of ErbB4 KOs in CPP are likely due to deficits in spatial memory, instead of reward seeking, as ErbB4 KOs are more motivated to work for palatable food rewards. Our findings indicate that ErbB4 signaling affects tonic DA levels and modulates a wide array of behavioral deficits relevant to psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia.
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Effects of the Positive Allosteric Modulator of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5, VU-29, on Maintenance Association between Environmental Cues and Rewarding Properties of Ethanol in Rats. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10050793. [PMID: 32443872 PMCID: PMC7277181 DOI: 10.3390/biom10050793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2020] [Revised: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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: Metabotropic glutamate subtype 5 (mGlu5) receptors are implicated in various forms of synaptic plasticity, including drugs of abuse. In drug-addicted individuals, associative memories can drive relapse to drug use. The present study investigated the potential of the mGlu5 receptor positive allosteric modulator (PAM), VU-29 (30 mg/kg, i.p.), to inhibit the maintenance of a learned association between ethanol and environmental context by using conditioned place preference (CPP) in rats. The ethanol-CPP was established by the administration of ethanol (1.0 g/kg, i.p. × 10 days) using an unbiased procedure. Following ethanol conditioning, VU-29 was administered at various post-conditioning times (ethanol free state at the home cage) to ascertain if there was a temporal window during which VU-29 would be effective. Our experiments indicated that VU-29 did not affect the expression of ethanol-induced CPP when it was given over two post-conditioning days. However, the expression of ethanol-CPP was inhibited by 10-day home cage administration of VU-29, but not by first 2-day or last 2-day injection of VU-29 during the 10-day period. These findings reveal that VU-29 can inhibit the maintenance of ethanol-induced CPP, and that treatment duration contributes to this effect of VU-29. Furthermore, VU-29 effect was reversed by pretreatment with either MTEP (the mGlu5 receptor antagonist), or MK-801 (the N-methyl-D-aspartate-NMDA receptor antagonist). Thus, the inhibitory effect of VU-29 is dependent on the functional interaction between mGlu5 and NMDA receptors. Because a reduction in ethanol-associated cues can reduce relapse, mGlu5 receptor PAM would be useful for therapy of alcoholism. Future research is required to confirm the current findings.
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Zhao X, Castelli FR, Wang R, Auger AP, Marler CA. Testosterone-related behavioral and neural mechanisms associated with location preferences: A model for territorial establishment. Horm Behav 2020; 121:104709. [PMID: 32007517 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2020.104709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2019] [Revised: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Territoriality is an adaptive behavioral trait that is important for animal's fitness and there still remains much to learn about the proximate mechanisms underlying the development of territoriality. We speculate that the formation of a conditioned place preference (CPP), an increased time allocation to the environment where a rewarding experience occurred, contributes to territoriality. Testosterone (T) plays an important role in modulating territorial behaviors and T pulses can induce a CPP. We confirmed previous findings in California mice (Peromyscus californicus) that T pulses can induce a CPP in singly-housed, but not group-housed males. Housing singly may be similar enough to dispersal in nature to initiate similar hormonal and neuroanatomical changes needed for the development of territoriality. We further revealed that T pulses interact with the single housing experience and appear to enhance the motivation to be aggressive towards a stimulus male. On a neural level, being singly housed upregulated levels of androgen receptors in the preoptic area, which positively correlated with the strength of the CPP. We speculate that this change in androgen sensitivity in the preoptic area is characteristic of males that have dispersed, making them more sensitive to T pulses. Also, single housing increased markers of synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens, ventral and dorsal hippocampus, neural changes that may be associated with dispersal, reproduction and territory establishment. These behavioral and neural changes may reflect the life history transition from residing in the natal territory to dispersing and establishing a new territory.
