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Sargent JD, Halenar M, Steinberg AW, Ozga J, Tang Z, Stanton CA, Paulin LM. Childhood Cigarette Smoking and Risk of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older U.S. Adults. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2023; 208:428-434. [PMID: 37348105 PMCID: PMC10449065 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202303-0476oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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Rationale: It is not certain the extent to which childhood smoking adds chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk independent of lifetime cigarette exposure. Objectives: We examined the association between age started smoking cigarettes regularly, current smoking status, smoking history, and risk of COPD. Methods: Cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults ⩾40 years old in the 2020 National Health Interview Survey. Respondents who were ever cigarette smokers were asked when they began smoking regularly. Multivariable analysis assessed self-report of COPD diagnosis as a function of age started smoking (<15 yr vs. ⩾15 yr) adjusting for current smoking, cigarette pack-years, and covariates. Measurements and Main Results: Overall, 7.1% reported that they had COPD, 2.6% for never-smokers compared with 23.1% and 11.6% for smoking onset <15 and ⩾15 years, respectively. Persons who began smoking regularly at <15 years of age had higher pack-years of smoking (median, 29 vs. 15, respectively), and higher smoking intensity (median, 20 cigarettes/d for <15 yr vs. 10 cigarettes/d for ⩾15 yr for current smokers). In the multivariable analysis, the relative risk for COPD among childhood smokers was 1.41 (95% confidence interval, 1.22-1.63) compared with later-onset smokers. Substituting smoking duration for pack-years confounded the association between current smoking and COPD but did not change the childhood smoking estimate. In a stratified analysis, higher risk for childhood smoking was found at all current smoking intensity levels. Conclusions: Among adults aged ⩾40 years, one-fifth of childhood smokers have COPD. Lifetime cigarette smoking explained some but not all of the higher risk. If replicated, this suggests a lung development window of enhanced vulnerability to cigarette smoking.
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- James D. Sargent
- Department of Pediatrics and
- Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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- Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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Ugai T, Sasamoto N, Lee HY, Ando M, Song M, Tamimi RM, Kawachi I, Campbell PT, Giovannucci EL, Weiderpass E, Rebbeck TR, Ogino S. Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? Current evidence and future implications. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 2022; 19:656-673. [PMID: 36068272 PMCID: PMC9509459 DOI: 10.1038/s41571-022-00672-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 77.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Over the past several decades, the incidence of early-onset cancers, often defined as cancers diagnosed in adults <50 years of age, in the breast, colorectum, endometrium, oesophagus, extrahepatic bile duct, gallbladder, head and neck, kidney, liver, bone marrow, pancreas, prostate, stomach and thyroid has increased in multiple countries. Increased use of screening programmes has contributed to this phenomenon to a certain extent, although a genuine increase in the incidence of early-onset forms of several cancer types also seems to have emerged. Evidence suggests an aetiological role of risk factor exposures in early life and young adulthood. Since the mid-20th century, substantial multigenerational changes in the exposome have occurred (including changes in diet, lifestyle, obesity, environment and the microbiome, all of which might interact with genomic and/or genetic susceptibilities). However, the effects of individual exposures remain largely unknown. To study early-life exposures and their implications for multiple cancer types will require prospective cohort studies with dedicated biobanking and data collection technologies. Raising awareness among both the public and health-care professionals will also be critical. In this Review, we describe changes in the incidence of early-onset cancers globally and suggest measures that are likely to reduce the burden of cancers and other chronic non-communicable diseases.
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- Tomotaka Ugai
- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Institute of Convergence Science, Convergence Science Academy, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Population Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Cancer Immunology and Cancer Epidemiology Programs, Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA.
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Eddins D, Petro A, Levin ED. Impact of acute nicotine exposure on monoaminergic systems in adolescent and adult male and female rats. Neurotoxicol Teratol 2022; 93:107122. [PMID: 36116700 DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2022.107122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Adolescence is a period of risk for beginning tobacco addiction. Differential neural response to nicotine in adolescents vs. adults may help explain the increased vulnerability to nicotine self-administration seen with adolescent onset. We indexed the effects of acute nicotine ditartrate (0.4 mg/kg, salt weight) administration on dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5HT) as well as the DA metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) in several brain regions (nucleus accumbens, striatum and frontal cortex) of 6-week old (adolescent) and 10-week old (young adult) Sprague-Dawley rats. When nicotine was administered DA concentrations in the accumbens were significantly higher in adults than in adolescents, whereas there was no age-related difference without nicotine. However neither age group showed a significant effect of nicotine vs. age-matched controls. DA turnover in the accumbens was significantly greater in adolescent females in response to nicotine, but adult females did not show this effect and neither did males of either age group. DA turnover in the striatum was significantly higher in adolescents than adults regardless of nicotine administration. In the frontal cortex, there was a more complex effect. Without nicotine, adult male rats had higher DA concentrations than adolescent males, whereas female rats did not differ from adolescent to adult ages. When given nicotine, the age effect was no longer seen in males. However, there was not a significant effect of nicotine vs. age-matched controls in either age group. No age or nicotine effects were seen in females. 5HT in the accumbens was significantly increased by nicotine administration in adults but not in adolescents. Altered neural responsivity of adolescents to nicotine-induced neural effects particularly in accumbens DA and 5HT may be related to the increased nicotine dose concentrations they self-administer.
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- Donnie Eddins
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, USA.
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Cipriano LE, Goldhaber-Fiebert JD, Liu S, Weber TA. Optimal Information Collection Policies in a Markov Decision Process Framework. Med Decis Making 2018; 38:797-809. [PMID: 30179585 DOI: 10.1177/0272989x18793401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND The cost-effectiveness and value of additional information about a health technology or program may change over time because of trends affecting patient cohorts and/or the intervention. Delaying information collection even for parameters that do not change over time may be optimal. METHODS We present a stochastic dynamic programming approach to simultaneously identify the optimal intervention and information collection policies. We use our framework to evaluate birth cohort hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening. We focus on how the presence of a time-varying parameter (HCV prevalence) affects the optimal information collection policy for a parameter assumed constant across birth cohorts: liver fibrosis stage distribution for screen-detected diagnosis at age 50. RESULTS We prove that it may be optimal to delay information collection until a time when the information more immediately affects decision making. For the example of HCV screening, given initial beliefs, the optimal policy (at 2010) was to continue screening and collect information about the distribution of liver fibrosis at screen-detected diagnosis in 12 years, increasing the expected incremental net monetary benefit (INMB) by $169.5 million compared to current guidelines. CONCLUSIONS The option to delay information collection until the information is sufficiently likely to influence decisions can increase efficiency. A dynamic programming framework enables an assessment of the marginal value of information and determines the optimal policy, including when and how much information to collect.
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- Lauren E Cipriano
- Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON, Canada (LEC).,Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (JDG-F).,Industrial & Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (SL).,Operations, Economics and Strategy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (TAW)
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- Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON, Canada (LEC).,Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (JDG-F).,Industrial & Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (SL).,Operations, Economics and Strategy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (TAW)
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- Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON, Canada (LEC).,Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (JDG-F).,Industrial & Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (SL).,Operations, Economics and Strategy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (TAW)
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- Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON, Canada (LEC).,Center for Health Policy and Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (JDG-F).,Industrial & Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (SL).,Operations, Economics and Strategy, College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (TAW)
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Osman A, Kowitt SD, Ranney LM, Heck C, Goldstein AO. Trends and Racial Disparities in Mono, Dual, and Poly Use of Tobacco Products Among Youth. Nicotine Tob Res 2018; 20:S22-S30. [PMID: 30125016 PMCID: PMC6093353 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/nty051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2017] [Accepted: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Introduction We examined racial disparities in mono, dual, and poly use of tobacco products including whether racial disparities changed over time. Methods We analyzed data on high school students from the North Carolina Youth Tobacco Survey collected in 2011, 2013, and 2015. Dual and poly use included use of two and three or more tobacco products, respectively, in the past month. Multinomial regression models assessed racial differences and changes over time in mono, dual, and poly use. Data include product combinations most commonly used by youth from different racial groups. Results In total, 24% (in 2011) and 26% (in 2013 and 2015) of students used tobacco products. No significant changes over time were observed in mono (12%) or dual use (6%). Poly use was 6%, 8%, and 7% in 2011, 2013, and 2015, respectively. Relative to nonuse of tobacco, White students had a higher relative risk than Blacks for mono use. Whites and Hispanics had a higher relative risk than Blacks for dual and poly use. Observed racial differences in tobacco use did not change over time. Types of tobacco products used varied by year and race. In 2015, e-cigarette was the most commonly used product among mono users from all racial groups. Conclusions Substantial racial variation persists over time in mono and multiple tobacco product use among North Carolina youth, including racial variation in the types of tobacco products used. Research and policy efforts should examine and eliminate factors that drive multiple tobacco use and racial disparities in use among youth. Implications This study reports on racial disparities in mono and multiple tobacco product use among youth. White and Hispanic youth have higher relative risk for dual and poly use of tobacco products than Black youth. In addition, significant racial variation exists in the types of tobacco products used among youth mono, dual, and poly users, with cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and e-cigarettes being the most commonly used products. Patterns of multiple tobacco product use vary by race and may warrant tailored prevention efforts. Strengthening tobacco control regulations for other tobacco products than cigarettes is critical to reduce multiple tobacco product use among youth.
