| Literature DB >> 29335846 |
Cristhian Mendoza1, George E Barreto2,3, Alexandre Iarkov1, Vadim V Tarasov4, Gjumrakch Aliev5,6,7, Valentina Echeverria8,9.
Abstract
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that may develop after exposure to exceptionally threatening or unescapable horrifying events. Actual therapies fail to alleviate the emotional suffering and cognitive impairment associated with this disorder, mostly because they are ineffective in treating the failure to extinguish trauma memories in a great percentage of those affected. In this review, current behavioral, cellular, and molecular evidence supporting the use of cotinine for treating PTSD are reviewed. The role of the positive modulation by cotinine of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and their downstream effectors, the protection of astroglia, and the inhibition of microglia in the PTSD brain are also discussed.Entities:
Keywords: Cotinine; Extinction; Fear; Inflammation; Nicotinic receptor; Post-traumatic stress disorder
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29335846 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-018-0869-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Neurobiol ISSN: 0893-7648 Impact factor: 5.590