Ana C Dutra-Tavares, Juliana O Silva, André L Nunes-Freitas, Vinícius M S Guimarães, Ulisses C Araújo, Ellen P S Conceição, Egberto G Moura, Patrícia C Lisboa, Cláudio C Filgueiras, Alex C Manhães, Yael Abreu-Villaça, Anderson Ribeiro-Carvalho
Early undernutrition causes long lasting alterations that affect the response to psychoactive drugs. Particularly, undernutrition during lactation affects the acute locomotor response to nicotine during adolescence, but the reward effect of continued exposure to nicotine remains unknown. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of undernutrition during lactation on the nicotine susceptibility indexed via conditioned place preference (CPP), on dopamine content and turnover and on nicotine-induced nicotinic cholinergic receptor (nAChR) upregulation in the cerebral cortex, midbrain and hippocampus of adolescent mice...
October 18, 2017: International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience