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ArticleeLife2025

Dopamine activity encodes the changing valence of the same stimulus in conditioned taste aversion paradigms.

Maxine K Loh, Samantha J Hurh, Paula Bazzino, Rachel M Donka, Alexandra T Keinath, Jamie D Roitman, Mitchell F Roitman

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Maxine K Loh *Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2933-2768
Samantha J Hurh *Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Paula BazzinoGraduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Rachel M DonkaDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Alexandra T KeinathDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Jamie D RoitmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.
Mitchell F RoitmanDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3973-635X

Funding

Modulation of NAc-DA Signaling by Learning Motivational State and PeptidesR01DA025634 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ROITMAN, MITCHELL F · 2009 to 2024
$5.1M
UIC Diabetes Research Training ProgramT32DK128782 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI UNTERMAN, TERRY G. · 2021 to 2025
$957k
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA025634NIDA NIH HHS R01DA025634NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK128782NIDDK NIH HHS T32DK128782
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesolimbic dopamine encoding of non-contingent rewards and reward-predictive cues has been well established. Considerable debate remains over how mesolimbic dopamine responds to aversion and in the context of aversive conditioning. Inconsistencies may arise from the use of aversive stimuli that are transduced along different neural paths relative to reward or the conflation of responses to avoidance and aversion. Here, we made intraoral infusions of sucrose and measured how dopamine and behavioral responses varied to the changing valence of sucrose. Pairing intraoral sucrose with malaise via injection of lithium chloride (LiCl) caused the development of a conditioned taste aversion (CTA), which rendered the typically rewarding taste of sucrose aversive upon subsequent re-exposure. Following CTA formation, intraoral sucrose suppressed the activity of ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons (VTA

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Avoidance LearningDopamineDopaminergic NeuronsTasteAnimalsConditioning, ClassicalLithium ChlorideMaleNucleus AccumbensRatsRewardSucroseVentral Tegmental AreaDopamineLithium ChlorideSucroseaversionmotivationneurosciencenucleus accumbensratreinforcementrewardventral tegmental area

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PMID40042246
PMCPMC11882140

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