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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-5-16
pubmed:abstractText
Addiction occurs through repeated abuse of drugs that progressively reduce behavioral control and cognitive flexibility while increasing limbic negative emotion. Recent discoveries indicate neuroimmune signaling underlies addiction and co-morbid depression. Low threshold microglia undergo progressive stages of innate immune activation involving astrocytes and neurons with repeated drug abuse, stress, and/or cell damage signals. Increased brain NF-?B transcription of proinflammatory chemokines, cytokines, oxidases, proteases, TLR and other genes create loops amplifying NF-?B transcription and innate immune target gene expression. Human post-mortem alcoholic brain has increased NF-?B and NF-?B target gene message, increased microglial markers and chemokine-MCP1. Polymorphisms of human NF-?B1 and other innate immune genes contribute to genetic risk for alcoholism. Animal transgenic and genetic studies link NF-?B innate immune gene expression to alcohol drinking. Human drug addicts show deficits in behavioral flexibility modeled pre-clinically using reversal learning. Binge alcohol, chronic cocaine, and lesions link addiction neurobiology to frontal cortex, neuroimmune signaling and loss of behavioral flexibility. Addiction also involves increasing limbic negative emotion and depression-like behavior that is reflected in hippocampal neurogenesis. Innate immune activation parallels loss of neurogenesis and increased depression-like behavior. Protection against loss of neurogenesis and negative affect by anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-depressant, opiate antagonist and abstinence from ethanol dependence link limbic affect to changes in innate immune signaling. The hypothesis that innate immune gene induction underlies addiction and affective disorders creates new targets for therapy.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1090-2139
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
25 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S4-S12
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Induction of innate immune genes in brain create the neurobiology of addiction.
pubmed:affiliation
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Department of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, The School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1021 Thurston-Bowles Building, CB #7178, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7178, USA. fulton_crews@med.unc.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural