Journal
NEUROPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 110, Issue -, Pages 82-91Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.07.006
Keywords
Alcohol; Nucleus incertus; Orexin; Reinstatement; Relaxin-3; Stress
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1021227, 1079893, 1126330, 1020737]
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N303 569939]
- National Science Centre [DEC-2012/05/D/NZ4/02984]
- EU (FP7-PEOPLE-IRSES) [PIRSES-GA-2012-318997]
- Besen Family
- Pratt Foundations
- Victorian State Government Infrastructure Program
- Melbourne International Research Scholarship
- Australian Postgraduate Award
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1079893] Funding Source: NHMRC
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Alcoholism is a chronic relapsing disorder and a major global health problem. Stress is a key precipitant of relapse in human alcoholics and in animal models of alcohol seeking. The brainstem nucleus incertus (NI) contains a population of relaxin-3 neurons that are highly responsive to psychological stressors; and the ascending NI relaxin-3/RXFP3 signalling system is implicated in stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking. The NI receives orexinergic innervation and expresses orexin(1) (OX1) and orexin(2) (OX2) receptor mRNA. In alcohol-preferring (iP) rats, we examined the impact of yohimbine-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking on orexin neuronal activation, and the effect of bilateral injections into NI of the OX1 receptor antagonist, SB-334867 (n = 16) or the OX2 receptor antagonist, TCS-OX2-29 (n = 8) on stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking. We also assessed the effects of orexin-A on NI neuronal activity and the involvement of OX1 and OX2 receptors using whole cell patch-clamp recordings in rat brain slices. Yohimbine-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking activated orexin neurons. Bilateral NI injections of TCS-OX2-29 attenuated yohimbine-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking. In contrast, intra-NI injection of SB-334867 had no significant effect. In line with these data, orexin-A (600 nM) depolarized a majority of NI neurons recorded in corona] brain slices (18/28 cells), effects prevented by bath application of TCS-OX2-29 (10 mu M), but not SB-334867 (10 mu M). These data suggest an excitatory orexinergic input to NI contributes to yohimbine-induced reinstatement of alcohol seeking, predominantly via OX2 receptor signalling. Crown Copyright (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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