Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction
Abstract Studies of personality have suggested that dissimilarities in ability to cope with stressful situations results in differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors. The present study used selectively bred stress-resilient, socially-dominant (Dom) and stress-vulnerable, socially-submissive...
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| author | Chen Yanovich Michael L. Kirby Izhak Michaelevski Gal Yadid Albert Pinhasov |
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| description | Abstract Studies of personality have suggested that dissimilarities in ability to cope with stressful situations results in differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors. The present study used selectively bred stress-resilient, socially-dominant (Dom) and stress-vulnerable, socially-submissive (Sub) mice to investigate the interaction between environmental stress and inbred predisposition to develop addictive behavior to cocaine. In a Conditioned Place Preference (CPP) paradigm using cocaine, Sub mice displayed an aversion to drug, whereas Dom mice displayed drug attraction. Following a 4-week regimen of Chronic Mild Stress (CMS), Sub mice in CPP displayed a marked increase (>400%) in cocaine attraction, whereas Dom mice did not differ in attraction from their non-stressed state. Examination of hippocampal gene expression revealed in Sub mice, exposure to external stimuli, stress or cocaine, increased CRH expression (>100%), which was evoked in Dom mice only by cocaine exposure. Further, stress-induced decreases in DRD1 (>60%) and DRD2 (>50%) expression in Sub mice differed markedly from a complete lack of change in Dom mice. From our findings, we propose that social stratification dictates vulnerability to stress-induced attraction that may lead to addiction via differential regulation of hippocampal response to dopaminergic input, which in turn may influence differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f5105ffb1a1437aabf7aa81d8c00a0e2022-12-21T19:26:01ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222018-01-01811910.1038/s41598-018-19816-xSocial rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attractionChen Yanovich0Michael L. Kirby1Izhak Michaelevski2Gal Yadid3Albert Pinhasov4Department of Molecular Biology, Ariel UniversityDepartment of Molecular Biology, Ariel UniversityDepartment of Molecular Biology, Ariel UniversityLeslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center and the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan UniversityDepartment of Molecular Biology, Ariel UniversityAbstract Studies of personality have suggested that dissimilarities in ability to cope with stressful situations results in differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors. The present study used selectively bred stress-resilient, socially-dominant (Dom) and stress-vulnerable, socially-submissive (Sub) mice to investigate the interaction between environmental stress and inbred predisposition to develop addictive behavior to cocaine. In a Conditioned Place Preference (CPP) paradigm using cocaine, Sub mice displayed an aversion to drug, whereas Dom mice displayed drug attraction. Following a 4-week regimen of Chronic Mild Stress (CMS), Sub mice in CPP displayed a marked increase (>400%) in cocaine attraction, whereas Dom mice did not differ in attraction from their non-stressed state. Examination of hippocampal gene expression revealed in Sub mice, exposure to external stimuli, stress or cocaine, increased CRH expression (>100%), which was evoked in Dom mice only by cocaine exposure. Further, stress-induced decreases in DRD1 (>60%) and DRD2 (>50%) expression in Sub mice differed markedly from a complete lack of change in Dom mice. From our findings, we propose that social stratification dictates vulnerability to stress-induced attraction that may lead to addiction via differential regulation of hippocampal response to dopaminergic input, which in turn may influence differing tendency to develop addictive behaviors.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19816-x |
| spellingShingle | Chen Yanovich Michael L. Kirby Izhak Michaelevski Gal Yadid Albert Pinhasov Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction Scientific Reports |
| title | Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction |
| title_full | Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction |
| title_fullStr | Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction |
| title_short | Social rank-associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction |
| title_sort | social rank associated stress vulnerability predisposes individuals to cocaine attraction |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19816-x |
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