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Disrupted thalamic T-type Ca2+ channel expression and function during ethanol exposure and withdrawal.


ABSTRACT: Chronic ethanol exposure produces profound disruptions in both brain rhythms and diurnal behaviors. The thalamus has been identified as a neural pacemaker of both normal and abnormal rhythms with low-threshold, transient (T-type) Ca(2+) channels participating in this activity. We therefore examined T-type channel gene expression and physiology in the thalamus of C57Bl/6 mice during a 4-wk schedule of chronic intermittent ethanol exposures in a vapor chamber. We found that chronic ethanol disrupts the normal daily variations of both thalamic T-type channel mRNA levels and alters thalamic T-type channel gating properties. The changes measured in channel expression and function were associated with an increase in low-threshold bursts of action potentials during acute withdrawal periods. Additionally, the observed molecular and physiological alterations in the channel properties in wild-type mice occurred in parallel with a progressive disruption in the normal daily variations in theta (4-9 Hz) power recorded in the cortical electroencephalogram. Theta rhythms remained disrupted during a subsequent week of withdrawal but were restored with the T-type channel blocker ethosuximide. Our results demonstrate that a key ion channel underlying the generation of thalamic rhythms is altered during chronic ethanol exposure and withdrawal and may be a novel target in the management of abnormal network activity due to chronic alcoholism.

SUBMITTER: Graef JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3059161 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Disrupted thalamic T-type Ca2+ channel expression and function during ethanol exposure and withdrawal.

Graef J D JD   Huitt T W TW   Nordskog B K BK   Hammarback J H JH   Godwin D W DW  

Journal of neurophysiology 20101208 2


Chronic ethanol exposure produces profound disruptions in both brain rhythms and diurnal behaviors. The thalamus has been identified as a neural pacemaker of both normal and abnormal rhythms with low-threshold, transient (T-type) Ca(2+) channels participating in this activity. We therefore examined T-type channel gene expression and physiology in the thalamus of C57Bl/6 mice during a 4-wk schedule of chronic intermittent ethanol exposures in a vapor chamber. We found that chronic ethanol disrupt  ...[more]

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