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ArticleNature neuroscience2014

Opioids induce dissociable forms of long-term depression of excitatory inputs to the dorsal striatum.

Brady K Atwood, David A Kupferschmidt, David M Lovinger

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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84 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Opioid Receptors Modulate Inhibition within the Prefrontal Cortex through Dissociable Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  19. Astrocytes modulate extracellular neurotransmitter levels and excitatory neurotransmission in dorsolateral striatum via dopamine D2 receptor signaling.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022
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  20. Mu Opioid Receptors Acutely Regulate Adenosine Signaling in Striatal Glutamate Afferents.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Brady K AtwoodSection on Synaptic Pharmacology, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
David A KupferschmidtSection on Synaptic Pharmacology, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
David M LovingerSection on Synaptic Pharmacology, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Funding

Synaptic Transmission: Modulation, Plasticity And Effects Of Drugs Of AbuseZIAAA000407 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI LOVINGER, DAVID M · 2009 to 2025
$29.6M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AA000407
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As prescription opioid analgesic abuse rates rise, so does the need to understand the long-term effects of opioid exposure on brain function. The dorsal striatum is an important site for drug-induced neuronal plasticity. We found that exogenously applied and endogenously released opioids induced long-term depression (OP-LTD) of excitatory inputs to the dorsal striatum in mice and rats. Mu and delta OP-LTD, although both being presynaptically expressed, were dissociable in that they summated, differentially occluded endocannabinoid-LTD and inhibited different striatal inputs. Kappa OP-LTD showed a unique subregional expression in striatum. A single in vivo exposure to the opioid analgesic oxycodone disrupted mu OP-LTD and endocannabinoid-LTD, but not delta or kappa OP-LTD. These data reveal previously unknown opioid-mediated forms of long-term striatal plasticity that are differentially affected by opioid analgesic exposure and are likely important mediators of striatum-dependent learning and behavior.

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Analgesics, OpioidAnimalsCorpus StriatumEndocannabinoidsFemaleLong-Term Synaptic DepressionMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronal PlasticityOpioid PeptidesOxycodoneRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyReceptors, OpioidReceptors, Opioid, deltaAnalgesics, OpioidEndocannabinoidsOpioid PeptidesOxycodoneReceptors, OpioidReceptors, Opioid, deltaReceptors, Opioid, kappaReceptors, Opioid, mu

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PMID24561996
PMCPMC4163916

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