ArticleThe Journal of physiology2012
Regulation of prefrontal excitatory neurotransmission by dopamine in the nucleus accumbens core.
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- Mind matters: placebo enhances reward learning in Parkinson's disease.Nature neuroscience · 2014Trial
- Dopaminergic tone inhibits spontaneous glutamate release and augments homeostatic synaptic plasticity.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Aberrant striatal firing mediates impulsive decision-making in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Modulation of Dopamine Neurons Alters Behavior and Event Encoding in the Nucleus Accumbens during Pavlovian Conditioning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Interplay between endocannabinoids and dopamine in the basal ganglia: implications for pain in Parkinson's disease.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2024Review
- Nucleus accumbens core dopamine D2 receptors are required for performance of the odor span task in male rats.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Learning processes in relapse to alcohol use: lessons from animal models.Psychopharmacology · 2023Review
- Chronic Exposure to High Fat Diet Affects the Synaptic Transmission That Regulates the Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens of Adolescent Male Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Presynaptic Gq-coupled receptors drive biphasic dopamine transporter trafficking that modulates dopamine clearance and motor function.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2023Article
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- Cocaine induces input and cell-type-specific synaptic plasticity in ventral pallidum-projecting nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Local modulation by presynaptic receptors controls neuronal communication and behaviour.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
- 2-Arachidonoylglycerol mobilization following brief synaptic stimulation in the dorsal lateral striatum requires glutamatergic and cholinergic neurotransmission.Neuropharmacology · 2022Article
- Binge alcohol drinking alters the differential control of cholinergic interneurons over nucleus accumbens D1 and D2 medium spiny neurons.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Control of exploration, motor coordination and amphetamine sensitization by cannabinoid CBThe European journal of neuroscience · 2021Article
- Long-term alcohol consumption alters dorsal striatal dopamine release and regulation by D2 dopamine receptors in rhesus macaques.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Dopamine and Glutamate in Antipsychotic-Responsive Compared With Antipsychotic-Nonresponsive Psychosis: A Multicenter Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study (STRATA).Schizophrenia bulletin · 2021Article
- Binge Alcohol Drinking Alters Synaptic Processing of Executive and Emotional Information in Core Nucleus Accumbens Medium Spiny Neurons.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021Article
- Glial cells as therapeutic targets for smoking cessation.Neuropharmacology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Interactions between dopamine and glutamate signalling within the nucleus accumbens core are required for behavioural reinforcement and habit formation. Dopamine modulates excitatory glutamatergic signals from the prefrontal cortex, but the precise mechanism has not been identified. We combined optical and electrophysiology recordings in murine slice preparations from CB1 receptor-null mice and green fluorescent protein hemizygotic bacterial artificial chromosome transgenic mice to show how dopamine regulates glutamatergic synapses specific to the striatonigral and striatopallidal basal ganglia pathways. At low cortical frequencies, dopamine D1 receptors promote glutamate release to both D1 and D2 receptor-expressing medium spiny neurons while D2 receptors specifically inhibit excitatory inputs to D2 receptor-expressing cells by decreasing exocytosis from cortical terminals with a low probability of release. At higher cortical stimulation frequencies, this dopaminergic modulation of presynaptic activity is occluded by adenosine and endocannabinoids. Glutamatergic inputs to both D1 and D2 receptor-bearing medium spiny neurons are inhibited by adenosine, released upon activation of NMDA and AMPA receptors and adenylyl cyclase in D1 receptor-expressing cells. Excitatory inputs to D2 receptor-expressing cells are specifically inhibited by endocannabinoids, whose release is dependent on D2 and group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors. The convergence of excitatory and inhibitory modulation of corticoaccumbal activity by dopamine, adenosine and endocannabinoids creates subsets of corticoaccumbal inputs, selectively and temporally reinforces strong cortical signals through the striatonigral pathway while inhibiting the weak, and may provide a mechanism whereby continued attention might be focused on behaviourally salient information.
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