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ArticlePloS one2017

Transcriptional profiling of the rat nucleus accumbens after modest or high alcohol exposure.

Julia Morud, Arghavan Ashouri, Erik Larsson, Mia Ericson, Bo Söderpalm

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Julia MorudAddiction Biology Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1925-5938
Arghavan AshouriDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Erik LarssonDepartment of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Mia EricsonAddiction Biology Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bo SöderpalmAddiction Biology Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
University of Gothenburg · SESahlgrenska University Hospital · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcohol use disorder is a chronic relapsing brain disorder and a global health issue. Prolonged high alcohol consumption increases the risk for dependence development, a complex state that includes progressive alterations in brain function. The molecular mechanisms behind these changes remain to be fully disclosed, but several genes show altered expression in various regions of the rat brain even after modest alcohol exposure. The present study utilizes whole-transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) to investigate expression changes in the brain nucleus accumbens (NAc), an area of particular interest in addictive disorders, of alcohol consuming rats. The impact on gene expression after eight weeks of moderate voluntary alcohol consumption or voluntary consumption combined with forced excessive exposure was explored in two separate experiments. The results point to a lack of strong and consistent expression alterations in the NAc after alcohol exposure, suggesting that transcriptional effects of alcohol are weak or transient, or occur primarily in brain regions other than NAc.

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Gene Expression ProfilingAlcohol DrinkingAnimalsEthanolHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMaleNucleus AccumbensRatsRats, WistarRNASequence Analysis, RNATranscriptomeEthanolRNA

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PMID28715440
PMCPMC5513432
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