Effects of embryonic ethanol exposure at low doses on neuronal development, voluntary ethanol consumption and related behaviors in larval and adult zebrafish: Role of hypothalamic orexigenic peptides.

Autor: Sterling ME; Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States., Chang GQ; Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States., Karatayev O; Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States., Chang SY; Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States., Leibowitz SF; Laboratory of Behavioral Neurobiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: leibow@rockefeller.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Behavioural brain research [Behav Brain Res] 2016 May 01; Vol. 304, pp. 125-38. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Jan 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.01.013
Abstrakt: Embryonic exposure to ethanol is known to affect neurochemical systems in rodents and increase alcohol drinking and related behaviors in humans and rodents. With zebrafish emerging as a powerful tool for uncovering neural mechanisms of numerous diseases and exhibiting similarities to rodents, the present report building on our rat studies examined in zebrafish the effects of embryonic ethanol exposure on hypothalamic neurogenesis, expression of orexigenic neuropeptides, and voluntary ethanol consumption and locomotor behaviors in larval and adult zebrafish, and also effects of central neuropeptide injections on these behaviors affected by ethanol. At 24h post-fertilization, zebrafish embryos were exposed for 2h to ethanol, at low concentrations of 0.25% and 0.5%, in the tank water. Embryonic ethanol compared to control dose-dependently increased hypothalamic neurogenesis and the proliferation and expression of the orexigenic peptides, galanin (GAL) and orexin (OX), in the anterior hypothalamus. These changes in hypothalamic peptide neurons were accompanied by an increase in voluntary consumption of 10% ethanol-gelatin and in novelty-induced locomotor and exploratory behavior in adult zebrafish and locomotor activity in larvae. After intracerebroventricular injection, these peptides compared to vehicle had specific effects on these behaviors altered by ethanol, with GAL stimulating consumption of 10% ethanol-gelatin more than plain gelatin food and OX stimulating novelty-induced locomotor behavior while increasing intake of food and ethanol equally. These results, similar to those obtained in rats, suggest that the ethanol-induced increase in genesis and expression of these hypothalamic peptide neurons contribute to the behavioral changes induced by embryonic exposure to ethanol.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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