Persistent increase of accumbens cocaine ensemble excitability induced by IRK downregulation after withdrawal mediates the incubation of cocaine craving

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The incubation phenomenon, cue-induced drug craving progressively increasing over prolonged withdrawal, accounts for persistent relapse, leading to a dilemma in the treatment of cocaine addiction. The role of neuronal ensembles activated by initial cocaine experience in the incubation phenomenon was unclear. In this study, with cocaine self-administration (SA) models, we found that neuronal ensembles in the nucleus accumbens shell (NAcSh) showed increasing activation induced by cue-induced drug-seeking after 30-day withdrawal. Inhibition or activation of NAcSh cocaine-ensembles suppressed or promoted craving for cocaine, demonstrating a critical role of NAcSh cocaine-ensembles in incubation for cocaine craving. NAcSh cocaine-ensembles showed a specific increase of membrane excitability and a decrease of inward rectifying channels Kir2.1 currents after 30-day withdrawal. Overexpression of Kir2.1 in NAcSh cocaine-ensembles restored neuronal membrane excitability and suppressed cue-induced drug-seeking after 30-day withdrawal. Expression of dominant-negative Kir2.1 in NAcSh cocaine-ensembles enhanced neuronal membrane excitability and accelerated incubation of cocaine craving. Our results provide a cellular mechanism that the downregulation of Kir2.1 functions in NAcSh cocaine-ensembles induced by prolonged withdrawal mediates the enhancement of ensemble membrane excitability, leading to incubation of cocaine craving.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Molecular psychiatry - 28(2023), 1 vom: 08. Jan., Seite 448-462

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

He, Guanhong [VerfasserIn]
Huai, Ziqing [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Changyou [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Bing [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Le, Qiumin [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Guangyuan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Haibo [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Feifei [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Lan [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xing [VerfasserIn]

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Cocaine
I5Y540LHVR
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 09.01.2023

Date Revised 12.05.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41380-022-01884-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM349942617