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Meyers AM, Gnazzo F, Barrera ED, Nabatian T, Chan L, Beeler J. DIETARY REGULATION OF SILENT SYNAPSES IN THE DORSOLATERAL STRIATUM. bioRxiv 2024:2024.03.24.586457. [PMID: 38585967 PMCID: PMC10996560 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.24.586457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
Abstract
Obesity results in circuit adaptations that closely resemble those induced by drugs of abuse. AMPA-lacking 'silent' synapses are critical in circuit generation during early development, but largely disappear by adulthood. Drugs of abuse increase silent synapses during adulthood and may facilitate the reorganization of brain circuits around drug-related experience, facilitating addiction and relapse Whether obesity causes addiction-related synaptic circuit reorganization via alterations in silent synapse expression has not been examined. Using a dietary-induced obesity paradigm, we show that mice that chronically consumed high-fat diet (HFD) exhibit upregulated silent synapses in both direct and indirect pathway medium spiny neurons in the dorsolateral striatum. Both the onset of silent synapses and their re-silencing after HFD withdrawal occur on an extended time scale of weeks rather than days. Our data suggest that HFD-related silent synapses likely arise from AMPA receptor internalization rather than through de novo synaptogenesis of NR2B-containing NMDA receptors. These data demonstrate that chronic consumption of high-fat diet can alter mechanisms of circuit plasticity, likely facilitating neural reorganization analogous to that observed with drugs of abuse.
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- Allison M Meyers
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University New York, Flushing, NY, USA
- Psychology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University New York, Flushing, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University New York, Flushing, NY, USA
- Biology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York NY, USA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience MS program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University New York, Flushing, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University New York, Flushing, NY, USA
- Psychology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA
- Biology Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York NY, USA
- Cognitive Neuroscience MS program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York NY, USA
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Sanabria BD, Baskar SS, Yonk AJ, Linares-Garcia I, Abraira VE, Lee CR, Margolis DJ. Cell-Type Specific Connectivity of Whisker-Related Sensory and Motor Cortical Input to Dorsal Striatum. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0503-23.2023. [PMID: 38164611 PMCID: PMC10849041 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0503-23.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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The anterior dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is heavily innervated by convergent excitatory projections from the primary motor (M1) and sensory cortex (S1) and considered an important site of sensorimotor integration. M1 and S1 corticostriatal synapses have functional differences in their connection strength with striatal spiny projection neurons (SPNs) and fast-spiking interneurons (FSIs) in the DLS and, as a result, exert distinct influences on sensory-guided behaviors. In the present study, we tested whether M1 and S1 inputs exhibit differences in the subcellular anatomical distribution of striatal neurons. We injected adeno-associated viral vectors encoding spaghetti monster fluorescent proteins (sm.FPs) into M1 and S1 in male and female mice and used confocal microscopy to generate 3D reconstructions of corticostriatal inputs to single identified SPNs and FSIs obtained through ex vivo patch clamp electrophysiology. We found that M1 and S1 dually innervate SPNs and FSIs; however, there is a consistent bias towards the M1 input in SPNs that is not found in FSIs. In addition, M1 and S1 inputs were distributed similarly across the proximal, medial, and distal regions of SPN and FSI dendrites. Notably, closely localized M1 and S1 clusters of inputs were more prevalent in SPNs than FSIs, suggesting that cortical inputs are integrated through cell-type specific mechanisms. Our results suggest that the stronger functional connectivity from M1 to SPNs compared to S1, as previously observed, is due to a higher quantity of synaptic inputs. Our results have implications for how sensorimotor integration is performed in the striatum through cell-specific differences in corticostriatal connections.
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- Branden D Sanabria
- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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- Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854, New Jersey
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Roman KM, Dinasarapu AR, VanSchoiack A, Ross PM, Kroeppler D, Jinnah HA, Hess EJ. Spiny projection neurons exhibit transcriptional signatures within subregions of the dorsal striatum. Cell Rep 2023; 42:113435. [PMID: 37952158 PMCID: PMC10841649 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 08/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
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The dorsal striatum is organized into functional territories defined by corticostriatal inputs onto both direct and indirect spiny projection neurons (SPNs), the major cell types within the striatum. In addition to circuit connectivity, striatal domains are likely defined by the spatially determined transcriptomes of SPNs themselves. To identify cell-type-specific spatiomolecular signatures of direct and indirect SPNs within dorsomedial, dorsolateral, and ventrolateral dorsal striatum, we used RNA profiling in situ hybridization with probes to >98% of protein coding genes. We demonstrate that the molecular identity of SPNs is mediated by hundreds of differentially expressed genes across territories of the striatum, revealing extraordinary heterogeneity in the expression of genes that mediate synaptic function in both direct and indirect SPNs. This deep insight into the complex spatiomolecular organization of the striatum provides a foundation for understanding both normal striatal function and for dissecting region-specific dysfunction in disorders of the striatum.
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- Kaitlyn M Roman
- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- NanoString Technologies, 530 Fairview Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- NanoString Technologies, 530 Fairview Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Frost-Nylén J, Thompson WS, Robertson B, Grillner S. The Basal Ganglia Downstream Control of Action - An Evolutionarily Conserved Strategy. Curr Neuropharmacol 2023:CN-EPUB-133535. [PMID: 37563813 DOI: 10.2174/1570159x21666230810141746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 01/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023] Open
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The motor areas of the cortex and the basal ganglia both contribute to determining which motor actions will be recruited at any moment in time, and their functions are intertwined. Here, we review the basal ganglia mechanisms underlying the selection of behavior of the downstream control of motor centers in the midbrain and brainstem and show that the basic organization of the forebrain motor system is evolutionarily conserved throughout vertebrate phylogeny. The output level of the basal ganglia (e.g. substantia nigra pars reticulata) has GABAergic neurons that are spontaneously active at rest and inhibit a number of specific motor centers, each of which can be relieved from inhibition if the inhibitory output neurons themselves become inhibited. The motor areas of the cortex act partially via the dorsolateral striatum (putamen), which has specific modules for the forelimb, hindlimb, trunk, etc. Each module operates in turn through the two types of striatal projection neurons that control the output modules of the basal ganglia and thereby the downstream motor centers. The mechanisms for lateral inhibition in the striatum are reviewed as well as other striatal mechanisms contributing to action selection. The motor cortex also exerts a direct excitatory action on specific motor centers. An overview is given of the basal ganglia control exerted on the different midbrain/brainstem motor centers, and the efference copy information fed back via the thalamus to the striatum and cortex, which is of importance for the planning of future movements.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tan SY, Jiang JX, Huang HX, Mo XP, Feng JR, Chen Y, Yang L, Long C. Neural mechanism underlies CYLD modulation of morphology and synaptic function of medium spiny neurons in dorsolateral striatum. Front Mol Neurosci 2023; 16:1107355. [PMID: 36846565 PMCID: PMC9945542 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1107355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Although the deubiquitinase cylindromatosis (CYLD), an abundant protein in the postsynaptic density fraction, plays a crucial role in mediating the synaptic activity of the striatum, the precise molecular mechanism remains largely unclear. Here, using a Cyld-knockout mouse model, we demonstrate that CYLD regulates dorsolateral striatum (DLS) neuronal morphology, firing activity, excitatory synaptic transmission, and plasticity of striatal medium spiny neurons via, likely, interaction with glutamate receptor 1 (GluA1) and glutamate receptor 2 (GluA2), two key subunits of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid receptors (AMPARs). CYLD deficiency reduces levels of GluA1 and GluA2 surface protein and increases K63-linked ubiquitination, resulting in functional impairments both in AMPAR-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents and in AMPAR-dependent long-term depression. The results demonstrate a functional association of CYLD with AMPAR activity, which strengthens our understanding of the role of CYLD in striatal neuronal activity.
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- Shu-Yi Tan
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.,South China Normal University-Panyu Central Hospital Joint Laboratory of Translational Medical Research, Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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Tan SY, Jiang JX, Huang HX, Mo XP, Feng JR, Chen Y, Yang L, Long C. Corrigendum: Neural mechanism underlies CYLD modulation of morphology and synaptic function of medium spiny neurons in dorsolateral striatum. Front Mol Neurosci 2023; 16:1162275. [PMID: 36910265 PMCID: PMC9996285 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1162275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
Abstract
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2023.1107355.].
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- Shu-Yi Tan
- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.,South China Normal University-Panyu Central Hospital Joint Laboratory of Translational Medical Research, Panyu Central Hospital, Guangzhou, China
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Badreddine N, Zalcman G, Appaix F, Becq G, Tremblay N, Saudou F, Achard S, Fino E. Spatiotemporal reorganization of corticostriatal networks encodes motor skill learning. Cell Rep 2022; 39:110623. [PMID: 35385722 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Motor skill learning requires the activity of the dorsal striatum, with a differential global implication of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral territories. We investigate here whether and how specific striatal neurons encode the acquisition and consolidation of a motor skill. Using ex vivo two-photon calcium imaging after rotarod training, we report that highly active (HA) striatal populations arise from distinct spatiotemporal reorganization in the dorsomedial (DMS) and dorsolateral (DLS) striatum networks and are correlated with learning performance. The DMS overall activity decreases in early training, with few and sparsely distributed HA cells, while the DLS shows a progressive and long-lasting formation of HA cell clusters. These reorganizations result from reinforcement of synaptic connections to the DMS and anatomical rearrangements to the DLS. Targeted silencing of DMS or DLS HA cells with the cFos-TRAP strategy strongly impairs individual performance. Our data reveal that discrete domains of striatal populations encode acquisition and long-lasting retention of a motor skill.
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- Nagham Badreddine
- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-Lab, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, GIPSA-Lab, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LJK, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, U1216, CHU Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, 38000 Grenoble, France.
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Tang J, Yang C, Shi M, Chen W. Activation of dopamine D 2 receptors in the shell of nucleus accumbens triggers conditioned avoidance responses in rats. Behav Brain Res 2022; 422:113759. [PMID: 35051488 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2022.113759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Revised: 12/11/2021] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Conditioned avoidance responses (CAR) behavior is a classical instrumental response paradigm, which is widely used to study aversive conditioning and defensive motivation behavior. Previous studies have shown that dopamine D1 and D2 receptors are involved in CAR behavior; however, it is unclear in which brain regions that dopamine evokes CAR behavior. The aim of the study is to investigate whether dopamine triggers CAR behavior via activating dopamine D1 or D2 receptors in the shell of nucleus accumbens or dorsolateral striatum. The present study found that infusion of the dopamine D2 receptor agonist quinpirole, but not D1 receptor agonist SKF38393, into the shell of nucleus accumbens evoked CAR behavior in reserpine-treated rats. Whereas, infusion of neither SKF38393 nor quinpirole into the dorsolateral striatum evoked CAR behavior. In addition, infusion of quinpirole into the shell of nucleus accumbens enhanced CAR behavior in the unsuccessful trained rats without affecting the motor function in the balance beam and locomotor tests. In conclusion, activation of dopamine D2, but not D1 receptors in the shell of nucleus accumbens evokes CAR behavior. However, activation of dopamine D1 and D2 receptors in the dorsolateral striatum does not evoke CAR behavior. It is suggested that the shell of nucleus accumbens is the critical brain region for dopamine to invoke CAR behavior, and activation of dopamine D2 receptors in the shell of nucleus accumbens is sufficient and necessary to evoke CAR behavior.
