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Asefi MB, Heidari A, Hajikarim-Hamedani A, Mousavi Z, Ashabi G, Sadat-Shirazi MS, Zarrindast MR. Preconception ethanol exposure changes anxiety, depressive and checking-like behavior and alter the expression levels of MAO-B in male offspring. Neurotoxicol Teratol 2024; 104:107367. [PMID: 38866258 DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2024.107367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2024] [Revised: 05/18/2024] [Accepted: 06/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
Abstract
Alcohol use, which alters the epigenome, increases the probability that it could affect subsequent generations, even if they were never directly exposed to ethanol or even in utero. We explored the effects of parental ethanol exposure before conception on behavioral changes in the offspring. Considering the role of Monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) in dopamine turnover in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and its influence on behavior, and taking into account that ethanol exposure could alter MAO-B, we assessed the protein levels in the offspring. Male and female rats were exposed to ethanol for 30 days and then allowed ten days of abstinence. Afterward, they were mated with either control or ethanol-exposed rats. The F1 and F2 male offspring underwent tests to assess behavioral changes. Additionally, the levels of MAO-B in the PFC were evaluated. Results revealed that in the F1, anxiety increased only in the bi-parental ethanol-exposed male offspring in the elevated plus maze test (p < 0.05), while depressive-like behavior rose only in maternal and bi-parental ethanol-exposed offspring (p < 0.01). However, compulsive-like behavior increased in all ethanol-exposed offspring (p < 0.01). No significant phenotypic changes were observed in the F2. The levels of MAO-B in the PFC increased in the maternal (p < 0.05) and bi-parental ethanol-exposed offspring (p < 0.01). Our study demonstrates that parental ethanol exposure, even in the days preceding mating, adversely affects behaviors and induces molecular changes in the brain. Given these findings, it becomes imperative to monitor children exposed to parental (especially maternal) ethanol for the prevention of mental disorders.
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- Mohammad Basir Asefi
- Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Faculty of Medicine, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Pharmacology-Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Iran
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- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Flores A, Nguyen NM, Pendyala G. Developmental outcomes with perinatal exposure (DOPE) to prescription opioids. NEUROIMMUNE PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS 2023; 2:339-351. [PMID: 38058996 PMCID: PMC10696573 DOI: 10.1515/nipt-2023-0017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023]
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Researchers have found considerable evidence in the past 20 years that perinatal opioid exposure leads to an increased risk of developmental disorders in offspring that persist into adulthood. The use of opioids to treat pain concerning pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum complications has been rising. As a result, communities have reported a 300-400 % increase in Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS). NOWS represents the initial stage of several behavioral, phenotypic, and synaptic deficits. This review article summarizes the Developmental Outcomes of Perinatal Exposure (DOPE) to prescription opioids. Moreover, we also seek to connect these findings to clinical research that describes DOPE at multiple stages of life. Since specific mechanisms that underlie DOPE remain unclear, this article aims to provide a framework for conceptualizing across all ages and highlight the implications they may have for longevity.
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- Adrian Flores
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, NE, USA
- Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, UNMC, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, NE, USA
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, UNMC, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), Omaha, NE, USA
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, UNMC, Omaha, NE, USA
- Child Health Research Institute, Omaha, NE, USA
- National Strategic Research Institute, UNMC, Omaha, NE, USA
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Sabzevari S, Rohbani K, Sadeghi-Adl M, Khalifeh S, Sadat-Shirazi MS, Zarrindast MR. Does Morphine Exposure Before Gestation Change Anxiety-Like Behavior During Morphine Dependence in Male Wistar Rats? ADDICTION & HEALTH 2023; 15:169-176. [PMID: 38026722 PMCID: PMC10658104 DOI: 10.34172/ahj.2023.1396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Background Anxiety is one of the comorbid disorders of opioid addiction, which leads to opioid abuse or persuades people to engage in opioid abuse. Evidence revealed that morphine exposure before conception changes the offspring's phenotype. The current study aimed to investigate the influence of morphine dependence and abstinence on anxiety-like behavior in morphine-exposed and drug-naïve offspring. Methods Adult male and female rats were treated with morphine or vehicle for 21 days. Then, all rats were left without drug treatment for 10 days. A morphine-exposed female rat was mated with either a vehicle-exposed or morphine-abstinent male. According to parental morphine exposure, the offspring were categorized into four distinct groups: (1) control (both drug-naïve parents), (2) paternal morphine-exposed, (3) maternal morphine-exposed, and (4) biparental morphine-exposed. The anxiety-like behavior was measured in adult male offspring using open field and elevated plus-maze tests before morphine exposure (naïve), 21 days after morphine exposure (dependence), and ten days after the last morphine exposure (abstinence). Findings The results indicated that anxiety-like behavior increased before morphine exposure in maternal and biparental morphine-exposed offspring (P<0.05). However, after morphine exposure, the anxiety level did not change among the groups. Ten days after the last morphine exposure, anxiety-like behavior increased only in biparental morphine-exposed offspring (P<0.05). Conclusion The offspring of morphine-abstinent parents exhibited an anxious phenotype. Disruption of the HPA axis was seen in the progeny of maternal and biparental morphine-exposed rats. Indeed, morphine exposure for 21 days did not change anxiety-like behavior in these offspring which might be correlated to disruption of HPA axis in them.
