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ArticleScientific reports2021

Chronic intermittent ethanol promotes ventral subiculum hyperexcitability via increases in extrinsic basolateral amygdala input and local network activity.

Eva C Bach, Sarah E Ewin, Alexandra D Baldassaro, Hannah N Carlson, Jeffrey L Weiner

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eva C BachDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine, PTCRC 212, 115 South Chestnut Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC, 27284, USA. ebach@wakehealth.edu.
Sarah E EwinDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine, PTCRC 212, 115 South Chestnut Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC, 27284, USA.
Alexandra D BaldassaroDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine, PTCRC 212, 115 South Chestnut Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC, 27284, USA.
Hannah N CarlsonDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine, PTCRC 212, 115 South Chestnut Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC, 27284, USA.
Jeffrey L WeinerDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine, PTCRC 212, 115 South Chestnut Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC, 27284, USA.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist · US

Funding

Wake Forest Translational Alcohol Research Center (WF-TARC)P50AA026117 · NIAAA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Colleen A Hanlon · 2018 to 2026
$16.2M
Synaptic Correlates of Vulnerability and Resilience to Alcohol Use DisordersR37AA017531 · NIAAA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI WEINER, JEFFREY L. · 2014 to 2023
$3.5M
Neural Substrates of Comorbid Alcohol Use Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderR01AA026551 · NIAAA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI WEINER, JEFFREY L. · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
NIAAA NIH HHS P50 AA026117NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA026551NIAAA NIH HHS R37 AA017531
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hippocampus, particularly its ventral domain, can promote negative affective states (i.e. stress and anxiety) that play an integral role in the development and persistence of alcohol use disorder (AUD). The ventral hippocampus (vHC) receives strong excitatory input from the basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the BLA-vHC projection bidirectionally modulates anxiety-like behaviors. However, no studies have examined the effects of chronic alcohol on the BLA-vHC circuit. In the present study, we used ex vivo electrophysiology in conjunction with optogenetic approaches to examine the effects of chronic intermittent ethanol exposure (CIE), a well-established rodent model of AUD, on the BLA-vHC projection and putative intrinsic vHC synaptic plasticity. We discovered prominent BLA innervation in the subicular region of the vHC (vSub). CIE led to an overall increase in the excitatory/inhibitory balance, an increase in AMPA/NMDA ratios but no change in paired-pulse ratios, consistent with a postsynaptic increase in excitability in the BLA-vSub circuit. CIE treatment also led to an increase in intrinsic network excitability in the vSub. Overall, our findings suggest a hyperexcitable state in BLA-vSub specific inputs as well as intrinsic inputs to vSub pyramidal neurons which may contribute to the negative affective behaviors associated with CIE.

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AlcoholismAnimalsBasolateral Nuclear ComplexEthanolHippocampusMaleNeuronal PlasticityOptogeneticsRatsRats, Long-EvansSynaptic TransmissionEthanol

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PMID33888757
PMCPMC8062451
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