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- Jiaxin Tang
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
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Guo L, Kondapavulur S, Lemke SM, Won SJ, Ganguly K. Coordinated increase of reliable cortical and striatal ensemble activations during recovery after stroke. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109370. [PMID: 34260929 PMCID: PMC8357409 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Revised: 03/03/2021] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Skilled movements rely on a coordinated cortical and subcortical network, but how this network supports motor recovery after stroke is unknown. Previous studies focused on the perilesional cortex (PLC), but precisely how connected subcortical areas reorganize and coordinate with PLC is unclear. The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is of interest because it receives monosynaptic inputs from motor cortex and is important for learning and generation of fast reliable actions. Using a rat focal stroke model, we perform chronic electrophysiological recordings in motor PLC and DLS during long-term recovery of a dexterous skill. We find that recovery is associated with the simultaneous emergence of reliable movement-related single-trial ensemble spiking in both structures along with increased cross-area alignment of spiking. Our study highlights the importance of consistent neural activity patterns across brain structures during recovery and suggests that modulation of cross-area coordination can be a therapeutic target for enhancing motor function post-stroke.
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- Ling Guo
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA; Department of Neurology & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA; Department of Neurology & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Medical Scientist Training Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA; Department of Neurology & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA; Department of Neurology & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Neurology and Rehabilitation Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA; Department of Neurology & Weill Institute for Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
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Takahashi M, Fukabori R, Kawasaki H, Kobayashi K, Kawakami K. The distribution of Cdh20 mRNA demarcates somatotopic subregions and subpopulations of spiny projection neurons in the rat dorsolateral striatum. J Comp Neurol 2021; 529:3655-3675. [PMID: 34240415 DOI: 10.1002/cne.25215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Revised: 06/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) of rodents is functionally subdivided into somatotopic subregions that represent each body part along both the dorsoventral and anteroposterior (A-P) axes and play crucial roles in sensorimotor functions via corticostriatal pathways. However, little is known about the spatial gene expression patterns and heterogeneity of spiny projection neurons (SPNs) within somatotopic subregions. Here, we show that the cell adhesion molecule gene Cdh20, which encodes a Type II cadherin, is expressed in discrete subregions covering the inner orofacial area and part of the forelimb area in the ventral domain of the DLS (v-DLS) in rats. Cdh20-expressing cells were localized in the v-DLS at the intermediate level of the striatum along the A-P axis and could be classified as direct-pathway SPNs or indirect-pathway SPNs. Unexpectedly, comprehensive analysis revealed that Cdh20 is expressed in SPNs in the rat DLS but not in the mouse DLS or the ferret putamen (Pu). Our observations reveal that Cdh20 expression demarcates somatotopic subregions and subpopulations of SPNs specifically in the rat DLS and suggest divergent regulation of genes differentially expressed in the v-DLS and Pu among mammals.
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- Masanori Takahashi
- Graduate School of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan.,Division of Cardiology and Metabolism, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
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- Department of Medical Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan
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He Y, Li Y, Pu Z, Chen M, Gao Y, Chen L, Ruan Y, Pan X, Zhou Y, Ge Y, Zhou J, Zheng W, Huang Z, Li Z, Chen JF. Striatopallidal Pathway Distinctly Modulates Goal-Directed Valuation and Acquisition of Instrumental Behavior via Striatopallidal Output Projections. Cereb Cortex 2021; 30:1366-1381. [PMID: 31690946 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhz172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Revised: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
The striatopallidal pathway is specialized for control of motor and motivational behaviors, but its causal role in striatal control of instrumental learning remains undefined (partly due to the confounding motor effects). Here, we leveraged the transient and "time-locked" optogenetic manipulations with the reward delivery to minimize motor confounding effect, to better define the striatopallidal control of instrumental behaviors. Optogenetic (Arch) silencing of the striatopallidal pathway in the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS) promoted goal-directed and habitual behaviors, respectively, without affecting acquisition of instrumental behaviors, indicating striatopallidal pathway suppression of instrumental behaviors under physiological condition. Conversely, striatopallidal pathway activation mainly affected the acquisition of instrumental behaviors with the acquisition suppression achieved by either optogenetic (ChR2) or chemicogenetic (hM3q) activation, by strong (10 mW, but not weak 1 mW) optogenetic activation, by the time-locked (but not random) optogenetic activation with the reward and by the DMS (but not DLS) striatopallidal pathway. Lastly, striatopallidal pathway modulated instrumental behaviors through striatopallidal output projections into the external globus pallidus (GPe) since optogenetic activation of the striatopallidal pathway in the DMS and of the striatopallidal output projections in the GPe similarly suppressed goal-directed behavior. Thus, the striatopallidal pathway confers distinctive and inhibitory controls of animal's sensitivity to goal-directed valuation and acquisition of instrumental behaviors under normal and over-activation conditions, through the output projections into GPe.
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- Yan He
- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- Department of Pharmacology, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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- School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, The Institute of Molecular Medicine, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China
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Chen APF, Chen L, Kim TA, Xiong Q. Integrating the Roles of Midbrain Dopamine Circuits in Behavior and Neuropsychiatric Disease. Biomedicines 2021; 9:biomedicines9060647. [PMID: 34200134 PMCID: PMC8228225 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9060647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Dopamine (DA) is a behaviorally and clinically diverse neuromodulator that controls CNS function. DA plays major roles in many behaviors including locomotion, learning, habit formation, perception, and memory processing. Reflecting this, DA dysregulation produces a wide variety of cognitive symptoms seen in neuropsychiatric diseases such as Parkinson’s, Schizophrenia, addiction, and Alzheimer’s disease. Here, we review recent advances in the DA systems neuroscience field and explore the advancing hypothesis that DA’s behavioral function is linked to disease deficits in a neural circuit-dependent manner. We survey different brain areas including the basal ganglia’s dorsomedial/dorsolateral striatum, the ventral striatum, the auditory striatum, and the hippocampus in rodent models. Each of these regions have different reported functions and, correspondingly, DA’s reflecting role in each of these regions also has support for being different. We then focus on DA dysregulation states in Parkinson’s disease, addiction, and Alzheimer’s Disease, emphasizing how these afflictions are linked to different DA pathways. We draw upon ideas such as selective vulnerability and region-dependent physiology. These bodies of work suggest that different channels of DA may be dysregulated in different sets of disease. While these are great advances, the fine and definitive segregation of such pathways in behavior and disease remains to be seen. Future studies will be required to define DA’s necessity and contribution to the functional plasticity of different striatal regions.
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- Allen PF Chen
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; (A.P.C.); (L.C.); (T.A.K.)
- Medical Scientist Training Program, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; (A.P.C.); (L.C.); (T.A.K.)
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; (A.P.C.); (L.C.); (T.A.K.)
- Medical Scientist Training Program, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA; (A.P.C.); (L.C.); (T.A.K.)
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Campanelli F, Laricchiuta D, Natale G, Marino G, Calabrese V, Picconi B, Petrosini L, Calabresi P, Ghiglieri V. Long-Term Shaping of Corticostriatal Synaptic Activity by Acute Fasting. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22041916. [PMID: 33671915 PMCID: PMC7918979 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22041916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 02/10/2021] [Accepted: 02/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Food restriction is a robust nongenic, nonsurgical and nonpharmacologic intervention known to improve health and extend lifespan in various species. Food is considered the most essential and frequently consumed natural reward, and current observations have demonstrated homeostatic responses and neuroadaptations to sustained intermittent or chronic deprivation. Results obtained to date indicate that food deprivation affects glutamatergic synapses, favoring the insertion of GluA2-lacking α-Ammino-3-idrossi-5-Metil-4-idrossazol-Propionic Acid receptors (AMPARs) in postsynaptic membranes. Despite an increasing number of studies pointing towards specific changes in response to dietary restrictions in brain regions, such as the nucleus accumbens and hippocampus, none have investigated the long-term effects of such practice in the dorsal striatum. This basal ganglia nucleus is involved in habit formation and in eating behavior, especially that based on dopaminergic control of motivation for food in both humans and animals. Here, we explored whether we could retrieve long-term signs of changes in AMPARs subunit composition in dorsal striatal neurons of mice acutely deprived for 12 hours/day for two consecutive days by analyzing glutamatergic neurotransmission and the principal forms of dopamine and glutamate-dependent synaptic plasticity. Overall, our data show that a moderate food deprivation in experimental animals is a salient event mirrored by a series of neuroadaptations and suggest that dietary restriction may be determinant in shaping striatal synaptic plasticity in the physiological state.
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- Federica Campanelli
- Dipartmento di Medicina, Università di Perugia, 06129 Perugia, Italy; (F.C.); (G.N.); (G.M.); (V.C.)
- Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy;
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- Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia Sperimentale e del Comportamento, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia c/o CERC, 00143 Rome, Italy; (D.L.); (L.P.)
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- Dipartmento di Medicina, Università di Perugia, 06129 Perugia, Italy; (F.C.); (G.N.); (G.M.); (V.C.)
- Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy;
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- Dipartmento di Medicina, Università di Perugia, 06129 Perugia, Italy; (F.C.); (G.N.); (G.M.); (V.C.)
- Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy;
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- Dipartmento di Medicina, Università di Perugia, 06129 Perugia, Italy; (F.C.); (G.N.); (G.M.); (V.C.)
- IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome 00176, Italy;
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- IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome 00176, Italy;
- Università Telematica San Raffaele, 00166 Rome, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia Sperimentale e del Comportamento, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia c/o CERC, 00143 Rome, Italy; (D.L.); (L.P.)
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- Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy;
- Clinica Neurologica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia Sperimentale e del Comportamento, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia c/o CERC, 00143 Rome, Italy; (D.L.); (L.P.)
