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Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine
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Nicotine is the principal addictive component that drives continued tobacco use despite users' knowledge of the harmful consequences. The initiation of addiction involves the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, which contributes to the processing of rewarding sensory stimuli during the overall shaping of successful behaviors. Acting mainly through nicotinic receptors containing the α4 and β2 subunits, often in combination with the α6 subunit, nicotine increases the firing rate and the phasic bursts by midbrain dopamine neurons. Neuroadaptations arise during chronic exposure to nicotine, producing an altered brain condition that requires the continued presence of nicotine to be maintained. When nicotine is removed, a withdrawal syndrome develops. The expression of somatic withdrawal symptoms depends mainly on the α5, α2, and β4 (and likely α3) nicotinic subunits involving the epithalamic habenular complex and its targets. Thus, nicotine taps into diverse neural systems and an array of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subtypes to influence reward, addiction, and withdrawal.
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Nicotine drives reward and addiction mainly by acting on β2-containing nAChRs in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, increasing midbrain dopamine neuron firing and phasic bursts. Withdrawal depends on distinct nAChR subunits—especially α5, α2, and β4—in the habenulo-interpeduncular axis, so reward, addiction, and withdrawal are mediated by partially separate neural circuits.
Key findings
- Nicotine increases dopamine neuron firing and phasic burst activity, with tonic firing roughly 4 Hz and phasic bursts roughly 20–80 Hz; β2* nAChRs, often with α4 and/or α6, are essential for nicotine reinforcement and dopamine release.
- In mice lacking β2, nicotine does not induce phasic bursts, dopamine release, or self-administration; re-expression of β2 in the VTA, but not SNc, reinstates self-administration, and either α4 or α6 re-expression also reinstates it.
- Somatic withdrawal signs depend on α5, α2, and β4 nAChR subunits in the medial habenula/interpeduncular nucleus (MHb/IPN); mecamylamine injected into Hb/IPN precipitates withdrawal, whereas injection into VTA, hippocampus, or cortex does not.
- Withdrawal is associated with decreased extracellular dopamine in the NAc and increased dopamine output in the PFC; symptoms appear within a few hours and include irritability, anxiety, anger, difficulty concentrating, sleep disturbance, increased appetite, and weight gain.
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- Narrative review synthesizing published literature on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, mesocorticolimbic dopamine circuitry, nicotine reward, neuroadaptations, and withdrawal.
- Draws on animal models (especially mouse knockout and re-expression studies, rat electrophysiology, microdialysis, fast-scan cyclic voltammetry) and human genetic/imaging findings.
- Main analysis is qualitative integration of cited studies rather than a systematic review, meta-analysis, or new primary data.
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- Evident from the text: some conclusions are explicitly speculative, such as the proposed interpretation of SNP rs16969968 in CHRNA5 and its possible link to smoking behavior and addiction risk.
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“The epithalamic habenular complex and its targets appear to be critical for the withdrawal syndrome.”
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“Self-stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle facilitates DA release (Garris et al. 1999, Gratton et al. 1988, Phillips et al. 1989), and DA receptor antagonists or DA neuron lesions inhibit brain self-stimulation (Fouriezos & Wise 1976, Lippa et al. 1973, Stellar & Corbett 1989).”
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“The effectiveness or value of rewards can be estimated by measuring the effort a subject expends on behaviors that achieve the rewarded goal (Hodos 1961, Schultz 2006).”
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“The withdrawal syndrome is not mediated exactly by the same mechanisms or by the same neural circuits that initiate addiction or dependency.”
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“The DA efferents originating from the midbrain VTA and particularly targeting the PFC and NAc became recognized as paramount neural structures shaping reward-related behavior (Schultz et al. 1997; Wise 2004, 2009; Wise & Rompre 1989).”
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“as exemplified by lesions in the PPT reducing nicotine self-administration (Lanca et al. 2000).”
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“In addition, the PPT/LDT cholinergic afferents have important endogenous influences over DA neurons by acting via nAChRs (Maskos 2008, 2010).”
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“nicotine is the main addictive component (Benowitz 2009, Dani et al. 2009, Dani & Heinemann 1996, Mansvelder & McGehee 2002).”
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“Therefore, reward mechanisms are observed across species, from insects to primates (Hodos 1961, Lau et al. 2006, McClure et al. 2007, Qin & Wheeler 2007, Wise 2006).”
