In contrast to alcohol, cocaine intake increases the GLP-1 levels in the plasma in rodents (You et al., 2019) and reduces the corresponding levels in humans ( 4 Confounding factors Although the aforementioned studies show that GLP-1R agonists and/or GLP-1 modulate the responses to alcohol and addictive drugs, various limitations and confounding factors influence the conclusions that can be drawn from the acquired data
MC3R and MC4R are both primarily expressed in the brain as shown in Figure 1 , particularly in centers of metabolic control including the arcuate nucleus (ARC), paraventricular nucleus (PVN), nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS), and paraventricular thalamus (PVT) (58)
In PTSD mice models, trauma exposure increased tyrosine hydroxylase expression (the rate-limiting enzyme in catecholamine biosynthesis), elevating stress hormones epinephrine and norepinephrine in serum and colon, which upregulated claudin-2 expression, confirming gut barrier dysfunction (Yadav et al., 2023)
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