- Università Telematica San Raffaele, 00166 Rome, Italy
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Poulter SL, Kosaki Y, Sanderson DJ, McGregor A. Spontaneous object-location memory based on environmental geometry is impaired by both hippocampal and dorsolateral striatal lesions. Brain Neurosci Adv 2020; 4:2398212820972599. [PMID: 33283053 PMCID: PMC7683846 DOI: 10.1177/2398212820972599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We examined the role of the hippocampus and the dorsolateral striatum in the representation of environmental geometry using a spontaneous object recognition procedure. Rats were placed in a kite-shaped arena and allowed to explore two distinctive objects in each of the right-angled corners. In a different room, rats were then placed into a rectangular arena with two identical copies of one of the two objects from the exploration phase, one in each of the two adjacent right-angled corners that were separated by a long wall. Time spent exploring these two objects was recorded as a measure of recognition memory. Since both objects were in different locations with respect to the room (different between exploration and test phases) and the global geometry (also different between exploration and test phases), differential exploration of the objects must be a result of initial habituation to the object relative to its local geometric context. The results indicated an impairment in processing the local geometric features of the environment for both hippocampus and dorsolateral striatum lesioned rats compared with sham-operated controls, though a control experiment showed these rats were unimpaired in a standard object recognition task. The dorsolateral striatum has previously been implicated in egocentric route-learning, but the results indicate an unexpected role for the dorsolateral striatum in processing the spatial layout of the environment. The results provide the first evidence that lesions to the hippocampus and dorsolateral striatum impair spontaneous encoding of local environmental geometric features.
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- Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK.,Department of Psychology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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Calabrese V, Di Maio A, Marino G, Cardinale A, Natale G, De Rosa A, Campanelli F, Mancini M, Napolitano F, Avallone L, Calabresi P, Usiello A, Ghiglieri V, Picconi B. Rapamycin, by Inhibiting mTORC1 Signaling, Prevents the Loss of Striatal Bidirectional Synaptic Plasticity in a Rat Model of L-DOPA-Induced Dyskinesia. Front Aging Neurosci 2020; 12:230. [PMID: 32848709 PMCID: PMC7431470 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.00230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Levodopa (L-DOPA) treatment is the main gold-standard therapy for Parkinson disease (PD). Besides good antiparkinsonian effects, prolonged use of this drug is associated to the development of involuntary movements known as L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID). L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia is linked to a sensitization of dopamine (DA) D1 receptors located on spiny projection neurons (SPNs) of the dorsal striatum. Several evidences have shown that the emergence of LID can be related to striatal D1/cAMP/PKA/DARPP-32 and extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK1/2) pathway overactivation associated to aberrant N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor function. In addition, within striatum, ERK1/2 is also able to modulate in a D1 receptor-dependent manner the activity of the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway under DA depletion and L-DOPA therapy. Consistently, increased mTORC1 signaling appears during chronic administration of L-DOPA and shows a high correlation with the severity of dyskinesia. Furthermore, the abnormal activation of the D1/PKA/DARPP-32 cascade is paralleled by increased phosphorylation of the GluA1 subunit of the α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptor at the PKA Ser845 site. The GluA1 promotes excitatory AMPA receptor-mediated transmission and may be implicated in the alterations found at the corticostriatal synapses of dyskinetic animals. In our study, we investigated the role of mTORC1 pathway activation in modulating bidirectional striatal synaptic plasticity in L-DOPA-treated parkinsonian rats. Inhibition of mTORC1 by coadministration of rapamycin to L-DOPA was able to limit the magnitude of LID expression, accounting for a therapeutic effect of this drug. In particular, behavioral data showed that, in L-DOPA-treated rats, rapamycin administration induced a selective decrease of distinct components of abnormal involuntary movements (i.e., axial and orolingual dyskinesia). Furthermore, ex vivo patch clamp and intracellular recordings of SPNs revealed that pharmacological inhibition of mTORC1 also resulted associated with a physiological bidirectional plasticity, when compared to dyskinetic rats treated with L-DOPA alone. This study uncovers the important role of mTORC1 inhibition to prevent the loss of striatal bidirectional plasticity under chronic L-DOPA treatment in rodent models of PD.
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- Valeria Calabrese
- Laboratory of Experimental Neurophysiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy.,Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Laboratory of Neurophysiology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neurophysiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy.,Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Laboratory of Neurophysiology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Laboratory of Neurophysiology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy.,Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Productions, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Neurologia, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.,Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate, Naples, Italy.,Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (DISTABIF), University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Laboratory of Neurophysiology, IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratory of Experimental Neurophysiology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy.,Università Telematica San Raffaele, Rome, Italy
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Pérez-Valenzuela EJ, Andrés Coke ME, Grace AA, Fuentealba Evans JA. Adolescent Exposure to WIN 55212-2 Render the Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Pathway Activated During Adulthood. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2020; 23:626-637. [PMID: 32710782 PMCID: PMC7710918 DOI: 10.1093/ijnp/pyaa053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2020] [Revised: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 07/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND During adolescence, neuronal circuits exhibit plasticity in response to physiological changes and to adapt to environmental events. Nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathways are in constant flux during development. Evidence suggests a relationship between early use of cannabinoids and psychiatric disorders characterized by altered dopaminergic systems, such as schizophrenia and addiction. However, the impact of adolescent exposure to cannabinoids on nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathways in adulthood remains unclear. The aim of this research was to determine the effects of repeated activation of cannabinoid receptors during adolescence on dopaminergic activity of nigrostriatal pathways and the mechanisms underlying this impact during adulthood. METHODS Male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with 1.2 mg/kg WIN 55212-2 daily from postnatal day 40 to 65. Then no-net flux microdialysis of dopamine in the dorsolateral striatum, electrophysiological recording of dopaminergic neuronal activity, and microdialysis measures of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate in substantia nigra par compacta were carried out during adulthood (postnatal days 72-78). RESULTS Repeated activation of cannabinoid receptors during adolescence increased the release of dopamine in dorsolateral striatum accompanied by increased population activity of dopamine neurons and decreased extracellular GABA levels in substantia nigra par compacta in adulthood. Furthermore, perfusion of bicuculline, a GABAa antagonist, into the ventral pallidum reversed the increased dopamine neuron population activity in substantia nigra par compacta induced by adolescent cannabinoid exposure. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that adolescent exposure to cannabinoid agonists produces disinhibition of nigrostriatal dopamine transmission during adulthood mediated by decreased GABAergic input from the ventral pallidum.
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- Enzo Javier Pérez-Valenzuela
- Department of Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile,Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departments of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile,Correspondence: José Antonio Fuentealba, PhD, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile ()
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Hong SI, Bullert A, Baker M, Choi DS. Astrocytic equilibrative nucleoside transporter type 1 upregulations in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum distinctly coordinate goal-directed and habitual ethanol-seeking behaviours in mice. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 52:3110-3123. [PMID: 32306482 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Two distinct dorsal striatum regions, dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS), are attributed to conditioned goal-directed and habitual reward-seeking behaviours, respectively. Previously, our study shows that the ethanol-sensitive adenosine transporter, equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (ENT1), regulates ethanol-drinking behaviours. Although ENT1 is expressed in both neurons and astrocytes, astrocytic ENT1 is thought to regulate adenosine levels in response to ethanol. However, the role of DMS and DLS astrocytic ENT1 in goal-directed and habitual ethanol-seeking is not well known. Here, we identified whether the upregulation of astrocytic ENT1 in the DMS and DLS differentially regulates operant seeking behaviours towards the 10% sucrose (10S); 10% ethanol and 10% sucrose (10E10S); and 10% ethanol (10E) in mice. Using 4 days of random interval (RI), mice exhibited habitual seeking for 10S, but goal-directed seeking towards 10E10S. Using the same mice conditioned with 10E10S, we examined 10E-seeking behaviour on a fixed ratio (FR) for 6 days and RI for 8 days. On the other hand, during FR and the first 4 days of RI schedules, mice showed goal-directed seeking for 10E, whereas mice exhibited habitual seeking for 10E during the last 4 days of RI schedule. Interestingly, DMS astrocytic ENT1 upregulation promotes shift from habitual to goal-directed reward-seeking behaviours. By contrast, DLS astrocytic ENT1 upregulation showed no effects on behavioural shift. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that DMS astrocytic ENT1 contributes to reward-seeking behaviours.
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- Sa-Ik Hong
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA.,Neuroscience Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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Hung YW, Wang Y, Lee SL. DPP-4 inhibitor reduces striatal microglial deramification after sensorimotor cortex injury induced by external force impact. FASEB J 2020; 34:6950-6964. [PMID: 32246809 DOI: 10.1096/fj.201902818r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Revised: 03/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (or gliptins), a class of antidiabetic drugs, have recently been shown to have protective actions in the central nervous system. Their cellular and molecular mechanisms responsible for these effects are largely unknown. In the present study, two structurally different gliptins, sitagliptin and vildagliptin, were examined for their therapeutic actions in a controlled cortical impact (CCI) model of moderate traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mice. Early post-CCI treatment with sitagliptin, but not vildagliptin, significantly reduced body asymmetry, locomotor hyperactivity, and brain lesion volume. Sitagliptin attenuated post-CCI microglial deramification in the ipsilateral dorsolateral (DL) striatum, while vildagliptin had no effect. Sitagliptin also reduced striatal expression of galectin-3 and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1(MCP-1), and increased the cortical and striatal levels of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 on the ipsilateral side. These data support a differential protective effect of sitagliptin against TBI, possibly mediated by an anti-inflammatory effect in striatum to preserve connective network. Both sitagliptin and vildagliptin produced similar increases of active glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in blood and brain. Increasing active GLP-1 may not be the sole molecular mechanisms for the neurotherapeutic effect of sitagliptin in TBI.
