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A role for leptin and ghrelin in the augmentation of heroin seeking induced by chronic food restriction.

Author(s): D'Cunha TM, Chisholm A, Hryhorczuk C, Fulton S, Shalev U

RATIONAL: Caloric restriction increases the risk of relapse in abstinent drug users. Hormones involved in the regulation of energy balance and food intake, such as leptin and ghrelin, are implicated in drug-related behaviors. OBJECTIVES: We investigated the...

Article GUID: 31811350
Effects of contingent and noncontingent nicotine on lever pressing for liquids and consumption in water-deprived rats.

Author(s): Frenk H, Martin J, Vitouchanskaia C, Dar R, Shalev U

Eur J Pharmacol. 2017 Jan 05;794:224-233 Authors: Frenk H, Martin J, Vitouchanskaia C, Dar R, Shalev U

Article GUID: 27889434
A role for kappa-, but not mu-opioid, receptor activation in acute food deprivation-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking in rats.

Author(s): Sedki F, Eigenmann K, Gelinas J, Schouela N, Courchesne S, Shalev U

Addict Biol. 2015 May;20(3):423-32 Authors: Sedki F, Eigenmann K, Gelinas J, Schouela N, Courchesne S, Shalev U

Article GUID: 24725195
Food restriction-induced augmentation of heroin seeking in female rats: manipulations of ovarian hormones.

Author(s): Sedki F, Gardner Gregory J, Luminare A, D'Cunha TM, Shalev U

Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Oct;232(20):3773-82 Authors: Sedki F, Gardner Gregory J, Luminare A, D'Cunha TM, Shalev U

Article GUID: 26246318
Augmentation of Heroin Seeking Following Chronic Food Restriction in the Rat: Differential Role for Dopamine Transmission in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Core.

Author(s): D'Cunha TM, Daoud E, Rizzo D, Bishop AB, Russo M, Mourra G, Hamel L, Sedki F, Shalev U

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2017 Apr;42(5):1136-1145 Authors: D'Cunha TM, Daoud E, Rizzo D, Bishop AB, Russo M, Mourra G, Hamel L, Sedki F, Shalev U

Article GUID: 27824052
Exploring the role of locomotor sensitization in the circadian food entrainment pathway.

Author(s): Opiol H, de Zavalia N, Delorme T, Solis P, Rutherford S, Shalev U, Amir S

PLoS One. 2017;12(3):e0174113 Authors: Opiol H, de Zavalia N, Delorme T, Solis P, Rutherford S, Shalev U, Amir S

Article GUID: 28301599
Effects of chronic prenatal MK-801 treatment on object recognition, cognitive flexibility, and drug-induced locomotor activity in juvenile and adult rat offspring.

Author(s): Gallant S, Welch L, Martone P, Shalev U

Behav Brain Res. 2017 06 15;328:62-69 Authors: Gallant S, Welch L, Martone P, Shalev U

Article GUID: 28390877
The role of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus in the augmentation of heroin seeking induced by chronic food restriction.

Author(s): Chisholm A, Iannuzzi J, Rizzo D, Gonzalez N, Fortin É, Bumbu A, Batallán Burrowes AA, Chapman CA, Shalev U

Addict Biol. 2019 Jan 09;: Authors: Chisholm A, Iannuzzi J, Rizzo D, Gonzalez N, Fortin É, Bumbu A, Batallán Burrowes AA, Chapman CA, Shalev U

Article GUID: 30623532
Title:A role for kappa-, but not mu-opioid, receptor activation in acute food deprivation-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking in rats.
Authors:Sedki F,  Eigenmann K,  Gelinas J,  Schouela N,  Courchesne S,  Shalev U
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24725195?dopt=Abstract
Category:Addict Biol
PMID:24725195
Dept Affiliation: CSBN
1 Department of Psychology, Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology/Groupe de Recherche en Neurobiologie Comportementale, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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A role for kappa-, but not mu-opioid, receptor activation in acute food deprivation-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking in rats.

Addict Biol. 2015 May;20(3):423-32

Authors: Sedki F, Eigenmann K, Gelinas J, Schouela N, Courchesne S, Shalev U

Abstract

Stress is considered to be one of the major triggers to drug relapse, even after prolonged periods of abstinence. In rats, the activation of stress-related brain systems, including corticotropin-releasing factor and norepinephrine, is critical for stress-induced reinstatement of extinguished drug seeking, an animal model for drug relapse. In addition, there are strong indications that activation of the endogenous opioid system is important for the effects of stress on drug seeking. More specifically, activation of the dynorphin/kappa opioid receptor (KOR) system is critically involved in the reinstatement of cocaine seeking following exposure to stressors, such as footshock, forced swimming or social stress. However, studies on the role of the dynorphin/KOR system in stress-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking are scarce. Here, rats were trained to self-administer heroin (0.1?mg/kg/infusion) for 10 days. Drug seeking was then extinguished and the rats were tested for acute (21 hours) food deprivation-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking. In two separate experiments, rats were injected with the mu-opioid receptor (MOR) antagonist, naltrexone (0.0, 1.0, 10.0?mg/kg; s.c.) or the KOR antagonist, norBNI (0.0, 1.0, 10.0?mg/kg; i.p.) before the reinstatement test. Naltrexone treatment did not affect stress-induced reinstatement. In contrast, treatment with norBNI dose-dependently attenuated food deprivation-induced reinstatement of heroin seeking. These results support the hypothesis that activation of KOR, but not MOR, is critically involved in stress-induced reinstatement of drug seeking.

PMID: 24725195 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]