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- Saba Sabzevari
- Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Cognitive and Neuroscience Research Center (CNRC), Tehran Medical Sciences, Amir-Almomenin Hospital, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Cognitive and Neuroscience Research Center (CNRC), Tehran Medical Sciences, Amir-Almomenin Hospital, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Kharazmi K, Alani B, Heydari A, Ardjmand A. Protection against Morphine-Induced Inhibitory Avoidance Memory Impairment in Rat by Curcumin: Possible Role of Nitric Oxide/ cAMP-Response Element Binding Protein Pathway. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 2022; 47:594-602. [PMID: 36380970 PMCID: PMC9652497 DOI: 10.30476/ijms.2022.92131.2339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Although a substantial body of research suggests curcumin (CUR) has the preventive potential in memory impairment, the mechanism by which CUR prevents memory loss is still being investigated. This study employs an inhibitory avoidance (IA) model to investigate whether CUR can prevent morphine (Mor)-induced memory impairment as well as the possible role of cAMP-response element binding (CREB) protein, and nitric oxide (NO) signaling in this mechanism. METHODS This experimental study was conducted at the Animal Lab of the Physiology Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences (Kashan, Iran) in 2018. Forty rats were randomly divided into four groups: control, CUR (pretreatment gavage of CUR [10 mg/Kg] for 35 days), Mor (7.5 mg/Kg, i.p.), and CUR+Mor (n=10 per group). Following the evaluation of the IA memory and locomotor activity of the animals, the CREB protein expression in the hippocampus and NO metabolites (NOx) level in the brain tissue were also investigated. The data were analyzed using Sigmaplot software (version 14.0) by using the ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, Holm-Sidak, and Dunn's post hoc tests. P<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. RESULTS In the Mor group, the IA memory of the rats was significantly impaired (P=0.001). CUR prevented the Mor-induced IA memory impairment (P=0.075). While the Mor treatment decreased the phosphorylated CREB (p-CREB) expression, the CUR+Mor cotreatment increased p-CREB expression (P=0.010). Nevertheless, the Mor treatment increased the total CREB expression (P=0.010). The NOx concentration in the brain tissue was decreased following the Mor treatment (P=0.500) but increased after the CUR+Mor cotreatment (P=0.001). CONCLUSION The present findings suggest that CUR prevents the memory impairment of rats, possibly through NO and its downstream CREB signaling.
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- Khatereh Kharazmi
- Physiology Research Center, Institute for Basic Sciences, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Department of Applied Cell Sciences, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Physiology Research Center, Institute for Basic Sciences, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran,
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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- Physiology Research Center, Institute for Basic Sciences, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran,
Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
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Vassoler FM, Isgate SB, Budge KE, Byrnes EM. HPA axis dysfunction during morphine withdrawal in offspring of female rats exposed to opioids preconception. Neurosci Lett 2022; 773:136479. [PMID: 35085692 PMCID: PMC8908356 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2022.136479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Opioid use and abuse remain a significant public health problem, particularly in the United States. Indeed, it is estimated that up to 10% of youths (age 12-18) have taken opioids illicitly. A growing body of evidence suggests that this level of widespread opioid exposure can have effects that extend to subsequent generations. Utilizing a well-established rodent model of preconception adolescent opioid exposure in females, we found decreased opioid self-administration coupled with increased cocaine self-administration in adult offspring. This bidirectional effect may be related to negative affect associated with opioid withdrawal, including enhanced stress reactivity. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the adult offspring of females exposed to morphine during adolescence will demonstrate increased signs of opioid withdrawal when compared to offspring of saline controls. Females were administered increasing doses of morphine (5-25 mg/kg s.c.) or saline (1 ml/kg) from postnatal day 30 (PND30)-PND39. They were then maintained drug free for a minimum of 4 weeks and mated with drug-naïve males on or after PND70. As adults, their male and female offspring (referred to as Mor-F1 or Sal-F1) were administered morphine (10 mg/kg s.c.) twice a day for 5 days. They were then tested for spontaneous withdrawal behaviors for the next 4 days (∼PND70). Levels of corticotropin releasing hormone (Crh) and urocortin 3 (Ucn3) were examined in the amygdala at 48 h and 96 h of withdrawal. Circulating corticosterone was measured at 48 h. Results indicate that Mor-F1 males are heavier than Sal-F1 males with no baseline differences in females. However, Mor-F1 females did not gain weight at the same rate as Sal-F1 females during withdrawal. While there were no differences in somatic withdrawal signs, gene expression data revealed a sex-specific and time-dependent effect on Crh as well as increased Ucn3 and corticosterone in females at 48hrs withdrawal. Overall, these data point to differences in withdrawal and stress reactivity in Mor-F1 animals that may contribute to observed differences in addiction-like behaviors.
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- Fair M Vassoler
- Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Grafton, MA 01536, USA.
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- Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Grafton, MA 01536, USA
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- Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Grafton, MA 01536, USA
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- Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Grafton, MA 01536, USA
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