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- Yu-Wen Hung
- Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, R.O.C
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- Institute of Cellular and System Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan Town, Miaoli County, Taiwan, R.O.C
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Crego ACG, Štoček F, Marchuk AG, Carmichael JE, van der Meer MAA, Smith KS. Complementary Control over Habits and Behavioral Vigor by Phasic Activity in the Dorsolateral Striatum. J Neurosci 2020; 40:2139-53. [PMID: 31969469 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1313-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2019] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite clear evidence linking the basal ganglia to the control of outcome insensitivity (i.e., habit) and behavioral vigor (i.e., its behavioral speed/fluidity), it remains unclear whether or how these functions relate to one another. Here, using male Long-Evans rats in response-based and cue-based maze-running tasks, we demonstrate that phasic dorsolateral striatum (DLS) activity occurring at the onset of a learned behavior regulates how vigorous and habitual it is. In a response-based task, brief optogenetic excitation at the onset of runs decreased run duration and the occurrence of deliberative behaviors, whereas midrun stimulation carried little effect. Outcome devaluation showed these runs to be habitual. DLS inhibition at run start did not produce robust effects on behavior until after outcome devaluation. At that time, when the DLS was plausibly most critically required for performance (i.e., habitual), inhibition reduced performance vigor measures and caused a dramatic loss of habitual responding (i.e., animals quit the task). In a second cue-based "beacon" task requiring behavior initiation at the start of the run and again in the middle of the run, DLS excitation at both time points could improve the vigor of runs. Postdevaluation testing showed behavior on the beacon task to be habitual as well. This pattern of results suggests that one role for phasic DLS activity at behavior initiation is to promote the execution of the behavior in a vigorous and habitual fashion by a diverse set of measures.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Our research expands the literature twofold. First, we find that features of a habitual behavior that are typically studied separately (i.e., maze response performance, deliberation movements, running vigor, and outcome insensitivity) are quite closely linked together. Second, efforts have been made to understand "what" the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) does for habitual behavior, and our research provides a key set of results showing "when" it is important (i.e., at behavior initiation). By showing such dramatic control over habits by DLS activity in a phasic time window, plausible real-world applications could involve more informed DLS perturbations to curb intractably problematic habits.
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Gatica RI, Aguilar-Rivera MÍ, Azocar VH, Fuentealba JA. Individual Differences in Amphetamine Locomotor Sensitization are Accompanied with Changes in Dopamine Release and Firing Pattern in the Dorsolateral Striatum of Rats. Neuroscience 2019; 427:116-126. [PMID: 31874242 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.11.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Not all the people that consume drugs of abuse develop addiction. In this sense, just a percentage of rats express locomotor sensitization after repeated psychostimulant exposure. Neurochemical evidence has shown that locomotor sensitization is associated with changes in dorsolateral striatum (DLS) activity. However, it is unknown if individual differences observed in locomotor sensitization are related to differential neuro-adaptations in DLS activity. In this study, we measured basal dopamine (DA) levels and single unit activity in the DLS of anesthetized rats, after repeated amphetamine (AMPH) administration. Rats were treated with AMPH 1.0 mg/kg ip or saline ip for 5 days. Following 5 days of withdrawal, a challenge dose of AMPH 1.0 mg/kg ip was injected. In-vivo microdialysis experiments and single unit recording were carried out twenty-four hours after the last AMPH injection. Sensitized rats showed increased basal DA levels and baseline firing rate of medium spiny neurons (MSNs) compared to non-sensitized rats. The local variation index (Lv) was used to measure the firing pattern of MSNs. In saline rats, a bursty firing pattern was observed in MSNs. A decrease in MSNs baseline Lv accompanies the expression of AMPH locomotor sensitization. Moreover, a decrease in Lv after an acute AMPH 1.0 mg/kg injection was only observed in saline and sensitized rats. Our results show individual differences in DLS basal DA levels and firing pattern after repeated AMPH administration, suggesting that an hyperfunction of nigrostriatal pathway, accompanied by a decrease in DLS MSNs firing irregularity underlies the expression of AMPH locomotor sensitization.
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- Rafael Ignacio Gatica
- Department of Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Pharmacy and Interdisciplinary Center of Neuroscience, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Ghiglieri V, Campanelli F, Marino G, Natale G, Picconi B, Calabresi P. Corticostriatal synaptic plasticity alterations in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease. J Neurosci Res 2019; 97:1655-1664. [PMID: 31498496 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.24521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2019] [Revised: 08/13/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative condition characterized by abnormal dopamine (DA)-glutamate interactions, severe alterations in motor control, and reduced behavioral flexibility. Experimental models of disease show that during symptomatic phases, HD shares with other hyperkinetic disorders the loss of synaptic depotentiation in the striatal spiny projection neurons (SPNs). Here we test the hypothesis that corticostriatal long-term depression (LTD), a well-conserved synaptic scaling down response to environmental stimuli, is also altered in symptomatic male R6/1 mice, a HD model with gradual development of symptoms. In vitro patch-clamp and intracellular recordings of corticostriatal slices from R6/1 mice confirm that, similar to other models characterized by hyperkinesia and striatal DA D1 receptor pathway dysregulation, once long-term potentiation (LTP) is induced, synaptic depotentiation is lost. Our new observations show that activity-dependent LTD was abolished in SPNs of mutant mice. In an experimental condition in which N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are normally not recruited, in vitro bath application of DA revealed an abnormal response of D1 receptors that caused a shift in synaptic plasticity direction resulting in an NMDA-dependent LTP. Our results demonstrate that corticostriatal LTD is lost in R6/1 mouse model and confirm the role of aberrant DA-glutamate interactions in the alterations of synaptic scaling down associated with HD symptoms.
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- Veronica Ghiglieri
- Dipartimento di Filosofia, Scienze sociali, umane e della formazione, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy.,Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
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- Università Telematica San Raffaele, Rome, Italy.,Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia Sperimentale, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy
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- Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.,Clinica Neurologica, Dipartimento di Medicina, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Here, we review the neural circuit bases of habits, compulsions, and addictions, behaviors which are all characterized by relatively automatic action performance. We discuss relevant studies, primarily from the rodent literature, and describe how major headway has been made in identifying the brain regions and neural cell types whose activity is modulated during the acquisition and performance of these automated behaviors. The dorsal striatum and cortical inputs to this structure have emerged as key players in the wider basal ganglia circuitry encoding behavioral automaticity, and changes in the activity of different neuronal cell-types in these brain regions have been shown to co-occur with the formation of automatic behaviors. We highlight how disordered functioning of these neural circuits can result in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and drug addiction. Finally, we discuss how the next phase of research in the field may benefit from integration of approaches for access to cells based on their genetic makeup, activity, connectivity and precise anatomical location.
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- David M Lipton
- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.,Zuckerman Postdoctoral Scholar, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.,Institute of Life Sciences, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.,Program in Child and Brain Development, MaRS Centre, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Harvey E, Blurton-Jones M, Kennedy PJ. Hippocampal BDNF regulates a shift from flexible, goal-directed to habit memory system function following cocaine abstinence. Hippocampus 2019; 29:1101-1113. [PMID: 31206907 PMCID: PMC6851590 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2018] [Revised: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The transition from recreational drug use to addiction involves pathological learning processes that support a persistent shift from flexible, goal‐directed to habit behavioral control. Here, we examined the molecular mechanisms supporting altered function in hippocampal (HPC) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS) memory systems following abstinence from repeated cocaine. After 3 weeks of cocaine abstinence (experimenter‐ or self‐administered), we tested new behavioral learning in male rats using a dual‐solution maze task, which provides an unbiased approach to assess HPC‐ versus DLS‐dependent learning strategies. Dorsal hippocampus (dHPC) and DLS brain tissues were collected after memory testing to identify transcriptional adaptations associated with cocaine‐induced shifts in behavioral learning. Our results demonstrate that following prolonged cocaine abstinence rats show a bias toward the use of an inflexible, habit memory system (DLS) in lieu of a more flexible, easily updated memory system involving the HPC. This memory system bias was associated with upregulation and downregulation of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene expression and transcriptionally permissive histone acetylation (acetylated histone H3, AcH3) in the DLS and dHPC, respectively. Using viral‐mediated gene transfer, we overexpressed BDNF in the dHPC during cocaine abstinence and new maze learning. This manipulation restored HPC‐dependent behavioral control. These findings provide a system‐level understanding of altered plasticity and behavioral learning following cocaine abstinence and inform mechanisms mediating the organization of learning and memory more broadly.
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- Eric Harvey
- Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.,Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California Irvine, California.,Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, University of California Irvine, California
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- Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.,Brain Research Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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Licheri V, Lagström O, Lotfi A, Patton MH, Wigström H, Mathur B, Adermark L. Complex Control of Striatal Neurotransmission by Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors via Excitatory Inputs onto Medium Spiny Neurons. J Neurosci 2018; 38:6597-607. [PMID: 29941445 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0071-18.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2018] [Revised: 04/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The prevalence of nicotine dependence is higher than that for any other substance abuse disorder; still, the underlying mechanisms are not fully established. To this end, we studied acute effects by nicotine on neurotransmission in the dorsolateral striatum, a key brain region with respect to the formation of habits. Electrophysiological recordings in acutely isolated brain slices from rodent showed that nicotine (10 nm to 10 μm) produced an LTD of evoked field potentials. Current-clamp recordings revealed no significant effect by nicotine on membrane voltage or action potential frequency, indicating that the effect by nicotine is primarily synaptic. Nicotine did not modulate sIPSCs, or the connectivity between fast-spiking interneurons and medium spiny neurons, as assessed by whole-cell recordings combined with optogenetics. However, the frequency of sEPSCs was significantly depressed by nicotine. The effect by nicotine was mimicked by agonists targeting α7- or α4-containing nAChRs and blocked in slices pretreated with a mixture of antagonists targeting these receptor subtypes. Nicotine-induced LTD was furthermore inhibited by dopamine D2 receptor antagonist and occluded by D2 receptor agonist. In addition, modulation of cholinergic neurotransmission suppressed the responding to nicotine, which might reflect upon the postulated role for nAChRs as a presynaptic filter to differentially govern dopamine release depending on neuronal activity. Nicotine-induced suppression of excitatory inputs onto medium spiny neurons may promote nicotine-induced locomotor stimulation and putatively initiate neuroadaptations that could contribute to the transition toward compulsive drug taking.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT To decrease smoking, prevalence factors that may contribute to the development of nicotine addiction need to be identified. The data presented here show that nicotine suppresses striatal neurotransmission by selectively reducing the frequency of excitatory inputs to medium spiny neurons (MSNs) while rendering excitability, inhibitory neurotransmission, and fast-spiking interneuron-MSN connectivity unaltered. In addition, we show that the effect displayed by nicotine outlasts the presence of the drug, which could be fundamental for the addictive properties of nicotine. Considering the inhibitory tone displayed by MSNs on dopaminergic cell bodies and local terminals, nicotine-induced long-lasting depression of striatal output could play a role in behavioral transformations associated with nicotine use, and putatively elicit neuroadaptations underlying compulsive drug-seeking habits.
