期刊
BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
卷 25, 期 -, 页码 S4-S12出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2011.03.003
关键词
Addiction; Drug abuse; Alcoholism; Cytokines; Chemokines; Microglia; Depression; Reversal learning; Frontal cortex; Neurogenesis
资金
- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, School of Medicine University of North Carolina
- National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse [AA020023, AA020024, AA020022, AA019767, AA11605]
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-kappa B transcription of proinflammatory chemokines, cytokines, oxidases, proteases. TLR and other genes create loops amplifying NF-kappa B transcription and innate immune target gene expression. Human post-mortem alcoholic brain has increased NF-kappa B and NF-kappa B target gene message, increased microglial markers and chemokine-MCP1. Polymorphisms of human NF-kappa B1 and other innate immune genes contribute to genetic risk for alcoholism. Animal transgenic and genetic studies link NF-kappa 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. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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