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BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH
Volume 238, Issue -, Pages 119-123Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.10.012
Keywords
Basolateral amygdala; Cocaine; Cocaine-cue extinction learning; GluA1 receptor; Self-administration; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex
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- Boston University Center for Neuroscience
- [DA011716]
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Brain regional analyses of total GluA1 and GluA1-pSer(845) were used to delineate plasticity of the AMPA receptor in conjunction with cocaine-cue extinction learning. Rats were trained to self-administer cocaine paired with a 2-s light cue and later underwent a single 2 h extinction session for which cocaine was withheld but response-contingent cues were presented. Control groups received yoked-saline sessions or received cocaine self-administration training without undergoing extinction training. Extinction-related increases and decreases, respectively, in total GluA1 were observed in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and basolateral amygdala (BLA). Phosphorylation of GluA1 at Ser(845) was increased in the vmPFC and nucleus accumbens (NAc). Though total GluA1 did not change in NAc, there was a positive association between the number of responses during extinction training and the magnitude of total GluA1 in NAc. No significant changes were evident in the dorsal hippocampus. We conclude that the BLA and vmPFC, in particular, appear to be loci for the inhibition of learned behavior induced via extinction training, but each site may have different signaling functions for cocaine-cue extinction learning. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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