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ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 72-80Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2009.01068.x
Keywords
Ethanol; Hypothalamus; Galanin; Orexin; Dietary Fat
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- USPHS [AA 12882, DA 21518]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH043422] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM [R01AA012882] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE [R01DA021518] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background: There is growing, evidence Suggesting that hypothalamic galanin (GAL), which is known to stimulate intake of a fat-rich diet. has a role in promoting the consumption of ethanol. The present Study further examined this possibility in GAL knockout (GALKO) mice. Methods: Two groups of female and male GALKO mice, compared to wild-type (WT) controls. were trained to voluntarily drink increasing concentrations of ethanol, while maintained oil lab chow and waiter. They were examined in terms of their daily ethanol intake and preference, acute Consumption or a high-fat diet, preference for flavored Solutions, and expression of different peptides shown to stimulate ethanol intake. Results: In the GALKO mice compared to WT, the results revealed: (i) a 35 to 45% decrease in ethanol intake and preference, which was evident only at the highest (15%) ethanol concentration, was stronger in female than in male mice. and was seen with comparisons to littermate as well as nonlittermate WT mice; (ii) a 48% decrease in acute intake of a fat-rich diet, again stronger in female than male mice; (iii) no difference in consumption of sucrose or quinine Solutions in preference tests: (iv) a total loss of GAL mRNA in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of female and male mice: and (v) a gender-specific change in rnRNA levels of peptides in the perifornical lateral hypothalamus (PFLH). orexin and melanin-concentrating hormone, which ate ethanol and food intake and were markedly decreased in females while are known to stimulate, increased in males. Conclusions: These results provide strong Support For a physiological role of PVN GAL in stimulating the consumption of ethanol, as well as a fat-rich diet. Ablation of the GAL gene produced a behavioral phenotype, particularly in females, which may reflect the functional relationship of galanin to ovarian steroids. It also altered the peptides in the PFLH. with their reduced expression contributing 10 the larger behavioral effects observed in females and their increased expression attenuating these effects in males.
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