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ArticleTremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.)2024

A Role for GABA

Adrian Handforth, Ram P Singh, Hovsep P Kosoyan, Pournima A Kadam

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Article in Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Adrian HandforthNeurology Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Ram P SinghResearch Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Hovsep P KosoyanResearch Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Pournima A KadamResearch Service, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Funding

BLRD VA I01 BX005887RRD VA I01 RX001271
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Essential tremor patients may find that low alcohol amounts suppress tremor. A candidate mechanism is modulation of α6β3δ extra-synaptic GABA Methods: We tested whether low-dose alcohol suppresses tremor in cre-negative mice with intact β3 exon 3 flanked by loxP, and in littermates in which this region was excised by cre expressed under the α6 subunit promotor. Tremor in the harmaline model was measured as a percentage of motion power in the tremor bandwidth divided by overall motion power. Results: Alcohol, 0.500 and 0.575 g/kg, reduced harmaline tremor compared to vehicle-treated controls in floxed β3 cre- mice, but had no effect on tremor in floxed β3 cre+ littermates that have β3 knocked out. This was not due to potential interference of α6 expression by the insertion of the cre gene into the α6 gene since non-floxed β3 cre+ and cre- littermates exhibited similar tremor suppression by alcohol. Discussion: As α6β3δ GABA Highlights: We previously found with the harmaline essential tremor model that GABA

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Essential TremorEthanolHarmalineReceptors, GABA-AAnimalsCentral Nervous System DepressantsDisease Models, AnimalMaleMiceMice, KnockoutCentral Nervous System DepressantsEthanolGabrb3 protein, mouseHarmalineReceptors, GABA-AalcoholcerebellumGABAA receptorharmalinetremor

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PMID38681506
PMCPMC11049614

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