Central corticotropin-releasing factor and benzodiazepine receptor systems are involved in the social isolation stress-induced decrease in ethanol sleep in mice

Brain Research

Volumn 753, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 318-321

  Matsumoto, Kinzo ^a   Ojima, Kazuma ^a   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

chloral hydrate; CRF system; ethanol; GABA(A) benzodiazepine receptor complex; pentobarbital; social isolation stress

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR DERIVATIVE; FLUMAZENIL; PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CHLORIDE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHLORIDES; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; ETHANOL; FLUMAZENIL; GABA MODULATORS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SLEEP; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 0031564637     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00080-2     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Britton, K.T., McLeod, S., Koob, G.F. and Hauger, R., Pregnane steroid alphaxalone attenuates anxiogenic behavioral effects of corticotropin-releasing factor and stress, Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 41 (1992) 399-403.
2. Cabana, B.E. and Gessner, P.K., The kinetics of chloral hydrate metabolism in mice and the effect thereon of ethanol, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 174 (1970) 260-275.
3. Deitrich, R.A., Dunwiddie, T.V., Harris, R.A. and Erwin, V.G., Mechanism of action of ethanol: initial central nervous system actions, Pharmacol. Rev., 41 (1989) 489-537.
4. 3 receptors, Br. J. Pharmacol., 114 (1995) 1641-1651.
5. Haley, T.J. and McCormick, W.G., Pharmacological effects produced by intracerebral injection of drugs in the conscious mouse, Br. J. Pharmacol., 12 (1957) 12-15.
6. Hoffman, P.L., Tabakoff, B., Szabo, G., Suzdak, P.D. and Paul, S.M., Effect of an imidazobenzodiazepine, Ro 15-4513, on the incoordination and hypothermia produced by ethanol and pentobarbital, Life Sci., 41 (1987) 611-619.
7. Hunt, W.A., The effect of ethanol on GABAergic transmission, Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 7 (1983) 87-95.
8. Jones, B.C., Connell, J.M. and Erwin, V.G., Isolate housing alters ethanol sensitivity in long-sleep and short-sleep mice, Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 35 (1990) 469-472.
9. Liljequist, S. and Engel, J., Effect of GABAergic agonists and antagonists on various ethanol-induced behavioral changes, Psychopharmacolgy (Berlin), 78 (1982) 71-75.
10. A receptors in hippocampal neurons, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 264 (1993) 1097-1103.
11. Lowry, O.H., Rosebrough, N.J., Farr, A.L. and Randall, R.J., Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent, J. Biol. Chem., 193 (1951) 265-275.
12. Matsumoto, K., Cai, B., Satoh, T., Ohta, H. and Watanabe, H., Desipramine enhances isolation-induced aggressive behavior in mice, Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 39 (1991) 167-170.
13. Matsumoto, K., Ojima, K. and Watanabe, H., Noradrenergic denervation attenuates desipramine enhancement of aggressive behavior in isolated mice, Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav., 50 (1995) 481-484.
14. Matsumoto, K., Ojima, K. and Watanabe, H., Neurosteroidal modulation of social isolation-induced decrease in pentobarbital sleep in mice, Brain Res., 708 (1996) 1-6.
15. Matsumoto, K., Satoh, T., Li, H.-B., Ohta, H. and Watanabe, H., Effects of forced shaking stress at low temperature on pentobarbital-induced sleeping in mice, Gen. Pharmacol., 22 (1991) 729-733.
16. A-gated chloride channels, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 246 (1988) 558-564.
17. Menon, M.K. and Kodama, C.K., Antagonism of the hypnotic effect of ethanol in mice by an alpha-1 adrenoceptor agonist, Neuropharmacology, 24 (1985) 927-930.
18. Ojima, K., Matsumoto, K., Tohda, M. and Watanabe, H., Hyperactivity of central noradrenergic and CRF systems is involved in social isolation-induced decrease in pentobarbital sleep, Brain Res., 684 (1995) 87-94.
19. Ojima, K., Matsumoto, K. and Watanabe, H., Flumazenil reverses the decrease in the hypnotic activity of pentobarbital by social isolation stress: are endogenous benzodiazepine receptor ligands involved? Brain Res., 745 (1997) 127-133.
20. Peoples, R.W. and Weight, F.F., Modulation of amino acid-activated ion currents by trichloroethanol, IBRO World Congr. Neurosci. Abstr., 3 (1991) 63.
21. A receptor research, Synapse, 21 (1995) 189-274.
22. Rastogi, S.K. and Ticku, M.K., Anticonvulsant profile of drugs which facilitate GABAergic transmission on convulsions mediated by a GABAergic mechanism, Neuropharmacology, 25 (1986) 175-185.
23. Suzdak, P.D., Schwartz, R.D., Skolnick, P. and Paul, S.M., Ethanol stimulates gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor-mediated chloride transport in rat brain synaptoneurosomes, Proc. Matl. Acad. Sci. USA, 83 (1986) 4071-4075.
24. Ticku, M.K., Ethanol and the benzodiazepine-GABA receptor-ionophore complex, Experientia, 45 (1989) 413-418.
25. Valzelli, L. and Bernasconi, S., Alcohol, prolonged isolation and barbiturate sedation in two strains of mice, Neuropsychobiology, 4 (1978) 86-92.
26. Watanabe, H., Ohdo, S., Ishikawa, M. and Ogawa, N., Effects of social isolation on pentobarbital activity in mice: relationship to racemate levels and enantiomer levels in brain, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 263 (1992) 1036-1045.
27. White, G., Lovinger, D.M. and Weight, F.F., Ethanol inhibits NMDA-activated current but does not alter GABA-activated current in an isolated adult mammalian neuron, Brain Res., 507 (1990) 332-336.