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Chimthanawala N, Patil S, Agrawal R, Kotagale NR, Umekar MJ, Taksande BG. Inhibitory influence of agmatine in ethanol withdrawal-induced depression in rats: Behavioral and neurochemical evidence. Alcohol 2020; 83:67-74. [PMID: 31520686 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2019.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Revised: 08/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Although ethanol withdrawal depression is one of the prominent reasons for ethanol consumption reinstatement and ethanol dependence, its neurochemical basis is not clearly understood. The present study investigated the role of the agmatinergic system in ethanol withdrawal-induced depression using the forced swim test (FST) in rats. Chronic exposure of animals to ethanol for 21 days and its abrupt withdrawal produced depression-like behavior, as evidenced by increased immobility time in the FST, compared to the pair-fed control animals. The ethanol withdrawal-induced depression was significantly attenuated by agmatine (20-40 μg/rat, i.c.v. [intracerebroventricularly]), moxonidine (50 μg/rat, i.c.v.), 2-BFI (20 μg/rat, i.c.v.), L-arginine (80 μg/rat, i.c.v.), amino-guanidine (25 μg/rat, i.c.v.), and arcaine (50 μg/rat, i.c.v.) by their once-daily administration during the withdrawal phase (Days 21, 22, and 23). The antidepressant effect of agmatine in ethanol-withdrawn rats was potentiated by the imidazoline receptor I1 agonist moxonidine (25 μg/rat, i.c.v.) and the imidazoline receptor I2 agonist, 2-BFI (10 μg/rat, i.c.v.) at their sub-effective doses. On the other hand, it was completely blocked by the imidazoline receptor I1 antagonist, efaroxan (10 μg/rat, i.c.v.) and the imidazoline receptor I2 antagonist, idazoxan (4 μg/rat, i.c.v.). In addition, agmatine levels were significantly reduced in brain samples of ethanol-withdrawn rats as compared to the pair-fed control animals. In conclusion, the present study suggests the importance of the endogenous agmatinergic system and the imidazoline receptors system in ethanol withdrawal-induced depression. The data project agmatine as a potential therapeutic target for the alcohol withdrawal-induced depression.
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- Niyamat Chimthanawala
- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur (M.S.), 441 002, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur (M.S.), 441 002, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur (M.S.), 441 002, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur (M.S.), 441 002, India; Government College of Pharmacy, Amravati (M.S.), 444 604, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur (M.S.), 441 002, India
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- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Smt. Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur (M.S.), 441 002, India.
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Taksande BG, Khade SD, Aglawe MM, Gujar S, Chopde CT, Kotagale NR. Agmatine Inhibits Behavioral Sensitization to Ethanol Through Imidazoline Receptors. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2019; 43:747-757. [DOI: 10.1111/acer.13972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Brijesh G. Taksande
- Department of Pharmacology Division of Neuroscience Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy Nagpur India
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- Department of Pharmacology Division of Neuroscience Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy Nagpur India
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- Department of Pharmacology Division of Neuroscience Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy Nagpur India
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- Department of Pharmacology Division of Neuroscience Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy Nagpur India
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- Department of Pharmacology Division of Neuroscience Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy Nagpur India
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- Department of Pharmacology Division of Neuroscience Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar College of Pharmacy Nagpur India
- Government Colleges of Pharmacy Amravati India
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El-Mas MM, Abdel-Rahman AA. Role of Alcohol Oxidative Metabolism in Its Cardiovascular and Autonomic Effects. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1193:1-33. [PMID: 31368095 PMCID: PMC8034813 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6260-6_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Several review articles have been published on the neurobehavioral actions of acetaldehyde and other ethanol metabolites as well as in major alcohol-related disorders such as cancer and liver and lung disease. However, very few reviews dealt with the role of alcohol metabolism in the adverse cardiac and autonomic effects of alcohol and their potential underlying mechanisms, particularly in vulnerable populations. In this chapter, following a brief overview of the dose-related favorable and adverse cardiovascular effects of alcohol, we discuss the role of ethanol metabolism in its adverse effects in the brainstem and heart. Notably, current knowledge dismisses a major role for acetaldehyde in the adverse autonomic and cardiac effects of alcohol because of its low tissue level in vivo. Contrary to these findings in men and male rodents, women and hypertensive individuals are more sensitive to the adverse cardiac effects of similar amounts of alcohol. To understand this discrepancy, we discuss the autonomic and cardiac effects of alcohol and its metabolite acetaldehyde in a model of hypertension, the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and female rats. We present evidence that enhanced catalase activity, which contributes to cardioprotection in hypertension (compensatory) and in the presence of estrogen (inherent), becomes detrimental due to catalase catalysis of alcohol metabolism to acetaldehyde. Noteworthy, studies in SHRs and in estrogen deprived or replete normotensive rats implicate acetaldehyde in triggering oxidative stress in autonomic nuclei and the heart via (i) the Akt/extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK)/nitric oxide synthase (NOS) cascade and (ii) estrogen receptor-alpha (ERα) mediation of the higher catalase activity, which generates higher ethanol-derived acetaldehyde in female heart. The latter is supported by the ability of ERα blockade or catalase inhibition to attenuate alcohol-evoked myocardial oxidative stress and dysfunction. More mechanistic studies are needed to further understand the mechanisms of this public health problem.
