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ArticleNature communications2019

Anti-relapse neurons in the infralimbic cortex of rats drive relapse-suppression by drug omission cues.

Amanda Laque, Genna L De Ness, Grant E Wagner, Hermina Nedelescu, Ayla Carroll, Debbie Watry, Tony M Kerr, Eisuke Koya, Bruce T Hope, Friedbert Weiss and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Amanda LaqueDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Genna L De NessDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0194-943X
Grant E WagnerDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8659-1187
Hermina NedelescuDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1300-672X
Ayla CarrollDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8068-9693
Debbie WatryDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Tony M KerrDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8962-6215
Eisuke KoyaSussex Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5039-4875
Bruce T HopeBehavioral Neuroscience Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH/DHHS, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5804-7061
Friedbert WeissDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA. bweiss@scripps.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6211-6058
Greg I ElmerMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21228, USA. gelmer@som.umaryland.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1483-3690
Nobuyoshi SutoDepartment of Neuroscience, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA. nsuto@scripps.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8994-2592
Scripps Research Institute · USNational Institute on Drug Abuse · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Sussex · GB

Funding

Characterization of neuronal ensembles activated during drug-induced behaviorZIADA000467 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI HOPE, BRUCE · 2009 to 2025
$35.8M
Neurpsychopharmacology-Multidisciplinary TrainingT32AA007456 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI MARISA ROBERTO · 1985 to 2026
$13.4M
Relapse-suppressing brain mechanisms in alcoholism: role of the mPFCR01AA023183 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SUTO, NOBUYOSHI · 2015 to 2019
$2.1M
The dark side of addiction: Significance of environmental conditioning to negative reinforcement by EtOH in subjects with a dependence historyR01AA027555 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WEISS, FRIEDBERT · 2020 to 2024
$2.0M
Cocaine omission cues suppress relapse: role of the medial prefrontal cortexR01DA037294 · NIDA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SUTO, NOBUYOSHI · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Relapse-suppressing neuronal ensembles in cocaine addictionR21DA033533 · NIDA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI SUTO, NOBUYOSHI · 2013 to 2014
$521k
Significance of withdrawal-related learning in EtOH craving and relapseR21AA021549 · NIAAA · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WEISS, FRIEDBERT · 2012 to 2013
$485k
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DA000467NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA023183NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA027555NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA021549NIAAA NIH HHS T32 AA007456NIDA NIH HHS N01 DA059909NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA037294NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA033533
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder of compulsive drug use. Studies of the neurobehavioral factors that promote drug relapse have yet to produce an effective treatment. Here we take a different approach and examine the factors that suppress-rather than promote-relapse. Adapting Pavlovian procedures to suppress operant drug response, we determined the anti-relapse action of environmental cues that signal drug omission (unavailability) in rats. Under laboratory conditions linked to compulsive drug use and heightened relapse risk, drug omission cues suppressed three major modes of relapse-promotion (drug-predictive cues, stress, and drug exposure) for cocaine and alcohol. This relapse-suppression is, in part, driven by omission cue-reactive neurons, which constitute small subsets of glutamatergic and GABAergic cells, in the infralimbic cortex. Future studies of such neural activity-based cellular units (neuronal ensembles/memory engram cells) for relapse-suppression can be used to identify alternate targets for addiction medicine through functional characterization of anti-relapse mechanisms.

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CuesAlcoholismAnimalsCocaineCompulsive BehaviorConditioning, OperantDopamine Uptake InhibitorsMaleNeuronsPrefrontal CortexRats, Long-EvansRats, Sprague-DawleyRats, TransgenicRecurrenceSubstance-Related DisordersCocaineDopamine Uptake Inhibitors

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PMID31477694
PMCPMC6718661
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