1. Morphine withdrawal recruits lateral habenula cytokine signaling to reduce synaptic excitation and sociability.
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Valentinova K, Tchenio A, Trusel M, Clerke JA, Lalive AL, Tzanoulinou S, Matera A, Moutkine I, Maroteaux L, Paolicelli RC, Volterra A, Bellone C, and Mameli M
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- Adaptation, Psychological, Animals, Female, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Microglia physiology, Naloxone toxicity, Neuronal Plasticity, Random Allocation, Receptors, Glutamate analysis, Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate analysis, Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I genetics, Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor, Type I physiology, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome psychology, Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha physiology, Cytokines physiology, Habenula physiology, Morphine adverse effects, Social Behavior, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome physiopathology, Synaptic Transmission physiology
- Abstract
The lateral habenula encodes aversive stimuli contributing to negative emotional states during drug withdrawal. Here we report that morphine withdrawal in mice leads to microglia adaptations and diminishes glutamatergic transmission onto raphe-projecting lateral habenula neurons. Chemogenetic inhibition of this circuit promotes morphine withdrawal-like social deficits. Morphine withdrawal-driven synaptic plasticity and reduced sociability require tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) release and neuronal TNF receptor 1 activation. Hence, habenular cytokines control synaptic and behavioral adaptations during drug withdrawal.
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- 2019
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