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- Xin Zhao
- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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Role of orexinergic receptors in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus in the acquisition and expression of morphine-induced conditioned place preference in rats. Behav Brain Res 2020; 379:112349. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 11/06/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Van Looveren K, Van Boxelaere M, Callaerts-Vegh Z, Libert C. Cognitive dysfunction in mice lacking proper glucocorticoid receptor dimerization. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0226753. [PMID: 31869387 PMCID: PMC6927629 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Stress is a major risk factor for depression and anxiety. One of the effects of stress is the (over-) activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the release of stress hormones such as glucocorticoids (GCs). Chronically increased stress hormone levels have been shown to have detrimental effects on neuronal networks by inhibiting neurotrophic processes particularly in the hippocampus proper. Centrally, GCs modulate metabolic as well as behavioural processes by activating two classes of corticoid receptors, high-affinity mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) and low-affinity glucocorticoid receptors (GR). Upon activation, GR can modulate gene transcription either as a monomeric protein, or as a dimer interacting directly with DNA. GR can also modulate cellular processes via non-genomic mechanisms, for example via a GPCR-protein interaction. We evaluated the behavioral phenotype in mice with a targeted mutation in the GR in a FVB/NJ background. In GRdim/dim mice, GR proteins form poor homodimers, while the GR monomer remains intact. We evaluated the effect of poor GR dimerization on hippocampus-dependent cognition as well as on exploration and emotional behavior under baseline and chronically increased stress hormone levels. We found that GRdim/dim mice did not behave differently from GRwt/wt littermates under baseline conditions. However, after chronic elevation of stress hormone levels, GRdim/dim mice displayed a significant impairment in hippocampus-dependent memory compared to GRwt/wt mice, which correlated with differential expression of hippocampal Bdnf/TrkB and Fkbp5.
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- Kelly Van Looveren
- Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychology, KULeuven, Leuven Belgium
- Leuven Research Institute for Neuroscience & Disease (LIND), Leuven, Belgium
- mINT Mouse Behavioural Core Facility, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Center for Inflammation Research, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Lu G, Lee MT, Chiou L. Orexin-mediated restoration of hippocampal synaptic potentiation in mice with established cocaine-conditioned place preference. Addict Biol 2019; 24:1153-1166. [PMID: 30276922 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2018] [Revised: 07/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Orexins (also called hypocretins) are implicated in reward and addiction, but little is known about their role(s) in the association between hippocampal synaptic plasticity and drug preference. Previously, we found that exogenous orexin via OX1 and OX2 receptors can impair low frequency stimulation-induced depotentiation, i.e. restoring potentiation of excitatory synaptic transmission (re-potentiation) in mouse hippocampal slices. Here, we found this re-potentiation in hippocampal slices from mice that had acquired conditioned place preference (CPP) to cocaine. Both 10 and 20 mg/kg of cocaine induced similar magnitudes of CPP in mice and re-potentiation in their hippocampal slices, but differed in their susceptibility to TCS1102, a dual (OX1 and OX2 ) orexin receptor antagonist. TCS1102 significantly attenuated CPP and hippocampal re-potentiation induced by cocaine at 10 mg/kg but not at 20 mg/kg. Nonetheless, SCH23390, an antagonist of dopamine D1-like receptors (D1-likeRs), inhibited the effects induced by both doses of cocaine. SKF38393, a D1-likeR-selective agonist, also induced hippocampal re-potentiation in vitro. Interestingly, this effect was attenuated by TCS1102. Conversely, SCH23390 prevented orexin A-induced hippocampal re-potentiation. These results suggest that endogenous orexins are released in mice during cocaine-CPP acquisition, which sustains potentiated hippocampal transmission via OX1 /OX2 receptors and may contribute to the addiction memory of cocaine. This effect of endogenous orexins, however, may be substituted by dopamine that may dominate hippocampal re-potentiation and CPP via D1-likeRs when the reinforcing effect of cocaine is high.
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- Guan‐Ling Lu
- Graduate Institute of PharmacologyCollege of Medicine, National Taiwan University Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of PharmacologyCollege of Medicine, National Taiwan University Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind SciencesCollege of Medicine, National Taiwan University Taiwan
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical SciencesUCSI University Malaysia
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- Graduate Institute of PharmacologyCollege of Medicine, National Taiwan University Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind SciencesCollege of Medicine, National Taiwan University Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Acupuncture ScienceChina Medical University Taiwan
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- Alia Ghrayeb
- Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Science, The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
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Emerging evidence suggests that epigenetic regulation is dependent on metabolic state, and implicates specific metabolic factors in neural functions that drive behaviour1. In neurons, acetylation of histones relies on the metabolite acetyl-CoA, which is produced from acetate by chromatin-bound acetyl-CoA synthetase 2 (ACSS2)2. Notably, the breakdown of alcohol in the liver leads to a rapid increase in levels of blood acetate3, and alcohol is therefore a major source of acetate in the body. Histone acetylation in neurons may thus be under the influence of acetate that is derived from alcohol4, with potential effects on alcohol-induced gene expression in the brain, and on behaviour5. Here, using in vivo stable-isotope labelling in mice, we show that the metabolism of alcohol contributes to rapid acetylation of histones in the brain, and that this occurs in part through the direct deposition of acetyl groups that are derived from alcohol onto histones in an ACSS2-dependent manner. A similar direct deposition was observed when mice were injected with heavy-labelled acetate in vivo. In a pregnant mouse, exposure to labelled alcohol resulted in the incorporation of labelled acetyl groups into gestating fetal brains. In isolated primary hippocampal neurons ex vivo, extracellular acetate induced transcriptional programs related to learning and memory, which were sensitive to ACSS2 inhibition. We show that alcohol-related associative learning requires ACSS2 in vivo. These findings suggest that there is a direct link between alcohol metabolism and gene regulation, through the ACSS2-dependent acetylation of histones in the brain.
