Journal article
Acetylcholine Muscarinic M4 Receptors as a Therapeutic Target for Alcohol Use Disorder: Converging Evidence From Humans and Rodents
LC Walker, AE Berizzi, NA Chen, P Rueda, VM Perreau, K Huckstep, J Srisontiyakul, P Govitrapong, J Xiaojian, CW Lindsley, CK Jones, DM Riddy, A Christopoulos, CJ Langmead, AJ Lawrence
Biological Psychiatry | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2020
Abstract
Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major socioeconomic burden on society, and current pharmacotherapeutic treatment options are inadequate. Aberrant alcohol use and seeking alters frontostriatal function. Methods: We performed genome-wide RNA sequencing and subsequent quantitative polymerase chain reaction and receptor binding validation in the caudate–putamen of human AUD samples to identify potential therapeutic targets. We then back-translated our top candidate targets into a rodent model of long-term alcohol consumption to assess concordance of molecular adaptations in the rat striatum. Finally, we adopted rat behavioral models of alcohol intake and seeking to validate a potenti..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Human tissues were received from the New South Wales Tissue Resource Centre at the University of Sydney that is supported by the University of Sydney. Research reported in this article was supported by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health (Grant No. R28AA012725). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. This research was also supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council project grant (Grant No. 1120576 [to AJL and CJL]), of which AJL is a principal research fellow (Grant No. 1116930). JS was supported by the Thai Royal Golden Jubilee PhD Program (Grant No. PHD/0253/2552) and by Mahidol University.