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{"title":"Detecting Neurodevelopmental Effects of Early-Gestation Ethanol Exposure: A Nonhuman Primate Model of Ethanol Drinking During Pregnancy.","authors":"Vanessa A Jimenez,&nbsp;Xiaojie Wang,&nbsp;Natali Newman,&nbsp;Nicole A R Walter,&nbsp;Steven Gonzales,&nbsp;Jamie O Lo,&nbsp;Mathew M Ford,&nbsp;Verginia C Cuzon Carlson,&nbsp;Kathleen A Grant,&nbsp;Christopher D Kroenke","doi":"10.1111/acer.13938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13938","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Gestational ethanol (EtOH) exposure is associated with multiple developmental abnormalities, collectively termed fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). While the majority of women abstain from EtOH following knowledge of pregnancy, one contributing factor to the high FASD prevalence is that pregnancy is not detected until 4 to 6 weeks. Thus, EtOH consumption continues during the initial stages of fetal development.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An experimental protocol is described in which rhesus macaques self-administer 1.5 g/kg/d EtOH (or isocaloric maltose dextrin) prior to pregnancy and through the first 60 days of a 168-day gestation term. Menstrual cycles were monitored, including measurements of circulating estradiol and progesterone levels. The latency to consume 1.5 g/kg EtOH and blood EtOH concentration (BEC) was measured.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-eight fetuses (14 EtOH and 14 controls) were generated in this study. EtOH did not affect menstrual cycles or the probability of successful breeding. No EtOH-induced gross adverse effects on pregnancy were observed. Individual variability in latency to complete drinking translated into variability in BEC, measured 90 minutes following session start. Drinking latencies in controls and EtOH drinkers were longer in the second gestational month than in the first. All pregnancies reached the planned experimental time point of G85, G110, or G135, when in utero MRIs were performed, fetuses were delivered by caesarean section, and brains were evaluated with ex vivo procedures, including slice electrophysiology. Fetal tissues have been deposited to the Monkey Alcohol Tissue Research Resource.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This FASD model takes advantage of the similarities between humans and rhesus macaques in gestational length relative to brain development, as well as similarities in EtOH self-administration and metabolism. The daily 1.5 g/kg dose of EtOH through the first trimester does not influence pregnancy success rates. However, pregnancy influences drinking behavior during the second month of pregnancy. Future publications using this model will describe the effect of early-gestation EtOH exposure on anatomical and functional brain development at subsequent gestational ages.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"250-261"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13938","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36781815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Withdrawal from Brief Repeated Alcohol Treatment in Adolescent and Adult Male and Female Rats.","authors":"Weston Fleming,&nbsp;Quincy Jones,&nbsp;Upasana Chandra,&nbsp;Aashna Saini,&nbsp;David Walker,&nbsp;Reynold Francis,&nbsp;Gabriela Ocampo,&nbsp;Cynthia Kuhn","doi":"10.1111/acer.13936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Early initiation of alcohol drinking has been associated with increased risk of alcohol dependence in adulthood. Although negative affect mediated in part by corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is a strong motivator for alcohol consumption in adults, comparisons of alcohol withdrawal in adolescents and adults generally have not included CRF-related measures such as anxiety. The purpose of the present study was to compare withdrawal signs including anxiety-like behavior after a brief multiday alcohol treatment in adolescent and adult male and female rats.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Animals were treated with a 5-day regimen of alcohol injections (3 daily intraperitoneal injections of 1.5 g/kg at 3-hour intervals, total of 15) starting on postnatal day (PN) 28 or PN 70. Spontaneous withdrawal signs and anxiety-like behavior (light/dark box) were assessed 18 hours after the last injection as described. One cohort of rats was treated with alcohol, killed 18 hours after the last injection, and blood was collected to assess corticosterone. Another cohort of rats was treated with alcohol or vehicle, given 1, 2, or 3 alcohol injections (1.5 g/kg), and killed 1 hour after final injection to determine blood alcohol concentration (BAC). Finally, adult and adolescent males and females received 5 days of alcohol or vehicle treatment followed by a final challenge with alcohol (3 g/kg), and blood was collected for corticosterone.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>BAC was comparable in adolescents and adults. Spontaneous withdrawal signs were comparable in adolescents and adults, and no sex differences were observed. Anxiety-like behaviors (time and distance in light, latency to emerge, and light entries) differed in alcohol- and vehicle-treated adults but not adolescents. Corticosterone was not elevated at withdrawal. Alcohol increased corticosterone significantly in vehicle-treated animals, but both adolescents and adults were tolerant to alcohol-induced elevation of corticosterone after 5 days of alcohol treatment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings suggest that adolescents experience milder negative affect during withdrawal from brief alcohol exposures relative to adults but comparable suppression of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"204-211"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13936","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36787028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shifting Age of Peak Binge Drinking Prevalence: Historical Changes in Normative Trajectories Among Young Adults Aged 18 to 30.","authors":"Megan E Patrick,&nbsp;Yvonne M Terry-McElrath,&nbsp;Stephanie T Lanza,&nbsp;Justin Jager,&nbsp;John E Schulenberg,&nbsp;Patrick M O'Malley","doi":"10.1111/acer.13933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13933","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000This study examined the extent to which the developmental pattern of prevalence of binge drinking in the past 2 weeks from ages 18 through 30 has changed across 29 cohorts of U.S. young adults, and whether the changes differed by gender.