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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 2300-2310Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5724-09.2010
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III [PI070559, RD06/001/001]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology [SAF2007-64062]
- European Commission [IP LSHM-CT-2004-05166, LHSM-CT-2007-037669]
- Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2009SGR00731]
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- Spanish Ministry of Education
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Emerging evidence suggests that the hypocretinergic system is involved in addictive behavior. In this study, we investigated the role of these hypothalamic neuropeptides in anxiety-like responses of nicotine and stress-induced reinstatement of nicotine-seeking behavior. Acute nicotine (0.8 mg/kg, s.c.) induced anxiogenic-like effects in the elevated plus-maze and activated the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) as revealed by c-Fos expression. Pretreatment with the hypocretin receptor 1 (Hcrtr-1) antagonist SB334867 or preprohypocretin gene deletion blocked both nicotine effects. In the PVN, SB334867 also prevented the activation of corticotrophin releasing factor (CRF) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) neurons, which expressed Hcrtr-1. In addition, an increase of the percentage of c-Fos-positive hypocretin cells in the perifornical and dorsomedial hypothalamic (PFA/DMH) areas was found after nicotine (0.8 mg/kg, s.c.) administration. Intracerebroventricular infusion of hypocretin-1 (Hcrt-1) (0.75 nmol/1 mu l) or footshock stress reinstated a previously extinguished nicotine-seeking behavior. The effects of Hcrt-1 were blocked by SB334867, but not by the CRF1 receptor antagonist antalarmin. Moreover, SB334867 did not block CRF-dependent footshock-induced reinstatement of nicotine-seeking while antalarmin was effective in preventing this nicotine motivational response. Therefore, the Hcrt system interacts with CRF and AVP neurons in the PVN and modulates the anxiogenic-like effects of nicotine whereas Hcrt and CRF play a different role in the reinstatement of nicotine-seeking. Indeed, Hcrt-1 reinstates nicotine-seeking through a mechanism independent of CRF activation whereas CRF mediates the reinstatement induced by stress.
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