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Rapid nongenomic estrogen signaling controls alcohol drinking behavior in mice.
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- Dissecting the role of mineralocorticoid receptors in binge-like alcohol drinking in mice: Finerenone as a potential pharmacotherapy.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Electrophysiological sexual dimorphism as an early risk marker of alcohol use in adolescence: A longitudinal neuroimaging study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Sex-Specific Effects of Hypocretin Receptor Signaling in Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Neurons on Alcohol Drinking, Anxiety, and Extended Amygdala Neuronal Excitability.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Fundamental sex differences in cocaine-induced plasticity of D1R- and D2R-MSNs in the mouse nucleus accumbens core.Biology of sex differences · 2025Article
- Alcohol-induced bone loss driven by dysregulated spatial distribution of gut microbiota and PGD2-IL17 pathway-mediated osteoclast activation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Chronic alcohol consumption alters sex-dependent BNST neuron function in rhesus macaques.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- Chronic alcohol consumption alters sex-dependent BNST neuron function in rhesus macaques.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ovarian-derived estrogen can signal non-canonically at membrane-associated receptors in the brain to rapidly regulate neuronal function. Early alcohol drinking confers greater risk for alcohol use disorder in women than men, and binge alcohol drinking is correlated with high estrogen levels, but a causal role for estrogen in driving alcohol drinking has not been established. We found that female mice displayed greater binge alcohol drinking and reduced avoidance when estrogen was high during the estrous cycle than when it was low. The pro-drinking, but not anxiolytic, effect of high endogenous estrogen occurred via rapid signaling at membrane-associated estrogen receptor alpha in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, which promoted synaptic excitation of corticotropin-releasing factor neurons and facilitated their activity during alcohol drinking. Thus, this study demonstrates a rapid, nongenomic signaling mechanism for ovarian-derived estrogen in the brain controlling behavior in gonadally intact females.
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