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000Analyses used national longitudinal data from 58,019 12th-grade students (from graduating high school classes 1976 to 2004) participating in the Monitoring the Future study followed through modal age 30 (with age 29/30 data collected from 1987 to 2016). Weighted time-varying effect modeling was used to model cohort group differences in age-related patterns of binge drinking.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000The age of peak binge drinking prevalence increased across cohorts (from age 20 in 1976 to 1985 to 22 in 1996 to 2004 for women, and from 21 in 1976 to 1985 to 23 in 1996 to 2004 for men). Historical change in the developmental pattern of binge drinking across all ages of young adulthood differed for men and women. Even after controlling for key covariates, women in the more recent cohort group reported significantly higher binge drinking prevalence than women in earlier cohorts from ages 21 through 30. Men in the more recent cohort group reported higher binge drinking prevalence at ages 25 to 26, but prevalence levels then converged to those seen in earlier cohort groups by age 30.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000An older age of peak binge drinking and a decreased rate of decline in the prevalence of binge drinking in later young adulthood among more recent cohorts have resulted in an extension of individual and societal risks associated with binge drinking, particularly for women, across young adulthood. High-risk alcohol use prevention efforts are needed throughout at least the third decade of life.","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"287-298"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13933","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36866080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lifetime Alcohol Use Patterns and Risk of Diabetes Onset in the National Alcohol Survey.","authors":"William C Kerr,&nbsp;Yu Ye,&nbsp;Edwina Williams,&nbsp;Camillia K Lui,&nbsp;Thomas K Greenfield,&nbsp;E Anne Lown","doi":"10.1111/acer.13924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Studies of the role of alcohol use in diabetes risk have rarely included lifetime alcohol use measures, including the frequency of heavy occasions, or evaluated risks among Black or Hispanic respondents in US samples.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the 2014 to 2015 National Alcohol Survey of the U.S. population were used to estimate diabetes risk from drinking patterns at the time of onset in Cox proportional hazards models in a retrospective cohort design. Models for the population, males and females, and for White, Black, and Hispanic respondents of both genders were estimated using 2 versions of drinking pattern groupings at each age.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>While a number of significant results were found with the first version of the drinking measures, we focus on those confirmed with measures from responses strictly prior to the age of risk estimation. Compared to the lifetime abstainer group, the \"drinking at least weekly with less than monthly 5+\" group had a significantly lower hazard ratio (HR) for the total sample (HR = 0.64) and among Whites (HR = 0.42). Significantly reduced risks were found in the same models for those who drank 5+ at least monthly but not weekly. No significantly elevated risks were found for either current or prior heavy occasion drinking.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These results are consistent with some prior studies in finding reduced risks for regular light-to-moderate drinkers, but not consistent with findings from other studies showing increased risk from heavy occasion drinking, particularly among women. New and larger studies with well-defined drinking pattern measures are needed, particularly for U.S. Blacks and Hispanics, to address varying results in this literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"262-269"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13924","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36671977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reduced Risk of Alcohol-Induced Pancreatitis With Cannabis Use.","authors":"Adeyinka Charles Adejumo,&nbsp;Olalekan Akanbi,&nbsp;Kelechi Lauretta Adejumo,&nbsp;Terence Ndonyi Bukong","doi":"10.1111/acer.13929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13929","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Pancreatitis is an increasingly common clinical condition that causes significant morbidity and mortality. Cannabis use causes conflicting effects on pancreatitis development. We conducted a larger and more detailed assessment of the impact of cannabis use on pancreatitis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed data from 2012 to 2014 of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project-Nationwide Inpatient Sample discharge records of patients 18 years and older. We used the International Classification of Disease, Ninth Edition codes, to identify 3 populations: those with gallstones (379,125); abusive alcohol drinkers (762,356); and non-alcohol-non-gallstones users (15,255,464). Each study population was matched for cannabis use record by age, race, and gender, to records without cannabis use. The estimation of the adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of having acute and chronic pancreatitis (AP and CP) made use of conditional logistic models.