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“Likewise, this DA system plays a critical role in the acquisition of behaviors that are inappropriately reinforced by psychostimulant drugs, including nicotine (Balfour 2004, Corrigall 1999, Dani et al. 2009, Dani & Heinemann 1996, Di Chiara 2000, Mansvelder & McGehee 2002).”
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“After chronic use of nicotine, removal of nicotine produces a withdrawal syndrome that can be relieved by nicotine replacement therapy (Dani et al. 2009, Dani & Heinemann 1996, De Biasi & Salas 2008, Di Chiara 2000, Mansvelder & McGehee 2002, Stolerman & Shoaib 1991).”
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“Self-stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle facilitates DA release (Garris et al. 1999, Gratton et al. 1988, Phillips et al. 1989), and DA receptor antagonists or DA neuron lesions inhibit brain self-stimulation (Fouriezos & Wise 1976, Lippa et al. 1973, Stellar & Corbett 1989).”
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“Acting mainly via midbrain nAChRs composed of the β2 subunit in combination with the α4 and/or α6 subunits, nicotine increases the firing rate and phasic burst activity of midbrain DA neurons and elevates DA in the PFC, NAc, and other targets (Imperato et al. 1986, Grenhoff et al. 1986, Mameli-Engvall et al. 2006, Pons et al. 2008, Zhang et al. 2009b).”
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- Not checked yetcites Imperato et al. 1986
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“Rewarding stimuli promote learning of goal-directed behaviors, generate positive emotions, and subsequently stimulate repetition of those learned behaviors (Schultz 2010, Thorndike 1911).”
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“In particular, the mesocorticolimbic dopamine (DA) system plays an important role in self-stimulation and in processing environmental reward.”
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- Not checked yetcites Olds 1958
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“Early investigations showed that the midbrain dopamine (DA) systems have an important role in the response to salient stimuli and to brain self-stimulation (Phillips & Olds 1969; Fibiger 1978, Wise 1978).”
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“The medial habenula (MHb) and one of its primary targets, the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN), richly express β4 and α5 nAChR subunits (and α2 only in the rodent IPN), which are necessary for the neuroadaptations that lead to somatic withdrawal symptoms during nicotine abstinence (Salas et al. 2004b, 2009).”
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“The PPT/LDT cholinergic afferents boost glutamate afferent transmission via presynaptic nAChRs (Pidoplichko et al. 2004, Schilstrom et al. 2000) and provide some excitatory drive to GABA projection neurons and interneurons, mainly via β2-containing (β2*) nAChRs (Mansvelder et al. 2002, Pidoplichko et al. 2004, Pons et al. 2008).”
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“Although only ~2% of the striatal neurons are cholinergic, they have extremely dense axonal arbors that provide denser cholinergic innervation than is seen anywhere else in the brain (Butcher & Woolf 1984, Zhou et al. 2001, 2002).”
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“Addictive drugs (including nicotine) increase the basal DA concentration in the NAc shell as measured by microdialysis, but that background increase is smaller or not detected in the dorsolateral striatum (Di Chiara 1999, Pidoplichko et al. 2004, Pontieri et al. 1996, Zhang et al. 2009b).”
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“Nicotine, at the concentration obtained from tobacco, induces phasic bursts from VTA/SNc DA neurons (Figure 1b) that innervate much of the dorsal to ventral extent of the striatum (Grenhoff et al. 1986, Pidoplichko et al. 1997, Schilstrom et al. 2003, Zhang et al. 2009b), suggesting that the DA signal should be comparable throughout the striatum.”
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“For example, phasic burst firing is induced by unpredicted reward or unanticipated cues that have been conditioned to a known reward (Schultz 2007b, Schultz et al. 1997).”
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“Tonic firing is at a relatively low frequency (roughly 4 Hz) that generally consists of individual action potentials. Phasic firing is usually at a higher average frequency, and it includes high-frequency burst discharges (roughly 20–80 Hz) (Grace et al. 2007; Grace & Bunney 1983, 1984; Hyland et al. 2002; Robinson et al. 2004).”
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“Nicotine self-administration is reinstated by re-expression of the β2 subunit in the VTA but not in the neighboring SNc (Avale et al. 2008), confirming the specific role of the VTA in reward.”