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Lee JQ, Demchuk AM, Morgan E, McHugh R, McNaughton BL, Sutherland RJ, McDonald RJ. Place navigation in the Morris water task results in greater nuclear
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mRNA expression in dorsal compared to ventral CA1. Hippocampus 2019; 29:1133-1138. [DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2019] [Revised: 08/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- J. Quinn Lee
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
- Department of Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
- Department of Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
- Department of Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Lethbridge Alberta Canada
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Deveci E, Kılıç A, Yılmaz O, Nabi A, Ergün AS, Bozkurt A, Kurtulmuş A, Öztürk A, Eşrefoğlu M, Aydın MŞ, Şahan E, Kırpınar İ. The effects of focused ultrasound pulsation of nucleus accumbens in opioid-dependent rats. PSYCHIAT CLIN PSYCH 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/24750573.2019.1631942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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- Erdem Deveci
- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Faculty of Engineering, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara, Turkey
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- Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Histology, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center, İstanbul Medipol University, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychiatry, Bezmialem Foundation University Medical Faculty, İstanbul, Turkey
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Suarez AN, Noble EE, Kanoski SE. Regulation of Memory Function by Feeding-Relevant Biological Systems: Following the Breadcrumbs to the Hippocampus. Front Mol Neurosci 2019; 12:101. [PMID: 31057368 PMCID: PMC6482164 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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The hippocampus (HPC) controls fundamental learning and memory processes, including memory for visuospatial navigation (spatial memory) and flexible memory for facts and autobiographical events (declarative memory). Emerging evidence reveals that hippocampal-dependent memory function is regulated by various peripheral biological systems that are traditionally known for their roles in appetite and body weight regulation. Here, we argue that these effects are consistent with a framework that it is evolutionarily advantageous to encode and recall critical features surrounding feeding behavior, including the spatial location of a food source, social factors, post-absorptive processing, and other episodic elements of a meal. We review evidence that gut-to-brain communication from the vagus nerve and from feeding-relevant endocrine systems, including ghrelin, insulin, leptin, and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), promote hippocampal-dependent spatial and declarative memory via neurotrophic and neurogenic mechanisms. The collective literature reviewed herein supports a model in which various stages of feeding behavior and hippocampal-dependent memory function are closely linked.
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- Human and Evolutionary Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Rivera PD, Simmons SJ, Reynolds RP, Just AL, Birnbaum SG, Eisch AJ. Image-guided cranial irradiation-induced ablation of dentate gyrus neurogenesis impairs extinction of recent morphine reward memories. Hippocampus 2019; 29:726-735. [PMID: 30779299 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Revised: 12/10/2018] [Accepted: 12/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Dentate gyrus adult neurogenesis is implicated in the formation of hippocampal-dependent contextual associations. However, the role of adult neurogenesis during reward-based context-dependent paradigms-such as conditioned place preference (CPP)-is understudied. Therefore, we used image-guided, hippocampal-targeted X-ray irradiation (IG-IR) and morphine CPP to explore whether dentate gyrus adult neurogenesis plays a role in reward memories created in adult C57BL/6J male mice. In addition, as adult neurogenesis appears to participate to a greater extent in retrieval and extinction of recent (<48 hr posttraining) versus remote (>1 week posttraining) memories, we specifically examined the role of adult neurogenesis in reward-associated contextual memories probed at recent and remote timepoints. Six weeks post-IG-IR or Sham treatment, mice underwent morphine CPP. Using separate groups, retrieval of recent and remote reward memories was found to be similar between IG-IR and Sham treatments. Interestingly, IG-IR mice showed impaired extinction-or increased persistence-of the morphine-associated reward memory when it was probed 24-hr (recent) but not 3-weeks (remote) postconditioning relative to Sham mice. Taken together, these data show that hippocampal-directed irradiation and the associated decrease in dentate gyrus adult neurogenesis affect the persistence of recently-but not remotely-probed reward memory. These data indicate a novel role for adult neurogenesis in reward-based memories and particularly the extinction rate of these memories. Consideration of this work may lead to better understanding of extinction-based behavioral interventions for psychiatric conditions characterized by dysregulated reward processing.
