Different Roles of D1/D2 Medium Spiny Neurons in the Nucleus Accumbens in Pair Bond Formation of Male Mandarin Voles

Author:

Zhang Lizi,Qu YishanORCID,Young Larry JORCID,Hou Wenjuan,Liu Limin,Liu JingORCID,Wang Yuqian,Li Lu,Guo Xing,Li Yin,Huang Caihong,Lv Zijian,Li Yitong,Jia Rui,Lian Ting,He Zhixiong,Tai FadaoORCID

Abstract

AbstractThe mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system has been implicated in pair bond formation. However, involvements of DA release, real time activities, and electrophysiological activities of D1/D2 medium spiny neurons (MSNs) in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell in pair bonding remain unclear. This work verified that male mandarin voles after pair bonding released higher levels of DA in the NAc shell and displayed higher levels of D1 MSNs activity and lower levels of D2 MSNs activity upon sniffing their partners compared to upon sniffing an unknown female. Moreover, pair bonding induced differential alterations in both synaptic plasticity and neuronal intrinsic excitability in both D1 MSNs and D2 MSNs. In addition, chemogenetic inhibition (activation) of ventral pallidum-projecting D2 MSNs in the NAc shell enhanced (inhibited) pair bond formation, respectively. These findings suggest that different neuronal activity of NAc shell D1 MSNs / D2 MSNs regulated by increasing DA release after pair bonding may be a neurobiological mechanism underlying pair bond formation.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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