ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2020
Effects of Drugs of Abuse on the Blood-Brain Barrier: A Brief Overview.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The neuroimmune-glutamate hypothesis of addiction.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
- Preliminary evidence of neuroimmune system disruption in opioid use disorder: Findings from a pilot PET TSPO imaging study.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
- Agmatine ameliorates morphine-induced behavioral sensitization through blood-brain barrier protection and anti-neuroinflammatory effects in the nucleus accumbens.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Transcriptional Response to Chronic Long-Access Fentanyl Self-Administration in Rat Habenula and Amygdala.Addiction biology · 2026Article
- The effects of alcohol dependence on the CSF proteome in mice: Evidence for blood-brain barrier dysfunction and neuroinflammation.Neurobiology of disease · 2026Article
- The missing link: TNF-α as a unifying mechanism in methamphetamine-induced neuronal dysfunction and blood-brain barrier compromise.Journal of neuroimmunology · 2025Review
- Transcriptional response to chronic long-access fentanyl self-administration in rat habenula and amygdala.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The effects of Alcohol Dependence on the CSF Proteome in Mice: Evidence for Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction and Neuroinflammation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Novel neurotherapeutic targets for substance use disorders: Neuroplasticity, neuroinflammation, gasotransmitters and non-canonical organ systems.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Review
- Repeated naloxone-induced morphine withdrawal alters blood brain barrier and blood spinal cord barrier integrity in mice.Molecular brain · 2025Article
- Postmortem biochemistry of GFAP, NSE and S100B in cerebrospinal fluid and in vitreous humor for estimation of postmortem interval: a pilot study.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Article
- GCN-BBB: Deep Learning Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) Permeability PharmacoAnalytics with Graph Convolutional Neural (GCN) Network.The AAPS journal · 2025Article
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- The interaction between central and peripheral immune systems in methamphetamine use disorder: current status and future directions.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2025Review
- Research progress on the correlation between biological rhythms and the blood-brain barrier after ischemic stroke.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Understanding the Blood-Brain Barrier: From Physiology to Pathology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Prevalence of central sensitization and somatization in adults with temporomandibular disorders-a prospective observational study.Journal of oral & facial pain and headache · 2024Observational
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Abstract
The use of psychostimulants and alcohol disrupts blood-brain barrier (BBB) integrity, resulting in alterations to cellular function, and contributes to neurotoxicity. The BBB is the critical boundary of the central nervous system (CNS) where it maintains intracellular homeostasis and facilitates communication with the peripheral circulation. The BBB is regulated by tight junction (TJ) proteins that closely interact with endothelial cells (EC). The complex TJ protein network consists of transmembrane proteins, including claudins, occludins, and junction adhesion molecules (JAM), as well as cytoskeleton connected scaffolding proteins, zonula occludentes (ZO-1, 2, and 3). The use of psychostimulants and alcohol is known to affect the CNS and is implicated in various neurological disorders through neurotoxicity that partly results from increased BBB permeability. The present mini review primarily focuses on BBB structure and permeability. Moreover, we assess TJ protein and cytoskeletal changes induced by cocaine, methamphetamine, morphine, heroin, nicotine, and alcohol. These changes promote glial activation, enzyme potentiation, and BBB remodeling, which affect neuroinflammatory pathways. Although the effect of drugs of abuse on BBB integrity and the underlying mechanisms are well studied, the present review enhances the understanding of the underlying mechanisms through which substance abuse disorders cause BBB dysfunction.
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