ArticlePloS one2013
Sex-dependent psychoneuroendocrine effects of THC and MDMA in an animal model of adolescent drug consumption.
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- Cognitive Effects of MDMA in Laboratory Animals: A Systematic Review Focusing on Dose.Pharmacological reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Long-term effects of adolescent THC exposure on anxiety-like behavior and cognitive function in male rats.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
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- The antioxidant N-acetylcysteine prevents cortical neuropathological phenotypes caused by adolescent Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure in male rats.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Nicotine, THC, and Dolutegravir Modulate E-Cigarette-Induced Changes in Addiction- and Inflammation-Associated Genes in Rat Brains and Astrocytes.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Cognitive Alterations in Addictive Disorders: A Translational Approach.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Dose mediates the protracted effects of adolescent THC exposure on reward and stress reactivity in males relevant to perturbation of the basolateral amygdala transcriptome.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Modulation of Gut Microbiome in Ecstasy/MDMA-Induced Behavioral and Biochemical Impairment in Rats and Potential of Post-Treatment withInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Adolescent Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure induces differential acute and long-term neuronal and molecular disturbances in dorsal vs. ventral hippocampal subregions.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- The stoned age: Sex differences in the effects of adolescent cannabinoid exposure on prefrontal cortex structure and function in animal models.International review of neurobiology · 2022Review
- Contribution of TSPO imaging in the understanding of the state of gliosis in substance use disorders.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2021Review
- Reversing the Psychiatric Effects of Neurodevelopmental Cannabinoid Exposure: Exploring Pharmacotherapeutic Interventions for Symptom Improvement.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- l-Theanine Prevents Long-Term Affective and Cognitive Side Effects of Adolescent Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol Exposure and Blocks Associated Molecular and Neuronal Abnormalities in the Mesocorticolimbic Circuitry.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Effect of pharmacological manipulations on Arc function.Current research in pharmacology and drug discovery · 2021Review
- THC exposure during adolescence does not modify nicotine reinforcing effects and relapse in adult male mice.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Effects of lithium and valproate on ERK/JNK signaling pathway in an animal model of mania induced by amphetamine.Heliyon · 2019Article
- Bath salts and polyconsumption: in search of drug-drug interactions.Psychopharmacology · 2019Review
- Short-Term Genetic Selection for Adolescent Locomotor Sensitivity to Delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Behavior genetics · 2018Article
- Acute and long-term effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol on object recognition and anxiety-like activity are age- and strain-dependent in mice.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2017Article
- Chronic Adolescent ΔCannabis and cannabinoid research · 2017Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Ecstasy is a drug that is usually consumed by young people at the weekends and frequently, in combination with cannabis. In the present study we have investigated the long-term effects of administering increasing doses of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol [THC; 2.5, 5, 10 mg/kg; i.p.] from postnatal day (pnd) 28 to 45, alone and/or in conjunction with 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine [MDMA; two daily doses of 10 mg/kg every 5 days; s.c.] from pnd 30 to 45, in both male and female Wistar rats. When tested one day after the end of the pharmacological treatment (pnd 46), MDMA administration induced a reduction in directed exploration in the holeboard test and an increase in open-arm exploration in an elevated plus maze. In the long-term, cognitive functions in the novel object test were seen to be disrupted by THC administration to female but not male rats. In the prepulse inhibition test, MDMA-treated animals showed a decrease in prepulse inhibition at the most intense prepulse studied (80 dB), whereas in combination with THC it induced a similar decrease at 75 dB. THC decreased hippocampal Arc expression in both sexes, while in the frontal cortex this reduction was only evident in females. MDMA induced a reduction in ERK1/2 immunoreactivity in the frontal cortex of male but not female animals, and THC decreased prepro-orexin mRNA levels in the hypothalamus of males, although this effect was prevented when the animals also received MDMA. The results presented indicate that adolescent exposure to THC and/or MDMA induces long-term, sex-dependent psychophysiological alterations and they reveal functional interactions between the two drugs.
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