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Symptoms including anhedonia, decreased motivation and depression are common affective features in patients with chronic pain.Recent evidence implicated that pathological adaption in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) medium spiny neurons regulates motivation during chronic pain.CC-chemokine receptor 2 (CCR2), a dominant receptor for monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) has been the focus of attention because of its facilitative effect on nociceptive signal processing in chronic pain at peripheral nerve and dorsal horn.However, it is limited in understanding the effects of CCR2 in synaptic transmission in NAc, which functions to gate motivation and emotion for behavioral output.