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- Phillip D Rivera
- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.,Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.,Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Trouche S, Koren V, Doig NM, Ellender TJ, El-Gaby M, Lopes-Dos-Santos V, Reeve HM, Perestenko PV, Garas FN, Magill PJ, Sharott A, Dupret D. A Hippocampus-Accumbens Tripartite Neuronal Motif Guides Appetitive Memory in Space. Cell 2019; 176:1393-1406.e16. [PMID: 30773318 PMCID: PMC6424821 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.12.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2018] [Revised: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Retrieving and acting on memories of food-predicting environments are fundamental processes for animal survival. Hippocampal pyramidal cells (PYRs) of the mammalian brain provide mnemonic representations of space. Yet the substrates by which these hippocampal representations support memory-guided behavior remain unknown. Here, we uncover a direct connection from dorsal CA1 (dCA1) hippocampus to nucleus accumbens (NAc) that enables the behavioral manifestation of place-reward memories. By monitoring neuronal ensembles in mouse dCA1→NAc pathway, combined with cell-type selective optogenetic manipulations of input-defined postsynaptic neurons, we show that dCA1 PYRs drive NAc medium spiny neurons and orchestrate their spiking activity using feedforward inhibition mediated by dCA1-connected parvalbumin-expressing fast-spiking interneurons. This tripartite cross-circuit motif supports spatial appetitive memory and associated NAc assemblies, being independent of dorsal subiculum and dispensable for both spatial novelty detection and reward seeking. Our findings demonstrate that the dCA1→NAc pathway instantiates a limbic-motor interface for neuronal representations of space to promote effective appetitive behavior.
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- Stéphanie Trouche
- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK.
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH Oxford, UK.
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Rivera PD, Hanamsagar R, Kan MJ, Tran PK, Stewart D, Jo YC, Gunn M, Bilbo SD. Removal of microglial-specific MyD88 signaling alters dentate gyrus doublecortin and enhances opioid addiction-like behaviors. Brain Behav Immun 2019; 76:104-115. [PMID: 30447281 PMCID: PMC6348129 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2018.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Drugs of abuse promote a potent immune response in central nervous system (CNS) via the activation of microglia and astrocytes. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying microglial activation during addiction are not well known. We developed and functionally characterized a novel transgenic mouse (Cx3cr1-CreBTtg/0:MyD88f/f [Cretg/0]) wherein the immune signaling adaptor gene, MyD88, was specifically deleted in microglia. To test the downstream effects of loss of microglia-specific MyD88 signaling in morphine addiction, Cretg/0 and Cre0/0 mice were tested for reward learning, extinction, and reinstatement using a conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm. There were no differences in drug acquisition, but Cretg/0 mice had prolonged extinction and enhanced reinstatement compared to Cre0/0 controls. Furthermore, morphine-treated Cretg/0 mice showed increased doublecortin (DCX) signal relative to Cre0/0 control mice in the hippocampus, indicative of increased number of immature neurons. Additionally, there was an increase in colocalization of microglial lysosomal marker CD68 with DCX+cells in morphine-treated Cretg/0 mice but not in Cre0/0 or drug-naїve mice, suggesting a specific role for microglial MyD88 signaling in neuronal phagocytosis in the hippocampus. Our results show that MyD88 deletion in microglia may negatively impact maturing neurons within the adult hippocampus and thus reward memories, suggesting a novel protective role for microglia in opioid addiction.
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- Phillip D Rivera
- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Lurie Center for Autism, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Biology, Hope College, Holland, MI, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Lurie Center for Autism, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Lurie Center for Autism, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Lurie Center for Autism, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Lurie Center for Autism, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
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Ferbinteanu J. Memory systems 2018 - Towards a new paradigm. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2019; 157:61-78. [PMID: 30439565 PMCID: PMC6389412 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2018.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2018] [Revised: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 11/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The multiple memory systems theory (MMS) postulates that the brain stores information based on the independent and parallel activity of a number of modules, each with distinct properties, dynamics, and neural basis. Much of the evidence for this theory comes from dissociation studies indicating that damage to restricted brain areas cause selective types of memory deficits. MMS has been the prevalent paradigm in memory research for more than thirty years, even as it has been adjusted several times to accommodate new data. However, recent empirical results indicating that the memory systems are not always dissociable constitute a challenge to fundamental tenets of the current theory because they suggest that representations formed by individual memory systems can contribute to more than one type of memory-driven behavioral strategy. This problem can be addressed by applying a dynamic network perspective to memory architecture. According to this view, memory networks can reconfigure or transiently couple in response to environmental demands. Within this context, the neural network underlying a specific memory system can act as an independent unit or as an integrated component of a higher order meta-network. This dynamic network model proposes a way in which empirical evidence that challenges the idea of distinct memory systems can be incorporated within a modular memory architecture. The model also provides a framework to account for the complex interactions among memory systems demonstrated at the behavioral level. Advances in the study of dynamic networks can generate new ideas to experimentally manipulate and control memory in basic or clinical research.
