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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 37, Issue 4, Pages 1014-1027Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3091-16.2016
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Daun02 inactivation; incubation of drug craving; neuronal ensembles; relapse; self-administration; voluntary abstinence
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- Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
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We recently developed a rat model of incubation of methamphetamine craving after choice-based voluntary abstinence. Here, we studied the role of dorsolateral striatum (DLS) and dorsomedial striatum (DMS) in this incubation. We trained rats to self-administer palatable food pellets (6 d, 6 h/d) and methamphetamine (12 d, 6 h/d). We then assessed relapse to methamphetamine seeking under extinction conditions after 1 and 21 abstinence days. Between tests, the rats underwent voluntary abstinence ( using a discrete choice procedure between methamphetamine and food; 20 trials/d) for 19 d. We used in situ hybridization to measure the colabeling of the activity marker Fos with Drd1 and Drd2 in DMS and DLS after the tests. Based on the in situ hybridization colabeling results, we tested the causal role of DMS D-1 and D-2 family receptors, and DMS neuronal ensembles in incubated methamphetamine seeking, using selective dopamine receptor antagonists (SCH39166 or raclopride) and the Daun02 chemogenetic inactivation procedure, respectively. Methamphetamine seeking was higher after 21 d of voluntary abstinence than after 1 d (incubation of methamphetamine craving). The incubated response was associated with increased Fos expression in DMS but not in DLS; Fos was colabeled with both Drd1 and Drd2. DMS injections of SCH39166 or raclopride selectively decreased methamphetamine seeking after 21 abstinence days. In Fos-lacZ transgenic rats, selective inactivation of relapse test-activated Fos neurons in DMSon abstinence day 18 decreased incubated methamphetamine seeking on day 21. Results demonstrate a role ofDMSdopamine D-1 and D-2 receptors in the incubation of methamphetamine craving after voluntary abstinence and that DMS neuronal ensembles mediate this incubation.
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