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- Amira Osman
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch Raleigh, NC
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- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
- Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
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Mychasiuk R, Metz GAS. Epigenetic and gene expression changes in the adolescent brain: What have we learned from animal models? Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2016; 70:189-197. [PMID: 27426956 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2016] [Revised: 06/27/2016] [Accepted: 07/13/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Adolescence is defined as the gradual period of transition between childhood and adulthood that is characterized by significant brain maturation, growth spurts, sexual maturation, and heightened social interaction. Although originally believed to be a uniquely human aspect of development, rodent and non-human primates demonstrate maturational patterns that distinctly support an adolescent stage. As epigenetic processes are essential for development and differentiation, but also transpire in mature cells in response to environmental influences, they are an important aspect of adolescent brain maturation. The purpose of this review article was to examine epigenetic programming in animal models of brain maturation during adolescence. The discussion focuses on animal models to examine three main concepts; epigenetic processes involved in normal adolescent brain maturation, the influence of fetal programming on adolescent brain development and the epigenome, and finally, postnatal experiences such as exercise and drugs that modify epigenetic processes important for adolescent brain maturation. This corollary emphasizes the utility of animal models to further our understanding of complex processes such as epigenetic regulation and brain development.
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- Richelle Mychasiuk
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Department of Psychology, AD030 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3M4, Canada
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Neal RE, Chen J, Webb C, Stocke K, Gambrell C, Greene RM, Pisano MM. Developmental cigarette smoke exposure II: Hepatic proteome profiles in 6 month old adult offspring. Reprod Toxicol 2016; 65:414-424. [PMID: 27319396 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2016.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Revised: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 06/14/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Utilizing a mouse model of 'active' developmental cigarette smoke exposure (CSE) [gestational day (GD) 1 through postnatal day (PD) 21] characterized by offspring low birth weight, the impact of developmental CSE on liver proteome profiles of adult offspring at 6 months of age was determined. Liver tissue was collected from Sham- and CSE-offspring for 2D-SDS-PAGE based proteome analysis with Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA). A similar study conducted at the cessation of exposure to cigarette smoke documented decreased gluconeogenesis coupled to oxidative stress in weanling offspring. In the current study, exposure throughout development to cigarette smoke resulted in impaired hepatic carbohydrate metabolism, decreased serum glucose levels, and increased gluconeogenic regulatory enzyme abundances during the fed-state coupled to decreased expression of SIRT1 as well as increased PEPCK and PGC1α expression. Together these findings indicate inappropriately timed gluconeogenesis that may reflect impaired insulin signaling in mature offspring exposed to 'active' developmental CSE.
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- Rachel E Neal
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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Neal RE, Jagadapillai R, Chen J, Webb CL, Stocke K, Gambrell C, Greene RM, Pisano MM. Developmental cigarette smoke exposure II: Kidney proteome profile alterations in 6 month old adult offspring. Reprod Toxicol 2016; 65:425-435. [PMID: 27208485 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2016.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2015] [Revised: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Cigarette smoke exposure (CSE) during gestation and early development suppresses the growth trajectory in offspring. In prior studies utilizing a mouse model of 'active' developmental CSE (GD1-PD21), low birth weight induced by CSE persisted throughout the neonatal period and was present at the cessation of exposure at weaning with proportionally smaller kidney mass that was accompanied by impairment of carbohydrate metabolism. In the present study, littermates of those characterized in the prior study were maintained until 6 months of age at which time the impact of developmental CSE on the abundance of proteins associated with cellular metabolism in the kidney was examined. Kidney protein abundances were examined by 2D-SDS-PAGE based proteome profiling with statistical analysis by Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis. Key findings of this study include a persistence of impact of developmental CSE past the original exposure period on the nucleic acid and carbohydrate metabolism networks and oxidant scavenging pathways.
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- Rachel E Neal
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
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Neal RE, Jagadapillai R, Chen J, Webb C, Stocke K, Greene RM, Pisano MM. Developmental cigarette smoke exposure II: Hippocampus proteome and metabolome profiles in adult offspring. Reprod Toxicol 2016; 65:436-447. [PMID: 27208486 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2016.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2015] [Revised: 05/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Exposure to cigarette smoke during development is linked to neurodevelopmental delays and cognitive impairment including impulsivity, attention deficit disorder, and lower IQ. Utilizing a murine experimental model of "active" inhalation exposure to cigarette smoke spanning the entirety of gestation and through human third trimester equivalent hippocampal development [gestation day 1 (GD1) through postnatal day 21 (PD21)], we examined hippocampus proteome and metabolome alterations present at a time during which developmental cigarette smoke exposure (CSE)-induced behavioral and cognitive impairments are evident in adult animals from this model system. At six month of age, carbohydrate metabolism and lipid content in the hippocampus of adult offspring remained impacted by prior exposure to cigarette smoke during the critical period of hippocampal ontogenesis indicating limited glycolysis. These findings indicate developmental CSE-induced systemic glucose availability may limit both organism growth and developmental trajectory, including the capacity for learning and memory.
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- Rachel E Neal
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Craniofacial Biology, ULSD, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA; Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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Garrett BE, Gardiner PS, Wright LTC, Pechacek TF. The African American Youth Smoking Experience: An Overview. Nicotine Tob Res 2016; 18 Suppl 1:S11-5. [PMID: 26980860 PMCID: PMC5104347 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Beginning in the late 1970s, a very sharp decline in cigarette smoking prevalence was observed among African American (AA) high school seniors compared with a more modest decline among whites. This historic decline resulted in a lower prevalence of cigarette smoking among AA youth that has persisted for several decades. METHODS We synthesized information contained in the research literature and tobacco industry documents to provide an account of past influences on cigarette smoking behavior among AA youth to help understand the reasons for these historically lower rates of cigarette smoking. RESULTS While a number of protective factors including cigarette price increases, religiosity, parental opposition, sports participation, body image, and negative attitudes towards cigarette smoking may have all played a role in maintaining lower rates of cigarette smoking among AA youth as compared to white youth, the efforts of the tobacco industry seem to have prevented the effectiveness of these factors from carrying over into adulthood. CONCLUSION Continuing public health efforts that prevent cigarette smoking initiation and maintain lower cigarette smoking rates among AA youth throughout adulthood have the potential to help reduce the negative health consequences of smoking in this population. IMPLICATIONS While AA youth continue to have a lower prevalence of cigarette smoking than white youth, they are still at risk of increasing their smoking behavior due to aggressive targeted marketing by the tobacco industry. Because AAs suffer disproportionately from tobacco-related disease, and have higher incidence and mortality rates from lung cancer, efforts to prevent smoking initiation and maintain lower cigarette smoking rates among AA youth have the potential to significantly lower lung cancer death rates among AA adults.