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- J Ferbinteanu
- Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Dept. of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Box 31, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
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Katebi N, Farahimanesh S, Fatahi Z, Zarrabian S, Haghparast A. Involvement of D1- and D2-like dopamine receptors in the dentate gyrus in the acquisition, expression, and extinction of the morphine-induced conditioned place preference in rats. Behav Brain Res 2018; 353:185-193. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.07.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2017] [Revised: 07/22/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Comparison of the Role of D1- and D2-Like Receptors in the CA1 Region of the Hippocampus in the Reinstatement Induced by a Subthreshold Dose of Morphine and Forced Swim Stress in Extinguished Morphine-CPP in Rats. Neurochem Res 2018; 43:2092-2101. [DOI: 10.1007/s11064-018-2631-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2018] [Revised: 09/02/2018] [Accepted: 09/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Edalat P, Kavianpour M, Zarrabian S, Haghparast A. Role of orexin-1 and orexin-2 receptors in the CA1 region of hippocampus in the forced swim stress- and food deprivation-induced reinstatement of morphine seeking behaviors in rats. Brain Res Bull 2018; 142:25-32. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2018.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2018] [Revised: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 06/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kaniakova M, Kleteckova L, Lichnerova K, Holubova K, Skrenkova K, Korinek M, Krusek J, Smejkalova T, Korabecny J, Vales K, Soukup O, Horak M. 7-Methoxyderivative of tacrine is a ‘foot-in-the-door’ open-channel blocker of GluN1/GluN2 and GluN1/GluN3 NMDA receptors with neuroprotective activity in vivo. Neuropharmacology 2018; 140:217-232. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.08.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Revised: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Yusoff NH, Mansor SM, Müller CP, Hassan Z. Baclofen blocks the acquisition and expression of mitragynine-induced conditioned place preference in rats. Behav Brain Res 2018; 345:65-71. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.02.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Revised: 02/26/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Sjulson L, Peyrache A, Cumpelik A, Cassataro D, Buzsáki G. Cocaine Place Conditioning Strengthens Location-Specific Hippocampal Coupling to the Nucleus Accumbens. Neuron 2018; 98:926-934.e5. [PMID: 29754750 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Conditioned place preference (CPP) is a widely used model of addiction-related behavior whose underlying mechanisms are not understood. In this study, we used dual site silicon probe recordings in freely moving mice to examine interactions between the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens in cocaine CPP. We found that CPP was associated with recruitment of D2-positive nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons to fire in the cocaine-paired location, and this recruitment was driven predominantly by selective strengthening of coupling with hippocampal place cells that encode the cocaine-paired location. These findings provide in vivo evidence suggesting that the synaptic potentiation in the accumbens caused by repeated cocaine administration preferentially affects inputs that were active at the time of drug exposure. This provides a potential physiological mechanism by which drug use becomes associated with specific environmental contexts.
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- Lucas Sjulson
- Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA; NYU Neuroscience Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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- Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada
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- NYU Neuroscience Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- NYU Neuroscience Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- NYU Neuroscience Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA.
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Hitchcock LN, Lattal KM. Involvement of the dorsal hippocampus in expression and extinction of cocaine-induced conditioned place preference. Hippocampus 2018; 28:226-238. [PMID: 29341327 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Revised: 01/05/2018] [Accepted: 01/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A key aspect of substance abuse is that drug taking often occurs in a specific context. As a consequence, exposure to drug-associated contexts can trigger cravings and relapse, even after long periods of abstinence. Although many studies have demonstrated that the hippocampus is critical for developing and retrieving contextual and spatial memories, comparatively little is known about the role of the hippocampus in acquiring and inhibiting memories involving contexts and drugs of abuse. We examined the effects of hippocampal inactivation on expression of cocaine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) after initial acquisition or extinction of CPP in C57BL/6 mice. During acquisition of CPP, distinct tactile cues were paired with cocaine (20 mg kg-1 , intraperitoneal, CS+) and different tactile cues were paired with saline (CS-) on alternate days. Groups differed in whether the CS+ and CS- cues were presented in the same large space (one-compartment procedure) or distinct small spaces (two-compartment procedure), as previous findings demonstrate that a two-compartment configuration facilitates acquisition and attenuates extinction of a cocaine-induced CPP. Microinjection of the GABAA agonist, muscimol, into the dorsal hippocampus impaired (1) retrieval of a place preference after acquisition, (2) extinction of a place preference, and (3) retrieval of extinction. These effects differed depending on the spatial configuration during acquisition or extinction, suggesting that the dorsal hippocampus may differentially modulate drug seeking during retrieval and extinction of CPP.
