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PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 231, Issue 17, Pages 3425-3436Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3590-6
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Ethanol; Self-administration; Rhesus monkeys; Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis; ACTH; Cortisol; Deoxycorticosterone; Dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate; Aldosterone
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- NIH [OD011092, AA109431, AA010760, AA013510]
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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis hormones have neuroactive metabolites with receptor activity similar to ethanol. The present study related HPA hormones in na < ve monkeys to ethanol self-administration. Morning plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), cortisol, deoxycorticosterone (DOC), aldosterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S) were measured longitudinally in male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) induced to drink ethanol followed by access to ethanol (4 % w/v, in water) and water 22 h/day for 12 months. During ethanol access, DOC increased among non-heavy (average intake over 12 months a parts per thousand currency sign3.0 g/kg/day, n = 23) but not among heavy drinkers (> 3.0 g/kg/day, n = 9); aldosterone was greater among heavy drinkers after 6 months. The ratio of DOC/aldosterone decreased only among heavy drinkers after 6 or12 months of ethanol self-administration. ACTH only correlated significantly with DHEA-S, the ratio of cortisol/DHEA-S and DOC after the onset of ethanol access, the former two just in heavy drinkers. Baseline hormones did not predict subsequent ethanol intake over 12 months, but baseline DOC correlated with average blood-ethanol concentrations (BECs), among all monkeys and heavy drinkers as a group. During ethanol access, aldosterone and DOC correlated and tended to correlate, respectively, with 12-month average ethanol intake. Ethanol self-administration lowered ACTH and selectively altered its adrenocortical regulation. Mineralocorticoids may compensate for adrenocortical adaptation among heavy drinkers and balance fluid homeostasis. As DOC was uniquely predictive of future BEC and not water intake, to the exclusion of aldosterone, GABAergic neuroactive metabolites of DOC may be risk factors for binge drinking to intoxication.
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