Oleoylethanolamide effects on stress-induced alcohol consumption: a lipid at crossroads between stress, reward and neuroinflammation

Abstract The endocannabinoid system is involved in multiple drug-related behavior as well as in the stress response. The transient increase in endogenous cannabinoids as well as endocannabinoid-like molecules contributes to healthy adaptation to stress exposure. In this study, we tested the effect of systemic OEA treatment (10mg/kg) before or after social defeat (SD) on alcohol self-administration (SA). Mice were divided into non-stressed (EXP) and stressed mice (SD) and randomly assigned to a treatment condition (CTRL, OEA or 10OEA). Mice in the EXP/SD-OEA group received four doses before each SD encounter while mice in the EXP/SD-10OEA mice received 10 daily doses after stress exposure. Three weeks after SD, mice were trained to alcohol 20% (vol/vol) SA. Upon extinction, a cue-induced reinstatement test was performed. Our results showed that only multiple-dose chronic OEA treatment (SD-10OEA group) was effective in preventing the stress-induced increase in alcohol consumption observed in defeated mice. We did not observe any effects of OEA on relapse-like behavior. Altogether, these data suggest that exogenously increasing OEA levels counteracts the adverse effects of stress on alcohol drinking..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 09. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

González-Portilla, Macarena [VerfasserIn]
Montagud-Romero, Sandra [VerfasserIn]
Mellado, Susana [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Pascual, María [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Arias, Marta [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2023.11.06.565786

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XBI041449975