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Record W4408279621 · doi:10.1101/2025.03.07.641990

Pregnenolone and AEF0117 block cannabinoid-induced hyperlocomotion through GSK3β signaling at striatopallidal neurons

2025· preprint· en· W4408279621 on OpenAlexaff
Giovanni Tomaselli, Luigi Bellocchio, Pierre‐Louis Raux, Valérie Roullot-Lacarrière, Arnau Busquets-García, Valérie Lalanne, Yamuna Mariani, Adeline Cathala, Marion Zanese, Astrid Cannich, Agnès Grel, Doriane Gisquet, Miguel Mondésir, Mathilde Metna‐Laurent, Guillaume Drutel, Giovanni Marsicano, Pier‐Vincenzo Piazza, Jean‐Michel Revest, Monique Vallée

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCannabis and Cannabinoid Research
Canadian institutionsDiscovery Centre
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStriatumNeuroscienceCannabinoidPharmacologyEndocannabinoid systemProtein kinase BSignal transductionChemistryBiologyMedicineInternal medicineCell biologyDopamineReceptor

Abstract

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Abstract Administration of Δ 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive component of the plant Cannabis sativa , can induce psychotic symptomatology in humans and a large spectrum of acute psychotic-like behaviors in mice, including hyperlocomotion observed at low dose of THC (0.3 mg/kg). The cellular and molecular substrates of this effect have not been fully identified yet. Here we demonstrate that THC-induced hyperlocomotion depends on plasma membrane CB1R, which regulate the β-arrestin 1/Akt/GSK3β signaling pathway in D2R-positive neurons of the dorsal striatum forming the striatopallidal pathway of the basal ganglia. Pregnenolone (PREG) and its clinically developed analog, AEF0117, which are signaling specific inhibitors of CB1R (CB1-SSi), prevented GSK3β-dependent psychomotor stimulation induced by THC. Overall, this work highlights a novel intracellular mechanism of CB1R, thereby revealing a neuronal pathway underlying an important but still underexplored effect of THC and cannabis consumption, which could help the development of innovative therapeutic concepts against psychotic conditions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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