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- Leah N Hitchcock
- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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- Department of Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon
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Does exercise augment operant and Pavlovian extinction: A meta-analysis. J Psychiatr Res 2018; 96:73-93. [PMID: 28987515 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Revised: 08/17/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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BACKGROUND Exposure therapy, a behavioral approach to reduce symptomology in fear, anxiety, and drug-related psychiatric disorders, is based on learning and memory principles of extinction, and is subject to relapse. As such, it is important to find ways to enhance outcomes. One such way is through exercise. OBJECTIVES Identify if exercise augments extinction behavior, and whether this depends on the experimental paradigm used (i.e. operant or Pavlovian) and/or stimulus (i.e. appetitive or aversive). Additionally, determine which moderating variables influence the effects of exercise on extinction learning. METHODS A literature search was conducted and a Hedges' g calculation was employed to conduct a meta-analysis (metaSEM) using a structural equation modeling approach. This approach was chosen because of its ability to account for dependencies in effect sizes. RESULTS We found a significant effect of exercise as an augmentation over extinction alone (g = 0.37, p < 0.001), with extinction paradigm (but not stimulus) producing a moderating effect (B = 0.43, p = 0.030). Data were then split by extinction paradigm, with operant extinction models having a significant effect (g = 0.55, p < 0.001), and number of extinction sessions moderating aggregate effects. Pavlovian models did not have significant overall effects (g = 0.11, p = 0.3976), but were moderated by the number of animals housed together and exercise after extinction. CONCLUSIONS The effects of exercise on extinction learning are differentially modulated by the type of paradigm used, the number of extinction sessions, the timing of when exercise treatment was applied (after extinction), and the housing conditions.
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Alvandi MS, Bourmpoula M, Homberg JR, Fathollahi Y. Association of contextual cues with morphine reward increases neural and synaptic plasticity in the ventral hippocampus of rats. Addict Biol 2017; 22:1883-1894. [PMID: 28940732 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Drug addiction is associated with aberrant memory and permanent functional changes in neural circuits. It is known that exposure to drugs like morphine is associated with positive emotional states and reward-related memory. However, the underlying mechanisms in terms of neural plasticity in the ventral hippocampus, a region involved in associative memory and emotional behaviors, are not fully understood. Therefore, we measured adult neurogenesis, dendritic spine density and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and TrkB mRNA expression as parameters for synaptic plasticity in the ventral hippocampus. Male Sprague Dawley rats were subjected to the CPP (conditioned place preference) paradigm and received 10 mg/kg morphine. Half of the rats were used to evaluate neurogenesis by immunohistochemical markers Ki67 and doublecortin (DCX). The other half was used for Golgi staining to measure spine density and real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction to assess BDNF/TrkB expression levels. We found that morphine-treated rats exhibited more place conditioning as compared with saline-treated rats and animals that were exposed to the CPP without any injections. Locomotor activity did not change significantly. Morphine-induced CPP significantly increased the number of Ki67 and DCX-labeled cells in the ventral dentate gyrus. Additionally, we found increased dendritic spine density in both CA1 and dentate gyrus and an enhancement of BDNF/TrkB mRNA levels in the whole ventral hippocampus. Ki67, DCX and spine density were significantly correlated with CPP scores. In conclusion, we show that morphine-induced reward-related memory is associated with neural and synaptic plasticity changes in the ventral hippocampus. Such neural changes could underlie context-induced drug relapse.
