Preproenkephalin-expressing ventral pallidal neurons control inhibitory avoidance learning

Neurochemistry International
Tom MacphersonTakatoshi Hikida

Abstract

The ventral pallidum (VP) is a critical component of the basal ganglia neurocircuitry regulating learning and decision making; however, its precise role in controlling associative learning of environmental stimuli conditioned to appetitive or aversive outcomes is still unclear. Here, we investigated the expression of preproenkephalin, a polypeptide hormone previously shown to be expressed in nucleus accumbens neurons controlling aversive learning, within GABAergic and glutamatergic VP neurons. Next, we explored the behavioral consequences of chemicogenetic inhibition or excitation of preproenkephalin-expressing VP neurons on associative learning of reward- or aversion-paired stimuli in autoshaping and inhibitory avoidance tasks, respectively. We reveal for the first time that preproenkephalin is expressed predominantly in GABAergic rather than glutamatergic VP neurons, and that excitation of these preproenkephalin-expressing VP neurons was sufficient to impair inhibitory avoidance learning. These findings indicate the necessity for inhibition of preproenkephalin-expressing VP neurons for avoidance learning, and suggest these neurons as a potential therapeutic target for psychiatric disorders associated with maladaptive aversive...Continue Reading

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