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Haloperidol-induced immediate early genes in striatopallidal neurons requires the converging activation of cAMP/PKA/DARPP-32 and mTOR pathways

Onimus, O.; Valjent, E.; Fisone, G.; Gangarossa, G.

2022-09-13 neuroscience
10.1101/2022.09.10.507436 bioRxiv
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Antipsychotics share the common pharmacological feature of antagonizing the dopamine 2 receptor (D2R) which is abundant in the striatum and involved in both the therapeutic and side effects of this drugs class. Pharmacological blockade of striatal D2R, by disinhibiting the D2R-containing medium-size spiny neurons (MSNs), leads to a plethora of molecular, cellular and behavioral adaptations which are central in the action of antipsychotics. Here, we focused on the cell type-specific (D2R-MSNs) regulation of some striatal immediate early genes (IEGs), such as cFos, Arc and Zif268. Taking advantage of transgenic mouse models, pharmacological approaches and immunofluorescence analyses, we found that haloperidol-induced IEGs in the striatum required the synergistic activation of A2a (adenosine) and NMDA (glutamate) receptors. At the intracellular signaling level, we found that the PKA/DARPP-32 and mTOR pathways synergistically cooperate to control the induction of IEGs by haloperidol. By confirming and further expanding previous observations, our results provide novel insights into the regulatory mechanisms underlying the molecular/cellular action of antipsychotics in the striatum.

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