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- Bridgette E Garrett
- Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA;
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- Tobacco Related Disease Research Program, University of California Office of the President, Oakland, CA
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- Health Management and Policy Division, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
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Maternal bonding styles in smokers and non-smokers: a comparative study. Ann Gen Psychiatry 2016; 15:32. [PMID: 27857776 PMCID: PMC5106765 DOI: 10.1186/s12991-016-0118-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Parental bonding has been implicated in smoking behavior, and the quality of maternal bonding (MB) has been associated with poor mental health and substance use. However, little is known about the association of MB and the smoking of the offspring. METHODS In our study, 129 smokers and 610 non-smoker medical students completed the parental bonding instrument, which measures MB along two dimensions: care and overprotection. Four categories can be created by high and low scores on care and overprotection: optimal parenting (OP; high care/low overprotection); affectionless control (ALC; low care/high overprotection); affectionate constraint (AC; high care/high overprotection), and neglectful parenting (NP; low care/low overprotection). Nicotine dependence was assessed by the Fagerstrom Nicotine Dependence Test, exhaled CO level, and daily cigarette consumption (CPD). RESULTS Higher CPD was significantly associated with lower overprotection (p = 0.016) and higher care (p = 0.023) scores. The odds for being a smoker were significantly higher in the neglectful maternal bonding style compared to the other rearing styles (p = 0.022). Besides, smokers showed significantly higher care and lower overprotection scores with the Mann-Whitney U-test than non-smokers, although these associations did not remain significant in multiple regression models. CONCLUSION Our results indicate that focusing on early life relationship between patient and mother can be important in psychotherapeutic interventions for smoking. Registration trials retrospectively registered.
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Romanova EV, Rubakhin SS, Ossyra JR, Zombeck JA, Nosek MR, Sweedler JV, Rhodes JS. Differential peptidomics assessment of strain and age differences in mice in response to acute cocaine administration. J Neurochem 2015. [PMID: 26223348 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.13265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Neurochemical differences in the hypothalamic-pituitary axis between individuals and between ages may contribute to differential susceptibility to cocaine abuse. This study measured peptide levels in the pituitary gland (Pit) and lateral hypothalamus (LH) in adolescent (age 30 days) and adult (age 65 days) mice from four standard inbred strains, FVB/NJ, DBA/2J, C57BL/6J, and BALB/cByJ, which have previously been characterized for acute locomotor responses to cocaine. Individual peptide profiles were analyzed using mass spectrometric profiling and principal component analysis. Sequences of assigned peptides were verified by tandem mass spectrometry. Principal component analysis classified all strains according to their distinct peptide profiles in Pit samples from adolescent mice, but not adults. Select pro-opiomelanocortin-derived peptides were significantly higher in adolescent BALB/cByJ and DBA/2J mice than in FVB/NJ or C57BL/6J mice. A subset of peptides in the LH, but not in the Pit, was altered by cocaine in adolescents. A 15 mg/kg dose of cocaine induced greater peptide alterations than a 30 mg/kg dose, particularly in FVB/NJ animals, with larger differences in adolescents than adults. Neuropeptides in the LH affected by acute cocaine administration included pro-opiomelanocortin-, myelin basic protein-, and glutamate transporter-derived peptides. The observed peptide differences could contribute to differential behavioral sensitivity to cocaine among strains and ages. Peptides were measured using mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF) in individual lateral hypothalamus and pituitary samples from four strains and two ages of inbred mice in response to acute cocaine administration. Principal component analyses (PCA) classified the strains according to their peptide profiles from adolescent mice, and a subset of peptides in the lateral hypothalamus was altered by cocaine in adolescents.
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- Elena V Romanova
- Department of Chemistry, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Aldrich MC, Hidalgo B, Widome R, Briss P, Brownson RC, Teutsch SM. The role of epidemiology in evidence-based policy making: a case study of tobacco use in youth. Ann Epidemiol 2015; 25:360-5. [PMID: 24875267 PMCID: PMC4211989 DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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PURPOSE Sound public health policy is based on relevant and timely information. A brief review of the history of youth tobacco control illustrates the central role of epidemiology to inform policy choices and evaluate their consequences. METHODS A narrative review was conducted. RESULTS Epidemiologic studies have shown that most smokers begin as adolescents or young adults and individuals who reach their mid-20s as nonsmokers are unlikely to ever become smokers. This key recognition made it clear that long-term tobacco control must prevent initiation of smoking among youth. Over time, tobacco use prevention interventions have evolved, increasing in reach and effectiveness as they moved from initially focusing on the individual to an approach that targets both populations and communities. Effective interventions for preventing youth smoking include raising tobacco prices, clean indoor air laws, and intensive mass media campaigns. CONCLUSIONS Great strides have been made in youth tobacco control but 18% of high-school students continue to smoke. It is up to epidemiologists, fellow scientists, practitioners, and advocates to assure that strategies that are known to work are fully implemented and to continue to find more successful solutions that can further lower the incidence of youth smoking initiation and can address new tobacco products and changing contexts.
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- Melinda C. Aldrich
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
- Division of Epidemiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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- Department of Biostatistics, Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN
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- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Atlanta, Georgia
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- Prevention Research Center in St. Louis, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
- Division of Public Health Sciences and Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
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Nicotine during pregnancy: changes induced in neurotransmission, which could heighten proclivity to addict and induce maladaptive control of attention. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2014; 6:169-81. [PMID: 25385318 DOI: 10.1017/s2040174414000531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Prenatal exposure to nicotine, occurring either via maternal smoking or via use of transdermal nicotine patches to facilitate cigarette abstinence by pregnant women, is associated with ∼ 13% of pregnancies worldwide. Nicotine exposure during gestation has been correlated with several negative physiological and psychosocial outcomes, including heightened risk for aberrant behaviors involving alterations in processing of attention as well as an enhanced liability for development of drug dependency. Nicotine is a terotogen, altering neuronal development of various neurotransmitter systems, and it is likely these alterations participate in postnatal deficits in attention control and facilitate development of drug addiction. This review discusses the alterations in neuronal development within the brain's major neurotransmitter systems, with special emphasis placed on alterations within the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus, in light of the role this cholinergic nucleus plays in attention and addiction. Changes induced within this nucleus by gestational exposure to nicotine, in combination with changes induced in other brain regions, are likely to contribute to the transgenerational burden imposed by nicotine. Although neuroplastic changes induced by nicotine are not likely to act in isolation, and are expected to interact with epigenetic changes induced by preconception exposure to drugs of abuse, unraveling these changes within the developing brain will facilitate eventual development of targeted treatments for the unique vulnerability for arousal disorders and development of addiction within the population of individuals who have been prenatally exposed to nicotine.
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Prenatal nicotine is associated with reduced AMPA and NMDA receptor-mediated rises in calcium within the laterodorsal tegmentum: a pontine nucleus involved in addiction processes. J Dev Orig Health Dis 2014; 6:225-41. [DOI: 10.1017/s2040174414000439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Despite huge efforts from public sectors to educate society as to the deleterious physiological consequences of smoking while pregnant, 12–25% of all babies worldwide are born to mothers who smoked during their pregnancies. Chief among the negative legacies bestowed to the exposed individual is an enhanced proclivity postnatally to addict to drugs of abuse, which suggests that the drug exposure during gestation changed the developing brain in such a way that biased it towards addiction. Glutamate signalling has been shown to be altered by prenatal nicotine exposure (PNE) and glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter within the laterodorsal tegmental nucleus (LDT), which is a brainstem region importantly involved in responding to motivational stimuli and critical in development of drug addiction-associated behaviours, however, it is unknown whether PNE alters glutamate signalling within this nucleus. Accordingly, we used calcium imaging, to evaluate AMPA and NMDA receptor-mediated calcium responses in LDT brain slices from control and PNE mice. We also investigated whether the positive AMPA receptor modulator cyclothiazide (CYZ) had differential actions on calcium in the LDT following PNE. Our data indicated that PNE significantly decreased AMPA receptor-mediated calcium responses, and altered the neuronal calcium response to consecutive NMDA applications within the LDT. Furthermore, CYZ strongly potentiated AMPA-induced responses, however, this action was significantly reduced in the LDT of PNE mice when compared with enhancements in responses in control LDT cells. Immunohistochemical processing confirmed that calcium imaging recordings were obtained from the LDT nucleus as determined by presence of cholinergic neurons. Our results contribute to the body of evidence suggesting that neurobiological changes are induced if gestation is accompanied by nicotine exposure. We conclude that in light of the role played by the LDT in motivated behaviour, the cellular changes in the LDT induced by exposures to nicotine prenatally, when combined with alterations in other reward-related regions, could contribute to the increased susceptibility to smoking observed in the offspring.
