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ArticleNeuroscience letters2018

Effects of sequential ethanol exposure and repeated high-dose methamphetamine on striatal and hippocampal dopamine, serotonin and glutamate tissue content in Wistar rats.

Atiah H Almalki, Sujan C Das, Fahad S Alshehri, Yusuf S Althobaiti, Youssef Sari

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Article in Neuroscience letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Atiah H AlmalkiUniversity of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Toledo, OH, USA; University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, Toledo, OH, USA.
Sujan C DasUniversity of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Toledo, OH, USA; University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, Toledo, OH, USA.
Fahad S AlshehriUniversity of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Toledo, OH, USA.
Yusuf S AlthobaitiUniversity of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Toledo, OH, USA.
Youssef SariUniversity of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Toledo, OH, USA; University of Toledo, College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, Toledo, OH, USA. Electronic address: youssef.sari@utoledo.edu.
University of Toledo · US

Funding

The role of GLT1 in the modulation of alcohol-drinking behavior in P rats.R01AA019458 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO HEALTH SCI CAMPUS · PI SARI, YOUSSEF · 2011 to 2015
$1.1M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA019458
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcohol (ethanol) and methamphetamine (METH) co-abuse is a major public health issue. Ethanol or METH exposure has been associated with changes in neurotransmitter levels in several central brain regions. However, little is known about the effect of sequential exposure to ethanol and METH on glutamate, dopamine and serotonin tissue content in striatum and hippocampus. In this study, we investigated the effects of sequential exposure to ethanol and METH on tissue content of these neurotransmitters. Male Wistar rats were orally gavaged with either ethanol (6g/kg) or water for seven days. Rats were administered with high dose of METH (10mg/kg, i.p. every 2h×4) or saline on Day 8 and euthanized 48h of last METH or saline i.p. injection. In the striatum, sequential exposure to ethanol and METH increased glutamate tissue content while reducing dopamine and serotonin tissue content as compared to the group exposed to ethanol alone. In the hippocampus, sequential exposure to ethanol and METH decreased serotonin tissue content as compared to the group that was exposed to ethanol alone. However, this study showed that ethanol has no additive effect to METH on tissue content of dopamine and serotonin as compared to METH in the striatum and hippocampus. This study demonstrated that sequential exposure of ethanol and METH has an additive effect on tissue content of certain neurotransmitters in the brain.

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AnimalsCorpus StriatumDopamineEthanolGlutamic AcidHippocampusMaleMethamphetamineRats, WistarSerotoninDopamineEthanolGlutamic AcidMethamphetamineSerotoninDopamineEthanolGlutamateMethamphetamineSerotoninStriatum

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PMCPMC5801213
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