期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2007
卷号：104
期号：43
页码：17198-17203
DOI：10.1073/pnas.0707585104
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Nicotine, the main psychoactive ingredient of tobacco, induces negative emotional symptoms during abstinence that contribute to a profound craving for nicotine. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying how nicotine produces dependence remains poorly understood. We demonstrate one mechanism for both the anxiety-like symptoms of withdrawal and excessive nicotine intake observed after abstinence, through recruitment of the extrahypothalamic stress peptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) system and activation of CRF1 receptors. Overactivation of the CRF-CRF1 system may contribute to nicotine dependence and may represent a prominent target for investigating the vulnerability to tobacco addiction.
