Article ; Online: Sex differences in the rodent hippocampal opioid system following stress and oxycodone associated learning processes.
Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior
2021 Volume 212, Page(s) 173294
Abstract: Over the past two decades, opioid abuse has risen especially among women. In both sexes hippocampal neural circuits involved in associative memory formation and encoding of motivational incentives are critically important in the transition from initial ... ...
| Abstract | Over the past two decades, opioid abuse has risen especially among women. In both sexes hippocampal neural circuits involved in associative memory formation and encoding of motivational incentives are critically important in the transition from initial drug use to drug abuse/dependence. Opioid circuits, particularly the mossy fiber pathway, are crucial for associative memory processes important for addiction. Our anatomical studies, especially those utilizing electron microscopic immunocytochemistry, have provided unique insight into sex differences in the distribution of opioid peptides and receptors in specific hippocampal circuits and how these distributions are altered following stress and oxycodone-associative learning processes. Here we review the hippocampal opioid system in rodents with respect to ovarian hormones effects and baseline sex differences then sex differences following acute and chronic stress. Next, we review sex differences in the hippocampal opioid system in unstressed and chronically stressed rats following oxycodone conditioned place preference. We show that opioid peptides and receptors are distributed within hippocampal circuits in females with elevated estrogen states in a manner that would enhance sensitivity to endogenous and exogenous opioids. Moreover, chronic stress primes the opioid system in females in a manner that would promote opioid-associative learning processes. In contrast, chronic stress has limited effects on the opioid system in males and reduces its capacity to support opioid-mediated learning processes. Interestingly, acute stress appears to prime males for opioid associative learning. On a broader scale the findings highlighted in this review have important implications in understanding sex differences in opioid drug use and abuse. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Analgesics, Opioid/pharmacology ; Animals ; Conditioning, Classical ; Female ; Hippocampus/drug effects ; Hippocampus/metabolism ; Learning/drug effects ; Male ; Microscopy, Electron/methods ; Neurons/metabolism ; Opioid Peptides/pharmacology ; Opioid-Related Disorders/metabolism ; Oxycodone/pharmacology ; Rats ; Receptors, Estrogen/metabolism ; Receptors, Opioid/metabolism ; Receptors, Opioid, delta/metabolism ; Receptors, Opioid, kappa/metabolism ; Receptors, Opioid, mu/metabolism ; Sex Characteristics ; Stress, Psychological/metabolism |
| Chemical Substances | Analgesics, Opioid ; Opioid Peptides ; Receptors, Estrogen ; Receptors, Opioid ; Receptors, Opioid, delta ; Receptors, Opioid, kappa ; Receptors, Opioid, mu ; Oxycodone (CD35PMG570) |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-11-06 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review |
| ZDB-ID | 191042-5 |
| ISSN | 1873-5177 ; 0091-3057 |
| ISSN (online) | 1873-5177 |
| ISSN | 0091-3057 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pbb.2021.173294 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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