ArticleNeuropharmacology2015
Regulation of α4β2α5 nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptors in rat cerebral cortex in early and late adolescence: Sex differences in response to chronic nicotine.
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- Multifactorial Etiology of Adolescent Nicotine Addiction: A Review of the Neurobiology of Nicotine Addiction and Its Implications for Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
- Sex Differences in the Ventral Tegmental Area and Nucleus Accumbens Proteome at Baseline and Following Nicotine Exposure.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2021Article
- Adolescent nicotine and tobacco smoke exposure enhances nicotine self-administration in female rats.Neuropharmacology · 2020Article
- Effects of nicotine exposure on oral methamphetamine self-administration, extinction, and drug-primed reinstatement in adolescent male and female rats.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Sex differences in the reward deficit and somatic signs associated with precipitated nicotine withdrawal in rats.Neuropharmacology · 2019Article
- Blockade of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor enhances the responsiveness to bupropion in the mouse forced swim test.Behavioural brain research · 2019Article
- Sex differences in endogenous cortical network activity: spontaneously recurring Up/Down states.Biology of sex differences · 2017Article
- An Inventory of Methods for the Assessment of Additive Increased Addictiveness of Tobacco Products.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2016Review
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Abstract
Chronic nicotine administration in animals, and smoking in humans, causes up-regulation of α4β2* neuronal nicotinic receptors (nAChRs), which has been hypothesized to contribute to the addictive actions of nicotine. We used a rat model to test whether such up-regulatory effects differ in adolescents versus adults, and in males versus females. Following chronic treatment with nicotine or saline via subcutaneous osmotic minipumps, we measured α4β2 and α4β2α5 nAChRs in cerebral cortex using [3H]epibatidine to label assembled nAChRs, and selective antibodies to measure the individual subunits via immunoprecipitation. For the first time, we provide a detailed characterization of the response of both α4β2 and α4β2α5 nAChRs in female adolescent rat cerebral cortex. We found differences in nicotine-induced up-regulation between males and females in early adolescence that are absent in both late adolescence and adulthood. Males showed significant up-regulation at PN28 which was absent in age-matched females. These results demonstrate sex differences in the susceptibility of α4β2* nAChRs to the effects of chronic nicotine exposure in the cerebral cortex based on age.
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