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Article Dans Une Revue Addiction Biology Année : 2020

Exercise craving potentiates excitatory inputs to ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons

Maria‐carmen Medrano
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Imane Hurel
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Emma Mesguich
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Bastien Redon
Christopher Stevens
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Miriam Melis
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Giovanni Marsicano
Francis Chaouloff

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Physical exercise, which can be addictogenic on its own, is considered a therapeutic alternative for drug craving. Exercise might thus share with drugs the ability to strengthen excitatory synapses onto ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopaminergic neurones, as assessed by the ratio of AMPA receptor (AMPAR)-mediated excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) to NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-mediated EPSCs. As did acute cocaine, amphetamine or Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) pretreatments, an acute 1-h wheel-running session increased the AMPAR/NMDAR ratio in VTA dopaminergic neurones. To dissect the respective influences of wheel-running seeking and performance, mice went through an operant protocol wherein wheel-running was conditioned by nose poking under fixed ratio schedules of reinforcement. Conditioned wheel-running increased the AMPAR/NMDAR ratio to a higher extent than free wheel-running, doing so although running performance was lower in the former paradigm than in the latter. Thus, the cue-reward association, rather than reward consumption, played a major role in this increase. The AMPAR/NMDAR ratio returned to baseline levels in mice that had extinguished the cued-running motivated task, but it increased after a cue-induced reinstatement session. The amplitude of this increase correlated with the intensity of exercise craving, as assessed by individual nose poke scores. Finally, cue-induced reinstatement of running seeking proved insensitive to acute cocaine or THC
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hal-03003940 , version 1 (13-11-2020)

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Maria‐carmen Medrano, Imane Hurel, Emma Mesguich, Bastien Redon, Christopher Stevens, et al.. Exercise craving potentiates excitatory inputs to ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons. Addiction Biology, 2020, ⟨10.1111/adb.12967⟩. ⟨hal-03003940⟩

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