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Furlong TM, Corbit LH, Brown RA, Balleine BW. Methamphetamine promotes habitual action and alters the density of striatal glutamate receptor and vesicular proteins in dorsal striatum. Addict Biol 2018; 23:857-867. [PMID: 28707389 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2017] [Revised: 06/06/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Goal-directed actions are controlled by the value of the consequences they produce and so increase when what they produce is valuable and decrease when it is not. With continued invariant practice, however, goal-directed actions can become habits, controlled not by their consequences but by antecedent, reward-related states and stimuli. Here, we show that pre-exposure to methamphetamine (METH) caused abnormally rapid development of habitual control. Furthermore, these drug-induced habits differed strikingly from conventional habits; we found that they were insensitive both to changes in reward value and to the effects of negative feedback. In addition to these behavioral changes, METH exposure produced bidirectional changes to synaptic proteins in the dorsal striatum. In the dorsomedial striatum, a structure critical for goal-directed action, METH exposure was associated with a reduction in glutamate receptor and glutamate vesicular proteins, whereas in the dorsolateral striatum, a region that has previously been implicated in habit learning, there was an increase in these proteins. Together, these results indicate that METH exposure promotes habitual control of action that appears to be the result of bidirectional changes in glutamatergic transmission in the circuits underlying goal-directed and habit-based learning.
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- Teri M. Furlong
- Brain and Mind Centre; University of Sydney; Australia
- School of Psychology; University of Sydney; Australia
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- Department of Psychology; University of California; Los Angeles CA USA
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- Brain and Mind Centre; University of Sydney; Australia
- Department of Psychology; University of California; Los Angeles CA USA
- School of Psychology; University of NSW; Australia
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Martiros N, Burgess AA, Graybiel AM. Inversely Active Striatal Projection Neurons and Interneurons Selectively Delimit Useful Behavioral Sequences. Curr Biol 2018; 28:560-573.e5. [PMID: 29429614 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Revised: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Understanding neural representations of behavioral routines is critical for understanding complex behavior in health and disease. We demonstrate here that accentuated activity of striatal projection neurons (SPNs) at the beginning and end of such behavioral repertoires is a supraordinate representation specifically marking previously rewarded behavioral sequences independent of the individual movements making up the behavior. We recorded spike activity in the striatum and primary motor cortex as individual rats learned specific rewarded lever-press sequences, each one unique to a given rat. Motor cortical neurons mainly responded in relation to specific movements regardless of their sequence of occurrence. By contrast, striatal SPN populations in each rat fired preferentially at the initiation and termination of its acquired sequence. Critically, the SPNs did not exhibit this bracketing signal when the same rats performed unreinforced sequences containing the same sub-movements that were present in their acquired sequence. Thus, the SPN activity was specifically related to a given repetitively reinforced movement sequence. This striatal beginning-and-end activity did not appear to be dependent on motor cortical inputs. However, strikingly, simultaneously recorded fast-spiking striatal interneurons (FSIs) showed equally selective but inverse firing patterns: they fired in between the initiation and termination of the acquired sequences. These findings suggest that the striatum contains networks of neurons representing acquired sequences of behavior at a level of abstraction higher than that of the individual movements making up the sequence. We propose that such SPN-FSI networks of the striatum could underlie the acquisition of chunked behavioral units.
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- Nuné Martiros
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Laurent M, De Backer JF, Rial D, Schiffmann SN, de Kerchove d'Exaerde A. Bidirectional Control of Reversal in a Dual Action Task by Direct and Indirect Pathway Activation in the Dorsolateral Striatum in Mice. Front Behav Neurosci 2017; 11:256. [PMID: 29375331 PMCID: PMC5770740 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2017] [Accepted: 12/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The striatum is a key brain structure involved in the processing of cognitive flexibility, which results from the balance between the flexibility demanded for novel learning of motor actions and the inflexibility required to preserve previously learned actions. In particular, the dorsolateral portion of the striatum (DLS) is engaged in the learning of action sequence. This process is temporally driven by fine adjustments in the function of the two main neuronal populations of the striatum, known as the direct pathway medium spiny neurons (dMSNs) and indirect pathway medium spiny neurons (iMSNs). Here, using optogenetics, behavioral, and electrophysiological tools, we addressed the relative role of both neuronal populations in the acquisition of a reversal dual action sequence in the DLS. While the channelrhodopsin-induced activation of dMSNs and iMSNs of the DLS did not induce changes in the learning rate of the sequence, the specific activation of the dMSNs of the DLS facilitated the acquisition of a reversal dual action sequence; the activation of iMSNs induced a significant deficit in the acquisition of the same task. Taken together our results indicate an antagonistic relationship between dMSNs and iMSNs on the acquisition of a reversal dual action sequence.
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- Muriel Laurent
- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Neurophysiology, ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.,WELBIO, Liège, Belgium
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Goodman J, McIntyre CK. Impaired Spatial Memory and Enhanced Habit Memory in a Rat Model of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Front Pharmacol 2017; 8:663. [PMID: 29018340 PMCID: PMC5614977 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2017] [Accepted: 09/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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High levels of emotional arousal can impair spatial memory mediated by the hippocampus, and enhance stimulus-response (S-R) habit memory mediated by the dorsolateral striatum (DLS). The present study was conducted to determine whether these memory systems may be similarly affected in an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to a “single-prolonged stress” (SPS) procedure and 1 week later received training in one of two distinct versions of the plus-maze: a hippocampus-dependent place learning task or a DLS-dependent response learning task. Results indicated that, relative to non-stressed control rats, SPS rats displayed slower acquisition in the place learning task and faster acquisition in the response learning task. In addition, extinction of place learning and response learning was impaired in rats exposed to SPS, relative to non-stressed controls. The influence of SPS on hippocampal spatial memory and DLS habit memory observed in the present study may be relevant to understanding some common features of PTSD, including hippocampal memory deficits, habit-like avoidance responses to trauma-related stimuli, and greater likelihood of developing drug addiction and alcoholism.
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- Jarid Goodman
- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, RichardsonTX, United States
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, RichardsonTX, United States
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Campus P, Canterini S, Orsini C, Fiorenza MT, Puglisi-Allegra S, Cabib S. Stress-Induced Reduction of Dorsal Striatal D2 Dopamine Receptors Prevents Retention of a Newly Acquired Adaptive Coping Strategy. Front Pharmacol 2017; 8:621. [PMID: 28955227 PMCID: PMC5601053 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2017] [Accepted: 08/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The inability to learn an adaptive coping strategy in a novel stressful condition leads to dysfunctional stress coping, a marker of mental disturbances. This study tested the involvement of dorsal striatal dopamine receptors in the dysfunctional coping with the Forced Swim test fostered by a previous experience of reduced food availability. Adult male mice were submitted to a temporary (12 days) reduction of food availability [food-restricted (FR)] or continuously free-fed (FF). Different groups of FF and FR mice were used to evaluate: (1) dorsal striatal mRNA levels of the two isoforms of the dopamine D2 receptor (D2S, D2L). (2) Forced Swim-induced c-fos expression in the dorsal striatum; (3) acquisition and 24 h retention of passive coping with Forced Swim. Additional groups of FF mice were tested for 24 h retention of passive coping acquired during a first experience with Forced Swim immediately followed by intra-striatal infusion of vehicle or two doses of the dopamine D2/D3 receptors antagonist sulpiride or the D1/D5 receptors antagonist SCH23390. Previous restricted feeding selectively reduced mRNA levels of both D2 isoforms and abolished Forced Swim-induced c-fos expression in the left Dorsolateral Striatum and selectively prevented 24 h retention of the coping strategy acquired in a first experience of Forced Swim. Finally, temporary blockade of left Dorsolateral Striatum D2/D3 receptors immediately following the first Forced Swim experience selectively reproduced the behavioral effect of restricted feeding in FF mice. In conclusion, the present results demonstrate that mice previously exposed to a temporary reduction of food availability show low striatal D2 receptors, a known marker of addiction-associated aberrant neuroplasticity, as well as liability to relapse into maladaptive stress coping strategies. Moreover, they offer strong support to a causal relationship between reduction of D2 receptors in the left Dorsolateral Striatum and impaired consolidation of newly acquired adaptive coping.
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- Paolo Campus
- Department of Psychology, Center 'Daniel Bovet', Sapienza Università di RomaRome, Italy.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann ArborMI, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Center 'Daniel Bovet', Sapienza Università di RomaRome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Center 'Daniel Bovet', Sapienza Università di RomaRome, Italy.,Fondazione Santa Lucia (IRCCS)Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Center 'Daniel Bovet', Sapienza Università di RomaRome, Italy.,Fondazione Santa Lucia (IRCCS)Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Center 'Daniel Bovet', Sapienza Università di RomaRome, Italy.,Fondazione Santa Lucia (IRCCS)Rome, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Center 'Daniel Bovet', Sapienza Università di RomaRome, Italy.,Fondazione Santa Lucia (IRCCS)Rome, Italy
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Furlong TM, Supit AS, Corbit LH, Killcross S, Balleine BW. Pulling habits out of rats: adenosine 2A receptor antagonism in dorsomedial striatum rescues meth-amphetamine-induced deficits in goal-directed action. Addict Biol 2017; 22:172-183. [PMID: 26515740 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Revised: 08/06/2015] [Accepted: 09/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Addiction is characterized by a persistent loss of behavioral control resulting in insensitivity to negative feedback and abnormal decision-making. Here, we investigated the influence of methamphetamine (METH)-paired contextual cues on decision-making in rats. Choice between goal-directed actions was sensitive to outcome devaluation in a saline-paired context but was impaired in the METH-paired context, a deficit that was also found when negative feedback was provided. Reductions in c-Fos-related immunoreactivity were found in dorsomedial striatum (DMS) but not dorsolateral striatum after exposure to the METH context suggesting this effect reflected a loss specifically in goal-directed control in the METH context. This reduction in c-Fos was localized to non-enkephalin-expressing neurons in the DMS, likely dopamine D1-expressing direct pathway neurons, suggesting a relative change in control by the D1-direct versus D2-indirect pathways originating in the DMS may have been induced by METH-context exposure. To test this suggestion, we infused the adenosine 2A receptor antagonist ZM241385 into the DMS prior to test to reduce activity in D2 neurons relative to D1 neurons in the hope of reducing the inhibitory output from this region of the striatum. We found that this treatment fully restored sensitivity to negative feedback in a test conducted in the METH-paired context. These results suggest that drug exposure alters decision-making by downregulation of the circuitry mediating goal-directed action, an effect that can be ameliorated by acute A2A receptor inhibition in this circuit.
