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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-1-26
pubmed:abstractText
Administration of heroin or phenobarbital to pregnant mice evokes neurochemical and behavioral deficits consequent to disruption of septohippocampal cholinergic innervation. The present study evaluates the relationship between the drug-induced biochemical changes and the behavioral deficits, applying two different approaches: neural grafting and within-individual correlations of biochemistry and behavior. Mice were exposed transplacentally to phenobarbital or heroin on gestational days 9-18 and tested in adulthood. Drug-exposed mice displayed impaired radial arm maze performance, increases in presynaptic choline transporter sites (monitored with [(3)H]hemicholinium-3 binding), upregulation of membrane-associated protein kinase C (PKC) activity, and desensitization of the PKC response to a cholinergic agonist, carbachol. Grafting of cholinergic cells to the impaired hippocampus reversed the behavioral deficits nearly completely and restored basal PKC activity and the PKC response to carbachol to normal; the drug effects on hemicholinium-3 binding were also slightly obtunded by neural grafting, but nevertheless remained significantly elevated. There were significant correlations between the performance in the eight-arm maze and both basal PKC activity and PKC desensitization, and to a lesser extent, between behavioral performance and hemicholinium-3 binding. Taken together, these findings indicate an inextricable link between the biochemical effects of prenatal drug exposure on the PKC signaling cascade and adverse behavioral outcomes. The ability of neural grafting to reverse both the drug-induced changes in PKC and behaviors linked to septohippocampal cholinergic function suggest a mechanistic link between this signaling pathway and neurobehavioral teratology caused by heroin or phenobarbital.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carbachol, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Carrier Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Choline O-Acetyltransferase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cholinergic Agents, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cholinergic Agonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Hemicholinium 3, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Heroin, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Narcotics, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Phenobarbital, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Plasma Membrane Neurotransmitter..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Protein Kinase C, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Slc6a8 protein, rat, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Symporters
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0165-3806
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
125
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9-19
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Brain Tissue Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Carbachol, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Choline O-Acetyltransferase, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Cholinergic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Cholinergic Agonists, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Fetal Tissue Transplantation, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Hemicholinium 3, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Heroin, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Maze Learning, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Narcotics, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Phenobarbital, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Plasma Membrane Neurotransmitter Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Pregnancy, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Symporters, pubmed-meshheading:11154756-Synapses
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Neural grafting reverses prenatal drug-induced alterations in hippocampal PKC and related behavioral deficits.
pubmed:affiliation
The Ross Laboratory for Studies in Neural Birth Defects, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Box 12272, 91010, Jerusalem, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't