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ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
卷 27, 期 11, 页码 1736-1742出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1097/01.ALC.0000095924.87729.D8
关键词
Fyn; NR2B; phosphorylation; ethanol; acute sensitivity; self-administration
资金
- NIAAA NIH HHS [R01AA/MH13438-O1A1, R01 AA013438] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM [R01AA013438] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Background: The tyrosine kinase Fyn previously has been shown to play a key role in mediating acute tolerance to ethanol. Recently, we found that the compartmentalization of Fyn to the NR2B subunit of the NMDA receptor (NMDAR) in the hippocampus regulates Fyn phosphorylation of NR2B in response to ethanol, which mediates the acute tolerance of NMDAR to ethanol inhibition in hippocampal slices. In this study we determined, first, whether acute tolerance to ethanol inhibition is mediated via NR2B-containing NMDARs in vivo and, second, whether the increase in acute sensitivity to ethanol in the Fyn(-/-) mice influences ethanol consumption or ethanol's conditioned rewarding effects. Methods: A loss of righting reflex test was used to study the acute/sedative effects of ethanol after intraperitoneal injections of sedative doses of ethanol. Conditioned place preference was used to study the rewarding properties of ethanol. The two-bottle choice protocol was used to measure oral ethanol self-administration and preference as described previously. Results: We found that systemic injection of the NR2B-containing NMDAR selective antagonist, ifenprodil, abolished the differences between Fyn(+/+) and Fyn(-/-) mice in sensitivity to the acute sedative effects of ethanol. Moreover, we found that Fyn(-/-) and Fyn(+/+) mice did not differ in their voluntary ethanol consumption or in the rewarding properties of ethanol. Conclusions: Our results suggest that the interaction between Fyn and NR2B mediates the acute sedative effects of ethanol, and that alteration in acute ethanol sensitivity does not necessarily correlate with levels of ethanol consumption or the rewarding properties of ethanol.
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