ReviewBiochemical pharmacology2013
Potential substrates for nicotine and alcohol interactions: a focus on the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system.
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- Mental health matters? An examination of how anxiety and depression influence the alcohol-e-cigarette use relationship.Addictive behaviors · 2026Article
- Chronic Alcohol Use and Accelerated Brain Aging: Shared Mechanisms with Alzheimer's Disease Pathophysiology.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Habenula-ventral tegmental area functional coupling and risk aversion in humans.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Machine Learning of Functional Connectivity to Biotype Alcohol and Nicotine Use Disorders.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Role of α6-Nicotinic Receptors in Alcohol-Induced GABAergic Synaptic Transmission and Plasticity to Cholinergic Interneurons in the Nucleus Accumbens.Molecular neurobiology · 2023Article
- The serotonin 2A receptor agonist TCB-2 attenuates heavy alcohol drinking and alcohol-induced midbrain inhibitory plasticity.Addiction biology · 2022Article
- Negative and positive allosteric modulators of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor regulates the ability of adolescent binge alcohol exposure to enhance adult alcohol consumption.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The incentive amplifying effects of nicotine: Roles in alcohol seeking and consumption.Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.) · 2022Review
- Dopamine, behavior, and addiction.Journal of biomedical science · 2021Review
- Adolescent Intermittent Ethanol (AIE) Enhances the Dopaminergic Response to Ethanol within the Mesolimbic Pathway during Adulthood: Alterations in Cholinergic/Dopaminergic Genes Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Pattern and determinants of alcohol and tobacco co-use and its relationship with smoking cessation in Hong Kong.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021Article
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- Role of corticotropin-releasing factor in alcohol and nicotine addiction.Brain research · 2020Review
- Peri-adolescent alcohol consumption increases sensitivity and dopaminergic response to nicotine during adulthood in female alcohol-preferring (P) rats: Alterations to α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression.Behavioural brain research · 2019Article
- Profound alteration in reward processing due to a human polymorphism in CHRNA5: a role in alcohol dependence and feeding behavior.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019Article
- Adolescent Intermittent Ethanol Increases the Sensitivity to the Reinforcing Properties of Ethanol and the Expression of Select Cholinergic and Dopaminergic Genes within the Posterior Ventral Tegmental Area.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Nicotine Produces a High-Approach, Low-Avoidance Phenotype in Response to Alcohol-Associated Cues in Male Rats.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2019Article
- Ethnopharmacological Applications Targeting Alcohol Abuse: Overview and Outlook.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Epidemiological studies consistently find correlations between nicotine and alcohol use, yet the neural mechanisms underlying their interaction remain largely unknown. Nicotine and alcohol (i.e., ethanol) share many common molecular and cellular targets that provide potential substrates for nicotine-alcohol interactions. These targets for interaction often converge upon the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, where the link to drug self-administration and reinforcement is well documented. Both nicotine and alcohol activate the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, producing downstream dopamine signals that promote the drug reinforcement process. While nicotine primarily acts via nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, alcohol acts upon a wider range of receptors and molecular substrates. The complex pharmacological profile of these two drugs generates overlapping responses that ultimately intersect within the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system to promote drug use. Here we will examine overlapping targets between nicotine and alcohol and provide evidence for their interaction. Based on the existing literature, we will also propose some potential targets that have yet to be directly tested. Mechanistic studies that examine nicotine-alcohol interactions would ultimately improve our understanding of the factors that contribute to the associations between nicotine and alcohol use.
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