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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Dr. Hiroyuki Hasegawa for kindly gifting us antitryptophan hydroxylase 2 antibodies. We would like to thank Drs. Akihiro
Yamanaka and Kenji F. Tanaka for kindly providing us with Tph2-tTA and
TetO-ChR2(C128S) mice. We would like to thank Dr. Hitomi Sasamori for
her help in the breeding of transgenic mice. We would like to thank Drs.
Mike Robinson and Kent Berridge for telling us how to conduct the surgery
of oral infusion. We would like to thank Hitoshi Saito for his help in programming. We would like to thank Dr. Masaaki Sato for kindly lending us
an infusion pump. We would like to thank Drs. Katsuyuki Kaneda and
Satoshi Deyama for help on the CPP/CPA tests. We would like to thank Drs.
Atsushi Miyawaki (pCSII-EF-Venus), Adam Cohen (CheRiff; addgene
#51694), Karl Deisseroth (eArchT; addgene #35513), Douglas Kim and
GENIE Project (GCaMP6s; addgene #40753), and Lin Tian (axon-GCaMP6s;
addgene #112008) for providing us the constructs. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from JSPS (to K.Nagayasu
(JP20H04774, JP20K07064), to S.K. (JP18H04616, JP20H00491), to Y.O.
(21K07473), to M.Y. (21H02668), to M.Kondo (JP22K11498), Grant-in-Aid
for Nagai Memorial Research Scholarship from the Pharmaceutical
Society of Japan (to H.K. (N-184403)), Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
(to H.K. (JP20J12341), Y.N. (JP21J14215), and C.A. (JP21J21091)), AMED (to
S.K. (JP20ak0101088h0003, JP21ak0101153h0001), to M.Kondo
(JP21wm0525026, JP20lm0203007)), Smoking Research Foundation (to
Y.O.), The Shimizu Foundation for Immunology and Neuroscience Grant
(to K.Nagayasu), The Uehara Memorial Foundation (to K.Nagayasu), The
Lotte Foundation (to K.Nagayasu), Takeda Science Foundation (to
M.Kondo), SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation (M.Kondo).
Author contributions
H.K., Y.B., K.Nagayasu, Y.O., and S.K. designed the study. H.K. and Y.B.
contributed equally to this work. H.K. performed fiber photometry
experiments, optogenetic experiments, pharmacological experiments, behavioral experiments, AAV production, histochemical analyses, and data analyses with the help of M.Koda, H.M., C.A., M.H., H.S.,
and M.Kondo. Y.B., K.T., and Y.O. jointly constructed the head-fixed
behavioral setup, and Y.B. and Y.O. performed an optogenetic
intervention on licking behaviors and histochemical analyses. N.N.,
K.Niitani, S.I., and K.K. performed electrophysiological experiments.
N.N., Y.N., M.Koda, C.A., and K.Nagayasu constructed and produced
AAVs. H.K. wrote the paper draft. Y.B., K.Nagayasu, Y.O., and S.K.
jointly edited the paper. K.Nagayasu, Y.O., M.Y., and S.K. jointly
supervised the project.
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
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