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- Teri M. Furlong
- Brain & Mind Research Institute; University of Sydney; Australia
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- Brain & Mind Research Institute; University of Sydney; Australia
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Klanker M, Fellinger L, Feenstra M, Willuhn I, Denys D. Regionally distinct phasic dopamine release patterns in the striatum during reversal learning. Neuroscience 2016; 345:110-123. [PMID: 27185487 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.05.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2015] [Revised: 05/04/2016] [Accepted: 05/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Striatal dopamine (DA) plays a central role in reward-related learning and behavioral adaptation to changing environments. Recent studies suggest that rather than being broadcast as a uniform signal throughout the entire region, DA release dynamics diverge between different striatal regions. In a previous study, we showed that phasic DA release patterns in the ventromedial striatum (VMS) rapidly adapt during reversal learning. However, it is unknown how DA dynamics in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) are modulated during such adaptive behavior. Here, we used fast-scan cyclic voltammetry to measure phasic DA release in the DLS during spatial reversal learning. In the DLS, we observed minor DA release after the onset of a visual cue signaling reward availability, followed by more pronounced DA release during more proximal reward cues (e.g., lever extension) and execution of the operant response (i.e., lever press), both in rewarded and non-rewarded trials. These release dynamics (minor DA after onset of the predictive visual cue, prominent DA during the operant response) did not change significantly during or following a reversal of response-reward contingencies. Notably, the DA increase to the lever press did not reflect a general signal related to the initiation of any motivated motor response, as we did not observe DA release when rats initiated nose pokes into the food receptacle during inter-trial intervals. This suggests that DA release in the DLS occurs selectively during the initiation and execution of a learned operant response. Together with our previous results obtained in the VMS, these findings reveal distinct phasic DA release patterns during adaptation of established behavior in DLS and VMS. The VMS DA signal, which is highly sensitive to reversal of response-reward contingences, may provide a teaching signal to guide reward-related learning and facilitate behavioral adaptation, whereas DLS DA may reflect a 'response execution signal' largely independent of outcome, that may be involved in initiation and energizing of operant behavior.
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- Marianne Klanker
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Meibergdreef 47, 1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Habitual actions enable efficient daily living, but they can also contribute to pathological behaviors that resistant change, such as alcoholism. Habitual behaviors are learned actions that appear goal-directed but are in fact no longer under the control of the action's outcome. Instead, these actions are triggered by stimuli, which may be exogenous or interoceptive, discrete or contextual. A major hallmark characteristic of alcoholism is continued alcohol use despite serious negative consequences. In essence, although the outcome of alcohol seeking and drinking is dramatically devalued, these actions persist, often triggered by environmental cues associated with alcohol use. Thus, alcoholism meets the definition of an initially goal-directed behavior that converts to a habit-based process. Habit and alcohol have been well investigated in rodent models, with comparatively less research in non-human primates and people. This review focuses on translational research on habit and alcohol with an emphasis on cross-species methodology and neural circuitry.
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- Theresa H McKim
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Davie Hall, CB #3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, CB #7178, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Psychiatry, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, CB #7178, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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- Biomedical Research Imaging Center, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Davie Hall, CB #3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Asem JSA, Schiffino FL, Holland PC. Dorsolateral striatum is critical for the expression of surprise-induced enhancements in cue associability. Eur J Neurosci 2015; 42:2203-13. [PMID: 26108257 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Revised: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 06/18/2015] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is frequently implicated in sensory-motor integration, including the performance of sensory orienting responses (ORs) and learned stimulus-response habits. Our laboratory previously identified a role for the DLS in rats' performance of conditioned ORs to Pavlovian cues for food delivery. Here, we considered whether DLS is also critical to another aspect of attention in associative learning, the surprise-induced enhancement of cue associability. A large behavioral literature shows that a cue present when an expected event is omitted enters into new associations more rapidly when that cue is subsequently paired with food. Research from our laboratory has shown that both cue associability enhancements and conditioned ORs depend on the function of a circuit that includes the amygdala central nucleus and the substantia nigra pars compacta. In three experiments, we explored the involvement of DLS in surprise-induced associability enhancements, using a three-stage serial prediction task that permitted separation of DLS function in registering surprise (prediction error) and enhancing cue associability, and in using that increased associability to learn more rapidly about that cue later. The results showed that DLS is critical to the expression, but not the establishment, of the enhanced cue associability normally produced by surprise in this task. They extend the role of DLS and the amygdalo-nigro-striatal circuit underlying learned orienting to more subtle aspects of attention in associative learning, but are consistent with the general notion that DLS is more important in the expression of previously acquired tendencies than in their acquisition.
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- Judith S A Asem
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA
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DePoy L, Daut R, Wright T, Camp M, Crowley N, Noronha B, Lovinger D, Holmes A. Chronic alcohol alters rewarded behaviors and striatal plasticity. Addict Biol 2015; 20:345-8. [PMID: 24666522 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) alters neural functions and behaviors mediated by the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) and prefrontal cortex. Here, we examined the effects of prolonged (16-bout) CIE on DLS plasticity and DLS-mediated behaviors. Ex vivo electrophysiological recordings revealed loss in efficacy of DLS synaptically induced activation and absent long-term depression after CIE. CIE increased two-bottle choice drinking and impaired Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer but not discriminated approach. These data suggest prolonged CIE impaired DLS plasticity, to produce associated changes in drinking and cue-controlled reward-seeking. Given recent evidence that less-prolonged CIE can promote certain dorsal striatal-mediated behaviors, CIE may drive chronicity-dependent adaptations in corticostriatal systems regulating behavior.
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- Lauren DePoy
- Laboratory for Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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- Laboratory for Behavioral and Genomic Neuroscience; National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, NIH; Bethesda MD USA
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Fanelli RR, Robinson DL. Dopamine D1 receptor blockade impairs alcohol seeking without reducing dorsal striatal activation to cues of alcohol availability. Brain Behav 2015; 5:e00305. [PMID: 25642390 PMCID: PMC4309894 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Revised: 10/17/2014] [Accepted: 11/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Alcohol-associated cues activate both ventral and dorsal striatum in functional brain imaging studies of heavy drinkers. In rodents, alcohol-associated cues induce changes in neuronal firing frequencies and increase dopamine release in ventral striatum, but the impact of alcohol-associated cues on neuronal activity in dorsal striatum is unclear. We previously reported phasic changes in action potential frequency in the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum after cues that signaled alcohol availability, prompting approach behavior. METHODS We investigated the hypothesis that dopamine transmission modulates these phasic firing changes. Rats were trained to self-administer alcohol, and neuronal activity was monitored with extracellular electrophysiology during "anticipatory" cues that signaled the start of the operant session. Sessions were preceded by systemic administration of the D1-type dopamine receptor antagonist SCH23390 (0, 10, and 20 μg/kg). RESULTS SCH23390 significantly decreased firing rates during the 60 s prior to cue onset without reducing phasic excitations immediately following the cues. While neuronal activation to cues might be expected to initiate behavioral responses, in this study alcohol seeking was reduced despite the presence of dorsal striatal excitations to alcohol cues. CONCLUSIONS These data suggest that D1 receptor antagonism reduces basal firing rates in the dorsal striatum and modulates the ability of neuronal activation to "anticipatory" cues to initiate alcohol seeking in rats with an extensive history of alcohol self-administration.
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- Rebecca R Fanelli
- Neurobiology Curriculum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina ; Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Neurobiology Curriculum, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina ; Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina ; Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Schreiweis C, Bornschein U, Burguière E, Kerimoglu C, Schreiter S, Dannemann M, Goyal S, Rea E, French CA, Puliyadi R, Groszer M, Fisher SE, Mundry R, Winter C, Hevers W, Pääbo S, Enard W, Graybiel AM. Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:14253-8. [PMID: 25225386 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414542111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The acquisition of language and speech is uniquely human, but how genetic changes might have adapted the nervous system to this capacity is not well understood. Two human-specific amino acid substitutions in the transcription factor forkhead box P2 (FOXP2) are outstanding mechanistic candidates, as they could have been positively selected during human evolution and as FOXP2 is the sole gene to date firmly linked to speech and language development. When these two substitutions are introduced into the endogenous Foxp2 gene of mice (Foxp2(hum)), cortico-basal ganglia circuits are specifically affected. Here we demonstrate marked effects of this humanization of Foxp2 on learning and striatal neuroplasticity. Foxp2(hum/hum) mice learn stimulus-response associations faster than their WT littermates in situations in which declarative (i.e., place-based) and procedural (i.e., response-based) forms of learning could compete during transitions toward proceduralization of action sequences. Striatal districts known to be differently related to these two modes of learning are affected differently in the Foxp2(hum/hum) mice, as judged by measures of dopamine levels, gene expression patterns, and synaptic plasticity, including an NMDA receptor-dependent form of long-term depression. These findings raise the possibility that the humanized Foxp2 phenotype reflects a different tuning of corticostriatal systems involved in declarative and procedural learning, a capacity potentially contributing to adapting the human brain for speech and language acquisition.
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Augustin SM, Beeler JA, McGehee DS, Zhuang X. Cyclic AMP and afferent activity govern bidirectional synaptic plasticity in striatopallidal neurons. J Neurosci 2014; 34:6692-9. [PMID: 24806695 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3906-13.2014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Recent experimental evidence suggests that the low dopamine conditions in Parkinson's disease (PD) cause motor impairment through aberrant motor learning. Those data, along with computational models, suggest that this aberrant learning results from maladaptive corticostriatal plasticity and learned motor inhibition. Dopaminergic modulation of both corticostriatal long-term depression (LTD) and long-term potentiation (LTP) is proposed to be critical for these processes; however, the regulatory mechanisms underlying bidirectional corticostriatal plasticity are not fully understood. Previously, we demonstrated a key role for cAMP signaling in corticostriatal LTD. In this study, mouse brain slices were used to perform a parametric experiment that tested the impact of varying both intracellular cAMP levels and the strength of excitatory inputs on corticostriatal plasticity. Using slice electrophysiology in the dorsolateral striatum, we demonstrate that both LTP and LTD can be sequentially induced in the same D2-expressing neuron and that LTP was strongest with high intracellular cAMP and LFS, whereas LTD required low intracellular cAMP and high-frequency stimulation. Our results provide a molecular and cellular basis for regulating bidirectional corticostriatal synaptic plasticity and may help to identify novel therapeutic targets for blocking or reversing the aberrant synaptic plasticity that likely contributes to motor deficits in PD.
