Sex differences in cocaine sensitization vary by mouse strain

AD Chapp, CA Nwakama, MJ Thomas, RL Meisel… - …, 2023 - karger.com
Introduction: Preclinical literature, frequently utilizing rats, suggests females display a more
rapid advancement of substance abuse and a greater risk of relapse following drug …

Extreme phenotypic diversity in operant response to intravenous cocaine or saline infusion in the hybrid mouse diversity panel

JR Bagley, AH Khan, DJ Smith, JD Jentsch - Addiction biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cocaine self‐administration is a complexly determined trait, with a substantial proportion of
individual differences being determined by genetic variation. However, the relevant genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioral phenotypes revealed during reversal learning are linked with novel genetic loci in diversity outbred mice

JR Bagley, LS Bailey, LH Gagnon, H He, VM Philip… - Addiction …, 2022 - Elsevier
Impulsive behavior and impulsivity are heritable phenotypes that are strongly associated
with risk for substance use disorders. Identifying the neurogenetic mechanisms that …

Do gene expression findings from mouse models of cocaine use recapitulate human cocaine use disorder in reward circuitry?

SB Huggett, JA Bubier, EJ Chesler… - Genes, Brain and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Animal models of drug use have investigated possible mechanisms governing human
substance use traits for over 100 years. Most cross‐species research on drug use/addiction …

The collaborative cross strains and their founders vary widely in cocaine-induced behavioral sensitization

SA Schoenrock, L Gagnon, A Olson… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cocaine use and overdose deaths attributed to cocaine have increased significantly in the
United States in the last 10 years. Despite the prevalence of cocaine use disorder (CUD) …

Reversal Learning Phenotypes are Linked with Novel Genetic Loci in Diversity Outbred Mice

JR Bagley, LS Bailey, LH Gagnon, H He, VM Philip… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Impulsive behavior and impulsivity are heritable phenotypes that are strongly associated
with risk for substance use disorders in human subjects. Consequently, identifying the …