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Concomitant cannabis and abusive alcohol use were associated with reduced incidence of AP and CP (aOR: 0.50 [0.48 to 0.53] and 0.77 [0.71 to 0.84]). Strikingly, for individuals with gallstones, additional cannabis use did not impact the incidence of AP or CP. Among non-alcohol-non-gallstones users, cannabis use was associated with increased incidence of CP, but not AP (1.28 [1.14 to 1.44] and 0.93 [0.86 to 1.01]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our findings suggest a reduced incidence of only alcohol-associated pancreatitis with cannabis use.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"277-286"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13929","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36791162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brain Glutamate, GABA, and Glutamine Levels and Associations with Recent Drinking in Treatment-Naïve Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder Versus Light Drinkers.","authors":"James J Prisciandaro,&nbsp;Joseph P Schacht,&nbsp;Andrew P Prescot,&nbsp;Perry F Renshaw,&nbsp;Truman R Brown,&nbsp;Raymond F Anton","doi":"10.1111/acer.13931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13931","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹ H-MRS) studies have demonstrated abnormal levels of a variety of neurometabolites in inpatients/outpatients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) following acute alcohol withdrawal relative to healthy controls. In contrast, few studies have compared neurometabolite levels between less severe, treatment-naïve AUD individuals and light drinkers (LD) or related them to recent alcohol consumption. The present study compared neurometabolite levels between treatment-naïve AUD and LD individuals.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Twenty treatment-naïve individuals with AUD and 20 demographically matched LD completed an ¹ H-MRS scan, approximately 2.5 days following their last reported drink. ¹ H-MRS data were acquired in dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC) using a 2-dimensional J-resolved point-resolved spectroscopy sequence. dACC neurometabolite levels, with a focus on glutamate, glutamine, and GABA, were compared between AUD and LD participants. The associations between metabolite levels and recent drinking were explored.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>AUD participants had significantly lower concentrations of GABA (Cohen's d = 0.79, p = 0.017) and glutamine (Cohen's d = 1.12, p = 0.005), but not glutamate (Cohen's d = 0.05, p = 0.893), relative to LD. As previously reported, AUD participants' glutamate and N-acetylaspartate concentrations were inversely associated with their number of heavy drinking days. In contrast, neither number of drinking (mean p = 0.56) nor heavy drinking (mean p = 0.47) days were associated with metabolite concentrations in LD.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The present study demonstrated significantly lower levels of prefrontal γ-aminobutyric acid and glutamine in treatment-naïve individuals with AUD relative to LD. Whether these findings reflect the neurotoxic consequence and/or neuroadaptive response of alcohol consumption versus a predrinking trait, and therefore a more durable neurochemical disturbance, awaits elucidation from longitudinal studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"221-226"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13931","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36771558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reduced Prevalence of Alcoholic Gastritis in Hospitalized Individuals Who Consume Cannabis.","authors":"Adeyinka Charles Adejumo,&nbsp;Jingjing Li,&nbsp;Olalekan Akanbi,&nbsp;Kelechi Lauretta Adejumo,&nbsp;Terence Ndonyi Bukong","doi":"10.1111/acer.13930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13930","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Alcoholic gastritis, a superficial erosive disease of the stomach, is a common manifestation of risky alcohol use. In contrast, cannabis which is frequently co-used with alcohol suppresses gastric acidity and might counteract the deleterious effect of alcohol on the gastric mucosa. However, no clinical study has examined the impact of cannabis use on the development of alcoholic gastritis among risky alcohol users.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analyzed hospital discharge records of adults (age ≥ 18 years), from 2014 of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, with a diagnosis of risky alcohol use (n = 316,916). We used a propensity-based matching algorithm to match cannabis users to nonusers on 1:1 ratio (30,713: 30,713). We then measured the adjusted relative risk (aRR) for having alcoholic gastritis using conditional Poisson regression models with generalized estimating equations.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our study revealed that among risky alcohol users, cannabis co-users have a lower prevalence of alcoholic gastritis compared to noncannabis users (1,289 [1,169 to 1,421] vs. 1,723 [1,583 to 1,875] per 100,000 hospitalizations for risky alcohol use), resulting in a 25% decreased probability of alcoholic gastritis (aRR: 0.75 [0.66 to 0.85]; p-value <0.0001). Furthermore, dependent cannabis usage resulted in a lower prevalence of alcoholic gastritis when compared to both nondependent cannabis users (0.72 [0.52 to 0.99]) and to noncannabis users (0.56 [0.41 to 0.76]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We reveal that risky alcohol drinking combined with cannabis use is associated with reduced prevalence of alcohol-associated gastritis in patients. Given increased cannabis legislation globally, understanding whether and how the specific ingredients in cannabis plant extract can be used in the treatment of alcoholic gastritis is paramount. In this regard, further molecular mechanistic studies are needed to delineate the mechanisms of our novel findings not only for alcoholic gastritis but also for gastritis from other causes.