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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2020

Involvement of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinase in the Nucleus Accumbens in Cocaine Versus Social Interaction Reward.

Inês M Amaral, Cristina Lemos, Isabella Cera, Georg Dechant, Alex Hofer, Rana El Rawas

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Inês M AmaralDivision of Psychiatry I, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-3826-8972
Cristina LemosDivision of Psychiatry I, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Isabella CeraInstitute for Neuroscience, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Georg DechantInstitute for Neuroscience, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Alex HoferDivision of Psychiatry I, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Rana El RawasDivision of Psychiatry I, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical University Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-8068-4507
Innsbruck Medical University · AT

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF M 2486Austrian Science Fund FWF T 758
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence suggests that PKA activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays an essential role in reward-related learning. In this study, we investigated whether PKA is differentially involved in the expression of learning produced by either natural reinforcers or psychostimulants. For that purpose, we inhibited PKA through a bilateral infusion of Rp-cAMPS, a specific PKA inhibitor, directly into the NAc. The effects of PKA inhibition in the NAc on the expression of concurrent conditioned place preference (CPP) for cocaine (drug) and social interaction (natural reward) in rats were evaluated. We found that PKA inhibition increased the expression of cocaine preference. This effect was not due to altered stress levels or decreased social reward. PKA inhibition did not affect the expression of natural reward as intra-NAc Rp-cAMPS infusion did not affect expression of social preference. When rats were trained to express cocaine or social interaction CPP and tested for eventual persisting preference 7 and 14 days after CPP expression, cocaine preference was persistent, but social preference was abolished after the first test. These results suggest that PKA in the NAc is involved in drug reward learning that might lead to addiction and that only drug, but not natural, reward is persistent.

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RewardSocial InteractionAnimalsCentral Nervous System StimulantsCocaineConditioning, OperantCyclic AMPCyclic AMP-Dependent Protein KinasesMaleNucleus AccumbensRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyCentral Nervous System StimulantsCocaineCyclic AMPCyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinasesaddictioncocaineconditioned place preferencedrugslearningnatural reinforcersnucleus accumbensPKArewardsocial interaction

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PMID33396297
PMCPMC7794935
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