Bukiya Anna N, Seleverstov Olga, Bisen Shivantika, Dopico Alex M
Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38103, USA.
J Drug Alcohol Res. 2016;5. doi: 10.4303/jdar/236002. Epub 2016 Nov 27.
Age has been recognized as an important contributor into susceptibility to alcohol-driven pathology.
We aimed at determining whether alcohol-induced constriction of cerebral arteries was age-dependent.
We used rat middle cerebral artery (MCA) in vitro diameter monitoring, patch-clamping and fluorescence labeling of myocytes to study an age-dependent increase in the susceptibility to alcohol in 3 (50 g), 8 (250 g), and 15 (440 g) weeks-old rats.
An age-dependent increase in alcohol-induced constriction of MCA could be observed in absence of endothelium, which is paralleled by an age-dependent increase in both protein level of the calcium-/voltage-gated potassium channel of large conductance (BK) accessory 1 subunit and basal BK channel activity. Ethanol-induced BK channel inhibition is increased with age.
We demonstrate an increased susceptibility of MCA to ethanol-induced constriction in a period equivalent to adolescence and early adulthood when compared to pre-adolescence. Our work suggests that BK 1 constitutes a significant contributor to age-dependent changes in the susceptibility of cerebral arteries to ethanol.
年龄已被认为是导致酒精相关病理易感性的一个重要因素。
我们旨在确定酒精引起的脑动脉收缩是否与年龄有关。
我们使用大鼠大脑中动脉(MCA)体外直径监测、膜片钳技术和心肌细胞荧光标记,研究3周龄(50克)、8周龄(250克)和15周龄(440克)大鼠对酒精易感性的年龄依赖性增加。
在无内皮的情况下,可观察到酒精引起的MCA收缩随年龄增加,同时大电导钙/电压门控钾通道(BK)辅助1亚基的蛋白水平和基础BK通道活性也随年龄增加。乙醇诱导的BK通道抑制随年龄增加。
我们证明,与青春期前相比,在相当于青春期和成年早期的时期,MCA对乙醇诱导收缩的易感性增加。我们的研究表明,BK 1是脑动脉对乙醇易感性年龄依赖性变化的一个重要因素。