ArticleAddiction biology2019
Neurotensin in the posterior thalamic paraventricular nucleus: inhibitor of pharmacologically relevant ethanol drinking.
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- Genetic Tagging Uncovers a Robust, Selective Activation of the Thalamic Paraventricular Nucleus by Adverse Experiences Early in Life.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2023Article
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- Inactivation of the thalamic paraventricular nucleus promotes place preference and sucrose seeking in male rats.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Sex-related differences in pattern of ethanol drinking under the intermittent-access model and its impact on exploratory and anxiety-like behavior in Long-Evans rats.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Circuit and neuropeptide mechanisms of the paraventricular thalamus across stages of alcohol and drug use.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide isoforms in nucleus accumbens subregions on ethanol drinking.Addiction biology · 2021Article
- The Contribution of Thalamic Nuclei in Salience Processing.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- The Paraventricular Thalamus: A Potential Sensor and Integrator of Emotionally Salient Early-Life Experiences.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
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- The ventral pallidum and relapse in alcohol seeking.British journal of pharmacology · 2020Review
- Heightened Exploratory Behavior Following Chronic Excessive Ethanol Drinking: Mediation by Neurotensin Receptor Type 2 in the Anterior Paraventricular Thalamus.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- Progesterone treatment following traumatic brain injury in the 11-day-old rat attenuates cognitive deficits and neuronal hyperexcitability in adolescence.Experimental neurology · 2020Article
- Neurotensin in reward processes.Neuropharmacology · 2020Review
- Sex differences in cognitive performance and alcohol consumption in High Alcohol-Drinking (HAD-1) rats.Behavioural brain research · 2020Article
- Expression and Distribution of Neuropeptide-Expressing Cells Throughout the Rodent Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2020Review
- Hypothalamic CCL2/CCR2 Chemokine System: Role in Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Maternal Ethanol Exposure on Melanin-Concentrating Hormone and Behavior in Adolescent Offspring.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide-27 (PACAP-27) in the Thalamic Paraventricular Nucleus Is Stimulated by Ethanol Drinking.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Article
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Abstract
Individuals prone to ethanol overconsumption may have preexisting neurochemical disturbances that contribute to their vulnerability. This study examined the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a limbic structure recently shown to participate in ethanol intake. To identify individuals prone to ethanol overconsumption, we tested Long-Evans rats in behavioral paradigms and found high levels of vertical time (rearing behavior) in a novel activity chamber to be a consistent predictor of subsequent excessive 20 percent ethanol drinking under the intermittent access model. Examining neurochemicals in the PVT, we found before ethanol exposure that prone rats with high rearing, compared with non-prone rats, had significantly lower levels of neurotensin (NTS) mRNA and peptide in the posterior (pPVT) but not anterior (aPVT) subregion of the PVT. Our additional finding that ethanol intake has no significant impact on either rearing or NTS levels indicates that these measures, which are different in prone rats before ethanol consumption, remain stable after ethanol consumption. The possibility that NTS directly controls ethanol drinking is supported by our finding that NTS administration specifically suppresses ethanol drinking when injected into the pPVT but not aPVT, with this effect occurring exclusively in higher drinkers that presumably have lower endogenous levels of NTS. Further, an NTS antagonist in the pPVT augments intake in lower drinkers with presumably more endogenous NTS, while NTS in the pPVT inhibits novelty-induced rearing that predicts excessive drinking. Together, these results provide strong evidence that low endogenous levels of NTS in the pPVT contribute to an increased propensity toward excessive ethanol drinking.
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