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Mychasiuk R, Muhammad A, Carroll C, Kolb B. Does prenatal nicotine exposure alter the brain's response to nicotine in adolescence? A neuroanatomical analysis. Eur J Neurosci 2013; 38:2491-503. [DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2013] [Revised: 03/21/2013] [Accepted: 04/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- R. Mychasiuk
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neurosciences; University of Lethbridge; Lethbridge; AB; Canada; T1K 3M4
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neurosciences; University of Lethbridge; Lethbridge; AB; Canada; T1K 3M4
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neurosciences; University of Lethbridge; Lethbridge; AB; Canada; T1K 3M4
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neurosciences; University of Lethbridge; Lethbridge; AB; Canada; T1K 3M4
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Jemal A, Ma J, Rosenberg PS, Siegel R, Anderson WF. Increasing lung cancer death rates among young women in southern and midwestern States. J Clin Oncol 2012; 30:2739-44. [PMID: 22734032 PMCID: PMC3402885 DOI: 10.1200/jco.2012.42.6098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2012] [Accepted: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Previous studies reported that declines in age-specific lung cancer death rates among women in the United States abruptly slowed in women younger than age 50 years (ie, women born after the 1950s). However, in view of substantial geographic differences in antitobacco measures and sociodemographic factors that affect smoking prevalence, it is unknown whether this change in the trend was similar across all states. METHODS We examined female age-specific lung cancer death rates (1973 through 2007) by year of death and birth in each state by using age-period-cohort models. Cohort relative risks adjusted for age and period effects were used to compare the lung cancer death rate for a given birth cohort to a referent birth cohort (ie, the 1933 cohort herein). RESULTS Age-specific lung cancer death rates declined continuously in white women in California, but the rates declined less quickly or even increased in the remaining states among women younger than age 50 years and women born after the 1950s, especially in several southern and midwestern states. For example, in some southern states (eg, Alabama), lung cancer death rates among women born in the 1960s were approximately double those of women born in the 1930s. CONCLUSION The unfavorable lung cancer trend in white women born after circa 1950 in southern and midwestern states underscores the need for additional interventions to promote smoking cessation in these high-risk populations, which could lead to more favorable future mortality trends for lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases.
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- Ahmedin Jemal
- Surveillance Research Program, American Cancer Society, 250 Williams St, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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Vrieze SI, McGue M, Iacono WG. The interplay of genes and adolescent development in substance use disorders: leveraging findings from GWAS meta-analyses to test developmental hypotheses about nicotine consumption. Hum Genet 2012; 131:791-801. [PMID: 22492059 PMCID: PMC3407593 DOI: 10.1007/s00439-012-1167-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 04/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The present study evaluated gene by development interaction in cigarettes smoked per day (CPD) in a longitudinal community-representative sample (N = 3,231) of Caucasian twins measured at ages 14, 17, 20, and 24. Biometric heritability analyses show strong heritabilities and shared environmental influences, as well as cross-age genetic and shared environmental correlations. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) previously associated with CPD according to meta-analysis were summed to create a SNP score. At best, the SNP score accounted for 1 % of the variance in CPD. The results suggest developmental moderation with a larger significant SNP score effect on CPD at ages 20 and 24, and smaller non-significant effect at ages 14 and 17. These results are consistent with the notion that nicotine-specific genetic substance use risk is less important at younger ages, and becomes more important as individuals age into adulthood. In a complementary analysis, the same nicotine-relevant SNP score was unrelated to the frequency of alcohol use at ages 14, 17, 20, or 24. These results indicate that the SNP score is specific to nicotine in this small sample and that increased exposure to nicotine at ages 20 and 24 does not influence the extent of concurrent or later alcohol use. Increased sample sizes and replication or meta-analysis are necessary to confirm these results. The methods and results illustrate the importance and difficulty of considering developmental processes in understanding the interplay of genes and environment.
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- Scott I Vrieze
- University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Mahabee-Gittens EM, Xiao Y, Gordon JS, Khoury JC. The role of family influences on adolescent smoking in different racial/ethnic groups. Nicotine Tob Res 2011; 14:264-73. [PMID: 22180584 DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntr192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Although differing levels of family influences may explain some of the varying racial/ethnic trends in adolescent smoking behavior, clarification of which influences are protective against smoking may aid in the development of future ethnic-specific smoking prevention interventions. We sought to identify and compare the association of family influences on adolescent smoking among Black, Hispanic, and White adolescents in a cross-sectional national sample. METHODS Data from 6,426 parent-child dyads from Round 1 of the National Survey of Parents and Youth were analyzed. The association of family influences with ever-smokers and recent smokers was evaluated. Multinomial logistic regression using SUDAAN software was used. RESULTS While all measures of family influences except for parent-adolescent activities and intention to monitor were significantly protective against recent smoking and ever smoking among Whites, ethnic-specific family influence predictors of smoking were found in Blacks and Hispanics. Higher parental monitoring, higher intention to monitor, and higher connectedness were protective among Hispanics, while higher parental punishment and favorable attitude toward monitoring were protective against smoking among Blacks. For family influences significantly associated with protection against smoking, consistently greater protection was afforded against recent smoking than against ever smoking. CONCLUSIONS Higher levels of family influences are protective against smoking among all racial/ethnic groups. There are consistencies in family influences on youth smoking; however, there may be specific family influences that should be differentially emphasized within racial/ethnic groups in order to protect against smoking behavior. Our results offer insight for designing strategies for preventing smoking in youth of different racial/ethnic backgrounds.
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- E Melinda Mahabee-Gittens
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039, USA.
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Oredein T, Foulds J. Causes of the decline in cigarette smoking among African American youths from the 1970s to the 1990s. Am J Public Health 2011; 101:e4-e14. [PMID: 21852655 PMCID: PMC3222352 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2011.300289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Adult cigarette smoking prevalence trends among African Americans (AAs) and Whites are similar. However, during the decline in youth smoking that occurred between the mid-1970s and the early 1990s, the drop in smoking rates among AA adolescents was more than double that among Whites. We examined the evidence for potential explanations for this phenomenon. On the basis of our findings, we propose that racial differences in parental attitudes, religious ties, negative perceptions and experiences of the health effects of smoking, worsening poverty, increased use of food stamps, and price sensitivity were major factors contributing to the more rapid decrease in and continued lower rates of smoking among AA youths.
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- Tyree Oredein
- School of Public Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.
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Exposure to nicotine and ethanol in adolescent mice: Effects on depressive-like behavior during exposure and withdrawal. Behav Brain Res 2011; 221:282-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2011] [Revised: 03/02/2011] [Accepted: 03/06/2011] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Pentkowski NS, Painter MR, Thiel KJ, Peartree NA, Cheung THC, Deviche P, Adams M, Alba J, Neisewander JL. Nicotine-induced plasma corticosterone is attenuated by social interactions in male and female adolescent rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2011; 100:1-7. [PMID: 21782841 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2011] [Revised: 06/28/2011] [Accepted: 07/07/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Most smokers begin smoking during adolescence, a period during which social reward is highly influential. Initial exposure to nicotine can produce anxiogenic effects that may be influenced by social context. This study examined play behavior and plasma corticosterone following nicotine administration (0.6 mg/kg, s.c.) in both male and female adolescent (PND39) Sprague-Dawley rats in either isolate or social contexts. In blood samples collected immediately following the 15-min test session, nicotine increased plasma corticosterone relative to saline in both male and female isolate rats, but failed to do so in both males and females placed together in same-sex pairs. Nicotine also attenuated several indices of play behavior including nape attacks, pins and social contact. In isolate rats, nicotine selectively increased locomotor activity in females; however, when administered to social pairs, nicotine decreased locomotion in both sexes. These findings suggest that the presence of a social partner may decrease the initial negative, stress-activating effects of nicotine, perhaps leading to increased nicotine reward.