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Goodman J, Packard MG. Peripheral and intra- dorsolateral striatum injections of the cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN 55,212-2 impair consolidation of stimulus-response memory. Neuroscience 2014; 274:128-37. [PMID: 24838065 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2014] [Revised: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 05/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The endocannabinoid system plays a major role in modulating memory. In the present study, we examined whether cannabinoid agonists influence the consolidation of stimulus-response/habit memory, a form of memory dependent upon the dorsolateral striatum (DLS). In Experiment 1, rats were trained in a cued platform water maze task in which animals were released from different start points and in order to escape had to find a cued platform which was moved to various spatial locations across trials. Immediately following training, rats received an i.p. injection of the cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN 55,212-2 (1 or 3mg/kg) or a vehicle solution. In Experiment 2, rats were trained in a forced-response version of the water plus-maze task in which a consistent body-turn response was reinforced across trials. Immediately following training, rats received an i.p. injection of WIN 55,212-2 (3 mg/kg) or vehicle. In Experiment 3, rats were trained in the cued platform task and after training received bilateral intra-DLS WIN 55,212-2 (100 ng/.5 μL or 200 ng/.5 μL) or vehicle. In Experiments 1-3, the higher doses of WIN 55,212-2 were associated with significant memory impairments, relative to vehicle-treated controls. The results indicate that peripheral or intra-DLS administration of a cannabinoid receptor agonist impairs consolidation of DLS-dependent memory. The findings are discussed within the context of previous research encompassing cannabinoids and DLS-dependent learning and memory processes, and the possibility that cannabinoids may be used to treat some habit-like human psychopathologies (e.g. posttraumatic stress disorder) is considered.
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- J Goodman
- Department of Psychology, Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Institute for Neuroscience, Texas A&M University, United States.
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Jasinska AJ, Stein EA, Kaiser J, Naumer MJ, Yalachkov Y. Factors modulating neural reactivity to drug cues in addiction: a survey of human neuroimaging studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2013; 38:1-16. [PMID: 24211373 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 340] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2013] [Revised: 10/04/2013] [Accepted: 10/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Human neuroimaging studies suggest that neural cue reactivity is strongly associated with indices of drug use, including addiction severity and treatment success. However, little is known about factors that modulate cue reactivity. The goal of this review, in which we survey published fMRI and PET studies on drug cue reactivity in cocaine, alcohol, and tobacco cigarette users, is to highlight major factors that modulate brain reactivity to drug cues. First, we describe cue reactivity paradigms used in neuroimaging research and outline the brain circuits that underlie cue reactivity. We then discuss major factors that have been shown to modulate cue reactivity and review specific evidence as well as outstanding questions related to each factor. Building on previous model-building reviews on the topic, we then outline a simplified model that includes the key modulatory factors and a tentative ranking of their relative impact. We conclude with a discussion of outstanding challenges and future research directions, which can inform future neuroimaging studies as well as the design of treatment and prevention programs.
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- Agnes J Jasinska
- Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Psychology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Koranda JL, Cone JJ, McGehee DS, Roitman MF, Beeler JA, Zhuang X. Nicotinic receptors regulate the dynamic range of dopamine release in vivo. J Neurophysiol 2013; 111:103-11. [PMID: 24089398 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00269.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are expressed presynaptically on dopamine axon terminals, and their activation by endogenous acetylcholine from striatal cholinergic interneurons enhances dopamine release both independently of and in concert with dopamine neuron activity. Acute nAChR inactivation is believed to enhance the contrast between low- and high-frequency dopamine cell activity. Although these studies reveal a key role for acute activation and inactivation of nAChRs in striatal microcircuitry, it remains unknown if chronic inactivation/desensitization of nAChRs can alter dopamine release dynamics. Using in vivo cyclic voltammetry in anaesthetized mice, we examined whether chronic inactivation of nAChRs modulates dopamine release across a parametric range of stimulation, varying both frequency and pulse number. Deletion of β2*nAChRs and chronic nicotine exposure greatly diminished dopamine release across the entire range of stimulation parameters. In addition, we observed a facilitation of dopamine release at low frequency and pulse number in wild-type mice that is absent in the β2* knockout and chronic nicotine mice. These data suggest that deletion or chronic desensitization of nAChRs reduces the dynamic range of dopamine release in response to dopamine cell activity, decreasing rather than increasing contrast between high and low dopamine activity.
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Shimizu S, Mizuguchi Y, Tatara A, Kizu T, Andatsu S, Sobue A, Fujiwara M, Morimoto T, Ohno Y. 5-HT1A agonist alleviates serotonergic potentiation of extrapyramidal disorders via postsynaptic mechanisms. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2013; 46:86-91. [PMID: 23838274 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2013.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2013] [Revised: 06/25/2013] [Accepted: 06/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We previously demonstrated that 5-HT stimulants, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), potentiated antipsychotic-induced extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) by stimulating 5-HT2A/2C, 5-HT3 and 5-HT6 receptors. Here, we studied the effects of the 5-HT1A agonist (±)-8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino) tetralin ((±)-8-OH-DPAT) on the fluoxetine enhancement of EPS (i.e., bradykinesia and catalepsy) to determine if the 5-HT1A agonist can counteract the serotonergic potentiation of EPS. Fluoxetine did not induce EPS signs by itself, but significantly potentiated haloperidol-induced bradykinesia in mice. (±)-8-OH-DPAT (0.1-1mg/kg, i.p.) significantly attenuated the fluoxetine enhancement of haloperidol-induced bradykinesia in a dose-dependent manner. A selective 5-HT1A antagonist (s)-WAY-100135 completely reversed the anti-EPS action of (±)-8-OH-DPAT. Microinjection studies using rats revealed that local application of (±)-8-OH-DPAT into the dorsolateral striatum or the motor cortex significantly diminished fluoxetine-enhanced catalepsy. In contrast, (±)-8-OH-DPAT injected into the medial raphe nucleus failed to affect EPS induction. The present results illustrate that 5-HT1A agonist can alleviate the SSRI enhancement of EPS by activating postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors in the striatum and cerebral cortex.
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- Saki Shimizu
- Laboratory of Pharmacology, Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan
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Beeler JA, Petzinger G, Jakowec MW. The Enemy within: Propagation of Aberrant Corticostriatal Learning to Cortical Function in Parkinson's Disease. Front Neurol 2013; 4:134. [PMID: 24062721 PMCID: PMC3770942 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2013.00134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2013] [Accepted: 08/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Motor dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease is believed to arise primarily from pathophysiology in the dorsal striatum and its related corticostriatal and thalamostriatal circuits during progressive dopamine denervation. One function of these circuits is to provide a filter that selectively facilitates or inhibits cortical activity to optimize cortical processing, making motor responses rapid and efficient. Corticostriatal synaptic plasticity mediates the learning that underlies this performance-optimizing filter. Under dopamine denervation, corticostriatal plasticity is altered, resulting in aberrant learning that induces inappropriate basal ganglia filtering that impedes rather than optimizes cortical processing. Human imaging suggests that increased cortical activity may compensate for striatal dysfunction in PD patients. In this Perspective article, we consider how aberrant learning at corticostriatal synapses may impair cortical processing and learning and undermine potential cortical compensatory mechanisms. Blocking or remediating aberrant corticostriatal plasticity may protect cortical function and support cortical compensatory mechanisms mitigating the functional decline associated with progressive dopamine denervation.
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- Jeff A Beeler
- Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York , New York, NY , USA
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Ma S, Pawlak AP, Cho J, Root DH, Barker DJ, West MO. Amphetamine's dose-dependent effects on dorsolateral striatum sensorimotor neuron firing. Behav Brain Res 2013; 244:152-61. [PMID: 23396149 PMCID: PMC3603143 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.01.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2012] [Revised: 01/25/2013] [Accepted: 01/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Amphetamine elicits motoric changes by increasing the activity of central neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin, but how these neurochemical signals are transduced into motor commands is unclear. The dorsolateral striatum (DLS), a component of the cortico-subcortical reentrant motor loop, contains abundant neurotransmitter transporters that amphetamine could affect. It has been hypothesized that DLS medium spiny neurons contribute to amphetamine's motor effects. To study striatal activity contributing to amphetamine-induced movements, activity of DLS neurons related to vertical head movement was recorded while tracking head movements before and after acute amphetamine injection. Relative to saline, all amphetamine doses induced head movements above pre-injection levels, revealing an inverted U-shaped dose-response function. Lower doses (1 mg/kg and 2 mg/kg, intraperitoneal) induced a greater number of long (distance and duration) movements than the high dose (4 mg/kg), which induced stereotypy. Firing rates (FR) of individual head movement neurons were compared before and after injection during similar head movements, defined by direction, distance, duration, and apex. Changes in FR induced by amphetamine were co-determined by dose and pre-injection FR of the neuron. Specifically, all doses increased the FRs of slower firing neurons but decreased the FRs of faster firing neurons. The magnitudes of elevation or reduction were greater at lower doses, but less pronounced at the high dose, forming an inverted U function. Modulation of DLS firing may interfere with sensorimotor processing. Furthermore, pervasive elevation of slow firing neurons' FRs may feed-forward and increase excitability in thalamocortical premotor areas, contributing to the increased movement initiation rate.
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- Sisi Ma
- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08854, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08854, USA
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Murray JE, Belin D, Everitt BJ. Double dissociation of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatal control over the acquisition and performance of cocaine seeking. Neuropsychopharmacology 2012; 37:2456-66. [PMID: 22739470 PMCID: PMC3442340 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The present study investigated the involvement of dopamine-dependent mechanisms in the anterior dorsolateral (aDLS) and posterior dorsomedial (pDMS) striatum during the early- and late-stage performance of cocaine-seeking behavior. Rats were trained to self-administer cocaine under continuous reinforcement (fixed-ratio 1, FR1) with a 20-s light conditioned stimulus (CS) presented contingently upon each infusion. After a week, rats were challenged by a change in contingency to seek cocaine during a 15-min period uninfluenced by cocaine during which each response was reinforced by a 1-s CS presentation. Dopamine transmission blockade by intracranial infusions of α-flupenthixol only in the pDMS, but not in the aDLS, dose dependently reduced performance of cue-controlled cocaine seeking at the early stage of self-administration. One cohort of rats was then trained with increasing response requirements until completing 15 sessions under a second-order schedule [FI15(FR10:S)] so that cocaine-seeking performance became well established. At this stage, intra-aDLS, but not pDMS, α-flupenthixol infusions dose dependently reduced active lever presses. The second cohort of rats continued to self-administer cocaine under the FR1 schedule such that their drug intake was matched to the late-stage performance group. α-Flupenthixol in the pDMS, but not in the aDLS, again prevented the performance of cocaine seeking. These results show that dopamine transmission in the pDMS is required for initial performance of goal-directed cocaine seeking, and that its role is ultimately subverted and devolves instead to the aDLS only following training with high rates of cocaine-seeking behavior, supporting the theory of dynamic shifts in the striatal control over cocaine seeking between goal-directed and habitual performance.
