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Mechanism for differential recruitment of orbitostriatal transmission during actions and outcomes following chronic alcohol exposure

  1. Rafael Renteria
  2. Christian Cazares
  3. Emily T Baltz
  4. Drew C Schreiner
  5. Ege A Yalcinbas
  6. Thomas Steinkellner
  7. Thomas S Hnasko
  8. Christina M Gremel  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of California, San Diego, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67065
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  1. Rafael Renteria
  2. Christian Cazares
  3. Emily T Baltz
  4. Drew C Schreiner
  5. Ege A Yalcinbas
  6. Thomas Steinkellner
  7. Thomas S Hnasko
  8. Christina M Gremel
(2021)
Mechanism for differential recruitment of orbitostriatal transmission during actions and outcomes following chronic alcohol exposure
eLife 10:e67065.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67065
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Abstract

Psychiatric disease often produces symptoms that have divergent effects on neural activity. For example, in drug dependence, dysfunctional value-based decision-making and compulsive-like actions have been linked to hypo- and hyper-activity of orbital frontal cortex (OFC)-basal ganglia circuits, respectively, however, the underlying mechanisms are unknown. Here we show that alcohol exposed mice have enhanced activity in OFC terminals in dorsal striatum (OFC-DS) associated with actions, but reduced activity of the same terminals during periods of outcome retrieval, corresponding with a loss of outcome control over decision-making. Disrupted OFC-DS terminal activity was due to a dysfunction of dopamine-type 1 receptors on spiny projection neurons (D1R SPNs) that resulted in increased retrograde endocannabinoid (eCB) signaling at OFC-D1R SPN synapses reducing OFC-DS transmission. Blocking CB1 receptors restored OFC-DS activity in vivo and rescued outcome-based control over decision-making. These findings demonstrate a circuit-, synapse-, and computation specific mechanism gating OFC activity in alcohol exposed mice.

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  1. Rafael Renteria

    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  2. Christian Cazares

    The Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  3. Emily T Baltz

    The Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  4. Drew C Schreiner

    Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  5. Ege A Yalcinbas

    The Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  6. Thomas Steinkellner

    Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  7. Thomas S Hnasko

    Department of Neurosciences, The Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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  8. Christina M Gremel

    Department of Psychology, The Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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Funding

National Institutes of Health (AA026077-01A1)

  • Christina M Gremel

National Institutes of Health (F32 AA026776)

  • Rafael Renteria

National Science Foundation (NSF-GRFP DGE-2038238)

  • Emily T Baltz

National Science Foundation (NSF-GRFP DGE-1650112)

  • Christian Cazares

National Institutes of Health (F31 AA027439)

  • Drew C Schreiner

National Institutes of Health (R01DA036612)

  • Thomas S Hnasko

National Institutes of Health (R01NS106822)

  • Thomas S Hnasko

National Institutes of Health (T01BX003759)

  • Thomas S Hnasko

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All experiments were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the University of California San Diego and experiments were conducted according to NIH guidelines.

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© 2021, Renteria et al.

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  1. Rafael Renteria
  2. Christian Cazares
  3. Emily T Baltz
  4. Drew C Schreiner
  5. Ege A Yalcinbas
  6. Thomas Steinkellner
  7. Thomas S Hnasko
  8. Christina M Gremel
(2021)
Mechanism for differential recruitment of orbitostriatal transmission during actions and outcomes following chronic alcohol exposure
eLife 10:e67065.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67065

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