Publication Date:
2010-10-16
Description:
The nucleus accumbens is a key mediator of cocaine reward, but the distinct roles of the two subpopulations of nucleus accumbens projection neurons, those expressing dopamine D1 versus D2 receptors, are poorly understood. We show that deletion of TrkB, the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) receptor, selectively from D1+ or D2+ neurons oppositely affects cocaine reward. Because loss of TrkB in D2+ neurons increases their neuronal excitability, we next used optogenetic tools to control selectively the firing rate of D1+ and D2+ nucleus accumbens neurons and studied consequent effects on cocaine reward. Activation of D2+ neurons, mimicking the loss of TrkB, suppresses cocaine reward, with opposite effects induced by activation of D1+ neurons. These results provide insight into the molecular control of D1+ and D2+ neuronal activity as well as the circuit-level contribution of these cell types to cocaine reward.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011229/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011229/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lobo, Mary Kay -- Covington, Herbert E 3rd -- Chaudhury, Dipesh -- Friedman, Allyson K -- Sun, HaoSheng -- Damez-Werno, Diane -- Dietz, David M -- Zaman, Samir -- Koo, Ja Wook -- Kennedy, Pamela J -- Mouzon, Ezekiell -- Mogri, Murtaza -- Neve, Rachael L -- Deisseroth, Karl -- Han, Ming-Hu -- Nestler, Eric J -- P01 DA008227/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- P01 DA008227-20/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA007359/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA007359-22/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA014133/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA014133-10/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA014133-11/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 DA014133-12/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH051399/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH051399-19/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH051399-20/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- T32 DA007135-26A2/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Oct 15;330(6002):385-90. doi: 10.1126/science.1188472.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20947769" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Behavior, Animal/drug effects
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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism
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Cocaine/*pharmacology
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Cocaine-Related Disorders/*metabolism
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Conditioning (Psychology)
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Light
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Mice
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Mice, Transgenic
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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1/metabolism
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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3/metabolism
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Models, Biological
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Motor Activity/drug effects
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Neurons/*metabolism
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Nucleus Accumbens/cytology/*metabolism
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RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism
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Receptor, trkB/genetics/*metabolism
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Receptors, Dopamine D1/metabolism
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Receptors, Dopamine D2/metabolism
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*Reward
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Rhodopsin/genetics/metabolism
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*Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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