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“Thus, β2* nAChRs in combinations with both α4 and α6 subunits are important for the reinforcing properties of nicotine, and the α4 and α6 subunits cannot completely substitute for each other even though they are abundantly expressed in VTA neurons (Champtiaux et al. 2003, Salminen et al. 2007).”
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“Interestingly, local re-expression of α7 in the VTA did not reinstate self-administration in α7 −/− mice (Pons et al. 2008), consistent with the pharmacological evidence indicating that the α7 subunit does not influence chronic nicotine self-administration in trained rats (Grottick & Higgins 2000) nor nicotine-induced conditioned place preference (Stolerman et al. 2004, Walters et al. 2006).”
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“Nicotinic receptors are expressed on DA neuron fibers and terminals, and the activity of those nAChRs, particularly containing the β2, α4, and α6 subunits (Pons et al. 2008), is highly regulated by ongoing striatal cholinergic interneuron discharges and dense acetylcholine esterase activity (Zhou et al. 2001, 2003).”
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“Those DA projection target areas are involved in reinforcement (ventral striatum), learning and declarative memory (hippocampus), emotional memory (amygdala), and habit formation (dorsal striatum), as well as executive functions and working memory (PFC and orbitofrontal cortex) (Schultz W. 2007b, Laviolette 2007, Seamans & Yang 2004).”
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“Disrupting those bursts impairs conditioned behavioral responses, diminishes the ability to learn cues about reward and salience, and disrupts the overall processing of reward (Schultz 2007b).”
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“Nicotine self-administration is also reinstated by the re-expression of either the α4 or the α6 nAChR subunit, consistent with the expression of α4β2 and α4α6β2 nAChRs in the VTA (Pons et al. 2008).”
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“Phasic burst firing by DA neurons and the consequent downstream phasic DA signals are vital for processing reward-related information and, thus, are important for the initial phase of addiction.”
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“Nicotine directly activates DA neurons via those and other nAChR subtypes (Pidoplichko et al. 1997), and nicotine modifies the firing modes and firing frequency of DA neurons through excitatory and inhibitory inputs and synaptic plasticity (Mameli-Engvall et al. 2006; Schilstrom et al. 2000, 2003; Zhang et al. 2009b).”
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“In mice lacking the β2 nAChR subunit (β2 −/−), nicotine does not induce phasic bursts by DA neurons (Mameli-Engvall et al. 2006), nicotine does not induce DA release, and nicotine does not support self-administration (Picciotto et al. 1998).”
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“Measured in vivo from the VTA, nicotine administration to a rat causes (some) DA neurons to fire at a higher rate and to fire more and longer bursts (Figure 1).”
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“The details of the DA signaling change in both anatomical areas, but as judged by the area under the curves (Figure 3a,b), the data suggest that the background DA concentration would increase in the NAc shell and not the dorsal striatum (Zhang et al. 2009b).”
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- Not checked yetcites Zhang et al. 2009b
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“However, when nicotine is added to striatal brain slices, a significant proportion of presynaptic and axonal nAChRs is desensitized. As a consequence, low-frequency, tonic DA release is inhibited (Rice & Cragg 2004, Zhang & Sulzer 2004, Zhou et al. 2001), but phasic DA release is regulated differently, such that phasic bursts induce large DA signals (Cragg 2003; Rice & Cragg 2004; Zhang et al. 200”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DOWNSTREAM FROM DOPAMINE NEURON PHASIC BURSTS
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- Not checked yetcites Rice & Cragg 2004
- Not checked yetcites Zhang & Sulzer 2004
- Not checked yetcites Zhou et al. 2001
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“In the NAc shell, phasic burst discharges produce a greater increase in DA release than in the dorsal striatum, where the DA release from a single-pulse stimulus is comparable to the release from a phasic-burst stimulus.”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DOWNSTREAM FROM DOPAMINE NEURON PHASIC BURSTS
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- Not checked yetcites Zhang et al. 2009a
- Not checked yetcites Zhang et al. 2009b
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“Reward omission induces phasic inhibition of VTA neurons (Schultz 2007a,b), and aversive stimuli excite ventral (Brischoux et al. 2009) and inhibit dorsal (Ungless et al. 2004) VTA neurons.”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > AVERSIVE SENSORY SIGNALING IN THE MESOCORTICOLIMBIC SYSTEM
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- Not checked yetcites Brischoux et al. 2009
- Not checked yetcites Ungless et al. 2004
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“DA axon terminals in the dorsolateral striatum and NAc shell respond differently to incoming action potentials, consistent with phasic bursts inducing a greater increase of DA release in the NAc shell (Cragg 2003; Rice & Cragg 2004; Zhang et al. 2009a,b; Zhang & Sulzer 2004), which has a more important role in mediating the rewarding properties of nicotine that drive the early phases of addiction.”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DOWNSTREAM FROM DOPAMINE NEURON PHASIC BURSTS
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- Not checked yetcites Cragg 2003
- Not checked yetcites Rice & Cragg 2004
- Not checked yetcites Zhang et al. 2009a
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“As in the LHb, RMTg neurons are phasically activated by aversive stimuli and inhibited by natural rewards such as food or reward-predictive stimuli, and conversely, RMTg neurons are stimulated by aversive stimuli (Jhou et al. 2009b).”
