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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2024

A disinhibitory microcircuit of the orbitofrontal cortex mediates cocaine preference in mice.

Ziran Huang, Xiaoyan Wei, Jing Tian, Yangxue Fu, Jihui Dong, Yihui Wang, Jie Shi, Lin Lu, Wen Zhang

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Single-dose psilocybin promotes cell-type-specific changes of neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  3. Critical Periods and Beyond: Dynamic Functions of Perineuronal Nets in Cognition, Development, and Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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Ziran Huang *National Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Xiaoyan Wei *National Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Jing Tian *National Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Yangxue Fu *National Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Jihui DongNational Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Yihui WangNational Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.
Jie ShiNational Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6567-8160
Lin LuPeking University Sixth Hospital, Peking University Institute of Mental Health, NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health (Peking University), National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking University Sixth Hospital); Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences and PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0742-9072
Wen ZhangNational Institute on Drug Dependence and Beijing Key Laboratory of Drug Dependence Research, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China. zhangw@hsc.pku.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-5166-0736

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32170960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Both clinical and animal studies showed that the impaired functions of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) underlie the compulsive drug-seeking behavior of drug addiction. However, the functional changes of the microcircuit in the OFC and the underlying molecular mechanisms in drug addiction remain elusive, and little is known for whether microcircuits in the OFC contributed to drug addiction-related behaviors. Utilizing the cocaine-induced conditioned-place preference model, we found that the malfunction of the microcircuit led to disinhibition in the OFC after cocaine withdrawal. We further showed that enhanced Somatostatin-Parvalbumin (SST-PV) inhibitory synapse strength changed microcircuit function, and SST and PV inhibitory neurons showed opposite contributions to the drug addiction-related behavior of mice. Brevican of the perineuronal nets of PV neurons regulated SST-PV synapse strength, and the knockdown of Brevican alleviated cocaine preference. These results reveal a novel molecular mechanism of the regulation of microcircuit function and a novel circuit mechanism of the OFC in gating cocaine preference.

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CocaineCocaine-Related DisordersPrefrontal CortexAnimalsBehavior, AnimalInterneuronsMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLParvalbuminsSomatostatinSynaptic TransmissionCocaineParvalbuminsSomatostatin

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