Opposing roles for striatonigral and striatopallidal neurons in dorsolateral striatum in consolidating new instrumental actions

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Comparatively little is known about how new instrumental actions are encoded in the brain. Using whole-brain c-Fos mapping, we show that neural activity is increased in the anterior dorsolateral striatum (aDLS) of mice that successfully learn a new lever-press response to earn food rewards. Post-learning chemogenetic inhibition of aDLS disrupts consolidation of the new instrumental response. Similarly, post-learning infusion of the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin into the aDLS disrupts consolidation of the new response. Activity of D1 receptor-expressing medium spiny neurons (D1-MSNs) increases and D2-MSNs activity decreases in the aDLS during consolidation. Chemogenetic inhibition of D1-MSNs in aDLS disrupts the consolidation process whereas D2-MSN inhibition strengthens consolidation but blocks the expression of previously learned habit-like responses. These findings suggest that D1-MSNs in the aDLS encode new instrumental actions whereas D2-MSNs oppose this new learning and instead promote expression of habitual actions.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Nature communications - 12(2021), 1 vom: 25. Aug., Seite 5121

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Smith, Alexander C W [VerfasserIn]
Jonkman, Sietse [VerfasserIn]
Difeliceantonio, Alexandra G [VerfasserIn]
O'Connor, Richard M [VerfasserIn]
Ghoshal, Soham [VerfasserIn]
Romano, Michael F [VerfasserIn]
Everitt, Barry J [VerfasserIn]
Kenny, Paul J [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Receptors, Dopamine D1
Receptors, Dopamine D2
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 24.09.2021

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41467-021-25460-3

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329769774