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- Not checked yetcites Jhou et al. 2009b
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“Owing to afferents mediating sensory input, NAc neurons decrease their firing to appetitive stimuli and increase their firing to aversive stimuli (Roitman et al. 2005).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > AVERSIVE SENSORY SIGNALING IN THE MESOCORTICOLIMBIC SYSTEM
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- Not checked yetcites Roitman et al. 2005
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“Nicotine exposure also increases high-affinity DA D2 receptors in the NAc (Novak et al. 2010), an effect, also produced by cocaine, that causes DA hypersensitivity (Briand et al. 2008, Grigoriadis & Seeman 1986).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > NICOTINE-INDUCED NEUROADAPTATIONS
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- Not checked yetcites Novak et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Briand et al. 2008
- Not checked yetcites Grigoriadis & Seeman 1986
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“In the NAc of rats, intraoral sucrose (i.e., rewarding) infusion increased DA levels, whereas quinine (i.e., aversive) infusion decreased DA levels (Roitman et al. 2008).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > AVERSIVE SENSORY SIGNALING IN THE MESOCORTICOLIMBIC SYSTEM
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- Not checked yetcites Roitman et al. 2008
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“Nicotinic receptor upregulation differs among the diverse subtypes, varies among brain regions for the same nAChR subtype, and depends on the contingency of nicotine administration (Gaimarri et al. 2007, Marks et al. 1983, McCallum et al. 2006, Metaxas et al. 2010, Nguyen et al. 2004, Pauly et al. 1996, Schwartz & Kellar 1983).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > NICOTINE-INDUCED NEUROADAPTATIONS
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- Not checked yetcites Gaimarri et al. 2007
- Not checked yetcites Marks et al. 1983 source
- Not checked yetcites McCallum et al. 2006
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“Because nicotine is not hydrolyzed by acetylcholine esterase, as ACh is, nicotine’s long-lasting presence favors excessive nAChR desensitization. The homeostatic response to desensitized (turned-off) receptors is upregulation (Dani & Heinemann 1996, Fenster et al. 1999, Picciotto et al. 2008).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > NICOTINE-INDUCED NEUROADAPTATIONS
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- Not checked yetcites Dani & Heinemann 1996
- Not checked yetcites Fenster et al. 1999
- Not checked yetcites Picciotto et al. 2008
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“The RMTg sends GABAergic projections to the VTA and SNc and inhibits DA cells (Ikemoto 2010, Jhou et al. 2009a).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > AVERSIVE SENSORY SIGNALING IN THE MESOCORTICOLIMBIC SYSTEM
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- Not checked yetcites Ikemoto 2010
- Not checked yetcites Jhou et al. 2009a
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“The IPN, in turn, sends projections to the serotonergic raphé nuclei and to the dopaminergic VTA (Groenewegen et al. 1986, Klemm 2004, Montone et al. 1988).”
