Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators

Z Wu, D Lin, Y Li - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a wide range of key roles throughout the
nervous system. However, their dynamics in both health and disease have been challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular circuits in the brain and their modulation in acute and chronic pain

R Kuner, T Kuner - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Chronic, pathological pain remains a global health problem and a challenge to basic and
clinical sciences. A major obstacle to preventing, treating, or reverting chronic pain has been …

Decoding molecular and cellular heterogeneity of mouse nucleus accumbens

R Chen, TR Blosser, MN Djekidel, J Hao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays an important role in regulating multiple behaviors, and
its dysfunction has been linked to many neural disorders. However, the molecular, cellular …

[PDF][PDF] Responses and functions of dopamine in nucleus accumbens core during social behaviors

B Dai, F Sun, X Tong, Y Ding, A Kuang, T Osakada… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Social behaviors are among the most important motivated behaviors. How dopamine (DA),
a" reward" signal, releases during social behaviors has been a topic of interest for decades …

[PDF][PDF] Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core signals perceived saliency

MG Kutlu, JE Zachry, PR Melugin, SA Cajigas… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
A large body of work has aimed to define the precise information encoded by dopaminergic
projections innervating the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Prevailing models are based on …

Dopamine and addiction

RA Wise, MA Robble - Annual review of psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Addiction is commonly identified with habitual nonmedical self-administration of drugs. It is
usually defined by characteristics of intoxication or by characteristics of withdrawal …

An expanded palette of dopamine sensors for multiplex imaging in vivo

T Patriarchi, A Mohebi, J Sun, A Marley, R Liang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetically encoded dopamine sensors based on green fluorescent protein (GFP) enable
high-resolution imaging of dopamine dynamics in behaving animals. However, these GFP …

[PDF][PDF] Imaging neurotransmitter and neuromodulator dynamics in vivo with genetically encoded indicators

BL Sabatini, L Tian - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
The actions of neuromodulation are thought to mediate the ability of the mammalian brain to
dynamically adjust its functional state in response to changes in the environment. Altered …

Unique functional responses differentially map onto genetic subtypes of dopamine neurons

M Azcorra, Z Gaertner, C Davidson, Q He, H Kim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Dopamine neurons are characterized by their response to unexpected rewards, but they
also fire during movement and aversive stimuli. Dopamine neuron diversity has been …

NAc-VTA circuit underlies emotional stress-induced anxiety-like behavior in the three-chamber vicarious social defeat stress mouse model

G Qi, P Zhang, T Li, M Li, Q Zhang, F He… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emotional stress is considered a severe pathogenetic factor of psychiatric disorders.
However, the circuit mechanisms remain largely unclear. Using a three-chamber vicarious …