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"270-276"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13930","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36815355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Role of ADHD in the Co-Occurrence Between Heavy Alcohol Use and Depression Trajectories in Adulthood.","authors":"Frances L Wang,&nbsp;Sarah L Pedersen,&nbsp;Heather Joseph,&nbsp;Elizabeth M Gnagy,&nbsp;Patrick Curran,&nbsp;William E Pelham,&nbsp;Brooke S G Molina","doi":"10.1111/acer.13934","DOIUrl":"10.1111/acer.13934","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with greater heavy alcohol use and depressive symptoms in adulthood. Yet, few studies have investigated whether childhood ADHD predicts an increased association between heavy drinking and depression in adulthood when this co-occurrence becomes more common. We examined associations among heavy alcohol use and depression longitudinally from ages 21 to 29 and whether these associations differed for those with or without childhood ADHD, as well as for those with or without persistent ADHD in adulthood.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were from the Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study, a prospective cohort of children diagnosed with ADHD and demographically similar individuals without ADHD histories. ADHD symptoms in adulthood were self- and parent reported; depressive symptoms and frequency of drinking 5 or more drinks in a single drinking occasion were self-reported and measured at 5 time-points from ages 21 to 29. Depression and alcohol use were modeled in a multiple-group, parallel process longitudinal growth model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The slopes of heavy alcohol use and depression were significantly and positively associated from ages 25 to 29 but not at the younger ages. Although the strength of these associations did not differ by group (with or without ADHD, childhood or adulthood), the slopes of depression and heavy drinking at the older ages were highly variable and individuals with ADHD showed significantly faster growth in depression from ages 25 to 29.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Due to the strengthening association between heavy drinking and depression for adults in their late 20s, and increasing depression for adults with ADHD histories, individuals with ADHD may be at greater risk for co-occurring depression and binge drinking. Negative reinforcement-related alcohol use may strengthen as these individuals age toward the fourth decade of life. More rigorous testing of this possibility is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"342-352"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13934","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36760131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/acer.13956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13956","url":null,"abstract":"In Global Change Biology 17, 2089 – 2388, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02700.x, the first affiliation is incorrect. The author byline and affiliations should appear as below: DAV ID M . SUMMERS * , BRETT A . BRYAN* , NEV ILLE D . CROSSMAN* and WAYNE S. MEYER† *CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PMB 2 Glen Osmond, Adelaide, SA 5036, Australia, †School of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus Urrbrae, Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia We apologize for this error.","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"378"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13956","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36951033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sex Differences in Binge-Like and Aversion-Resistant Alcohol Drinking in C57BL/6J Mice.","authors":"Elizabeth A Sneddon,&nbsp;Robert D White,&nbsp;Anna K Radke","doi":"10.1111/acer.13923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.13923","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Alcohol use disorder is characterized by compulsive alcohol intake, or drinking despite negative consequences. Previous studies have shown that female rodents have a heightened vulnerability to drug use across different stages of the addictive cycle, but no previous studies have studied females in a model of aversion-resistant alcohol intake. Here, we investigated sex differences in binge-like and aversion-resistant alcohol drinking in C57BL/6J mice using a modified drinking-in-the-dark (DID) paradigm.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In Experiment 1, 24-hour aversion to quinine (0, 100, or 250 μM) was assessed. In Experiment 2, male and female adult C57BL/6J mice consumed 15% ethanol (EtOH) or water in a 2-bottle limited-access DID paradigm for 2 h/d for 15 days. The EtOH was next adulterated with quinine (0, 100, or 250 μM) over 3 consecutive drinking sessions to test aversion-resistant intake. In Experiment 3, intake of quinine-adulterated (100 μM) EtOH was assessed across all 15 drinking sessions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Quinine was equally aversive to both sexes in Experiment 1. In Experiment 2, female mice consumed significantly more alcohol than male mice during the final 6 drinking sessions. Levels of aversion-resistant intake did not differ between the sexes. In Experiment 3, quinine suppressed consumption in all mice, though females drank significantly more on the final 2 sessions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results of this study demonstrate that while female mice escalate and consume more EtOH than males, both sexes exhibit similar levels of aversion-resistant drinking. These results inform our understanding of how sex interacts with vulnerability for addiction and argue for the inclusion of females in more studies of aversion-resistant alcohol drinking.</p>","PeriodicalId":7410,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research","volume":"43 2","pages":"243-249"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/acer.13923","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36683633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}