Enhanced activity of the brain beta-endorphin system by free-choice ethanol drinking in C57BL/6 but not DBA/2 mice.

Abstract:

:The objective of the present studies was to investigate the effect of voluntary ethanol consumption for 21 days on the brain beta-endorphin system of C57BL/6 (alcohol-preferring) and DBA/2 (alcohol-avoiding) strains of mice. As expected, C57BL/6 mice consumed a significantly higher quantity of the 10% ethanol solution than the DBA/2 mice. Under basal conditions the content of beta-endorphin like peptides differed only in the nucleus accumbens, higher levels being found in the DBA/2 mice. Voluntary ethanol consumption induced an increase in the hypothalamic content of mRNA coding for proopiomelanocortin, associated with a significant increase in the tissue content of beta-endorphin-like peptides in the arcuate nucleus and septum of the C57BL/6 mice, but did not alter the activity of the brain beta-endorphin system of the DBA/2 mice. Since voluntary ethanol consumption was not associated with nutritional deficits and stress, the ethanol-induced enhanced activity of the brain beta-endorphin system of the C57BL/6 mice must be a direct effect of ethanol and may be important in controlling the voluntary ethanol consumption by this strain of mice.

journal_name

Eur J Pharmacol

authors

De Waele JP,Gianoulakis C

doi

10.1016/0014-2999(94)90064-7

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-06-02 00:00:00

pages

119-29

issue

1-2

eissn

0014-2999

issn

1879-0712

pii

0014-2999(94)90064-7

journal_volume

258

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