Separate circuitries encode the hedonic and nutritional values of sugar.
Separate circuitries encode the hedonic and nutritional values of sugar.
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DOI:
10.1038/nn.4224
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发表时间:
2016-03
影响因子:
25
通讯作者:
de Araujo IE
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作者:
Tellez LA;Han W;Zhang X;Ferreira TL;Perez IO;Shammah-Lagnado SJ;van den Pol AN;de Araujo IE
Sugar exerts its potent reinforcing effects via both gustatory and post-ingestive pathways. It is however unknown if sweetness and nutritional signals engage segregated brain networks to motivate ingestion. We show in mice that separate basal ganglia circuitries mediate the hedonic and nutritional actions of sugar. We found that, during sugar intake, suppressing hedonic value inhibited dopamine release in ventral but not dorsal striatum, whereas suppressing nutritional value inhibited dopamine release in dorsal but not ventral striatum. Consistently, cell-specific ablation of dopamine-excitable cells in dorsal, but not ventral, striatum inhibited sugar’s ability to drive the ingestion of unpalatable solutions. Conversely, optogenetic stimulation of dopamine-excitable cells in dorsal, but not ventral, striatum substituted for sugar in its ability to drive the ingestion of unpalatable solutions. Our data demonstrate that sugar recruits a distributed dopamine-excitable striatal circuitry that acts to prioritize energy seeking over taste quality.