
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 19
Опубликована: Апрель 15, 2025
Introduction A result of the ongoing opioid epidemic has been a significant rise in rates use during pregnancy. This includes maintenance medications for disorder (MOUDs), such as methadone, which are standard care pregnant people with an (OUD). Although MOUDs leads to better neonatal outcomes exposed offspring compared those born from individuals untreated OUD, pharmacology is similar misused opioids. Despite high prevalence prenatal exposure opioids, including MOUDs, our understanding long-term consequences these exposures limited. Prenatal drug known be risk factor future substance and mood disorders, yet, how influences ethanol intake adult associated affective behaviors not examined. Methods Using rat model methadone (PME), included twice daily injections gestational day 3-20, this study assessed forced swim stress (FSS) altered intake, addition examination depressive-like behavior FSS. Given role basolateral amygdala (BLA) emotion reward processing, we also conducted patch clamp electrophysiology experiments BLA neurons investigate changes synaptic transmission gene expression neuromodulatory systems that influence processing. Results Females history PME consumed less than control females, no effects on evident males. While increased immobility FSS both males had intake. glutamate dopamine D1, D2, D3 receptor mu mRNA but Discussion Collectively, identified impairments alterations function females PME, supporting previous findings lab demonstrating female more sensitive PME.
Язык: Английский