Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Cocaine-mediated circadian reprogramming in the striatum through dopamine D2R and PPARγ activation

  • Karen Brami-Cherrier,
  • Robert G. Lewis,
  • Marlene Cervantes,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Paola Tognini,
  • Pierre Baldi,
  • Paolo Sassone-Corsi,
  • Emiliana Borrelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18200-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Drugs of abuse have been shown to perturb circadian rhythms. Here, the authors show in mice that cocaine exposure modulates circadian gene expression in the striatum through a previously unappreciated pathway that involves dopamine D2 receptors and the nuclear receptor PPARγ.