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The Journal of Neuroscience, May 4, 2005, 25(18):4512-4520; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0685-05.2005

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Cocaine-Induced Reinstatement Requires Endogenous Stimulation of µ-Opioid Receptors in the Ventral Pallidum

Xing-Chun Tang, Krista McFarland, Stephanie Cagle, and Peter W. Kalivas

Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425

The projection from the nucleus accumbens to the ventral pallidum regulates the reinstatement of cocaine seeking in rats extinguished from cocaine self-administration. This projection coexpresses GABA and enkephalin, posing a role for µ-opioid receptors in the ventral pallidum in mediating the reinstatement of cocaine seeking. Rats were extinguished from cocaine self-administration, and the reinstatement of active lever pressing by cocaine was blocked by intra-ventral pallidum administration of the µ receptor antagonist Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Arg-Thr-Pen-Thr-NH₂ (CTAP) (0.03-3.0 µg). Conversely, stimulating µ receptors with morphine (1-30 µg) in the ventral pallidum reinstated cocaine seeking. The ability of intra-ventral pallidum morphine to reinstate lever pressing was blocked by co-microinjection of the µ antagonist CTAP and was augmented by systemic cocaine administration. The reinstatement of cocaine seeking was associated with reduced extracellular GABA in the ventral pallidum, and the reduction in GABA was also prevented by blocking µ receptors with CTAP (10 µM). Although immunoblotting revealed that neither the total tissue concentration nor the membrane insertion of µ receptors in the ventral pallidum was altered by withdrawal from cocaine, the capacity of morphine (0.01-10 µM) to reduce ventral pallidum levels of extracellular GABA was augmented in rats extinguished from cocaine self-administration. These data are consistent with the reinstatement of cocaine seeking being modulated in part by coreleased enkephalin and GABA from the accumbens-ventral pallidal projection, a modulation that may involve the inhibition of GABA release by presynaptic µ receptors.

Key words: cocaine; ventral pallidum; µ-opioid; self-administration; accumbens; GABA

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Received Nov 10, 2004; revised March 28, 2005; accepted March 29, 2005.

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