Background: cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) signaling pathways are involved in the regulation of ethanol-induced sedative effects in knockout mouse models. In the present study, we examined the role of PKA on the behavioral action caused by ethanol in Sprague Dawley rats.
Methods: A loss of righting reflex (LORR) test was used to study the acute sedative effects of intraperitoneally injected ethanol. Rotarod performance was used to study the motor impairment caused by ethanol. Convulsions induced by intracerebroventricular (ICV) N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) were used to evaluate ethanol's effect on NMDA receptors. Western blot analysis was used to assay protein levels for NR1 and phosphoserine 897 on NR1 subnuits.
Results: ICV pretreatment with H-9 (a nonspecific PK inhibitor) or KT 5720 (a specific PKA inhibitor) dose-dependently attenuated ethanol-induced sleeping time as assessed by LORR. ICV KT 5720 did not reduce ketamine or pentobarbital-induced sleeping time. Pretreatment with forskolin (an activator of adenylyl cyclase) or chelerythrine (a selective PKC inhibitor) had no effect on ethanol-induced LORR. Ethanol-induced motor impairment was also attenuated after pretreatment with KT 5720. Ethanol significantly inhibited NMDA-induced convulsions; the inhibitory effects of ethanol were reduced by prior ICV KT 5720, which had no significant effects on the levels of phosphoserine 897 on NMDA NR1 subunits in the several brain areas we examined.
Conclusions: Our results suggest that the PKA pathway may participate in ethanol-induced neurobehavioral changes and that NMDA receptors may be involved in the PKA regulation of ethanol's actions.
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