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- Title
Reversal of deficits in dendritic spines, BDNF and Arc expression in the amygdala during alcohol dependence by HDAC inhibitor treatment.
- Authors
You, Chang; Zhang, Huaibo; Sakharkar, Amul J.; Teppen, Tara; Pandey, Subhash C.
- Abstract
Development of anxiety-like behaviours during ethanol withdrawal has been correlated with increased histone deacetylase (HDAC) activity and decreased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc) gene expression in the amygdala. Furthermore, HDAC-mediated histone modifications play a role in synaptic plasticity. In this study we used the HDAC inhibitor trichostatin A (TSA) to determine whether HDAC inhibition could prevent ethanol withdrawal-induced deficits in dendritic spine density (DSD), BDNF or Arc expression in the amygdala of rats. It was found that decreased BDNF and Arc expression in the central (CeA) and medial nucleus of amygdala (MeA), observed during withdrawal after chronic ethanol exposure, were normalized following acute TSA treatment. TSA treatment was also able to attenuate anxiety-like behaviours during ethanol withdrawal and correct the observed decrease in DSD in the CeA and MeA of ethanol-withdrawn rats. Taken together, these findings demonstrate that correcting the deficits in histone acetylation through TSA treatment also amends downstream synaptic plasticity-related deficits such as BDNF and Arc expression, and DSD in the CeA and MeA as well as attenuates anxiety-like behaviours in rats during withdrawal after chronic ethanol exposure.
- Subjects
BRAIN-derived neurotrophic factor; GENE expression; AMYGDALOID body; ALCOHOL Dependence Scale; HISTONE deacetylase inhibitors; ALCOHOL withdrawal syndrome; ANXIETY
- Publication
International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 2, p313
- ISSN
1461-1457
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1461145713001144