Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 5, Pages 903-914Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/dev.22099
Keywords
adolescent intermittent ethanol exposure; conditioned taste aversion; ifenprodil; social interaction; vesicular transporters of GABA and glutamate
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- NIH [U01 AA019972]
- T32 Training Grant at Binghamton University [1T32AA025606-01]
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The study found that AIE exposure did not affect the retention of adolescent-like sensitivity to NR2B receptor antagonism, as well as the social and aversive effects of ifenprodil in adult rats. Additionally, AIE did not induce a shift in vGlut2 to vGAT ratios in the brains of adult rats.
Adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) exposure in the rat results in a retention of adolescent-like responsiveness to ethanol into adulthood characterized by enhanced sensitivity to socially facilitating and decreased sensitivity to socially suppressing and aversive effects. Similar pattern of responsiveness to social and aversive effects of the selective glutamate NMDA NR2B receptor antagonist ifenprodil is evident in adolescent rats, suggesting that AIE would also retain this pattern of ifenprodil sensitivity into adulthood. Social (Experiment 1) and aversive (measured via conditioned taste aversion; Experiment 2) effects of ifenprodil were assessed in adult male and female rats following AIE exposure. Sensitivity to the social and aversive effects of ifenprodil was not affected by AIE exposure. Experiment 3 assessed protein expression of vesicular transporters of GABA (vGAT) and glutamate (vGlut2) within the prelimbic cortex and nucleus accumbens in adolescents versus adults and in AIE adults versus controls. vGlut2 expression was higher in adolescents relative to adults within the PrL, but lower in the NAc. AIE adults did not retain these adolescent-typical ratios. These findings suggest that AIE is not associated with the retention of adolescent-typical sensitivity to NR2B receptor antagonism, along with no AIE-induced shift in vGlut2 to vGAT ratios.
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