ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2009
Chronic nicotine selectively enhances alpha4beta2* nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the nigrostriatal dopamine pathway.
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- Morphine and nicotine intake in high drinking in the dark mice is reduced by informatics-nominated and translationally relevant compounds.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Chronic hyperactivation of midbrain dopamine neurons causes preferential dopamine neuron degeneration.eLife · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic Dysregulation in Animal Models of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Nicotine Dependence Suggests Shared Neural Mechanisms.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- α4 nicotinic receptors on GABAergic neurons mediate a cholinergic analgesic circuit in the substantia nigra pars reticulata.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2024Article
- CHRNA5 gene variation affects the response of VTA dopaminergic neurons during chronic nicotine exposure and withdrawal.Neuropharmacology · 2023Article
- Plasticity in ventral pallidal cholinergic neuron-derived circuits contributes to comorbid chronic pain-like and depression-like behaviour in male mice.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Nicotine-Mediated Recruitment of GABAergic Neurons to a Dopaminergic Phenotype Attenuates Motor Deficits in an Alpha-Synuclein Parkinson's Model.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- High-throughput cell-based assays for identifying antagonists of multiple smoking-associated human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes.SLAS discovery : advancing life sciences R & D · 2022Article
- Chronic nicotine impairs sparse motor learning via striatal fast-spiking parvalbumin interneurons.Addiction biology · 2021Article
- Striatal cholinergic transmission. Focus on nicotinic receptors' influence in striatal circuits.The European journal of neuroscience · 2021Review
- D2 receptor activation relieves pain hypersensitivity by inhibiting superficial dorsal horn neurons in parkinsonian mice.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2021Article
- The Impact of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) Flavors on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors and Nicotine Addiction-Related Behaviors.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Cholinergic midbrain afferents modulate striatal circuits and shape encoding of action strategies.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Neural circuits and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediate the cholinergic regulation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons and nicotine dependence.Acta pharmacologica Sinica · 2020Review
- Why flavored vape products may be attractive: Green apple tobacco flavor elicits reward-related behavior, upregulates nAChRs on VTA dopamine neurons, and alters midbrain dopamine and GABA neuron function.Neuropharmacology · 2019Article
- Brain Region Specific Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging.Analytical chemistry · 2019Article
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Abstract
These electrophysiological experiments, in slices and intact animals, study the effects of in vivo chronic exposure to nicotine on functional alpha4beta2* nAChRs in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic (DA) pathway. Recordings were made in wild-type and alpha4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunit knock-out mice. Chronic nicotine enhanced methyllycaconitine citrate hydrate-resistant, dihydro-beta-erythroidine hydrobromide-sensitive nicotinic currents elicited by 3-1000 mum ACh in GABAergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNr), but not in DA neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc). This enhancement leads to higher firing rates of SNr GABAergic neurons and consequently to increased GABAergic inhibition of the SNc DA neurons. In the dorsal striatum, functional alpha4* nAChRs were not found on the neuronal somata; however, nicotine acts via alpha4beta2* nAChRs in the DA terminals to modulate glutamate release onto the medium spiny neurons. Chronic nicotine also increased the number and/or function of these alpha4beta2* nAChRs. These data suggest that in nigrostriatal DA pathway, chronic nicotine enhancement of alpha4beta2* nAChRs displays selectivity in cell type and in nAChR subtype as well as in cellular compartment. These selective events augment inhibition of SNc DA neurons by SNr GABAergic neurons and also temper the release of glutamate in the dorsal striatum. The effects may reduce the risk of excitotoxicity in SNc DA neurons and may also counteract the increased effectiveness of corticostriatal glutamatergic inputs during degeneration of the DA system. These processes may contribute to the inverse correlation between tobacco use and Parkinson's disease.
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