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Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse ; 50(2): 132-138, 2024 Mar 03.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38320237

ABSTRACT

Hypogonadism is a highly prevalent complication of chronic opioid use associated with a constellation of affective, algesic, and cognitive symptoms as well as decreased quality of life. Given that the mainstays of pharmacologic opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment - methadone and buprenorphine - are themselves agonists or partial agonists at the mu opioid receptor, opioid-induced hypogonadism (OIH) remains an underappreciated clinical concern throughout the course of OUD treatment. Prominent theoretical frameworks for OUD emphasize the importance of negative reinforcement and hyperkatifeia, defined as the heightened salience of negative emotional and motivational states brought on by chronic opioid use. In this perspective article, we highlight the striking parallels between the symptom domains of hyperfakifeia and hypogonadism in males, who comprise the vast majority of existing clinical research on OIH. By extension we propose that future research and ultimately clinical care should focus on the identification and treatment of OIH in OUD patients to help address the longstanding paradox of poor treatment retention despite efficacious therapies, particularly in the setting of the current opioid overdose epidemic driven by high potency synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. We then review evidence from chronic pain patients that testosterone replacement provides clinically significant benefits to men with OIH. Finally, using this framework, we compare extant OUD therapeutics and discuss critical gaps in the clinical literature-including the relative dearth of data regarding hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal function in females who use opioids-where future study should be focused.


Subject(s)
Analgesics, Opioid , Hypogonadism , Opioid-Related Disorders , Humans , Analgesics, Opioid/adverse effects , Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use , Buprenorphine/therapeutic use , Buprenorphine/adverse effects , Hypogonadism/chemically induced , Hypogonadism/drug therapy , Methadone/therapeutic use , Methadone/adverse effects , Opiate Substitution Treatment , Opioid-Related Disorders/drug therapy , Reinforcement, Psychology
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J Neurosci ; 41(16): 3597-3609, 2021 04 21.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33664134

ABSTRACT

Dynamic changes in motor abilities and motivated behaviors occur during the juvenile and adolescent periods. The striatum is a subcortical nucleus critical to action selection, motor learning, and reward processing. Its tonically active cholinergic interneuron (ChI) is an integral regulator of the synaptic activity of other striatal neurons, as well as afferent axonal projections of midbrain dopamine (DA) neurons; however, little is known about its development. Here, we report that ChI spontaneous activity increases during postnatal development of male and female mice, concomitant with a decreased afterhyperpolarization (AHP). We characterized the postnatal development of four currents that contribute to the spontaneous firing rate of ChIs, including ISK, IA, Ih, and INaP We demonstrated that the developmental increase in INaP drives increased ChI firing rates during the postnatal period and can be reversed by the INaP inhibitor, ranolazine. We next addressed whether immature cholinergic signaling may lead to functional differences in DA release during the juvenile period. In the adult striatum, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) prevent linear summation of DA release in response to trains of high-frequency stimuli. We show that, in contrast, during the second postnatal week, DA release linearly sums with trains of high-frequency stimuli. Consistently, nAChR antagonists exert little effect on dopamine release at postnatal day (P)10, but enhance the summation of evoked DA release in mice older than postnatal day P28. Together, these results reveal that postnatal maturation of ChI activity is due primarily to enhanced INaP and identify an interaction between developing cholinergic signaling and DA neurotransmission in the juvenile striatum.SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Motor skills and motivated behavior develop rapidly in juvenile rodents. Recent work has highlighted processes that contribute to the postnatal maturation of striatal principal neurons during development. The functional development of the striatal cholinergic interneuron (ChI), however, has been unexplored. In this study, we tracked the ontogeny of ChI activity and cellular morphology, as well as the developmental trajectory of specific conductances that contribute to the activity of these cells. We further report a link between cholinergic signaling and dopamine (DA) release, revealing a change in the frequency-dependence of DA release during the early postnatal period that is mediated by cholinergic signaling. This study provides evidence that striatal microcircuits are dynamic during the postnatal period and that they undergo coordinated maturation.