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- N S Pentkowski
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA
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Saunders C. Access to Cigarettes by Daily Smokers in Florida's Public Middle Schools and High Schools. Nicotine Tob Res 2011; 13:589-98. [DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntr047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Rinker JA, Hutchison MA, Chen SA, Thorsell A, Heilig M, Riley AL. Exposure to nicotine during periadolescence or early adulthood alters aversive and physiological effects induced by ethanol. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2011; 99:7-16. [PMID: 21420998 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2010] [Revised: 03/02/2011] [Accepted: 03/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The majority of smokers begin their habit during adolescence, which often precedes experimentation with alcohol. Interestingly, very little preclinical work has been done examining how exposure to nicotine during periadolescence impacts the affective properties of alcohol in adulthood. Understanding how periadolescent nicotine exposure influences the aversive effects of alcohol might help to explain why it becomes more acceptable to this preexposed population. Thus, Experiment 1 exposed male Sprague Dawley rats to either saline or nicotine (0.4mg/kg, IP) from postnatal days 34 to 43 (periadolescence) and then examined changes in the aversive effects of alcohol (0, 0.56, 1.0 and 1.8g/kg, IP) in adulthood using the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) design. Changes in blood alcohol concentration (BAC) as well as alcohol-induced hypothermia and locomotor suppression were also assessed. To determine if changes seen were specific to nicotine exposure during periadolescence, the procedures were replicated in adults (Experiment 2). Preexposure to nicotine during periadolescence attenuated the acquisition of the alcohol-induced CTAs (at 1.0g/kg) and the hypothermic effects of alcohol (1.0g/kg). Adult nicotine preexposure produced similar attenuation in alcohol's aversive (at 1.8g/kg) and hypothermic (1.8g/kg) effects. Neither adolescent nor adult nicotine preexposure altered BACs or alcohol-induced locomotor suppression. These results suggest that nicotine may alter the aversive and physiological effects of alcohol, regardless of the age at which exposure occurs, possibly increasing its overall reinforcing value and making it more likely to be consumed.
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- Jennifer A Rinker
- Psychopharmacology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, American University, Washington, DC, USA.
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Zombeck JA, Swearingen SP, Rhodes JS. Acute locomotor responses to cocaine in adolescents vs. adults from four divergent inbred mouse strains. GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR 2011; 9:892-8. [PMID: 20662938 DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183x.2010.00630.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Growing evidence suggests that adolescent mice display differential sensitivity to the acute locomotor activating effects of cocaine as compared to adults, but the direction of the difference varies across studies and the reasons are not clear. Few studies have directly examined genetic contributions to age differences in locomotor stimulation from cocaine. The goal of this study was to determine the extent to which reduced stimulation in C57BL/6J adolescents as compared to adults generalizes to other strains. Therefore, we examined male and female mice from four genetically divergent inbred stains (BALB/cByJ, C57BL/6J, DBA/2J and FVB/NJ) at two ages, postnatal day 30 and postnatal day 65. Mice received either saline or cocaine (15 or 30 mg/kg), and then immediately were placed back into their home cages. Locomotor activity was recorded continuously in the home cage by video tracking. Adolescents displayed reduced stimulation as compared to adults for C57BL/6J, BALB/cByJ and female FVB/NJ mice. No age differences were observed for DBA/2J or male FVB/NJ. No main effects of sex were observed. Strain differences in pharmacokinetics, neural development or physiology could contribute to the observed differences between ages across strains. Future comparative studies could discover biological differences between strains that explain age differences in cocaine sensitivity.
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- J A Zombeck
- Department of Psychology, The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Smoking and women's health. Nurs Womens Health 2010; 14:427-9. [PMID: 20955537 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-486x.2010.01571.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Aslam N, Bushra R. Active smoking in adolescents of karachi, pakistan. Oman Med J 2010; 25:142. [PMID: 22125718 DOI: 10.5001/omj.2010.39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Oliveira-da-Silva A, Manhães AC, Cristina-Rodrigues F, Filgueiras CC, Abreu-Villaça Y. Hippocampal increased cell death and decreased cell density elicited by nicotine and/or ethanol during adolescence are reversed during drug withdrawal. Neuroscience 2010; 167:163-73. [PMID: 20138127 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.01.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2009] [Revised: 01/27/2010] [Accepted: 01/28/2010] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We have recently identified hippocampal cell death and reduced neuronal and glial cells densities during adolescent nicotine and ethanol exposures and outcomes reduced in severity when nicotine and ethanol are co-administered during this developmental period. In the present study, we investigated the effects of adolescent nicotine and/or ethanol withdrawal on the following regions of the hippocampus: Granular layer of the Dentate Gyrus (GrDG), Molecular layer (Mol), CA1, CA2 and CA3. From the 30th to the 45th postnatal day (PN30-PN45), C57BL/6 male and female mice were exposed to nicotine free base (NIC) and/or ethanol (ETOH). Four groups were analyzed: (1) concomitant NIC (50 microg/ml in 2% saccharin to drink) and ETOH (25%, 2 g/kg i.p. injected every other day) exposure; (2) NIC exposure; (3) ETOH exposure; (4) vehicle. We evaluated cell degeneration (TUNEL assay), neuronal and glial densities (optical Disector) and region thicknesses two (PN47) and five (PN50) days post-exposure. On PN47, there were increases in the number of TUNEL+ cells in most hippocampal regions of both ETOH and NIC groups. In the NIC+ETOH group there were less severe effects. These results were paralleled by reductions in neuronal and glial cells densities for all treatment groups. In contrast, on PN50, ethanol and/or nicotine withdrawal were associated with compensatory reductions in TUNEL+ cells in all hippocampal regions. These results were paralleled by a reversal of effects on neuronal and glial densities so that there were no longer differences between groups. There were no effects on region thicknesses. These results suggest that deleterious effects of nicotine and/or ethanol are reversed during prolonged withdrawal.
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- A Oliveira-da-Silva
- Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Centro Biomédico, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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Ribeiro-Carvalho A, Lima C, Medeiros A, Siqueira N, Filgueiras C, Manhães A, Abreu-Villaça Y. Combined exposure to nicotine and ethanol in adolescent mice: effects on the central cholinergic systems during short and long term withdrawal. Neuroscience 2009; 162:1174-86. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2009] [Revised: 05/05/2009] [Accepted: 05/16/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Friestad C, Rise J. Smoking Attributions and Adolescents' Intention to try to Quit Smoking. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009. [DOI: 10.3109/16066359809008840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Oliveira-da-Silva A, Vieira FB, Cristina-Rodrigues F, Filgueiras CC, Manhães AC, Abreu-Villaça Y. Increased apoptosis and reduced neuronal and glial densities in the hippocampus due to nicotine and ethanol exposure in adolescent mice. Int J Dev Neurosci 2009; 27:539-48. [PMID: 19576279 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2009.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2009] [Revised: 06/03/2009] [Accepted: 06/23/2009] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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It has been recently shown that nicotine and ethanol interact during adolescence affecting memory/learning and anxiety levels. Considering the role of the hippocampus in both anxiety and memory/learning, we investigated whether adolescent nicotine and/or ethanol administration elicit apoptotic cell death and whether this results in neuronal and/or glial density alterations in the following regions of the hippocampus: granular layer of the dentate gyrus (GrDG), molecular layer (Mol), CA1, CA2 and CA3. From the 30th to the 45th postnatal day, C57BL/6 male and female mice were exposed to nicotine free base (NIC) and/or ethanol (ETOH). Four groups were analyzed: (1) concomitant NIC (50mug/ml in 2% saccharin to drink) and ETOH (25%, 2g/kg i.p. injected every other day) exposure; (2) NIC exposure; (3) ETOH exposure; (4) vehicle. We evaluated cell degeneration (TUNEL assay), neuronal and glial densities (optical disector) and region thicknesses at the end of the period of exposure. Our results demonstrate that ETOH elicited an increase in TUNEL-positive cells relative to the vehicle group in all hippocampal regions. NIC elicited less severe region-dependent effects: the number of TUNEL-positive cells was significantly increased in the Mol and CA1 when compared to the vehicle group. These results were paralleled by reductions in neuronal and glial cells densities, which indicate that both cell types are sensitive to the neurotoxic effects of these drugs. There were no effects on region thicknesses. On the other hand, concomitant NIC and ETOH reduced the adverse effects of the drugs when administered separately. This ability of nicotine and ethanol co-exposure to lessen the adverse effects of nicotine and ethanol may contribute to adolescents co-use and co-abuse of tobacco and alcoholic beverages.
