Badawy A A, Morgan C J, Lane J, Dhaliwal K, Bradley D M
Biomedical Research Laboratory, Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
Biochem J. 1989 Dec 1;264(2):597-9. doi: 10.1042/bj2640597.
The lower brain 5-hydroxytryptamine concentration in alcohol-preferring C57BL, compared with -non-preferring CBA, mice is caused by a decrease in circulating tryptophan availability to the brain secondarily to a higher liver tryptophan pyrrolase activity associated with a higher circulating corticosterone concentration. Activity or expression of liver tryptophan pyrrolase and/or their induction by glucocorticoids may be important biological determinants of predisposition to alcohol consumption.
与非嗜酒的CBA小鼠相比,嗜酒的C57BL小鼠大脑中5-羟色胺浓度较低,这是由于肝脏色氨酸吡咯酶活性较高,导致循环皮质酮浓度升高,进而使大脑可利用的循环色氨酸减少所致。肝脏色氨酸吡咯酶的活性或表达,和/或它们被糖皮质激素诱导,可能是饮酒易感性的重要生物学决定因素。