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- Mina Sadighi Alvandi
- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences; Tarbiat Modares University; Tehran Iran
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Radboud University Medical Centre; Nijmegen the Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Radboud University Medical Centre; Nijmegen the Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour; Radboud University Medical Centre; Nijmegen the Netherlands
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences; Tarbiat Modares University; Tehran Iran
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Chen ZG, Liu X, Wang W, Geng F, Gao J, Gan CL, Chai JR, He L, Hu G, Zhou H, Liu JG. Dissociative role for dorsal hippocampus in mediating heroin self-administration and relapse through CDK5 and RhoB signaling revealed by proteomic analysis. Addict Biol 2017; 22:1731-1742. [PMID: 27549397 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Revised: 07/09/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Addiction is characterized by drug craving, compulsive drug taking and relapse, which is attributed to aberrant neuroadaptation in brain regions implicated in drug addiction, induced by changes in gene and protein expression in these regions after chronic drug exposure. Accumulating evidence suggests that the dorsal hippocampus (DH) plays an important role in mediating drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior and relapse. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these effects of the DH are unclear. In the present study, we employed a label-free quantitative proteomic approach to analyze the proteins altered in the DH of heroin self-administering rats. A total of 4015 proteins were quantified with high confidence, and 361 proteins showed significant differences compared with the saline control group. Among them, cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) and ras homolog family member B (RhoB) were up-regulated in rats with a history of extended access to heroin. Functionally, inhibition of CDK5 in the DH enhanced heroin self-administration, indicating that CDK5 signaling in the DH acts as a homeostatic compensatory mechanism to limit heroin-taking behavior, whereas blockade of the Rho-Rho kinase (ROCK) pathway attenuated context-induced heroin relapse, indicating that RhoB signaling in the DH is required for the retrieval (recall) of addiction memory. Our findings suggest that manipulation of CDK5 signaling in the DH may be essential in determining vulnerability to opiate taking, whereas manipulation of RhoB signaling in the DH may be essential in determining vulnerability to relapse. Overall, the present study suggests that the DH can exert dissociative effects on heroin addiction through CDK5 and RhoB signaling.
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- Zhong-Guo Chen
- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
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- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
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- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Department of Pharmacology; Nanjing Medical University; Nanjing China
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- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
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- Department of Pharmacology; China Pharmaceutical University; Nanjing China
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- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
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- Department of Pharmacology; China Pharmaceutical University; Nanjing China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neurodegeneration, Department of Pharmacology; Nanjing Medical University; Nanjing China
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- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
- SIMMUOMICS Laboratory, Joint Research Laboratory of Translational “OMICS” between Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China and University of Ottawa; Canada
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- Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai China
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Lu GL, Yau HJ, Chiou LC. Conditioned place preference training prevents hippocampal depotentiation in an orexin-dependent manner. J Biomed Sci 2017; 24:69. [PMID: 28877723 PMCID: PMC5585888 DOI: 10.1186/s12929-017-0378-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Background Long-term potentiation (LTP) is well recognized as a cellular-correlated synaptic plasticity of learning and memory. However, its reversal forms of synaptic plasticity, depotentiation, is less studied and its association with behaviors is also far from clear. Previously, we have shown that nanomolar orexin A can prevent the depotentiation induced by low frequency stimulation (LFS) following theta burst stimulation-induced LTP, namely inducing re-potentiation, at hippocampal CA1 synapses in vitro. Here, we explored the functional correlate of this orexin-mediated hippocampal re-potentiation. Methods and results We found that intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection process-paired contextual exposures during the conditioned place preference (CPP) task in mice resulted in re-potentiation at CA1 synapses of hippocampal slices, regardless of whether the CPP behavior is expressed or not. Simply exposing the mouse in the CPP apparatus, or giving the mouse consecutive i.p. injections of saline in its home cage or a novel cage did not lead to hippocampal re-potentiation. Besides, this CPP training process-induced hippocampal re-potentiation was prevented when mice were pretreated with TCS1102, a dual orexin receptor antagonist. These results suggest that the expression of hippocampal re-potentiation is orexin-dependent and requires the association of differential spatial contexts and i.p. injections in the CPP apparatus. Conclusions Together, we reveal an unprecedentedly orexin-mediated modulation on hippocampal depotentiation by the training process in the CPP paradigm. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12929-017-0378-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Guan-Ling Lu
- Graduate Institute of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Graduate Institute of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. .,Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. .,Reserach Center for Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan. .,Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Jen-Ai Rd., Section 1, Taipei, 100, Taiwan.