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- Andreia Oliveira-da-Silva
- Laboratório de Neurofisiologia, Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Centro Biomédico, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Av. Prof. Manoel de Abreu 444, 5 andar, Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20550-170, Brazil
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Synergistic interaction between nicotine and social rewards in adolescent male rats. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 2009; 204:391-402. [PMID: 19224200 PMCID: PMC2831774 DOI: 10.1007/s00213-009-1470-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2008] [Accepted: 01/09/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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RATIONALE Smoking typically begins during adolescence and is largely reinforced by social cues. During adolescence in rats, sensitivity to both social cues and drugs of abuse is enhanced. OBJECTIVES We have previously demonstrated in adolescent male rats that a low dose of cocaine interacts with social reward to produce an enhanced conditioned place preference (CPP) relative to either reward given alone. The present study further examined the nature of drug-social reward interactions using nicotine. METHODS Dose-effect functions for nicotine-CPP were established using two different routes of administration (vehicle, 0.1, 0.3, and 0.6 mg/kg, SC and vehicle, 0.01, 0.03, and 0.06 mg/kg, IV). The effects of nicotine on social reward-CPP and social play behavior were next examined using parameters presumed to be sub-threshold for establishing social reward- and nicotine-CPP. RESULTS Dose-dependent nicotine-CPP was observed using both routes of administration. Two pairings of the initially non-preferred side of the apparatus with either SC nicotine or another adolescent rat failed to produce CPP when examined alone, but together produced a robust CPP despite nicotine reducing social play. This interaction effect was not observed with the IV nicotine. A final experiment demonstrated that the enhancement of CPP with the combination of rewards was not due to additive effects of weak, sub-threshold conditioning. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that nicotine and social rewards interact synergistically in adolescent rats resulting in a greater, perhaps qualitatively different, reward than either reward given alone. Understanding drug-social reward interactions may provide new directions for development of preventions and interventions of adolescent smoking.
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De Genna NM, Cornelius MD, Donovan JE. Risk factors for young adult substance use among women who were teenage mothers. Addict Behav 2009; 34:463-70. [PMID: 19179015 PMCID: PMC2649997 DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2008.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2008] [Revised: 12/19/2008] [Accepted: 12/31/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Teenage mothers may not "mature out" of substance use during young adulthood, and this non-normative trajectory of use may contribute to negative outcomes for teenage mothers and their offspring. Pregnant teenagers (age range=12-18 years; 68% Black) were recruited from a prenatal clinic and interviewed about their substance use, and subsequently re-interviewed six and ten years later (n=292). Consistent with the literature, early tobacco and marijuana use were risk factors for young adult use. Other substance use, peer adolescent use and mental health indicators were more important than race and socioeconomic status (SES) in determining which teenage mothers would use tobacco, engage in binge drinking, and use marijuana as young adults. However, race and SES were significant predictors of quitting tobacco use and marijuana use by the 10-year follow-up. Depression was associated with both persistent tobacco use and marijuana use in teenage mothers. These results illustrate the long-term consequences of teenage childbearing and identify modifiable risk factors for later health risks that should be addressed among younger mothers.
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- Natacha M De Genna
- University of Pittsburgh and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Program in Epidemiology Suite 138 - Webster Hall, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 4415 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the United States. The majority of children smoke their first cigarette in early adolescence, and many older teens have well-established dependence on nicotine. Efforts to promote and support smoking cessation among these youth smokers are critical. The available experimental studies of youth cessation interventions find that behavioral interventions increase the chances of youth smokers achieving successful cessation. Currently there is insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of pharmacological treatments with youth smokers. Many innovative studies have been compromised by challenges in recruiting sufficient numbers of youth, obtaining approval for waivers of parental consent, and high attrition in longitudinal studies. Key areas for future work include bridging the fields of adolescent development and treatment design, matching treatments to developmental trajectories of smoking behavior, better understanding treatment processes and treatment moderators, and building demand for evidence-based cessation treatments.
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- Susan J. Curry
- Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608
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- Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608
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- Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608
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Pampel FC. Differences in the influence of family background and social activities on smoking of minority and white high school seniors, 1976-2004. J Immigr Minor Health 2008; 10:507-15. [PMID: 18401717 PMCID: PMC2735563 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-008-9139-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This population-based study of high school seniors examines differences in the influence of several important determinants of smoking among white, African-American, Hispanic, and other teens. With national survey data for each year from 1976 to 2004, logistic regression is used to test for differences across race and ethnic groups (averaged over all years) in the effects on daily smoking of background factors such as living arrangements and parents' education and social activities such as academic performance and religiosity. The results show similarity in effects across racial categories, but some determinants have weaker or reversed effects for African-American and Hispanic youth than for white youth. For example, high parents' education increases smoking among Hispanic youth, has little influence among African Americans, and decreases smoking among whites. These results suggest that smoking patterns of minority teens differ in some ways from those of white teens.
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- Fred C Pampel
- Population Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0484, USA.
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Manhães AC, Guthierrez MC, Filgueiras CC, Abreu-Villaça Y. Anxiety-like behavior during nicotine withdrawal predict subsequent nicotine consumption in adolescent C57BL/6 mice. Behav Brain Res 2008; 193:216-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2008] [Accepted: 05/28/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Ribeiro-Carvalho A, Lima CS, Filgueiras CC, Manhães AC, Abreu-Villaça Y. Nicotine and ethanol interact during adolescence: Effects on the central cholinergic systems. Brain Res 2008; 1232:48-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2008] [Revised: 07/14/2008] [Accepted: 07/17/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Cities are now the major sites of human habitation worldwide, a trend that will continue for the foreseeable future, not only in the developed world but in developing countries. Urban residence impacts health and health prospects both positively and negatively through a complex mix of exposures and mechanisms. In addition, cities concentrate population subsets of various demographic, economic, and social characteristics, some with particular health risks and vulnerabilities. Looking at health through the urban lens allows increased understanding of disparate risks and emphasizes the essentiality of collaborative efforts in protecting and enhancing the health of populations, especially those living in cities.
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If nicotine is a developmental neurotoxicant in animal studies, dare we recommend nicotine replacement therapy in pregnant women and adolescents? Neurotoxicol Teratol 2008; 30:1-19. [PMID: 18380035 DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2007.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Tobacco use in pregnancy is a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and contributes in major ways to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorders and learning disabilities that emerge in childhood and adolescence. Over the past two decades, animal models of prenatal nicotine exposure have demonstrated that nicotine is a neurobehavioral teratogen that disrupts brain development by preempting the natural, neurotrophic roles of acetylcholine. Through its actions on nicotinic cholinergic receptors, nicotine elicits abnormalities of neural cell proliferation and differentiation, promotes apoptosis and produces deficits in the number of neural cells and in synaptic function. The effects eventually compromise multiple neurotransmitter systems because of the widespread regulatory role of cholinergic neurotransmission. Importantly, the long-term alterations include effects on reward systems that reinforce the subsequent susceptibility to nicotine addiction in later life. These considerations strongly question the appropriateness of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for smoking cessation in pregnant women, especially as the pharmacokinetics of the transdermal patch may actually enhance fetal nicotine exposure. Further, because brain maturation continues into adolescence, the period when smoking typically commences, adolescence is also a vulnerable period in which nicotine can change the trajectory of neurodevelopment. There are also serious questions as to whether NRT is actually effective as an aid to smoking cessation in pregnant women and adolescents. This review considers the ramifications of the basic science findings of nicotine's effects on brain development for NRT in these populations.
