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dc.contributor.authorMartin, Gilles E.
dc.contributor.authorPuig, Sylvie I.
dc.contributor.authorPietrzykowski, Andrzej Z.
dc.contributor.authorFeinberg-Zadek, Paula Leslie
dc.contributor.authorEmery, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorTreistman, Steven N.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:09:31.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T16:34:18Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T16:34:18Z
dc.date.issued2004-07-23
dc.date.submitted2009-03-10
dc.identifier.citation<p>J Neurosci. 2004 Jul 21;24(29):6563-72. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0684-04.2004">Link to article on publisher's site</a></p>
dc.identifier.issn1529-2401 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.doi10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0684-04.2004
dc.identifier.pmid15269268
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/38301
dc.description<p>Co-author Paula L. Feinberg-Zadek is a student in the Neuroscience program in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) at UMass Medical School.</p>
dc.description.abstractAlcohol is an addictive drug that targets a variety of ion channels and receptors. To address whether the effects of alcohol are compartment specific (soma vs dendrite), we examined the effects of ethanol (EtOH) on large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (BK) in cell bodies and dendrites of freshly isolated neurons from the rat nucleus accumbens (NAcc), a region known to be critical for the development of addiction. Compartment-specific drug action was indeed observed. Clinically relevant concentrations of EtOH increased somatic but not dendritic BK channel open probability. Electrophysiological single-channel recordings and pharmacological analysis of the BK channel in excised patches from each region indicated a number of differences, suggestive of a compartment-specific expression of the beta4 subunit of the BK channel, that might explain the differential alcohol sensitivity. These parameters included activation kinetics, calcium dependency, and toxin blockade. Reverse transcription-PCR showed that both BK channel beta1 and beta4 subunit mRNAs are found in the NAcc, although the signal for beta1 is significantly weaker. Immunohistochemistry revealed that beta1 subunits were found in both soma and dendrites, whereas beta4 appeared restricted to the soma. These findings suggest that the beta4 subunit may confer EtOH sensitivity to somatic BK channels, whereas the absence of beta4 in the dendrite results in insensitivity to the drug. Consistent with this idea, acute EtOH potentiated alphabeta4 BK currents in transfected human embryonic kidney cells, whereas it failed to alter alphabeta1 BK channel-mediated currents. Finally, an EtOH concentration (50 mm) that increased BK channel open probability strongly decreased the duration of somatic-generated action potential in NAcc neurons.
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dc.subjectAction Potentials
dc.subjectAnimals
dc.subjectCalcium
dc.subjectCell Compartmentation
dc.subjectCell Line
dc.subjectCells, Cultured
dc.subjectDendrites
dc.subjectElectric Conductivity
dc.subjectEthanol
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectIon Channel Gating
dc.subjectKinetics
dc.subjectLarge-Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels
dc.subjectMale
dc.subjectNeurons
dc.subjectNucleus Accumbens
dc.subjectPatch-Clamp Techniques
dc.subjectPotassium Channels, Calcium-Activated
dc.subjectProtein Subunits
dc.subjectRNA, Messenger
dc.subjectRats
dc.subjectRats, Sprague-Dawley
dc.subjectNeuroscience and Neurobiology
dc.titleSomatic localization of a specific large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channel subtype controls compartmentalized ethanol sensitivity in the nucleus accumbens
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
dc.source.volume24
dc.source.issue29
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2170&amp;context=oapubs&amp;unstamped=1
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/1171
dc.identifier.contextkey770149
refterms.dateFOA2022-08-23T16:34:18Z
html.description.abstract<p>Alcohol is an addictive drug that targets a variety of ion channels and receptors. To address whether the effects of alcohol are compartment specific (soma vs dendrite), we examined the effects of ethanol (EtOH) on large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels (BK) in cell bodies and dendrites of freshly isolated neurons from the rat nucleus accumbens (NAcc), a region known to be critical for the development of addiction. Compartment-specific drug action was indeed observed. Clinically relevant concentrations of EtOH increased somatic but not dendritic BK channel open probability. Electrophysiological single-channel recordings and pharmacological analysis of the BK channel in excised patches from each region indicated a number of differences, suggestive of a compartment-specific expression of the beta4 subunit of the BK channel, that might explain the differential alcohol sensitivity. These parameters included activation kinetics, calcium dependency, and toxin blockade. Reverse transcription-PCR showed that both BK channel beta1 and beta4 subunit mRNAs are found in the NAcc, although the signal for beta1 is significantly weaker. Immunohistochemistry revealed that beta1 subunits were found in both soma and dendrites, whereas beta4 appeared restricted to the soma. These findings suggest that the beta4 subunit may confer EtOH sensitivity to somatic BK channels, whereas the absence of beta4 in the dendrite results in insensitivity to the drug. Consistent with this idea, acute EtOH potentiated alphabeta4 BK currents in transfected human embryonic kidney cells, whereas it failed to alter alphabeta1 BK channel-mediated currents. Finally, an EtOH concentration (50 mm) that increased BK channel open probability strongly decreased the duration of somatic-generated action potential in NAcc neurons.</p>
dc.identifier.submissionpathoapubs/1171
dc.contributor.departmentMartin Lab
dc.contributor.departmentGraduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience Program
dc.contributor.departmentTreistman Lab
dc.contributor.departmentEmery Lab
dc.contributor.departmentNeurobiology
dc.source.pages6563-72
dc.contributor.studentPaula L. Feinberg-Zadek
dc.description.thesisprogramNeuroscience


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