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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021

Chronic Ethanol Exposures Leads to a Negative Affective State in Female Rats That Is Accompanied by a Paradoxical Decrease in Ventral Hippocampus Excitability.

Eva C Bach, James W Morgan, Sarah E Ewin, Samuel H Barth, Kimberly F Raab-Graham, Jeffrey L Weiner

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Eva C BachDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
James W MorganDepartment of Anesthesia, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Sarah E EwinDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Samuel H BarthDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Kimberly F Raab-GrahamDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Jeffrey L WeinerDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, United States.
Wake Forest University · 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

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) differentially impacts men and women and a growing body of evidence points to sex-dependent adaptations in a number of brain regions. In a prior study, we explored the effect of a chronic intermittent ethanol exposure (CIE) model of AUD on neuronal and molecular adaptations in the dorsal and ventral domains of the hippocampus (dHC and vHC, respectively) in male rats. We found the vHC to be particularly sensitive to CIE, showing an increase in neuronal excitability and synaptic proteins associated with augmented excitation. These findings were accompanied by a CIE-dependent increase in anxiety-like behaviors. To explore sex-dependent adaptations in the hippocampus, we conducted a similar study in female rats. CIE-treated female rats showed a relatively modest increase in anxiety-like behaviors along with a robust increase in depressive-like measures. Despite both sexes showing clear evidence of a negative affective state following CIE, the vHC of females showed a decrease, rather than an increase, in neuronal excitability. In line with the reduced sensitivity to neural adaptations in the dHC of male rats, we were unable to identify any functional changes in the dHC of females. The functional changes of the vHC in female rats could not be explained by altered expression levels of a number of proteins typically associated with changes in neuronal excitability. Taken together, these findings point to sex as a major factor in CIE-dependent hippocampal adaptations that should be explored further to better understand possible gender differences in the etiology and treatment of AUD.

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alcohol use disorderchronic intermittent ethanol exposureelectrophysiologyhippocampusnegative affective behavior

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