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- Not checked yetcites Groenewegen et al. 1986
- Not checked yetcites Klemm 2004
- Not checked yetcites Montone et al. 1988
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“The emergence of negative affective symptoms such as dysphoria, anxiety, and irritability (Koob & Le Moal 2001) and, to a lesser extent, the somatic manifestations of withdrawal, signal dependency and underlie drug-seeking behavior (Koob & Le Moal 2005, Koob & Volkow 2009).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Koob & Le Moal 2005
- Not checked yetcites Koob & Volkow 2009
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“Other quantifiable manifestations include reduced heart rates, altered neurohormonal profiles, disrupted electroencephalographic theta power, and perturbations of learned behaviors (Buchhalter et al. 2008, Koob & Le Moal 2005).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Buchhalter et al. 2008
- Not checked yetcites Koob & Le Moal 2005
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“Powerful cravings also accompany withdrawal, and they may be precipitated by drug-reinforced memories, such as the sight of a cigarette and the place associated with smoking (Dalley & Everitt 2009, Dani & Montague 2007, Shiffman et al. 2002, Smolka et al. 2005, Volkow et al. 2002).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Dalley & Everitt 2009
- Not checked yetcites Dani & Montague 2007
- Not checked yetcites Shiffman et al. 2002
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“Nicotine cessation increases the levels of prodynorphin mRNA in NAc dynorphinergic neurons, possibly as a compensatory mechanism to increased dynorphinergic tone (Isola et al. 2008).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Isola et al. 2008
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“In particular, dynorphins decrease and enkephalins increase the release of DA (Devine et al. 1993; Di Chiara & Imperato 1988; Longoni et al. 1991; Pentney & Gratton 1991; Spanagel et al. 1990a,b, 1992).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > NICOTINE-INDUCED NEUROADAPTATIONS
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- Not checked yetcites Devine et al. 1993 source
- Not checked yetcites Di Chiara & Imperato 1988
- Not checked yetcites Longoni et al. 1991
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“The overall neuroadaptations contribute to the mechanisms that maintain nicotine consumption, including mechanisms underlying associative learning (Tang & Dani, 2009), and they also participate in the nicotine-withdrawal syndrome (De Biasi & Salas 2008, Hadjiconstantinou & Neff 2010).”
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- Not checked yetcites Tang & Dani, 2009
- Not checked yetcites De Biasi & Salas 2008
- Not checked yetcites Hadjiconstantinou & Neff 2010
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“The endogenous opioid system influences positive and negative motivational and affective states (Steiner & Gerfen 1998) and participates in the behavioral effects of several addictive drugs, including nicotine (Berrendero et al. 2005, Hadjiconstantinou & Neff 2010, Trigo et al. 2009).”
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- Not checked yetcites Steiner & Gerfen 1998
- Not checked yetcites Berrendero et al. 2005
- Not checked yetcites Hadjiconstantinou & Neff 2010
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“This phenomenon is similar to the anxiety reported by humans experiencing nicotine abstinence and suggests that the sensitivity to anxiety influences the degree of withdrawal signs.”
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“During withdrawal, the NAc displays a DA deficit, whereas the PFC has an increase in DA output (Carboni et al. 2000).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Carboni et al. 2000
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“Withdrawal reflects the abrupt disruption of the equilibrium maintained in the presence of nicotine, and withdrawal triggers new neuroadaptations that counteract the negative state.”
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“Mecamylamine, which has a slightly higher affinity for α3β4* nAChRs than for β2* receptors, is the best antagonist at precipitating nicotine withdrawal (Damaj et al. 2003).”
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- Not checked yetcites Damaj et al. 2003
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“Nicotine abstinence is accompanied by increased DA uptake into synaptosomes and elevated DA transporters (DATs) in the SNc/VTA (Hadjiconstantinou & Neff 2010, Rahman et al. 2004).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Hadjiconstantinou & Neff 2010
- Not checked yetcites Rahman et al. 2004
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“Anhedonia, conditioned place aversion, anxiety-related behavior, and conditioned fear are four major affective manifestations of nicotine withdrawal.”
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“Because enhanced DA transmission in the PFC occurs during stressful and aversive stimuli and is implicated in anxiety”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Bradberry et al. 1991
- Not checked yetcites Broersen et al. 2000
- Not checked yetcites Inglis & Moghaddam 1999
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“Buproprion may aid smoking cessation, in part, by normalizing NAc DA levels, and those DA levels may in turn attenuate anhedonia and somatic withdrawal signs (Cryan et al. 2003, Paterson & Markou 2007).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Cryan et al. 2003
- Not checked yetcites Paterson & Markou 2007
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- Rests on an assumption: Bupropion inhibits nAChRs and is mainly a norepinephrine/dopamine reuptake blocker.
