Prenatal and postnatal alcohol exposure increases vulnerability to cocaine addiction in adult mice.

Lídia CantacorpsSandra Montagud-RomeroMiguel Ángel LujánOlga Valverde

Published in: British journal of pharmacology (2020)

Our findings demonstrate that maternal binge-like alcohol consumption during gestation and lactation alters sensitivity to the reinforcing effects of cocaine in adult offspring mice. Together, such data suggest that prenatal and postnatal alcohol exposure may underlie an enhanced susceptibility of alcohol-exposed offspring to develop drug addiction later in adulthood.

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