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- Jennifer E Murray
- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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- INSERM European Associated Laboratory, Psychobiology of Compulsive Habits, Poitiers, France and Cambridge, UK,INSERM AVENIR Team, Psychobiology of Compulsive Disorders, INSERM U1084 Laboratoire de Neurosciences Expérimentales et Cliniques and Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,INSERM European Associated Laboratory, Psychobiology of Compulsive Habits, Poitiers, France and Cambridge, UK
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Corbit LH, Nie H, Janak PH. Habitual alcohol seeking: time course and the contribution of subregions of the dorsal striatum. Biol Psychiatry 2012; 72:389-95. [PMID: 22440617 PMCID: PMC3674580 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.02.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2011] [Revised: 01/27/2012] [Accepted: 02/15/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Addictions are defined by a loss of flexible control over behavior. The development of response habits might reflect early changes in behavioral control. The following experiments examined the flexibility of alcohol-seeking after different durations of self-administration training and tested the role of the dorsal striatum in the control of flexible and habitual alcohol self-administration. METHODS Rats were trained to lever-press to earn unsweetened ethanol (EtOH) (10%). The sensitivity of the lever-press response to devaluation was assessed by prefeeding the rats either EtOH or sucrose before an extinction test after different amounts of training (1, 2, 4, and 8 weeks). We subsequently tested the role of the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) and dorsolateral striatum (DLS) in controlling alcohol seeking with reversible inactivation techniques (baclofen/muscimol: 1.0/.1 mmol/L, .3 μL/side). RESULTS We find that operant responding for EtOH early in training is goal-directed and reduced by devaluation, but after 8 weeks of daily operant training, control has shifted to a habit-based system no longer sensitive to devaluation. Furthermore, after relatively limited training, when responding is sensitive to devaluation, inactivation of the DMS greatly attenuates the alcohol-seeking response, whereas inactivation of the DLS is without effect. In contrast, responding that is insensitive to devaluation after 8 weeks of training becomes sensitive to devaluation after inactivation of the DLS but is unaffected by inactivation of the DMS. CONCLUSIONS These experiments demonstrate that extended alcohol self-administration produces habit-like responding and that response control shifts from the DMS to the DLS across the course of training.
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- Laura H Corbit
- Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
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Veeneman MMJ, Broekhoven MH, Damsteegt R, Vanderschuren LJMJ. Distinct contributions of dopamine in the dorsolateral striatum and nucleus accumbens shell to the reinforcing properties of cocaine. Neuropsychopharmacology 2012; 37:487-98. [PMID: 21918505 PMCID: PMC3242310 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Dopaminergic neurotransmission in the dorsal and ventral striatum is thought to be involved in distinct aspects of cocaine addiction. Ventral striatal dopamine mediates the acute reinforcing properties of cocaine, whereas dopamine in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is thought to become involved in later stages of the addiction process to mediate well-established cue-controlled drug seeking. However, it is unclear whether the DLS also has a role in the reinforcing properties of cocaine itself. Therefore, we systematically investigated the involvement of dopamine in dorsal and ventral striatal regions in cocaine self-administration, using various schedules of reinforcement in animals with limited drug taking experience. Intra-DLS infusion of the dopamine receptor antagonist α-flupenthixol did not affect the acquisition of cocaine self-administration, increased cocaine self-administration under a fixed ratio-1 (FR-1) schedule of reinforcement, caused a rightward and downward shift of the dose-response curve of cocaine under an FR-1 schedule of reinforcement and decreased responding for cocaine under a progressive ratio (PR) schedule of reinforcement. Infusion of α-flupenthixol into the ventral nucleus accumbens (NAcc) shell inhibited the acquisition of cocaine self-administration, reduced responding for the drug under FR-1 and PR schedules of reinforcement, and caused a downward shift of the dose-response curve of cocaine self-administration under an FR-1 schedule of reinforcement. These data show that dopamine in both the DLS and NAcc shell is involved in cocaine reinforcement. We suggest that the DLS and the NAcc shell mediate somewhat distinct facets of the reinforcing properties of cocaine, related to its rewarding and motivational aspects, respectively.
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- Maartje M J Veeneman
- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands,Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Animals in Science and Society, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands,Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 88 756 8811; Fax: +31 88 756 8155; E-mail:
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Adermark L, Clarke RBC, Ericson M, Söderpalm B. Subregion-Specific Modulation of Excitatory Input and Dopaminergic Output in the Striatum by Tonically Activated Glycine and GABA(A) Receptors. Front Syst Neurosci 2011; 5:85. [PMID: 22028683 PMCID: PMC3199543 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2011] [Accepted: 09/28/2011] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The flow of cortical information through the basal ganglia is a complex spatiotemporal pattern of increased and decreased firing. The striatum is the biggest input nucleus to the basal ganglia and the aim of this study was to assess the role of inhibitory GABAA and glycine receptors in regulating synaptic activity in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) and ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens, nAc). Local field potential recordings from coronal brain slices of juvenile and adult Wistar rats showed that GABAA receptors and strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors are tonically activated and inhibit excitatory input to the DLS and to the nAc. Strychnine-induced disinhibition of glutamatergic transmission was insensitive to the muscarinic receptor inhibitor scopolamine (10 μM), inhibited by the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist mecamylamine (10 μM) and blocked by GABAA receptor inhibitors, suggesting that tonically activated glycine receptors depress excitatory input to the striatum through modulation of cholinergic and GABAergic neurotransmission. As an end-product example of striatal GABAergic output in vivo we measured dopamine release in the DLS and nAc by microdialysis in the awake and freely moving rat. Reversed dialysis of bicuculline (50 μM in perfusate) only increased extrasynaptic dopamine levels in the nAc, while strychnine administered locally (200 μM in perfusate) decreased dopamine output by 60% in both the DLS and nAc. Our data suggest that GABAA and glycine receptors are tonically activated and modulate striatal transmission in a partially subregion-specific manner.
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- Louise Adermark
- Addiction Biology Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden
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Ghiglieri V, Sgobio C, Patassini S, Bagetta V, Fejtova A, Giampà C, Marinucci S, Heyden A, Gundelfinger ED, Fusco FR, Calabresi P, Picconi B. TrkB/BDNF-dependent striatal plasticity and behavior in a genetic model of epilepsy: modulation by valproic acid. Neuropsychopharmacology 2010; 35:1531-40. [PMID: 20200504 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In mice lacking the central domain of the presynaptic scaffold Bassoon the occurrence of repeated cortical seizures induces cell-type-specific plasticity changes resulting in a general enhancement of the feedforward inhibition within the striatal microcircuit. Early antiepileptic treatment with valproic acid (VPA) reduces epileptic attacks, inhibits the emergence of pathological form of plasticity in fast-spiking (FS) interneurons and restores physiological striatal synaptic plasticity in medium spiny (MS) neurons. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a key factor for the induction and maintenance of synaptic plasticity and it is also implicated in the mechanisms underlying epilepsy-induced adaptive changes. In this study, we explore the possibility that the TrkB/BDNF system is involved in the striatal modifications associated with the Bassoon gene (Bsn) mutation. In epileptic mice abnormal striatum-dependent learning was paralleled by higher TrkB levels and an altered distribution of BDNF. Accordingly, subchronic intrastriatal administration of k252a, an inhibitor of TrkB receptor tyrosine kinase activity, reversed behavioral alterations in Bsn mutant mice. In addition, in vitro manipulations of the TrkB/BDNF complex by k252a, prevented the emergence of pathological plasticity in FS interneurons. Chronic treatment with VPA, by reducing seizures, was able to rebalance TrkB to control levels favoring a physiological redistribution of BDNF between MS neurons and FS interneurons with a concomitant recovery of striatal plasticity. Our results provide the first indication that BDNF is involved in determining the striatal alterations occurring in the early-onset epileptic syndrome associated with the absence of presynaptic protein Bassoon.
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O'Connor JJ, O'Neill C. A Role for Adenosine A1 Receptors in GABA and NMDA-Receptor Mediated Modulation of Dopamine Release: Studies Using Fast Cyclic Voltammetry. Sensors (Basel) 2008; 8:5516-34. [PMID: 27873828 DOI: 10.3390/s8095516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2008] [Revised: 09/01/2008] [Accepted: 09/02/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In the striatum many neurotransmitters including GABA, glutamate, acetylcholine, dopamine, nitric oxide and adenosine interact to regulate synaptic transmission. Dopamine release in the striatum is regulated by a number of pre- and post-synaptic receptors including adenosine. We have recently shown using isolated rat striatal slices, and the technique of fast cyclic voltammetry, that adenosine A1 receptor-mediated inhibition of dopamine release is modulated by dopamine D1 receptors. In the present study we have investigated the influence of NMDA and GABA receptor activation on the modulation of electrically stimulated dopamine release by adenosine. Application of the adenosine A1 receptor agonist, N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA), concentration-dependently inhibited dopamine release to a maxiumum of 50%. Perfusion of the glutamate receptor agonist, NMDA, in low magnesium, caused a rapid and concentration-dependent inhibition of dopamine release. Prior perfusion with the adenosine A1 receptor antagonist, DPCPX, significantly reduced the effect of 5 μM and 10 μM NMDA on dopamine release. The GABAA receptor agonist, isoguvacine, had a significant concentration-dependent inhibitory effect on dopamine release which was reversed by prior application of the GABAA receptor antagonist, picrotoxin, but not DPCPX. Finally inhibition of dopamine release by CPA (1μM) was significantly enhanced by prior perfusion with picrotoxin. These data demonstrate an important role for GABA, NMDA and adenosine in the modulation of dopamine release.
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Takahashi Y, Roesch MR, Stalnaker TA, Schoenbaum G. Cocaine exposure shifts the balance of associative encoding from ventral to dorsolateral striatum. Front Integr Neurosci 2007; 1:11. [PMID: 18958239 PMCID: PMC2526005 DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.011.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2007] [Accepted: 12/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Both dorsal and ventral striatum are implicated in the "habitization" of behavior that occurs in addiction. Here we examined the effect of cocaine exposure on associative encoding in these two regions. Neural activity was recorded during go/no-go discrimination learning and reversal. Activity in ventral striatum developed and reversed rapidly, tracking the valence of the predicted outcome, whereas activity in dorsolateral striatum developed and reversed more slowly, tracking discriminative responding. This difference is consistent with the putative roles of these two areas in promoting habit-like behavior. Dorsolateral striatum has been directly implicated in habit or stimulus-response learning, whereas ventral striatum appears to be involved indirectly by allowing cues associated with reward to exert a general motivational influence on responding. Interestingly cocaine exposure did not uniformly enhance processing across both regions. Instead cocaine reduced the degree and flexibility of cue-evoked firing in ventral striatum while marginally enhanced cue-selective firing in dorsolateral striatum. Thus cocaine exposure causes regionally specific effects on neural processing in striatum; these effects may promote the habitization of behavior by shifting control from ventral to dorsolateral regions.
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- Yuji Takahashi
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine USA.
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