Intravenous morphine self-administration alters accumbal microRNA profiles in the mouse brain

作     者：Juhwan Kim Heh-In Im Changjong Moon 

作者机构：Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Animal Behavior College of Veterinary Medicine and BK21 Plus Project Team Chonnam National University Gwangju South Korea Center for Neuroscience Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Seoul South Korea Convergence Research Center for Diagnosis Treatment and Care System of Dementia Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Seoul South Korea Division of Biomedical Science & Technology KIST School Korea University of Science and Technology Seoul South Korea 

出 版 物：《Neural Regeneration Research》 (中国神经再生研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第13卷第1期

页      面：77-85页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 

基　　金：funded by the National Research Council of Science & Technology(NST)grant by the Korean government(MSIP)(No.CRC-15-04-KIST) the National Research Foundation of Korea under the grant(No.NRF-2017R1A2B200399 Mid-career Researcher Program) 

主　　题：nerve regeneration nucleus accumbens microRNA morphine self-administration bioinformatics neural regeneration 

摘      要：A significant amount of evidence indicates that microRNAs （miRNAs） play an important role in drug addiction. The nucleus accumbens （NAc） is a critical part of the brain’s reward circuit and is involved in a variety of psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, and drug addiction. However, few studies have examined the expression of miRNAs and their functional roles in the NAc under conditions of morphine addiction. In this study, mice were intravenously infused with morphine （0.01, 0.03, 0.3, 1 and 3 mg/kg/infusion） and showed inverted U-shaped response. After morphine self-administration, NAc was used to analyze the functional networks of altered miRNAs and their putative target mRNAs in the NAc following intravenous self-administration of morphine. We utilized several bioinformatics tools, including Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes （KEGG） pathway mapping and CyTargetLinker. We found that 62 miRNAs were altered and exhibited differential expression patterns. The putative targets were related to diverse regulatory functions, such as neurogenesis, neurodegeneration, and synaptic plasticity, as well as the pharmacological effects of morphine （receptor internalization/endocytosis）. The present findings provide novel insights into the regulatory mechanisms of accumbal molecules under conditions of morphine addiction and identify several novel biomarkers associated with morphine addiction.