Adolescence: A Sensitive Period for Nicotine Addiction

青春期：尼古丁成瘾的敏感期

• 批准号: 7048534
• 负责人: EDWARD D LEVIN
• 金额: $ 22.56万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7048534
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); age difference; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; cocaine; disease /disorder model; disease /disorder onset; drug addiction; gender difference; immature animal; laboratory rat; mature animal; nicotine; nicotine replacement; nonhuman therapy evaluation; pharmacokinetics; self medication; substance abuse related behavior; tobacco abuse

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The great majority of tobacco addiction begins during adolescence, but very little is known about the neurobehavioral effects of nicotine in adolescents compared to adults. Adolescents are still undergoing important neurodevelopmental changes on the path to adulthood. Nicotine exposure in adolescence may have lasting impacts on this late neurodevelopment. There are suggestions in the clinical literature that more heavily addicted smokers begin smoking earlier in adolescence, but the impact of nicotine self-administration during adolescence versus self-selection bias whereby people more prone to heavy addiction also begin earlier, cannot be ethically unconfounded in humans. This project is based on our hypothesis beginning nicotine self-administration during adolescence leads to greater nicotine intake and dependence than beginning in adulthood. Our preliminary data demonstrated in the rat model of nicotine self-administration that rats with adolescent-onset nicotine self-administration self-administer substantially higher total doses of nicotine than adult-onset rats, This higher rate of nicotine self-administration continues into adulthood with an approximate doubling of nicotine self-administration. The proposed experiments will determine the causal relationship between adolescent-onset nicotine self-administration and enhanced long-term nicotine self-administration with these Specific Aims. 1. Determine the pharmacokinetics and dose-effect functions of nicotine in adolescents and adult rats. 2. Determine the impact of nicotine replacement and nicotinic antagonist therapy on nicotine self-administration in adolescent-onset and adult-onset nicotine self-administration. 3. Determine the age threshold for the adult-like nicotine self-administration. 4. Determine if adolescent-onset nicotine self-administration enhances cocaine dependence. 5. Determine sex differences in adolescent-onset nicotine self-administration. Nicotine pharmacokinetic measurements in adolescent and adult rats will be used to determine the effect of altered distribution and metabolism versus pharmacodynamic factors in accounting for age-related differences in nicotine self-administration. Benefits of this research include a more relevant animal model of adolescent-onset smoking, improved understanding of how adolescent-onset nicotine use potentiates nicotine intake, a cause and effect determination of the gateway hypothesis of adolescent nicotine use leading to harder drugs and the development of better treatments for adolescent-onset nicotine dependence.

描述（由申请人提供）：绝大多数烟草成瘾始于青春期，但与成人相比，人们对尼古丁对青少年神经行为的影响知之甚少。青少年在成年的道路上仍在经历重要的神经发育变化。青春期接触尼古丁可能会对晚期神经发育产生持久影响。临床文献中建议，更多的重度成瘾吸烟者在青春期更早开始吸烟，但青春期尼古丁自我给药的影响与自我选择偏差（即更容易重度成瘾的人也更早开始吸烟）的影响在人类中不能不存在伦理上的混杂。 。该项目基于我们的假设，在青春期开始自我服用尼古丁会比在成年期开始摄入更多的尼古丁并产生更多的依赖。我们的初步数据表明，在尼古丁自我给药的大鼠模型中，青少年发作的尼古丁自我给药的大鼠比成年发病的大鼠自我给药的尼古丁总剂量要高得多，这种较高的尼古丁自我给药率持续到成年期尼古丁自我给药量大约增加一倍。 拟议的实验将确定青少年发作的尼古丁自我给药与具有这些特定目标的长期尼古丁自我给药之间的因果关系。 1. 确定尼古丁在青少年和成年大鼠体内的药代动力学和量效函数。 2.确定青少年发病和成人发病的尼古丁自我给药中尼古丁替代和烟碱拮抗剂治疗对尼古丁自我给药的影响。 3. 确定类似成人尼古丁自我给药的年龄阈值。 4. 确定青少年自我服用尼古丁是否会增强可卡因依赖。 5. 确定青少年自行服用尼古丁的性别差异。青少年和成年大鼠的尼古丁药代动力学测量将用于确定改变的分布和代谢与药效学因素的影响，以解释尼古丁自我给药的年龄相关差异。 这项研究的好处包括建立一个与青少年开始吸烟更相关的动物模型，更好地了解青少年开始使用尼古丁如何增强尼古丁摄入量，确定青少年尼古丁使用导致更难药物的门户假设的因果关系，以及开发更好地治疗青少年出现的尼古丁依赖。