Chronologically overlapping occurrences of nicotine-induced anxiety- and depression-related behavioral symptoms: effects of anxiolytic and cannabinoid drugs |
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Authors: | Tamaki Hayase |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Legal Medicine, Kyoto University, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | Background Anxiety and depression are among the most frequently-observed psychiatric symptoms associated with nicotine (NC). In addition
to the similarity to other addictive drugs, these NC-induced symptoms are characteristic in that the opposite behavioral effects,
i.e. anxiolytic and antidepressant effects, which may reinforce the habitual use of NC, have also been reported. In the present
study, the time course of anxiety- and depression-related behavioral alterations was examined in mice. Furthermore, based
on the reported similarity in the mechanisms responsible for NC-induced anxiety- and depression-related symptoms, as well
as the contribution of brain cannabinoid (CB) receptors to these behavioral symptoms, the effects of anxiolytics and CB receptor
ligands (CBs) against these behavioral symptoms were investigated. |
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