Opioid receptors: drivers to addiction?

E Darcq, BL Kieffer - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Drug addiction is a worldwide societal problem and public health burden, and results from
recreational drug use that develops into a complex brain disorder. The opioid system, one of …

Dopamine and glucose, obesity, and reward deficiency syndrome

K Blum, PK Thanos, MS Gold - Frontiers in psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Obesity as a result of overeating as well as a number of well described eating disorders has
been accurately considered to be a world-wide epidemic. Recently a number of theories …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2014

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper is the thirty-seventh consecutive installment of the annual review of research
concerning the endogenous opioid system. It summarizes papers published during 2014 …

Hatching the behavioral addiction egg: Reward Deficiency Solution System (RDSS)™ as a function of dopaminergic neurogenetics and brain functional connectivity …

K Blum, M Febo, T McLaughlin, FJ Cronje… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2014 - akjournals.com
Background Following the first association between the dopamine D2 receptor gene
polymorphism and severe alcoholism, there has been an explosion of research reports in …

Nicotine reinforcement in never-smokers

AN Duke, MW Johnson, CJ Reissig, RR Griffiths - Psychopharmacology, 2015 - Springer
Rationale Global tobacco-related mortality dwarfs that of all other drugs. Nicotine is believed
to be the primary agent responsible for tobacco use and addiction. However, nicotine is a …

Testing familial transmission of smoking with two different research designs

JL Treur, KJH Verweij, A Abdellaoui… - Nicotine and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Classical twin studies show that smoking is heritable. To determine if shared
family environment plays a role in addition to genetic factors, and if they interact (G× E), we …

A gene-by-sex interaction for nicotine reward: evidence from humanized mice and epidemiology

RE Bernardi, K Zohsel, N Hirth, J Treutlein… - Translational …, 2016 - nature.com
It has been proposed that vulnerability to nicotine addiction is moderated by variation at the
μ-opioid receptor locus (OPRM1), but results from human studies vary and prospective …

Parental smoke exposure and the development of nicotine craving in adolescent novice smokers: the roles of DRD2, DRD4, and OPRM1 genotypes

M Kleinjan, RCME Engels, JR DiFranza - BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2015 - Springer
Background Among adolescent novice smokers, craving is often the first, and is the most
reported, symptom of nicotine dependence. Until now, little has been known about the …

Associations between initial subjective experiences with tobacco and self-reported recent use in young adulthood

EK Do, EC Prom-Wormley, BF Fuemmeler… - Substance use & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Youth tobacco use behaviors are predictive of patterns in adulthood and effect
long-term health outcomes. Yet, few studies have examined the effect of initial subjective …

Significant association of mu-opioid receptor 1 haplotype with tobacco smoking in healthy control subjects but not in patients with schizophrenia and alcohol …

M Konjevod, MN Perkovic, DS Strac, S Uzun… - Psychiatry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Tobacco smoking is highly prevalent in patients with schizophrenia and alcohol
dependence. The underlying neurobiology of nicotine addiction is complex. Rewarding …