Subject(s)
Aging/metabolism , Dopamine/metabolism , Dopaminergic Neurons/metabolism , Interneurons/physiology , Neostriatum/growth & development , Neostriatum/metabolism , Parasympathetic Nervous System/growth & development , Action Potentials/physiology , Animals , Dendrites/metabolism , Dendrites/ultrastructure , Electrophysiological Phenomena , Female , Ion Channels/physiology , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Ranolazine/pharmacology , Receptors, Nicotinic/metabolism , Synaptic Transmission/physiology
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Elife ; 92020 Jan 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31913125

ABSTRACT

The basal ganglia are a group of subcortical nuclei that contribute to action selection and reinforcement learning. The principal neurons of the striatum, spiny projection neurons of the direct (dSPN) and indirect (iSPN) pathways, maintain low intrinsic excitability, requiring convergent excitatory inputs to fire. Here, we examined the role of autophagy in mouse SPN physiology and animal behavior by generating conditional knockouts of Atg7 in either dSPNs or iSPNs. Loss of autophagy in either SPN population led to changes in motor learning but distinct effects on cellular physiology. dSPNs, but not iSPNs, required autophagy for normal dendritic structure and synaptic input. In contrast, iSPNs, but not dSPNs, were intrinsically hyperexcitable due to reduced function of the inwardly rectifying potassium channel, Kir2. These findings define a novel mechanism by which autophagy regulates neuronal activity: control of intrinsic excitability via the regulation of potassium channel function.


Subject(s)
Autophagy-Related Protein 7/genetics , Autophagy-Related Protein 7/metabolism , Macroautophagy/genetics , Macroautophagy/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Animals , Autophagy/physiology , Basal Ganglia , Behavior, Animal , Female , Learning , Male , Mice , Mice, Knockout , Potassium Channels/metabolism , Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying/metabolism , Psychomotor Performance/physiology , Sex Factors , Transcriptome
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Neurobiol Dis ; 122: 49-63, 2019 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29709573

ABSTRACT

The dendritic protrusions known as spines represent the primary postsynaptic location for excitatory synapses. Dendritic spines are critical for many synaptic functions, and their formation, modification, and turnover are thought to be important for mechanisms of learning and memory. At many excitatory synapses, dendritic spines form during the early postnatal period, and while many spines are likely being formed and removed throughout life, the net number are often gradually "pruned" during adolescence to reach a stable level in the adult. In neurodevelopmental disorders, spine pruning is disrupted, emphasizing the importance of understanding its governing processes. Autophagy, a process through which cytosolic components and organelles are degraded, has recently been shown to control spine pruning in the mouse cortex, but the mechanisms through which autophagy acts remain obscure. Here, we draw on three widely studied prototypical synaptic pruning events to focus on two governing principles of spine pruning: 1) activity-dependent synaptic competition and 2) non-neuronal contributions. We briefly review what is known about autophagy in the central nervous system and its regulation by metabolic kinases. We propose a model in which autophagy in both neurons and non-neuronal cells contributes to spine pruning, and how other processes that regulate spine pruning could intersect with autophagy. We further outline future research directions to address outstanding questions on the role of autophagy in synaptic pruning.


Subject(s)
Autophagy/physiology , Central Nervous System/growth & development , Neuroglia/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Synapses/physiology , Animals , Central Nervous System/physiology , Humans
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Neuron ; 99(3): 540-554.e4, 2018 08 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30057204

ABSTRACT

Neural circuits are formed and refined during childhood, including via critical changes in neuronal excitability. Here, we investigated the ontogeny of striatal intrinsic excitability. We found that dopamine neurotransmission increases from the first to the third postnatal week in mice and precedes the reduction in spiny projection neuron (SPN) intrinsic excitability during the fourth postnatal week. In mice developmentally deficient for striatal dopamine, direct pathway D1-SPNs failed to undergo maturation of excitability past P18 and maintained hyperexcitability into adulthood. We found that the absence of D1-SPN maturation was due to altered phosphatidylinositol 4,5-biphosphate dynamics and a consequent lack of normal ontogenetic increases in Kir2 currents. Dopamine replacement corrected these deficits in SPN excitability when provided from birth or during a specific period of juvenile development (P18-P28), but not during adulthood. These results identify a sensitive period of dopamine-dependent striatal maturation, with implications for the pathophysiology and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders.


Subject(s)
Corpus Striatum/growth & development , Critical Period, Psychological , Dopamine/pharmacology , Neurons/physiology , Age Factors , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Corpus Striatum/cytology , Corpus Striatum/drug effects , Female , Male , Mice , Mice, Inbred C57BL , Mice, Knockout , Mice, Transgenic , Neurons/drug effects , Random Allocation
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