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“as nicotine withdrawal produces deficits in contextual fear conditioning and affects the acquisition of learned responses (Portugal et al. 2008).”
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- Not checked yetcites Portugal et al. 2008
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“Both spontaneous (Epping-Jordan et al. 1998, Harrison et al. 2001) and mecamylamine-precipitated (Watkins et al. 2000) nicotine withdrawal induce increases in self-stimulation thresholds.”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > BEHAVIORAL MANIFESTATIONS OF NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Epping-Jordan et al. 1998
- Not checked yetcites Harrison et al. 2001
- Not checked yetcites Watkins et al. 2000 source
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“Absence of β4 abolishes the somatic signs of withdrawal precipitated by systemic injection of mecamylamine (Salas et al. 2004b) and prevents withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia (Salas et al. 2004b).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Salas et al. 2004b
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“Third, a derivative of the alkaloid ibogaine, 18-methoxycoronaridine (18-MC) (Vastag 2005), is a potent antagonist of β4* nAChRs (Glick et al. 2002) with significant antiaddictive properties (Maisonneuve & Glick 2003).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Glick et al. 2002
- Not checked yetcites Maisonneuve & Glick 2003
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“The primary circuits underlying this exquisitely regulated dosing are mainly the mesocorticolimbic DA system and the epithalamic habenular circuits: One supports the rising arm, the other the falling arm of the inverted U dose-response curve.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Smokers regulate puffing and inhalation depth to achieve the most desirable nicotine dose at the top of the inverted U dose-response curve.
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“In animal models, 18-MC reduced self-administration of nicotine, morphine, cocaine, and methamphetamine; reduced oral intake of alcohol and nicotine; and decreased signs of opioid withdrawal (Maisonneuve & Glick 2003).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Maisonneuve & Glick 2003
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“Attenuation of nicotine-induced seizure is also present in mice heterozygous for the α3 subunit, which is found in the same gene cluster that contains α5 and β4 (Boulter et al. 1990, Salas et al. 2004a).”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Boulter et al. 1990 source
- Not checked yetcites Salas et al. 2004a
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“Recent findings on the influence of gene variants in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 gene cluster on nicotine addiction (Bierut et al. 2008, Thorgeirsson et al. 2008) show that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) within CHRNA5, rs16969968, seems to correlate with nicotine dependency risk, heavy smoking, and the pleasurable sensation produced by a cigarette (Berrettini et al. 2008, Bierut et al. 2008,”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
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- Not checked yetcites Berrettini et al. 2008
- Not checked yetcites Bierut et al. 2008
- Not checked yetcites Saccone et al. 2007
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No mRNA encoding nAChR subunits can be detected in the lateral habenula by in situ hybridization.
“and no mRNA encoding for nAChR subunits can be detected in the LHb by in situ hybridization techniques.”
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Smokers regulate puffing and inhalation depth to achieve the most desirable nicotine dose at the top of the inverted U dose-response curve.
“Smokers finely control nicotine intake by regulating how they puff on a cigarette and how deeply they inhale. In that way, they achieve the most desirable nicotine dose, at the top of the inverted U dose-response curve.”
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Bupropion inhibits nAChRs and is mainly a norepinephrine/dopamine reuptake blocker.
“Although buproprion inhibits nAChRs, it is mainly a norepinephrine/DA re-uptake blocker.”
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“Therefore, during the withdrawal period, phasic DA neuron activity of the kind induced by nicotine (9, 30) re-exposure induces DA signals that may make smokers in the withdrawal period more vulnerable to the reinforcing influence of nicotine (2).”
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“The role of the DAergic system (in particular the mesocorticolimbic pathway) in drug addiction derives from DA’s ability to modulate many of the limbic and cortical sites involved in goal-directed behavior (Fig. 1) [18, 28–31].”
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“Studies conducted in recent years have identified the LHb as a source of anti-reward signals that plays an important role in determining the reward-related activity of DA neurons [18, 30, 68–70].”
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“Nicotine follows an inverted U-shaped dose-response curve [18, 60], and smokers titrate their nicotine intake to experience the rewarding while avoiding the aversive effects produced by high nicotine doses [61–64].”
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“as well as the habenulo-interpeduncular pathway, which has been implicated in the addictive effects of smoking (Dani and Bertrand, 2007;De Biasi and Dani, 2011).”
