PMID- 24968785 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150406 LR - 20140627 IS - 1875-7855 (Electronic) IS - 0079-6123 (Linking) VI - 211 DP - 2014 TI - Effects of prenatal exposure to cocaine on brain structure and function. PG - 277-89 LID - B978-0-444-63425-2.00012-X [pii] LID - 10.1016/B978-0-444-63425-2.00012-X [doi] AB - Drug abuse during pregnancy affects the mother and has adverse effects on the unborn child. This chapter highlights our recent findings at the neuroanatomical, molecular, and behavioral levels in a prenatal cocaine exposure mouse model. In the embryonic brains of prenatally cocaine-exposed mice, we observed a delay in the tangential migration of GABA neurons to the cerebral cortex as a result of a significant but transient decrease in the expression of the neurotrophin brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). These developmental changes lead to lasting deficits in the numerical density of GABA neurons in the mature medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). In adult prenatally cocaine-exposed mice, we observed a behavioral deficit in the recall of an extinguished cue-conditioned fear, which was rescued by administration of exogenous recombinant BDNF protein directly into the infralimbic cortex of the mPFC, which may result from altered activity-driven transcriptional regulation of BDNF. CI - (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - McCarthy, Deirdre M AU - McCarthy DM AD - Center for Brain Repair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA. FAU - Kabir, Zeeba D AU - Kabir ZD AD - Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA; Brain and Mind Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. FAU - Bhide, Pradeep G AU - Bhide PG AD - Center for Brain Repair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA. FAU - Kosofsky, Barry E AU - Kosofsky BE AD - Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA; Brain and Mind Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: bar2009@med.cornell.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - Netherlands TA - Prog Brain Res JT - Progress in brain research JID - 0376441 RN - 0 (Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors) RN - I5Y540LHVR (Cocaine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain/*drug effects MH - Cocaine/*toxicity MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors/*toxicity MH - Female MH - Mice MH - Neurogenesis/*drug effects MH - Pregnancy MH - Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects OTO - NOTNLM OT - BDNF OT - GABA OT - cocaine OT - dopamine OT - fear extinction EDAT- 2014/06/28 06:00 MHDA- 2015/04/07 06:00 CRDT- 2014/06/28 06:00 PHST- 2014/06/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/06/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/04/07 06:00 [medline] AID - B978-0-444-63425-2.00012-X [pii] AID - 10.1016/B978-0-444-63425-2.00012-X [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Prog Brain Res. 2014;211:277-89. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63425-2.00012-X.