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- Mahmoud M El-Mas
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA.
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Crestani CC, Lopes da Silva A, Scopinho AA, Ruginsk SG, Uchoa ET, Correa FM, Elias LL, Antunes-Rodrigues J, Resstel LB. Cardiovascular alterations at different stages of hypertension development during ethanol consumption: Time-course of vascular and autonomic changes. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol 2014; 280:245-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2014.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2014] [Revised: 07/19/2014] [Accepted: 08/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Taksande BG, Kotagale NR, Patel MR, Shelkar GP, Ugale RR, Chopde CT. Agmatine, an endogenous imidazoline receptor ligand modulates ethanol anxiolysis and withdrawal anxiety in rats. Eur J Pharmacol 2010; 637:89-101. [PMID: 20394743 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2010.03.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2009] [Revised: 03/06/2010] [Accepted: 03/31/2010] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Present study investigated the role of agmatine in ethanol-induced anxiolysis and withdrawal anxiety using elevated plus maze (EPM) test in rats. The anxiolytic-like effect of ethanol was potentiated by pretreatment with imidazoline I(1)/I(2) receptor agonist agmatine (10-20 mg/kg, i.p.), imidazoline I(1) receptor agonists, moxonidine (0.25 mg/kg, i.p.) and clonidine (0.015 mg/kg, i.p.), imidazoline I(2) receptor agonist, 2-BFI (5 mg/kg, i.p.) as well as by the drugs known to increase endogenous agmatine levels in brain viz., L-arginine, an agmatine biosynthetic precursor (100 microg/rat, i.c.v.), ornithine decarboxylase inhibitor, DFMO (125 microg/rat, i.c.v.), diamine oxidase inhibitor, aminoguanidine (65 microg/rat, i.c.v.) and agmatinase inhibitor, arcaine (50 microg/rat, i.c.v.). Conversely, prior administration of I(1) receptor antagonist, efaroxan (1 mg/kg, i.p.), I(2) receptor antagonist, idazoxan (0.25mg/kg, i.p.) and arginine decarboxylase inhibitor, D-arginine (100 microg/rat, i.c.v.) blocked the anxiolytic-like effect of ethanol. Moreover, ethanol withdrawal anxiety was markedly attenuated by agmatine (10-20 mg/kg, i.p.), moxonidine (0.25 mg/kg, i.p.), clonidine (0.015 mg/kg, i.p.), 2-BFI (5 mg/kg, i.p.), L-arginine (100 microg/rat, i.c.v.), DFMO (125 microg/rat, i.c.v.), aminoguanidine (65 microg/rat, i.c.v.) and arcaine (50 microg/rat, i.c.v.). The anti-anxiety effect of agmatine in ethanol-withdrawn rats was completely blocked by efaroxan (1 mg/kg, i.p.) and idazoxan (0.25 mg/kg, i.p.). These results suggest that agmatine and imidazoline receptor system may be implicated in ethanol-induced anxiolysis and withdrawal anxiety and strongly support further investigation of agmatine in ethanol dependence mechanism. The data also project agmatine as a potential therapeutic target in overcoming alcohol withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety.
