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Evidence for Enhanced Neurobehavioral Vulnerability to Nicotine during Periadolescence in Rats
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Epidemiological studies indicate that there is an increased likelihood for the development of nicotine addiction when cigarette smoking starts early during adolescence. These observations suggest that adolescence could be a “critical” ontogenetic period, during which drugs of abuse have distinct effects responsible for the development of dependence later in life. We compared the long-term behavioral and molecular effects of repeated nicotine treatment during either periadolescence or postadolescence in rats. It was found that exposure to nicotine during periadolescence, but not a similar exposure in the postadolescent period, increased the intravenous self-administration of nicotine and the expression of distinct subunits of the ligand-gated acetylcholine receptor in adult animals. Both these changes indicated an increased sensitivity to the addictive properties of nicotine. In conclusion, adolescence seems to be a critical developmental period, characterized by enhanced neurobehavioral vulnerability to nicotine.
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“Nicotine administration during, but not following, adolescence has long-lasting effects on cognitive, addictive, and emotional behavior in rats (Adriani et al. 2003; Iniguez et al. 2008; Counotte et al. 2009, 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Adriani, W., Spijker, S., Deroche-Gamonet, V., Laviola, G., Le Moal, M., Smit, A. B., & Piazza, P. V.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2003-06-01
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 4712-4716
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6740776
- OpenAlex
- W2159655610
- Cited by
- 257
- References
- 41
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- FWCI
- 10.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
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- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
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- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- nicotine, adolescence, periadolescence, nicotine dependence, nicotine self-administration, acetylcholine receptor subunits, ligand-gated receptors, developmental vulnerability
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Critical Period, Psychological, Injections, Intravenous, Male, Mesencephalon, Motor Activity, Nervous System, Nicotine, Receptors, Nicotinic, Reinforcement, Psychology, RNA, Messenger, Self Administration, Sexual Maturation, Substantia Nigra, Time, Tobacco Use Disorder, Gene Expression, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Ventral Tegmental Area, Protein Subunits, Rats
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