Astrocytes control cocaine-induced synaptic plasticity and reward through the matricellular protein hevin
Raphaële Mongrédien, Augusto Anésio, Gustavo Juliate Damaceno Fernandes, Andrew L. Eagle, Steeve Maldera, Cuong Pham, Séverine Robert, F R Bezerra, Adèle Vilette, Paula C. Bianchi, Clara Franco, Franck Louis, Carole Gruszczynski, Marie-Laure Niepon, Catalina Betancur, , Vincent Vialou
The paper shows that astrocyte calcium signals and the protein hevin mediate cocaine-induced reward and synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens.
Biological Psychiatry · Mar 18, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience