Activación de Neuronas de Proyección Ínsulo-Accumbens Requerida para el Comportamiento de Recaída Tras la

Rachel E Clarke1,2, Bayleigh E Pagoota1, Isabella E Dinu1

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

Addiction biology
|January 12, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

La vía de la corteza insular anterior (aIC) al núcleo accumbens core (NAcc) suprime selectivamente la búsqueda de opioides en modelos de trastorno por uso de opioides (OUD). Este circuito específico, no la función general de la IC, es clave para controlar los comportamientos relacionados con las drogas.

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