AMPA receptor and metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 adaptations in the nucleus accumbens core during incubation of methamphetamine craving

CH Murray, JA Loweth, M Milovanovic… - …, 2019 - nature.com
Cue-induced drug craving progressively intensifies after withdrawal from self-administration
of cocaine, methamphetamine, and other drugs of abuse, a phenomenon termed incubation …

Accumbens nNOS interneurons regulate cocaine relapse

ACW Smith, MD Scofield, JA Heinsbroek… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Relapse to drug use can be initiated by drug-associated cues. The intensity of cue-induced
relapse is correlated with the induction of transient synaptic potentiation (t-SP) at …

Role of mGluR5 neurotransmission in reinstated cocaine‐seeking

X Wang, K Moussawi, L Knackstedt, H Shen… - Addiction …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In animal models of addiction, reducing glutamate stimulation of the metabotropic glutamate
receptor 5 (mGluR5) inhibits drug‐seeking. The present study used the reinstatement model …

Extinction training after cocaine self-administration induces glutamatergic plasticity to inhibit cocaine seeking

LA Knackstedt, K Moussawi, R Lalumiere… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Learning to inhibit drug seeking can be an important strategy for inhibiting relapse, and this
can be modeled by extinguishing drug seeking in response to a drug-paired context. Rats …

mGlu1 and mGlu5 modulate distinct excitatory inputs to the nucleus accumbens shell

BD Turner, JM Rook, CW Lindsley, PJ Conn… - …, 2018 - nature.com
Glutamatergic transmission in the nucleus accumbens shell (NAcSh) is a substrate for
reward learning and motivation. Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors regulate NAcSh …

Phosphorylation-dependent trafficking of GluR2-containing AMPA receptors in the nucleus accumbens plays a critical role in the reinstatement of cocaine seeking

KR Famous, V Kumaresan, G Sadri-Vakili… - Journal of …, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
A growing body of evidence indicates that enhanced AMPA-mediated glutamate
transmission in the core of the nucleus accumbens is critically involved in cocaine priming …

Using metabotropic glutamate receptors to modulate cocaine's synaptic and behavioral effects: mGluR1 finds a niche

JA Loweth, KY Tseng, ME Wolf - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2013 - Elsevier
Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) are important modulators of excitatory
synaptic transmission and therefore potential targets for drug development. In several brain …

Incubation of cocaine seeking following brief cocaine experience in mice is enhanced by mGluR1 blockade

B Halbout, RE Bernardi, AC Hansson… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
The incubation of cocaine craving describes the time-dependent augmentation of cue-
induced cocaine seeking during withdrawal from prolonged cocaine self-administration and …

Genetic loss of GluN2B in D1-expressing cell types enhances long-term cocaine reward and potentiation of thalamo-accumbens synapses

ME Joffe, BD Turner, E Delpire… - …, 2018 - nature.com
Transient upregulation of GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors (R) in the nucleus
accumbens (NAc) is proposed as an intermediate to long-term AMPAR plasticity associated …

Glutamate delta-1 receptor regulates cocaine-induced plasticity in the nucleus accumbens

J Liu, PJ Gandhi, R Pavuluri, GP Shelkar… - Translational …, 2018 - nature.com
Cocaine exposure induces plasticity of glutamatergic synapses of medium spiny neurons
(MSNs) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), which has been proposed to contribute to its …