ArticleNeuropharmacology2016
One month of cocaine abstinence potentiates rapid dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens core.
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- Protracted Abstinence From Extended Cocaine Self-Administration Is Associated With Hypodopaminergic Activity in the VTA but Not in the SNc.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Drug-induced dysphoria is enhanced following prolonged cocaine abstinence and dynamically tracked by nucleus accumbens neurons.Addiction biology · 2019Article
- Electrochemistry at the Synapse.Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2019Review
- Frontiers in Electrochemical Sensors for Neurotransmitter Detection: Towards Measuring Neurotransmitters as Chemical Diagnostics for Brain Disorders.Analytical methods : advancing methods and applications · 2019Article
- Previous cocaine self-administration disrupts reward expectancy encoding in ventral striatum.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2018Article
- Heterogeneous dopamine signals support distinct features of motivated actions: implications for learning and addiction.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2018Review
- Contrasting Regulation of Catecholamine Neurotransmission in the Behaving Brain: Pharmacological Insights from an Electrochemical Perspective.Pharmacological reviews · 2017Review
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Abstract
Cocaine addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder that is difficult to treat in part because addicts relapse even after extended periods of abstinence. Given the importance of the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system in drug addiction, we sought to characterize cocaine abstinence induced changes in rapid DA signaling in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Here, rats were trained to self-administer cocaine for 14 consecutive days, then divided into two groups. Day 1 rats (D1; n = 7) underwent 24 h of abstinence; Day 30 rats (D30; n = 7) underwent one month of abstinence. After abstinence, all rats underwent a single extinction session. Immediately after, rats were deeply anesthetized and fast scan cyclic voltammetry (FSCV) was used to measure DA release and uptake dynamics in the NAc core before and following a single cocaine injection. We show that one month of cocaine abstinence potentiates the peak concentration of electrically evoked DA in the NAc core following an acute injection of cocaine. This potentiation is not related to alterations in DA uptake parameters, which are unchanged following abstinence, but may reflect alterations in release. These results further support the abundance of literature showing that cocaine abstinence induces neuroplasticity in brain areas implicated in drug reward and relapse. The present findings also demonstrate critical differences between abstinence-induced neuroadaptations in DA signaling and those caused by drug exposure itself.
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