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ArticleAddiction biology2017

Differential behavioral and molecular alterations upon protracted abstinence from cocaine versus morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol.

Jérôme A J Becker, Brigitte L Kieffer, Julie Le Merrer

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Article in Addiction biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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46citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jérôme A J BeckerMédecine Translationelle et Neurogénétique, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM U-964, CNRS UMR-7104, Université de Strasbourg, France.
Brigitte L KiefferMédecine Translationelle et Neurogénétique, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM U-964, CNRS UMR-7104, Université de Strasbourg, France.
Julie Le MerrerMédecine Translationelle et Neurogénétique, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, INSERM U-964, CNRS UMR-7104, Université de Strasbourg, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRInserm · FRUniversité de Strasbourg · FR

Funding

The Role of Striosome Neurons in Mediating Opiod RewardP50DA005010 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI YANG, XIANGDONG WILLIAM · 1987 to 2021
$30.7M
Nr4a1 and GPR88 as novel gene targets for alcoholism: mouse genetic approachesU01AA016658 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG · PI LAURA ADELA HARSAN · 2006 to 2026
$3.8M
NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA016658NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA005010
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unified theories of addiction are challenged by differing drug-seeking behaviors and neurobiological adaptations across drug classes, particularly for narcotics and psychostimulants. We previously showed that protracted abstinence to opiates leads to despair behavior and social withdrawal in mice, and we identified a transcriptional signature in the extended amygdala that was also present in animals abstinent from nicotine, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and alcohol. Here we examined whether protracted abstinence to these four drugs would also share common behavioral features, and eventually differ from abstinence to the prototypic psychostimulant cocaine. We found similar reduced social recognition, increased motor stereotypies and increased anxiety with relevant c-fos response alterations in morphine, nicotine, THC and alcohol abstinent mice. Protracted abstinence to cocaine, however, led to strikingly distinct, mostly opposing adaptations at all levels, including behavioral responses, neuronal activation and gene expression. Together, these data further document the existence of common hallmarks for protracted abstinence to opiates, nicotine, THC and alcohol that develop within motivation/emotion brain circuits. In our model, however, these do not apply to cocaine, supporting the notion of unique mechanisms in psychostimulant abuse.

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Behavior, AnimalSocial BehaviorAlcohol AbstinenceAmygdalaAnalgesics, OpioidAnimalsAnxietyBrainCannabinoid Receptor AgonistsCentral Nervous System DepressantsCocaineDopamine Uptake InhibitorsDronabinolDrug-Seeking BehaviorEmotionsEthanolAnalgesics, OpioidCannabinoid Receptor AgonistsCentral Nervous System DepressantsCocaineDopamine Uptake InhibitorsDronabinolEthanolMorphineNicotineNicotinic AgonistsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-fosextended amygdalagene expressionsocial interaction

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PMID27126842
PMCPMC5085894
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