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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2021

The Impact of Adolescent Alcohol Exposure on Nicotine Behavioral Sensitization in the Adult Male Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesion Rat.

Emily D K Sullivan, Liam N Locke, Diana J Wallin, Jibran Y Khokhar, Elise M Bragg, Angela M Henricks, Wilder T Doucette

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Emily D K SullivanDepartment of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Liam N LockeDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States.
Diana J WallinDepartment of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Jibran Y KhokharDepartment of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Elise M BraggDepartment of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Angela M HenricksDepartment of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Wilder T DoucetteDepartment of Psychiatry, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States.
Dartmouth College · USDartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center · US

Funding

Computationally guided modulation of cortical-striatal activity: Toward brain stimulation-based treatments for impulsive and risky decision makingK08MH117347 · NIMH · DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC · PI DOUCETTE, WILDER T · 2019 to 2022
$692k
Reward circuit dysfunction, substance use disorder and schizophrenia: a preclinical fMRI-based connectivity studyR21DA044501 · NIDA · DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC · PI GREEN, ALAN I · 2017 to 2018
$446k
Toward dysfunctional brain circuitry in schizophrenia and alcohol use disorder: A preclinical neuroimaging studyF31AA028413 · NIAAA · DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC · PI SULLIVAN, EMILY · 2020 to 2021
$85k
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nicotine and alcohol use is highly prevalent among patients with serious mental illness, including those with schizophrenia (SCZ), and this co-occurrence can lead to a worsening of medical and psychiatric morbidity. While the mechanistic drivers of co-occurring SCZ, nicotine use and alcohol use are unknown, emerging evidence suggests that the use of drugs during adolescence may increase the probability of developing psychiatric disorders. The current study used the neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion (NVHL) rat model of SCZ, which has previously been shown to have enhanced nicotine behavioral sensitization and, following adolescent alcohol, increased alcohol consumption. Given how commonly alcohol is used by adolescents that develop SCZ, we used the NVHL rat to determine how exposure to adolescent alcohol impacts the development of nicotine behavioral sensitization in adulthood. Male Sprague-Dawley rats underwent the NVHL surgery or a sham (control) surgery and subsequently, half of each group was allowed to drink alcohol during adolescence. Nicotine behavioral sensitization was assessed in adulthood with rats receiving subcutaneous injections of nicotine (0.5 mg/kg) each day for 3 weeks followed by a nicotine challenge session 2 weeks later. We demonstrate that all groups of rats became sensitized to nicotine and there were no NVHL-specific increases in nicotine behavioral sensitization. We also found that NVHL rats appeared to develop sensitization to the nicotine paired context and that adolescent alcohol exposure blocked this context sensitization. The current findings suggest that exposure to alcohol during adolescence can influence behaviors that manifest in the adult NVHL rat (i.e., context sensitization). Interestingly, nicotine behavioral sensitization levels were not altered in the NVHL groups regardless of adolescent alcohol exposure in contrast to prior reports.

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adolescent alcoholco-occurring disordersmental illnessnicotine behavioral sensitizationNVHLsmoking

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PMID34858148
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