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“Another critical site of action would be the mesolimbic dopamine system, which is a major contributor to reward function and addiction”
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§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
“Because the nAChR subunits comprised in the CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 reduce the aversive effects of nicotine and drive its consumption”
§ Reward, Addiction, Withdrawal to Nicotine > DISTINCT NICOTINIC RECEPTOR SUBTYPES MEDIATE WITHDRAWAL
“people with SNP rs16969968 smoke more and become addicted at a younger age because they lack sufficient functional α5* nAChRs. The presence of fewer aversive effects (even at higher nicotine doses) during the initial contact with the drug would promote the hedonic drive”
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“When smokers no longer inhale nicotine, the previous equilibrium is disrupted and withdrawal manifestations appear (100, 101).”
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“Nicotine is known to enhance contextual learning, as evidenced by the role cued and context-evoked cravings play in nicotine addiction and relapse behavior (Kenney and Gould, 2008, Placzek et al., 2009; De Biasi and Dani, 2011).”
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“Nicotine is arguably the primary addictive component in tobacco and its initial actions are via nAChRs (Benowitz, 2009; De Biasi and Dani, 2011).”
BackgroundSelf-citationNicotine-Modulated Subunit Stoichiometry Affects Stability and Trafficking of 3 4 Nicotinic Receptor
Mazzo, F., Pistillo, F., Grazioso, G., Clementi, F., Borgese, N., Gotti, C., & Colombo, S. F. (2013) · Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2393-13.2013 · Cited by 57
“…(Matta et al., 2007), it is generally thought that nicotine-induced upregulation of this receptor subtype does not play a role in the neuroadaptations underlying somatic withdrawal symptoms during nicotine abstinence (Davila-Garcia et al., 2003; Nguyen et al., 2003; De Biasi and Dani, 2011).”
BackgroundTargeting the dopamine D3 receptor: an overview of drug design strategies
Cortés, A., Moreno, E., Rodríguez-Ruiz, M., Canela, E. I., & Casadó, V. (2016) · Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery · doi:10.1080/17460441.2016.1185413 · Cited by 57
“of dopamine in the ventral striatum and NAc.[154] A selective increase in D3R binding and D3R mRNA has been found in the shell of the NAc of nicotine-treated rats, without any signifi-”
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“For example, evaluating the effect that SNP variation has upon expression and activity of nicotinic receptors can be explored by taking advantage of animal and cellular models of CHRNA3 and CHRNA5 knock-out animals [33,34].”
BackgroundRole of trace amine-associated receptor 1 in nicotine’s behavioral and neurochemical effects
Liu, J., Seaman, R. W., Siemian, J. N., Bhimani, R. V., Johnson, B., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Q., Hoener, M. C., Park, J., Dietz, D., et al. (2018) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/s41386-018-0017-9 · Cited by 50
“The primary addictive agent in tobacco is nicotine, which induces psychostimulation and rewarding effects [2].”
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Dani, J. A., Jenson, D., & Broussard, J. I. (2012) · Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy · doi:10.4172/2155-6105.s1-001 · Cited by 56
“The accumulation of evidence implicates these mesocorticolimbic circuits in addiction [7,9,32-34].”
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Donvito, G., Piscitelli, F., Muldoon, P. P., Jackson, A. B., Vitale, R. M., D’Aniello, E., Giordano, C., Ignatowska-Jankowska, B. M., Mustafa, M. A., Guida, F., et al. (2018) · Neuropharmacology · doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.03.020 · Cited by 49
“…both central and peripheral nicotinic receptors mediate somatic nicotine withdrawal signs, while central nicotinic receptor populations, such as the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and habenulo-interpeduncular system regulate anhedonia, anxiety, and aversion (De Biasi and Dani, 2011; Watkins et al., 2000).”
Classifying smoking urges via machine learning
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Age‐related differences in working memory deficits during nicotine withdrawal
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“In addition, nicotine withdrawal alters dopaminergic tone (De Biasi & Dani 2011); thus, ageassociated declines in dopamine D1 and D2 receptors and the dopamine transporter (Bäckman et al. 2006) may attenuate withdrawal effects on dopamine transmission.”
