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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 45, 页码 9275-9285出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1559-21.2021
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- National Institutes of Health [DA043940, DA023206, DA040620, DA047861, DA051010]
Glutamatergic synapses play a crucial role in encoding cocaine memories, with the generation of silent synapses during cocaine experience contributing to the consolidation of these memories. These silent synapses alternate between AMPAR-absent and AMPAR-containing states after cue-induced retrieval of cocaine memories, reflecting the dynamic process of memory destabilization and reconsolidation in response to cocaine-associated cues.
Glutamatergic synapses are key cellular sites where cocaine experience creates memory traces that subsequently promote cocaine craving and seeking. In addition to making across-the-board synaptic adaptations, cocaine experience also generates a discrete population of new synapses that selectively encode cocaine memories. These new synapses are glutamatergic synapses that lack functionally stable AMPARs, often referred to as AMPAR-silent synapses or, simply, silent synapses. They are generated de novo in the NAc by cocaine experience. After drug withdrawal, some of these synapses mature by recruiting AMPARs, contributing to the consolidation of cocaine-associated memory. After cue-induced retrieval of cocaine memories, matured silent synapses alternate between two dynamic states (AMPAR-absent vs AMPAR-containing) that correspond with the behavioral manifestations of destabilization and reconsolidation of these memories. Here, we review the molecular mechanisms underlying silent synapse dynamics during behavior, discuss their contributions to circuit remodeling, and analyze their role in cocainememory-driven behaviors. We also propose several mechanisms through which silent synapses can form neuronal ensembles as well as cross-region circuit engrams for cocaine-specific behaviors. These perspectives lead to our hypothesis that cocaine-generated silent synapses stand as a distinct set of synaptic substrates encoding key aspects of cocaine memory that drive cocaine relapse.
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