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Nelson DE, Mowery P, Asman K, Pederson LL, O'Malley PM, Malarcher A, Maibach EW, Pechacek TF. Long-term trends in adolescent and young adult smoking in the United States: metapatterns and implications. Am J Public Health 2008; 98:905-15. [PMID: 18382001 PMCID: PMC2374818 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2007.115931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We sought to describe long-term adolescent and young adult smoking trends and patterns. METHODS We analyzed adolescent data from Monitoring the Future, 1976 to 2005, and young adult (aged 18-24 years) data from the National Health Interview Survey, 1974 to 2005, overall and in subpopulations to identify trends in current cigarette smoking prevalence. RESULTS Five metapatterns emerged: we found (1) a large increase and subsequent decrease in overall smoking over the past 15 years, (2) a steep decline in smoking among Blacks through the early 1990s, (3) a gender gap reversal among older adolescents and young adults who smoked over the past 15 years, (4) similar trends in smoking for most subgroups since the early 1990s, and (5) a large decline in smoking among young adults with less than a high school education. CONCLUSIONS Long-term patterns for adolescent and young adult cigarette smoking were decidedly nonlinear, and we found evidence of a cohort effect among young adults. Continued strong efforts and a long-term societal commitment to tobacco use prevention are needed, given the unprecedented declines in smoking among most subpopulations since the mid- to late 1990s.
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- David E Nelson
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Emerging Investigation and Analytic Methods Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Mailstop K-67, Atlanta, GA 30341-3717, USA.
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Abreu-Villaça Y, Nunes F, do E Queiroz-Gomes F, Manhães AC, Filgueiras CC. Combined exposure to nicotine and ethanol in adolescent mice differentially affects anxiety levels during exposure, short-term, and long-term withdrawal. Neuropsychopharmacology 2008; 33:599-610. [PMID: 17460612 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1301429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Smoking and consumption of alcoholic beverages are frequently associated during adolescence. This association could be explained by the cumulative behavioral effects of nicotine and ethanol, particularly those related to anxiety levels. However, despite epidemiological findings, there have been few animal studies of the basic neurobiology of the combined exposure in the adolescent brain. In the present work we assessed, through the use of the elevated plus maze, the short- and long-term anxiety effects of nicotine (NIC) and/or ethanol (ETOH) exposure during adolescence (from the 30th to the 45th postnatal day) in four groups of male and female C57BL/6 mice: (1) Concomitant NIC (nicotine free-base solution (50 microg/ml) in 2% saccharin to drink) and ETOH (ethanol solution (25%, 2 g/kg) i.p. injected every other day) exposure; (2) NIC exposure; (3) ETOH exposure; (4) Vehicle. C57BL/6 mice were selected, in spite of the fact that they present slower ethanol metabolism, because they readily consume nicotine in the concentration used in the present study. During exposure (45th postnatal day: PN45), our results indicated that ethanol was anxiolytic in adolescent mice and that nicotine reverted this effect. Short-term drug withdrawal (PN50) elicited sex-dependent effects: exposure to nicotine and/or ethanol was anxiogenic only for females. Although neither nicotine nor ethanol effects persisted up to 1 month postexposure (PN75), the coadministration elicited an anxiogenic response. In spite of the fact that generalizations based on the results from a single strain of mice are prone to shortcomings, our results suggest that the deficient response to the anxiolytic effects of ethanol in adolescents co-exposed to nicotine may drive higher ethanol consumption. Additionally, increased anxiety during long-term smoking and drinking withdrawal may facilitate relapse to drug use.
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- Yael Abreu-Villaça
- Laboratório de Neurofisiologia, Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Centro Biomédico, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Slotkin TA, Bodwell BE, Ryde IT, Seidler FJ. Adolescent nicotine treatment changes the response of acetylcholine systems to subsequent nicotine administration in adulthood. Brain Res Bull 2008; 76:152-65. [PMID: 18395624 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2007] [Revised: 12/10/2007] [Accepted: 12/20/2007] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Nicotine alters the developmental trajectory of acetylcholine (ACh) systems in the immature brain, with vulnerability extending from fetal stages through adolescence. We administered nicotine to adolescent rats (postnatal days PN30-47) and then examined the subsequent response to nicotine given in adulthood (PN90-107), simulating plasma levels in smokers, and performing evaluations during nicotine treatment (PN105) and withdrawal (PN110, PN120 and PN130), as well as assessing persistent changes at 6 months of age (PN180). We measured nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) binding, choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity, a marker for ACh terminals, and hemicholinium-3 (HC3) binding to the choline transporter, an index of ACh presynaptic activity. By itself, adolescent nicotine exposure evoked sex-selective deficits in cerebrocortical HC3 binding while elevating ChAT in young adulthood in striatum and midbrain. Nicotine given in adulthood produced profound nAChR upregulation lasting 2 weeks after discontinuing treatment, and decrements in cerebrocortical and striatal HC3 binding emerged during withdrawal, indicative of reduced ACh synaptic activity. For all three parameters, adolescent nicotine altered the responses to nicotine given in adulthood, producing both sensitization and desensitization that depended on sex and brain region, effects that parallel the disparate behavioral outcomes reported for these treatments. The interaction seen here for the impact of adolescent nicotine exposure on adult nicotine responses was substantially greater than that found previously for the effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on adult responses. Our findings thus reinforce the importance of adolescence as a critical period in which the future responsiveness to nicotine is programmed.
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- Theodore A Slotkin
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Pampel FC, Aguilar J. Changes in Youth Smoking, 1976-2002: A Time-Series Analysis. YOUTH & SOCIETY 2008; 39:453-479. [PMID: 19652692 PMCID: PMC2696267 DOI: 10.1177/0044118x07308070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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During the past several decades, smoking prevalence among youth has fluctuated in puzzling and unexpected ways. To help understand these changes, this study tests seven explanations: (a) compositional changes, (b) sample selection, (c) adult smoking, (d) social strain, (e) cigarette prices, (f) tobacco advertising, and (g) other drug use. Figures on smoking prevalence come from the Monitoring the Future (MTF) Surveys from 1976-2002, whereas figures on aggregate determinants for the same time period come from government publications. Graphs of the time-series trends to determine temporal correspondence and time-series regression models to test for statistical influence reveal two variables that have expected effects. Increases in cigarette prices reduce smoking, particularly in the most recent years, and higher marijuana initiation (or use) is associated with greater smoking during most of the time period. However, much of the change in youth smoking, particularly the most recent rise and fall, remains unexplained.
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Levin ED, Lawrence S, Petro A, Horton K, Seidler FJ, Slotkin TA. Increased nicotine self-administration following prenatal exposure in female rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2006; 85:669-74. [PMID: 17196243 PMCID: PMC1797890 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2006.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2006] [Revised: 11/14/2006] [Accepted: 11/14/2006] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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There is a significant association between maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy and greater subsequent risk of smoking in female offspring. In animal models, prenatal nicotine exposure causes persistent alterations in cholinergic and monoaminergic systems, both of which are important for nicotine actions underlying tobacco addiction. Accordingly, the current study was conducted to determine if there is a cause-and-effect relationship between prenatal nicotine exposure and nicotine self-administration starting in adolescence. Pregnant rats were administered nicotine (6 mg/kg/day) by osmotic minipump infusion throughout gestation and then, beginning in adolescence and continuing into adulthood, female offspring were given access to nicotine via a standard operant IV self-administration procedure (0.03 mg/kg/infusion). Gestational nicotine exposure did not alter the initial rate of nicotine self-administration. However, when animals underwent one week of forced abstinence and then had a second opportunity to self-administer nicotine, the prenatally-exposed animals showed a significantly greater rate of self-administration than did the controls. Prenatal nicotine exposure causes increased nicotine self-administration, which is revealed only when the animals are allowed to experience a period of nicotine abstinence. This supports a cause-and-effect relationship between the higher rates of smoking in the daughters of women who smoke cigarettes during pregnancy and implicates a role for nicotine in this effect. Our results further characterize the long-term liabilities of maternal smoking but also point to the potential liabilities of nicotine-based treatments for smoking cessation during pregnancy.
