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ArticleAlcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)2024

Sex differences in basal motivated behavior, chronic ethanol drinking, and amygdala activity in female and male mice.

Sarah N Magee, Allison C Sereno, Melissa A Herman

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Article in Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Central amygdalar PKCδ neurons mediate fentanyl withdrawal.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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3 authors.

Sarah N MageeNeuroscience Curriculum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Allison C SerenoBowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Melissa A HermanDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Electronic address: melissa_herman@unc.edu.

Funding

UNC ARC Information/Dissemination CoreP60AA011605 · NIAAA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Clyde W Hodge · 2003 to 2026
$46.3M
RESEARCH TRAINING IN THE NEUROSCIENCEST32NS007431 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Juan Song, Mark J. Zylka · 1997 to 2026
$10.0M
The role of a nucleus tractus solitarius-central amygdala circuit in alcohol-induced plasticity and drinking behaviorR01AA026858 · NIAAA · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI HERMAN, MELISSA A · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
NIAAA NIH HHS P60 AA011605NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA026858NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major public health concern that despite its prevalence, lacks a widely-effective treatment due to the complexity of AUD pathology. AUD is highly comorbid with other psychiatric conditions including anxiety and mood disorders, however it is unclear how these disorders influence each other. The underlying etiology of these comorbidities is difficult to decipher and factors including sex, stress, and the environment further complicate both diagnosis and treatment strategies. To understand more about this bidirectional relationship between AUD and comorbid psychiatric disorders, we ran male and female C57Bl/6j mice through baseline behavioral testing followed by intermittent access-two bottle choice (IA-2BC) drinking. We found no sex differences in basal anxiety-like or depressive-like behavior, however females displayed enhanced motivated feeding behavior. Females consumed more ethanol than males, at both 1hr and 24hr timepoints. Basal affective state did not predict subsequent ethanol intake in either sex, however exploratory behavior was positively correlated with drinking in males but not females. We then re-assessed negative affect behavior following chronic ethanol drinking to determine if drinking impacted subsequent affective behavior and found no relationship between ethanol intake and affective state in males or females. We also examined how chronic ethanol drinking affected central amygdala (CeA) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) neuronal activity in males and females. Ethanol-drinking females had a decrease in CeA neuronal activity, driven by reduced activity in the lateral (CeA

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Alcohol DrinkingAmygdalaMice, Inbred C57BLMotivationSex CharacteristicsAlcoholismAnimalsAnxietyBehavior, AnimalEthanolFemaleMaleMiceEthanolAlcoholAnxietyBLACeAFemaleMale

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PMID38878875
PMCPMC11390327

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