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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2021

Epigenetics of Drug Addiction.

Andrew F Stewart, Sasha L Fulton, Ian Maze

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. EpiBrain: the brain's epigenetic landscape in a snapshot.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  20. Epigenetic Mechanisms in Drug Relapse.Biological psychiatry · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Andrew F StewartDepartment of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.
Sasha L FultonDepartment of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.
Ian MazeDepartment of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, USA.

Funding

Training Program in NeuroscienceT32MH087004 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI GEORGE W. HUNTLEY · 2009 to 2026
$4.0M
Roles for histone monoaminylation in cocaine-induced transcriptional and behavioral plasticityDP1DA042078 · NIDA · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI MAZE, IAN S. · 2016 to 2021
$3.2M
NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA042078
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are chronic brain diseases characterized by transitions from recreational to compulsive drug use and aberrant drug craving that persists for months to years after abstinence is achieved. The transition to compulsive drug use implies that plasticity is occurring, altering the physiology of the brain to precipitate addicted states. Epigenetic phenomena represent a varied orchestra of transcriptional tuning mechanisms that, in response to environmental stimuli, create and maintain gene expression-mediated physiological outcomes. Therefore, epigenetic mechanisms represent a convergent regulatory framework through which the plasticity required to achieve an addicted state can arise and then persist long after drug use has ended. In the first section, we will introduce basic concepts in epigenetics, such as chromatin architecture, histones and their posttranslational modifications, DNA methylation, noncoding RNAs, and transcription factors, along with methods for their investigation. We will then examine the implications of these mechanisms in SUDs, with a particular focus on cocaine-mediated neuroepigenetic plasticity across multiple behavioral models of addiction.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticHumansSubstance-Related Disorders

Identifiers

PMID32513670
PMCPMC7967246

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