Deniz Bagdas1,2, Laura E Rupprecht1,2, Eric J Nunes1,2, Emma Schillinger1, Judah J Immanuel1, Nii A Addy1,2,3,4. 1. Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. 2. Yale Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. 3. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. 4. Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco product flavors may change the sensory properties of nicotine, such as taste and olfactory cues, which may alter nicotine reward and aversion and nicotine taking behavior. The hedonic or aversive value of a taste stimulus can be evaluated by examining affective orofacial movements in rodents. AIMS AND METHODS: We characterized taste responses to various oral nicotine concentrations using the taste reactivity test in rats. We also evaluated the impact of menthol and benzaldehyde (cherry, almond) flavorants on both ingestive and aversive responses to oral nicotine. Adult Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 5-10 per sex per group) were implanted with intraoral catheters and received 20 infusions (200 µl/ea). Nicotine (1-100 µg/mL) was evaluated in taste reactivity test to determine taste responses to nicotine. Later, the effects of menthol (50 µg/mL) and benzaldehyde (100 µg/mL) on the taste responses to nicotine were determined. RESULTS: Nicotine at low concentrations (3 µg/mL in males, 1 µg/mL in females) elicited significantly greater ingestive responses compared with water, whereas higher nicotine concentrations (≥30 µg/mL in males, ≥10 µg/mL in females) elicited significant aversive reactions. Thus, intraoral nicotine induced both hedonic and aversive responses in a concentration- and sex-dependent manner. Females were more sensitive to nicotine's concentration. The addition of menthol or benzaldehyde significantly increased the hedonic responses to nicotine, and significantly decreased the aversive nicotine responses. CONCLUSIONS: Oral nicotine induces both hedonic and aversive taste responses, which may represent liking and disliking. Menthol and benzaldehyde can alter the orosensory experience of nicotine, which may influence nicotine's abuse liability. IMPLICATIONS: Our work represents a model to study impact of flavors on oral nicotine liking and disliking responses in rats. Moreover, our findings show that menthol and benzaldehyde alter the orosensory experience of nicotine, suggesting that both could influence nicotine's abuse liability.
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco product flavors may change the sensory properties of nicotine, such as taste and olfactory cues, which may alter nicotine reward and aversion and nicotine taking behavior. The hedonic or aversive value of a taste stimulus can be evaluated by examining affective orofacial movements in rodents. AIMS AND METHODS: We characterized taste responses to various oral nicotine concentrations using the taste reactivity test in rats. We also evaluated the impact of menthol and benzaldehyde (cherry, almond) flavorants on both ingestive and aversive responses to oral nicotine. Adult Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 5-10 per sex per group) were implanted with intraoral catheters and received 20 infusions (200 µl/ea). Nicotine (1-100 µg/mL) was evaluated in taste reactivity test to determine taste responses to nicotine. Later, the effects of menthol (50 µg/mL) and benzaldehyde (100 µg/mL) on the taste responses to nicotine were determined. RESULTS: Nicotine at low concentrations (3 µg/mL in males, 1 µg/mL in females) elicited significantly greater ingestive responses compared with water, whereas higher nicotine concentrations (≥30 µg/mL in males, ≥10 µg/mL in females) elicited significant aversive reactions. Thus, intraoral nicotine induced both hedonic and aversive responses in a concentration- and sex-dependent manner. Females were more sensitive to nicotine's concentration. The addition of menthol or benzaldehyde significantly increased the hedonic responses to nicotine, and significantly decreased the aversive nicotine responses. CONCLUSIONS: Oral nicotine induces both hedonic and aversive taste responses, which may represent liking and disliking. Menthol and benzaldehyde can alter the orosensory experience of nicotine, which may influence nicotine's abuse liability. IMPLICATIONS: Our work represents a model to study impact of flavors on oral nicotine liking and disliking responses in rats. Moreover, our findings show that menthol and benzaldehyde alter the orosensory experience of nicotine, suggesting that both could influence nicotine's abuse liability.
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