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Alavian F, Ghiasvand S. GABA B receptors within the central nucleus of amygdala may involve in the morphine-induced incentive tolerance in female rats. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES 2017; 20:822-828. [PMID: 28852448 PMCID: PMC5569599 DOI: 10.22038/ijbms.2017.9018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Objective(s): Central nucleus of amygdala (CeA) is the most important region for morphine-induced reward, and GABAergic system plays an important role on morphine reinforcement. The influence of CeA administration of GABAB receptor agonist and antagonist on the expression and acquisition of morphine-induced incentive tolerance using conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm was investigated in the present study. Our purpose was to evaluate the role of CeA GABAB receptors in morphine tolerance. Materials and Methods: Seven days after surgery and cannulation, the experiments were begun. Subcutaneous (SC) injections of morphine induced CPP. Administration of one daily dose of morphine (12.5 mg/kg) for 3 days in order to develop tolerance to the drug reduced the conditioning induced by morphine (7.5 mg/kg, SC). GABAB receptor agonist, baclofen (1.5, 6 and 12 µg/rat) or GABAB receptor antagonist, CGP35348 (1.5, 6 and 12 µg/rat) were injected into the CeA 5 min before the experiments in the test day (expression of tolerance) or 5 min before each injection of morphine (12.5 mg/kg) (acquisition of tolerance). Results: It was shown that injections of baclofen (1.5 and 12 µg/rat) reduced acquisition, whereas the dose of 6 µg/rat of the drug exacerbated the acquisition of morphine tolerance. Baclofen at all doses significantly increased the expression of tolerance to morphine. Administration of CGP35348 (1.5, 6 and 12 µg/rat) reduced the acquisition and expression of morphine tolerance. Conclusion: These results confirmed the importance of GABAB receptors with in the CeA in morphine tolerance in female rats.
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- Firoozeh Alavian
- Department of Basic Sciences, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
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- Departments of Biology, Faculty of Science, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran
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Lee JQ, Sutherland RJ, McDonald RJ. Hippocampal damage causes retrograde but not anterograde memory loss for context fear discrimination in rats. Hippocampus 2017; 27:951-958. [PMID: 28686806 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2017] [Revised: 06/06/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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There is a substantial body of evidence that the hippocampus (HPC) plays and essential role in context discrimination in rodents. Studies reporting anterograde amnesia (AA) used repeated, alternating, distributed conditioning and extinction sessions to measure context fear discrimination. In addition, there is uncertainty about the extent of damage to the HPC. Here, we induced conditioned fear prior to discrimination tests and rats sustained extensive, quantified pre- or post-training HPC damage. Unlike previous work, we found that extensive HPC damage spares context discrimination, we observed no AA. There must be a non-HPC system that can acquire long-term memories that support context fear discrimination. Post-training HPC damage caused retrograde amnesia (RA) for context discrimination, even when rats are fear conditioned for multiple sessions. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding the role of HPC in long-term memory.
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- Justin Q Lee
- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Neuroscience, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
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Distinct Roles of CREB Within the Ventral and Dorsal Hippocampus in Mediating Nicotine Withdrawal Phenotypes. Neuropsychopharmacology 2017; 42:1599-1609. [PMID: 27848935 PMCID: PMC5518892 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2016] [Revised: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 11/09/2016] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Addiction to nicotine and the inability to quit smoking are influenced by genetic factors, emphasizing the importance of understanding how genes and drugs of abuse mechanistically impact each other. One well-characterized protein responsible for regulating both response to drugs and gene expression is the transcription factor CREB (cAMP-responsive element binding protein). Previous work indicates that hippocampal-specific alterations in CREB signaling and synaptic plasticity may underlie certain nicotine withdrawal phenotypes. However, the structure of the hippocampus possesses dorsal and ventral subregions, each differing in behavioral, anatomic and gene expression characteristics. This study examines the effects of CREB deletion specifically in the ventral or dorsal hippocampus of animals chronically treated with saline, nicotine, or undergoing 24 h withdrawal. After region-specific viral injections of AAV-GFP or AAV-CRE in CREBloxP/loxP animals, behavioral testing measured anxiety levels, using the Novelty-Induced Hypophagia test, and cognition, using a contextual fear conditioning paradigm. Deletion of CREB in the ventral, but not dorsal, hippocampus resulted in amelioration of nicotine withdrawal-induced anxiety-like behavior in the Novelty-Induced Hypophagia test. In contrast, CREB deletion in the dorsal hippocampus resulted in learning and memory deficits in fear conditioning, whereas CREB deletion in the ventral hippocampus showed an enhancement in learning. Gene expression analysis showed differential treatment- and region-dependent alterations of several CREB target genes that are well-known markers of neuroplasticity within the hippocampus. Collectively, these data provide persuasive evidence towards the distinct roles of CREB within the dorsal and ventral hippocampus separately in mediating select nicotine withdrawal phenotypes.
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