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- Edward D Levin
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Slotkin TA, Tate CA, Cousins MM, Seidler FJ. Prenatal nicotine exposure alters the responses to subsequent nicotine administration and withdrawal in adolescence: Serotonin receptors and cell signaling. Neuropsychopharmacology 2006; 31:2462-75. [PMID: 16341021 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Offspring of women who smoke during pregnancy are themselves more likely to take up smoking in adolescence, effects that are associated with a high rate of depression and increased sensitivity to withdrawal symptoms. To evaluate the biological basis for this relationship, we assessed effects on serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5HT) receptors and 5HT-mediated cellular responses in rats exposed to nicotine throughout prenatal development and then given nicotine in adolescence (postnatal days PN30-47.5), using regimens that reproduce plasma nicotine levels found in smokers. Evaluations were then made during the period of adolescent nicotine treatment and for up to one month after the end of treatment. Prenatal nicotine exposure, which elicits damage to 5HT projections in the cerebral cortex and striatum, produced sex-selective changes in the expression of 5HT(1A) and 5HT2 receptors, along with induction of adenylyl cyclase (AC), leading to sensitization of heterologous inputs operating through this signaling pathway. Superimposed on these effects, the AC response to 5HT was shifted toward inhibition. By itself, adolescent nicotine administration, which damages the same pathways, produced similar effects on receptors and the 5HT-mediated response, but a smaller overall induction of AC. Animals exposed to prenatal nicotine showed a reduced response to nicotine administered in adolescence, results in keeping with earlier findings of persistent desensitization. Our results indicate that prenatal nicotine exposure alters parameters of 5HT synaptic communication lasting into adolescence and changes the response to nicotine administration and withdrawal in adolescence, actions which may contribute to a subpopulation especially vulnerable to nicotine dependence.
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- Theodore A Slotkin
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Tyc VL, Lensing S, Rai SN, Klosky JL, Stewart DB, Gattuso J. Predicting perceived vulnerability to tobacco-related health risks and future intentions to use tobacco among pediatric cancer survivors. PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING 2006; 62:198-204. [PMID: 16139983 DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2005.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2004] [Revised: 06/03/2005] [Accepted: 07/09/2005] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To examine predictors of perceived vulnerability to tobacco-related health risks and future intentions to use tobacco among pre-adolescents and adolescents previously treated for cancer. METHODS Written self-report measures of tobacco knowledge, perceived vulnerability, perceived positive value of tobacco use, past and present tobacco use, and intentions to use tobacco were completed by 103 cancer survivors, 10-18 years of age (51.5% males, 78.6% Caucasians). Patient reports of peer and parent tobacco use were also obtained. RESULTS Perceived vulnerability was influenced by demographic variables, knowledge, and gender-related past tobacco use. Fifty-seven percent of non-smoking survivors reported some intention to use tobacco. Survivors who perceived some positive value associated with tobacco use and who used tobacco in the past reported greater intentions for future tobacco use. CONCLUSION Modifiable cognitive-motivational variables directly associate with smoking-related outcomes among pediatric survivors of childhood cancer. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Preventive tobacco interventions with this vulnerable cohort are warranted and should inform about tobacco-related health risks and attempt to modify misperceptions of the positive value associated with tobacco use.
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- Vida L Tyc
- Division of Behavioral Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 N. Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105-2794, USA.
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Osaki Y, Tanihata T, Ohida T, Minowa M, Wada K, Suzuki K, Kaetsu A, Okamoto M, Kishimoto T. Adolescent smoking behaviour and cigarette brand preference in Japan. Tob Control 2006; 15:172-80. [PMID: 16728747 PMCID: PMC2564654 DOI: 10.1136/tc.2005.013060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2005] [Accepted: 12/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVES As part of efforts to develop a smoking control strategy for Japanese adolescents, the results of two nationwide surveys on adolescent smoking behaviour were compared. DESIGN Descriptive study on smoking behaviour among high school students was conducted. Self-reporting anonymous questionnaires were administered to 115,814 students in 1996 and 106,297 in 2000 through randomly sampled junior and senior high schools throughout Japan. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Smoking prevalence, proportion of smokers by usual sources of cigarettes, national estimated cigarettes consumed by minors, share of cigarette brands smoked by high school students. RESULTS The experiment rate among junior high school boys decreased in 2000 compared with that in 1996, whereas current and daily smoking rates did not. Although prevalence among Japanese girls was much lower than that among boys, prevalence among girls increased in 2000. The main source of cigarettes among high school smokers was vending machines. The proportion of smokers who usually purchased cigarettes from vending machines increased in 2000, in spite of the 1998 introduction of restrictions on night-time operations. Japanese adolescents were more likely than adults to smoke American cigarette brands, and the adolescent market share of American brands has increased rapidly, especially for menthol brands. CONCLUSIONS This survey revealed the seriousness of the problem of smoking behaviour among Japanese high school students, and suggested that this behaviour may be influenced by social environmental factors, including the marketing strategies of the tobacco industry. Action should be taken to reduce the prevalence and impact of pro-tobacco marketing messages and to abolish cigarette vending machines.
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- Y Osaki
- Division of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan.
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Abreu-Villaça Y, Queiroz-Gomes FDE, Dal Monte AP, Filgueiras CC, Manhães AC. Individual differences in novelty-seeking behavior but not in anxiety response to a new environment can predict nicotine consumption in adolescent C57BL/6 mice. Behav Brain Res 2006; 167:175-82. [PMID: 16214235 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2005] [Revised: 09/02/2005] [Accepted: 09/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Considering that adolescence is associated with an increased motivation to seek out new stimuli and with low anxiety levels in exploring novel environments, and that both behavioral traits may be associated with substance abuse, we investigated whether the behavioral response to a novel environment can predict subsequent oral nicotine self-administration in adolescent C57BL/6 mice. On postnatal day 30 (PN30), the novelty-seeking behavior and anxiety levels were assessed in a hole board activity box. The total number of head-dips (DIP) was used to classify animals either into the high novelty (HN; DIP above median) or low novelty (LN; DIP below median) groups. The percentage of center squares crossed (CEN) was used to classify animals either into the high anxiety (HA; CEN below median) or low anxiety (LA; CEN above median) groups. From PN31 to PN41, all animals were given a free choice between tap water or a nicotine solution (10 microg/ml). LN mice did not change nicotine intake throughout the free choice procedure, however, HN mice presented a marked increase in consumption. There were no differences in consumption between HA and LA mice. Our results indicated that mice that presented a more intense novelty-seeking behavior increased their preference for nicotine during the free choice experiment but that anxiety levels did not predict nicotine consumption. These results suggest that higher motivation to seek out new experiences is a significant contributor to drug use in adolescents and that anxiety is probably not a major factor that determines differential nicotine consumption during adolescence.
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- Yael Abreu-Villaça
- Laboratório de Neurofisiologia, Departamento de Ciências Fisiológicas, IBRAG, Centro Biomédico, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Av. Manoel de Abreu 444, 5 andar, Vila Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20 550 170, Brazil.
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Barron S, White A, Swartzwelder HS, Bell RL, Rodd ZA, Slawecki CJ, Ehlers CL, Levin ED, Rezvani AH, Spear LP. Adolescent vulnerabilities to chronic alcohol or nicotine exposure: findings from rodent models. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2005; 29:1720-5. [PMID: 16205372 DOI: 10.1097/01.alc.0000179220.79356.e5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
This article presents an overview of the proceedings from a symposium entitled "Is adolescence special? Possible age-related vulnerabilities to chronic alcohol or nicotine exposure," organized by Susan Barron and Linda Spear and held at the 2004 Research Society on Alcoholism Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. This symposium, co-sponsored by the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Study Group and the Neurobehavioral Teratology Society, focused on our current knowledge regarding the long-term consequences of ethanol and/or nicotine exposure during adolescence with the emphasis on data from rodent models. The support from these two societies represents the understanding by these research groups that adolescence represents a unique developmental stage for the effects of chronic drug exposure and also marks an age in which many risky behaviors including alcohol consumption and smoking typically begin. The speakers included (1) Aaron White, who presented data on the effects of adolescent ethanol exposure on subsequent motor or cognitive response to an ethanol challenge in adulthood; (2) Richard Bell, who presented data suggesting that genetic differences could play a role in adolescent vulnerability to ethanol; (3) Craig Slawecki, who presented data looking at the effects of chronic exposure to alcohol or nicotine on neurophysiologic and behavioral end points; and (4) Ed Levin, who presented data on acute and long-term consequences of adolescent nicotine exposure. Finally, Linda Spear provided some summary points and recommendations regarding unresolved issues and future directions.
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- Susan Barron
- Psychology Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0044, USA.
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