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- Brijesh G Taksande
- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, Shrimati Kishoritai Bhoyar, College of Pharmacy, New Kamptee, Nagpur, MS, India
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El-Mas MM, Abdel-Rahman AA. Chronic ethanol attenuates centrally-mediated hypotension elicited via alpha(2)-adrenergic, but not I(1)-imidazoline, receptor activation in female rats. Life Sci 2008; 84:111-8. [PMID: 19041658 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2008.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2008] [Revised: 10/03/2008] [Accepted: 11/07/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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AIMS This study dealt with the effect of chronic ethanol administration on hemodynamic responses elicited by alpha(2)-adrenergic (alpha-methyldopa) or I(1)-imidazoline (rilmenidine) receptor activation in telemetered female rats. MAIN METHODS The effects of alpha-methyldopa or rilmenidine on blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and their variability were investigated in rats that received liquid diet without or with ethanol (5% w/v) for 12 weeks. To evaluate the effect of each drug on cardiovascular autonomic control (BP and HR variability) in the absence or presence of ethanol, three time-domain indices of hemodynamic variability were measured: (i) standard deviation of mean arterial pressure (SDMAP), (ii) standard deviation of beat-to-beat intervals, and (iii) root mean square of successive differences in R-R intervals. KEY FINDINGS In liquid diet-fed control rats, i.p. rilmenidine (600 microg/kg) or alpha-methyldopa (100 mg/kg) reduced BP along with decreases and increases, respectively, in HR. Both drugs had no effect on HR variability but reduced BP variability (SDMAP), suggesting a reduced vasomotor sympathetic tone. Ethanol feeding attenuated reductions in BP and SDMAP evoked by alpha-methyldopa but not by rilmenidine. SIGNIFICANCE We conclude that chronic ethanol preferentially compromises alpha(2)- but not I(1)-receptor-mediated hypotension in female rats probably via modulation of vasomotor sympathetic activity. These findings highlight the adequacy of rilmenidine use to lower BP in hypertensive alcoholic females.
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- Mahmoud M El-Mas
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA
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Li G, Wang X, Abdel-Rahman AA. Brainstem norepinephrine neurons mediate ethanol-evoked pressor response but not baroreflex dysfunction. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2005; 29:639-47. [PMID: 15834230 DOI: 10.1097/01.alc.0000160083.72579.ec] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Ethanol elicits strain-dependent blood pressure and baroreflex sensitivity responses in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats; the mechanisms underlying these divergent effects are not clear. The authors tested the hypothesis that differential neuronal actions of ethanol may account for these strain-dependent responses. To this end, the authors investigated the direct effects of ethanol on norepinephrine (NE)-containing neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM), which modulate sympathetic neuronal activity, and on c-Jun-expressing neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS), whose activity is inversely correlated with baroreflex sensitivity. METHODS In a newly developed model system in conscious, freely moving rats, the effect of intra-RVLM or intra-NTS ethanol was investigated on neuronal NE at the microinjection site (in vivo electrochemistry), blood pressure, heart rate, spontaneous baroreflex sensitivity, and c-Jun expression in the NTS. RESULTS Ethanol (1, 5, or 10 microg) microinjection into the RVLM elicited dose-dependent increases in RVLM NE and blood pressure in SHRs but not in WKY rats. Ethanol had no effect on the activity of the NE-containing neurons in the NTS of either strain. However, baroreflex dysfunction elicited by intra-NTS ethanol in conscious WKY rats was associated with enhanced expression of c-Jun in the NTS. CONCLUSIONS (1) Ethanol activation of the NE-containing neurons in the RVLM of SHRs contributes to the centrally mediated pressor response, (2) the NE-containing neurons in the NTS are not involved in ethanol-induced baroreflex dysfunction, and (3) direct activation of the c-Jun-containing neurons in the NTS is implicated in baroreflex dysfunction elicited by ethanol in normotensive rats.
