Monoamines and peptidergic Gomori-positive neurosecretory cells of the paraventricular nucleus of the rat hypothalamus in chronic alcohol consumption
Konstantinova, M.S.; Gromova, E.A.; Bobkova, N.V.; Polenov, A.L.; Plakkhinas, L.A.
Biulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny 102(12): 700-701
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0365-9615 PMID: 2432960 Document Number: 281889
For 6 months the rats were kept on 20 degrees ethanol. Then, the rats could choose whether to drink alcohol (A) or water. The rats formed 2 groups: those preferring A and those preferring water. The control rats were kept on water. The function of hypothalamus monoamine- and peptidergic systems were disturbed following chronic A treatment. Alcohol-preferring, unlike water-preferring rats, have revealed higher hypothalamus levels of serotonin and lower levels of dopamine and noradrenaline, which correlated with changes in fluorescence intensity of hypothalamus noradrenaline structures and were accompanied by remarkable disturbances in nonapeptide neurohormone transport in the paraventricular nucleus region.