Differential Effects of Dorsal and Ventral Medial Prefrontal Cortex Inactivation during Natural Reward Seeking, Extinction, and Cue-Induced Reinstatement.

Autor:	Caballero JP; Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program., Scarpa GB; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003., Remage-Healey L; Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program.; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003., Moorman DE; Neuroscience and Behavior Graduate Program moorman@umass.edu.; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	ENeuro [eNeuro] 2019 Sep 25; Vol. 6 (5). Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Sep 25 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI:	10.1523/ENEURO.0296-19.2019
Abstrakt:	Rodent dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), typically prelimbic cortex, is often described as promoting actions such as reward seeking, whereas ventral mPFC, typically infralimbic cortex, is thought to promote response inhibition. However, both dorsal and ventral mPFC are necessary for both expression and suppression of different behaviors, and each region may contribute to different functions depending on the specifics of the behavior tested. To better understand the roles of dorsal and ventral mPFC in motivated behavior we pharmacologically inactivated each area during operant fixed ratio 1 (FR1) seeking for a natural reward (sucrose), extinction, cue-induced reinstatement, and progressive ratio (PR) sucrose seeking in male Long-Evans rats. Bilateral inactivation of dorsal mPFC, but not ventral mPFC increased reward seeking during FR1. Inactivation of both dorsal and ventral mPFC decreased seeking during extinction. Bilateral inactivation of ventral mPFC, but not dorsal mPFC decreased reward seeking during cue-induced reinstatement. No effect of inactivation was found during PR. Our data contrast sharply with observations seen during drug seeking and fear conditioning, indicating that previously established roles of dorsal mPFC = going versus ventral mPFC = stopping are not applicable to all motivated behaviors and/or outcomes. Our results indicate that dichotomous functions of dorsal versus ventral mPFC, if they exist, may align better with other models, or may require the development of a new framework in which these multifaceted brain areas play different roles in action control depending on the behavioral context in which they are engaged. (Copyright © 2019 Caballero et al.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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