BackgroundReward Sensitization: Effects of Repeated Nicotine Exposure and Withdrawal in Mice
Hilário, M. R. F., Turner, J. R., & Blendy, J. A. (2012) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/npp.2012.130 · Cited by 48
“Nicotine’s action on these receptors, and a6 receptors, causes a shift in the firing patterns of dopaminergic neurons from tonic, low frequency single-spike firing, to phasic, longer high frequency firing (De Biasi and Dani, 2011).”
BackgroundUnderstanding the neurobiological effects of drug abuse: Lessons from zebrafish models
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Long-Term Nicotine Exposure Depresses Dopamine Release in Nonhuman Primate Nucleus Accumbens
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The Role of Nicotine in Schizophrenia
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Dorsal-CA1 Hippocampal Neuronal Ensembles Encode Nicotine-Reward Contextual Associations
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“…approach is notoriously difficult, let alone with in vivo extracellular recordings, and thus information about how contextual cue and neuronal ensemble codes within the hippocampus are generated by nicotine pairings have been previously limited (De Biasi and Dani, 2011; Penton et al., 2011).”
BackgroundCritical needs in drug discovery for cessation of alcohol and nicotine polysubstance abuse
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Acute in vivo nicotine administration enhances synchrony among dopamine neurons
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“The reinforcing effects of drugs of abuse, such as nicotine, arise in part from their ability to activate and potentiate VTA DA neurotransmission [2,35,36].”
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History repeats itself: Role of characterizing flavors on nicotine use and abuse
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Self-citationInhibition of monoacylglycerol lipase reduces nicotine withdrawal
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“Rodents also manifest these signs after cessation of chronic nicotine administration and exhibit symptoms consistent with those reported in humans (Damaj et al., 2003; De Biasi and Dani, 2011).”
ResultAssociation between the oral microbiome and brain resting state connectivity in smokers
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“A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript A uthor M anuscript dependence (Benowitz, 2010; De Biasi and Dani, 2011) and the interactions between DMN and other task-related networks (Hu et al., 2013).”
BackgroundReward Anticipation Is Differentially Modulated by Varenicline and Nicotine in Smokers
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Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Modulators Reduce Sugar Intake
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Life style and Parkinson’s disease
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“…protective effect of cigarette smoking for this neurodegenerative 1 3 disease, or whether there is a predisposition to a somehow altered nicotinergic–dopaminergic reward system in people who will develop PD, which might reduce the likelihood of them taking up smoking (De Biasi and Dani 2011).”
BackgroundEmerging Roles of FTO in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
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Smoking increases risk of pain chronification through shared corticostriatal circuitry
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“Smoking promotes addiction by activating nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in reward-related dopamine systems [De Biasi and Dani, 2011; Jasinska et al., 2014; Koob and Volkow, 2010; Tolu et al., 2013; Zhou et al., 2001].”
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“Importantly, similar brain regions and neurotransmitter systems are modulated by both chronic and acute nicotine administration (De Biasi and Dani 2011).”
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“Activation of these receptors increases elevates dopamine concentrations in target structures (55), contributing to the development of drug dependence (56, 57).”
BackgroundConnections of the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus with the habenular‐interpeduncular‐raphe system
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InfluentialBelief about Nicotine Modulates Subjective Craving and Insula Activity in Deprived Smokers
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“Nicotine has broad interactions throughout the nervous system (29, 32), and acute nicotine activates the stress response and elicits glucocorticoid release (10, 31).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- De Biasi, M., & Dani, J. A.
- Affiliations
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- ORCID
- Dani, John A.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2011-07-21
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 105-130
- ISSN
- 0147-006X (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4126
- PMC
- PMC3137256
- OpenAlex
- W2165425515
- Semantic Scholar
- c6462f78d05c8073c59243cb5544623aa43f3c33
- Cited by
- 366
- References
- 305
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 36 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 42 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 3.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annual Review of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Cancer Research Institute
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA029157, DA09411, DA017173, R01DA017173, R01DA009411, DA029157)
- National Cancer Institute (U19CA148127)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS 21229, R37NS021229, R01NS021229)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- nicotine, nicotine dependence, nicotine withdrawal, reward, mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, nicotinic receptor subunits, dopaminergic neurons, neural adaptation, habenula, tobacco use
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cerebral Cortex, Dopamine, Humans, Limbic System, Neuronal Plasticity, Neurons, Nicotine, Receptors, Nicotinic, Reward, Substance Withdrawal Syndrome, Behavior, Addictive
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