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- Title
Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases: potential therapeutic targets for alcohol use disorder.
- Authors
Wen, Rui-Ting; Zhang, Fang-Fang; Zhang, Han-Ting
- Abstract
Alcohol use disorder (AUD), which combines the criteria of both alcohol abuse and dependence, contributes as an important causal factor to multiple health and social problems. Given the limitation of current treatments, novel medications for AUD are needed to better control alcohol consumption and maintain abstinence. It has been well established that the intracellular signal transduction mediated by the second messengers cyclic AMP (cAMP) and cyclic GMP (cGMP) crucially underlies the genetic predisposition, rewarding properties, relapsing features, and systemic toxicity of compulsive alcohol consumption. On this basis, the upstream modulators phosphodiesterases (PDEs), which critically control intracellular levels of cyclic nucleotides by catalyzing their degradation, are proposed to play a role in modulating alcohol abuse and dependent process. Here, we highlight existing evidence that correlates cAMP and cGMP signal cascades with the regulation of alcohol-drinking behavior and discuss the possibility that PDEs may become a novel class of therapeutic targets for AUD.
- Subjects
ALCOHOL drinking; ALCOHOLISM; CYCLIC adenylic acid; CYCLIC guanylic acid; PHOSPHODIESTERASES
- Publication
Psychopharmacology, 2018, Vol 235, Issue 6, p1793
- ISSN
0033-3158
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00213-018-4895-7