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- Guichu Li
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 27858, USA
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El-Mas MM, Abdel-Rahman AA. Chronic ethanol administration attenuates imidazoline I1 receptor- or alpha 2-adrenoceptor-mediated reductions in blood pressure and hemodynamic variability in hypertensive rats. Eur J Pharmacol 2004; 485:251-62. [PMID: 14757148 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2003.11.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Our previous studies have demonstrated that acute ethanol administration counteracts imidazoline I(1) receptor but not alpha(2)-adrenoceptor-mediated hypotension in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). In the present study, we investigated the effect of chronic ethanol administration on hypotensive responses elicited by acute administration of selective imidazoline I(1) receptor (rilmenidine) or alpha(2)-adrenoceptor (alpha-methyldopa) agonist along with ethanol effects on: (i) locomotor activity and (ii) time-domain indices of variability in blood pressure (standard deviation of mean arterial pressure) and heart rate (standard deviation of beat-to-beat intervals and root mean square of successive differences in R-R intervals). Hemodynamic and locomotor responses elicited by rilmenidine or alpha-methyldopa were assessed in radiotelemetered ethanol-fed (2.5% or 5% w/v, 12 week) and control SHR. In control SHR, i.p. rilmenidine (600 microg/kg) or alpha-methyldopa (100 mg/kg) significantly reduced blood pressure. Rilmenidine had no effect on heart rate whereas alpha-methyldopa elicited a biphasic response (tachycardia followed by bradycardia). Blood pressure and heart rate oscillations were also reduced by both drugs, which may conform to sympathoinhibition. The hypotensive effect of rilmenidine or alpha-methyldopa was significantly attenuated by ethanol feeding (2.5% or 5%) in a concentration-dependent manner. In addition, ethanol attenuated alpha-methyldopa-evoked reduction in heart rate, but not blood pressure, variability in marked contrast to attenuating rilmenidine-evoked reductions in blood pressure, but not heart rate, variability. These findings demonstrate that, unlike its acute effects, chronic ethanol attenuates both imidazoline I(1) receptor and alpha(2)-adrenoceptor-mediated hypotension whereas its effect on hemodynamic variability depended on the nature of the hypotensive stimulus.
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- Mahmoud M El-Mas
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 353, Greenville, NC 27858-4353, USA
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El-Mas MM, Abdel-Rahman AA. Effects of chronic ethanol feeding on clonidine-evoked reductions in blood pressure, heart rate, and their variability: time-domain analyses. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2003; 306:271-8. [PMID: 12660306 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.102.048355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The effects of chronic ethanol administration on the acute hemodynamic effects of clonidine were investigated in conscious radiotelemetered spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs). Changes evoked by clonidine (30 micro g/kg i.p.) in blood pressure, heart rate, and their variability were evaluated in ethanol [2.5 or 5% (w/v), 12 weeks] and pair-fed control rats. The blood pressure variability was determined as the standard deviation of the mean arterial pressure (SDMAP). Two heart rate variability indices were used, the standard deviation of beat-to-beat intervals (SDRR) and the root mean square of successive beat-to-beat differences in R-R interval durations (rMSSD). Compared with control rats, ethanol (2.5 and 5%)-fed rats exhibited concentration-related reductions in mean arterial pressure (MAP) and SDMAP versus no change in heart rate variability. In control rats, clonidine caused a significant reduction in MAP that continued for at least 5 h and was associated with significant reductions in SDMAP, SDRR, and rMSSD, responses that are consistent with the inhibition of central sympathetic tone. The hypotensive effect of clonidine was attenuated by ethanol in a concentration-related manner. The maximum reductions in MAP elicited by clonidine in ethanol (2.5 and 5%)-fed rats amounted to -23.4 +/- 2.8 and -15.1 +/- 1.5 mm Hg, respectively, compared with -35.4 +/- 1.2 mm Hg in control rats. The clonidine-induced reductions in SDMAP, SDRR, and rMSSD were also significantly attenuated by ethanol. These findings suggest that the attenuation of MAP and heart rate variability responses elicited by clonidine in ethanol-fed SHRs reflects alterations in the sympathovagal balance, which may be implicated in the antagonistic hemodynamic interaction between the two drugs.
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- Mahmoud M El-Mas
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA
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Masters JA, Stevenson JS. A theoretical model of the role of brain stem nuclei in alcohol-mediated arrhythmogenesis in older adults. Biol Res Nurs 2003; 4:218-31. [PMID: 12585785 DOI: 10.1177/1099800402239627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Uncertainty about the mechanism of alcohol-mediated arrhythmogenesis and the effect of alcohol use on arrhythmic risk among older adults is an increasing concern in light of population aging and recent reports that moderate alcohol consumption may protect older adults against coronary artery disease. In this review, a theoretical model of the role of brain stem nuclei in alcohol-mediated arrhythmogenesis in older adults is developed. The model is based on the hypothesis that the effects of alcohol on central autonomic pathways of cardiac control may alter the threshold for alcohol-mediated arrhythmogenesis among older adults. Findings from multiple lines of research including cellular, electrophysiological, epidemiological, experimental, and clinical studies in human, animal, and in vitro models were synthesized in developing the model. Suggestions for future research on the topic of alcohol-mediated arrhythmogenesis in older adults are offered.
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