ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2020
Early Life Stress- and Drug-Induced Histone Modifications Within the Ventral Tegmental Area.
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- Genomic factors associated with substance use disorder relapse: A critical review.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Review
- Interrelated involvement of the endocannabinoid/endovanilloid (TRPV1) systems and epigenetic processes in anxiety- and working memory impairment-related behavioural effects of nicotine as a stressor.Addiction biology · 2024Article
- Early life adversity: Epigenetic regulation underlying drug addiction susceptibility.Molecular and cellular neurosciences · 2023Review
- Effects of prenatal opioid exposure on synaptic adaptations and behaviors across development.Neuropharmacology · 2023Review
- Early social isolation stress increases addiction vulnerability to heroin and alters c-Fos expression in the mesocorticolimbic system.Psychopharmacology · 2022Article
- A cross-species assay demonstrates that reward responsiveness is enduringly impacted by adverse, unpredictable early-life experiences.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Lateral Habenula Beyond Avoidance: Roles in Stress, Memory, and Decision-Making With Implications for Psychiatric Disorders.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Epigenetic Mechanism of Early Life Stress-Induced Depression: Focus on the Neurotransmitter Systems.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Potentiation of glutamatergic synaptic transmission onto lateral habenula neurons following early life stress and intravenous morphine self-administration in rats.Addiction biology · 2022Article
- Enhanced H3K4 Trimethylation in TNF-Mediators of inflammation · 2021Article
- Impact of Early Life Stress on Reward Circuit Function and Regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- The Histone Modifications of Neuronal Plasticity.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
- Targeting Endocannabinoid Signaling in the Lateral Habenula as an Intervention to Prevent Mental Illnesses Following Early Life Stress: A Perspective.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Psychiatric illnesses are a major public health concern due to their prevalence and heterogeneity of symptom presentation resulting from a lack of efficacious treatments. Although dysregulated dopamine (DA) signaling has been observed in a myriad of psychiatric conditions, different pathophysiological mechanisms have been implicated which impede the development of adequate treatments that work across all patient populations. The ventral tegmental area (VTA), a major source of DA neurons in the brain reward pathway, has been shown to have altered activity that contributes to reward dysregulation in mental illnesses and drug addiction. It has now become better appreciated that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to VTA DA dysfunction, such as through histone modifications, which dynamically regulate transcription rates of critical genes important in synaptic plasticity underlying learning and memory. Here, we provide a focused review on differential histone modifications within the VTA observed in both humans and animal models, as well as their relevance to disease-based phenotypes, specifically focusing on epigenetic dysregulation of histones in the VTA associated with early life stress (ELS) and drugs of abuse. Locus- and cell-type-specific targeting of individual histone modifications at specific genes within the VTA presents novel therapeutic targets which can result in greater efficacy and better long-term health outcomes in susceptible individuals that are at increased risk for substance use and psychiatric disorders.
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