Sex differences in opioid and psychostimulant craving and relapse: a critical review

C Nicolas, NE Zlebnik, M Farokhnia, L Leggio… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - ASPET
A widely held dogma in the preclinical addiction field is that females are more vulnerable
than males to drug craving and relapse. Here, we first review clinical studies on sex …

Regulation of cocaine-related behaviours by estrogen and progesterone

DR Peart, AK Andrade, CN Logan… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Women are more sensitive to cocaine craving elicited by stimuli associated with relapse.
Ovarian hormones modulate cocaine craving and may therefore function as risk factors or …

FKBP5 inhibitors modulate alcohol drinking and trauma-related behaviors in a model of comorbid post-traumatic stress and alcohol use disorder

B Cruz, V Vozella, BA Carper, JC Xu, D Kirson… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) leads to enhanced alcohol drinking and development
of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Identifying shared neural mechanisms might help discover …

The molecular relationship between stress and insomnia

JN Birch, WM Vanderheyden - Advanced Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The bi‐directional relationship between sleep and stress has been actively researched as
sleep disturbances and stress have become increasingly common in society. Interestingly …

Role of FKBP5 and its genetic mutations in stress-induced psychiatric disorders: an opportunity for drug discovery

M Malekpour, D Shekouh, ME Safavinia… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Stress-induced mental health disorders are affecting many people around the world.
However, effective drug therapy for curing psychiatric diseases does not occur sufficiently …

Analysis of the selective antagonist SAFit2 as a chemical probe for the FK506-binding protein 51

V Buffa, FH Knaup, T Heymann… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The FK506-binding protein 51 (FKBP51) has emerged as an important regulator of the
mammalian stress response and is involved in persistent pain states and metabolic …

Sex-Specific Impact of Fkbp5 on Hippocampal Response to Acute Alcohol Injection: Involvement in Alterations of Metabolism-Related Pathways

KE Williams, Y Zou, B Qiu, T Kono, C Guo, D Garcia… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
High levels of alcohol intake alter brain gene expression and can produce long-lasting
effects. FK506-binding protein 51 (FKBP51) encoded by Fkbp5 is a physical and cellular …

Dissociation between incubation of cocaine craving and anxiety-related behaviors after continuous and intermittent access self-administration

C Nicolas, TI Russell, Y Shaham… - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Studies using either continuous or intermittent access cocaine self-administration
procedures showed that cocaine seeking increases during abstinence (incubation of …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic factors underlying sex differences in trauma-related disorders

OY Ponomareva, KJ Ressler - Neurobiology of stress, 2021 - Elsevier
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a devastating illness with treatment that is effective
in only approximately half of the population. This limited rate of response highlights the …

The effects of sleep restriction during abstinence on oxycodone seeking: Sex-dependent moderating effects of behavioral and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis …

CM Olsen, BL Glaeser, A Szabo, H Raff… - Physiology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
During opioid use and abstinence, sleep disturbances are common and are thought to
exacerbate drug craving. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that sleep restriction during …