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ArticleAlcohol, clinical & experimental research2024

Developmental ethanol exposure produces deficits in long-term potentiation in vivo that persist following postnatal choline supplementation.

A K Titterness, E L Gräfe, C Acosta, C Rodriguez, J D Thomas, B R Christie

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A K TitternessDivision of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
E L GräfeDivision of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
C AcostaDivision of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
C RodriguezDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
J D ThomasDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA.
B R ChristieDivision of Medical Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6830-0160

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Fetal Alcohol Effects and Choline InterventionR01AA012446 · NIAAA · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI THOMAS, JENNIFER D · 2001 to 2015
$3.8M
Fetal Alcohol Effects and Choline InterventionR37AA012446 · NIAAA · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JENNIFER D THOMAS · 2018 to 2026
$3.1M
CIHR FRN 180241NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA012446NIAAA NIH HHS R37 AA012446NIAAA NIH HHS R37AA012446
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Abstract

backgroundFetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is one of the leading causes of neurodevelopmental disorder for which there is a pressing need for an effective treatment. Recent studies have investigated the essential nutrient choline as a postnatal treatment option. Supplementation with choline has produced improvements in behavioral tasks related to learning and memory and reverted changes in methylation signature following third-trimester equivalent ethanol exposure. We examined whether there are related improvements in hippocampal synaptic plasticity in vivo.

methodsSprague-Dawley offspring were administered binge-levels of ethanol from postnatal day (PND) 4 to 9, then treated with choline chloride (100 mg/kg/day) from PND 10 to 30. In vivo electrophysiology was performed on male and female offspring from PND 55 to 70. Long-term potentiation (LTP) was induced in the medial perforant pathway of the dentate gyrus using a theta-burst stimulation (TBS) protocol, and field-evoked postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were evoked for 60 min following the conditioning stimulus.

resultsDevelopmental ethanol exposure caused long-lasting deficits in LTP of the slope of the evoked responses and in the amplitude of the population spike potentiation. Neither deficit was rescued by postnatal choline supplementation.

conclusionsIn contrast to our prior findings that choline can improve hippocampal plasticity (Nutrients, 2022, 14, 2004), here we found that deficits in hippocampal synaptic plasticity due to developmental ethanol exposure persisted into adulthood despite adolescent choline supplementation. Future research should examine more subtle changes in synaptic plasticity to identify synaptic changes that mirror behavioral improvements.

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dentate gyrusdevelopmental ethanol exposurepostnatal choline supplementationsex differencessynaptic plasticity

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PMCPMC11816008

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