ArticleJournal of neurochemistry2009
Escalating ethanol intake is associated with altered corticostriatal BDNF expression.
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- Effects of novel GLT-1 modulator, MC-100093, on neuroinflammatory and neurotrophic biomarkers in mesocorticolimbic brain regions of male alcohol preferring rats exposed chronically to ethanol.Brain research bulletin · 2024Article
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- BDNF and its Role in the Alcohol Abuse Initiated During Early Adolescence: Evidence from Preclinical and Clinical Studies.Current neuropharmacology · 2022Review
- Inhibitors of DNA Methylation.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022Review
- Low-Molecular-Weight Mimetic of BDNF Loop 2 Reduces Ethanol Consumption in Female Rats.Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine · 2021Article
- Differential correlation of serum BDNF and microRNA content in rats with rapid or late onset of heavy alcohol use.Addiction biology · 2021Article
- Drinking Pattern in Intermittent Access Two-Bottle-Choice Paradigm in Male Wistar Rats Is Associated with Exon-Specific BDNF Expression in the Hippocampus During Early Abstinence.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2021Article
- Chronic Voluntary Alcohol Drinking Causes Anxiety-like Behavior, Thiamine Deficiency, and Brain Damage of Female Crossed High Alcohol Preferring Mice.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
- Effects of chronic ethanol consumption on the expression of GLT-1 and neuroplasticity-related proteins in the nucleus accumbens of alcohol-preferring rats.Brain research bulletin · 2020Article
- Growth Factors and Alcohol Use Disorder.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine · 2020Review
- Investigating the link between serum concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and behavioral measures in anxious alcohol-dependent individuals.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Behavioral, neurobiological, and neurochemical mechanisms of ethanol self-administration: A translational review.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2020Review
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Abstract
Alcoholism is a chronically relapsing condition, indicative of long-term neuronal adaptations maintaining the disease even after prolonged abstinence. Previously, we identified brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the dorsal striatum as the central mediator of a homeostatic mechanism which is activated by acute alcohol (ethanol) exposure and functions to decrease the sensitivity of rodents to ethanol-related behaviors. We hypothesized that extensive exposure to ethanol would result in dysregulation of this BDNF-mediated protective mechanism, accompanied by heightened ethanol intake. In this study, we demonstrate that while a single bout of ethanol intake increases BDNF mRNA expression in the dorsal striatum, this effect is no longer observed after 6 weeks of daily ethanol access. Additionally, 6 weeks of ethanol consumption decreases BDNF in the cortex, a main source of BDNF for the striatum. Importantly, these ethanol-induced changes in BDNF levels are not ameliorated by 2 weeks' abstinence. Together, these data suggest that the BDNF pathway, which is activated following a single bout of ethanol drinking, breaks down by the end of 6 weeks of access and does not recover its protective function after a 2-week deprivation period. These results suggest that the persistence of altered BDNF signaling may contribute to the inflexibility of addictive behaviors.
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