Prevention of what?
Prevention of what?
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1983-04
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H. Hendrickson
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Background. Maintenance of abstinence from alcohol represents the most im- portant, but also the most challenging objective in the treatment of alcohol dependent patients. We aimed to investigate the long-term safety and efficacy of sodium oxybate in the long-term treatment of recently detoxified alcohol-dependent patients. Method. 314 patients with a diagnosis of alcohol dependence according to DSM-IV criteria were randomly enrolled from 11 European sites and allocated to two treatment groups: sodium oxybate (n = 154) and placebo (n = 160). Study duration was of 12 months (6 months of double-blind treatment period and 6 months of untreated follow-up). The primary outcome was the Cumulative Abstinence Duration (CAD). Findings. Sodium oxybate was superior to placebo in achieving potentiation antagonism of and 24 healthy volunteers participated in a double-blind crossover trial. objective and subjective sedation 165 min post dose. There was a significant interaction between SMO.IR and alcohol, at 15 min, with an increase in alertness and stimulation and a decrease in sedation. An isolated mild decrease in digit vigi-lance accuracy was observed at 165 minutes post dose with the combination. The combination increased the number of treatment-emergent adverse events: vs 30 with SMO.IR and 34 with alcohol. No significant changes in vital signs, oxygen saturation, and laboratory tests were observed. drug effects on relapse prevention, the treatment drop out rate; while the secondary outcomes were: the drug side effects and adverse reactions, the appetive behavour ( “ misuse ” ), the drug abuse and the overdose, intoxication and withdrawal episodes. Finally, the study evaluated, for the first time, in a large cohort of Italian alcoholics, the prevalence of both infection diseases (e.g. hepatitis C, HIV, ect.) and prevalent psychiatric illness (includ- ing personalities disorders). Findings. The study confirmed the effectiveness of Sodium Oxybate in sup- pressing withdrawal syndrome (81% of the subjects treated were successfully rehabilitated) and in maintaining abstinence (76% and 78% of patients were abstinent at six and twelve months after starting treatment). The study showed that the drug is also safe and manageable, especially if used in doses between 50 and 100 mg/kg/die (the average dose was between 78.11 + 22.30 mg/kg/ die). Misuse and abuse were limited (12% of treatments), cases of intoxication an overdose extremely rare. For the first time in Italy, the study helped to iden-tify the main demographics and clinical features of a significant sample of alcoholics subjects treated with Sodium Oxybate and the prevalence of prevalent infections diseases (31 % were HBcAb+ HBsAg positive, 15% were HCV positive and 4% were HIV positive) and psychiatric illnesses (12% in Axis I and 4% in Axis II). Interpretation. The GUM study confirms the effectiveness and the safety of Sodium Oxybate in the treatment of subjects undergoing rehabilitation in Italian alcohol treatment centers. Funding: Laboratorio Farmaceutico CT S.r.l. to 20mM upregulated miR-9 in neuronal slices. These observations prompted us to perform more detailed temporal characteristics and dose-dependence of miR-9 response to ethanol using a regimen of ethanol exposures and withdrawals. We used two physiologically-relevent ethanol concentrations 20 mM and 50 mM. Exposure and/or withdrawal ranged from 15 minutes to 24 hours. We used postnatal day and small RNA fraction (<200 nt) were isolated and treated with DNase. Concentrations of mature mmu-miR-9, miR-9* and miR-9 precursors: pre-miR-9-1, -9-2, and -9-3 were determined by qRT-PCR. Preliminary results indicate that exposure to 20 mM but not 50 mM ethanol for 15 min caused an almost 2-fold increase in miR-9 expression. Interestingly, the ex- pression of pre-mir-9-1 was also increased in response to ethanol. We are cur-rently testing ethanol effect on expression of pre-miR-9-2 and -9-3 precursors. We are also trying to understand interplay between genetic (SNPs) and epigen-etic (DNA methylation) mechanisms on regulation of expression of mir-9 genes by ethanol. We performed sequencing of promoters of mir-9 genes using human samples and observed presence of several SNPs in these regions. Some of these SNPs could alter binding of transcription factors and/or pro-moter methylation. Together, these results can provide new understanding of development of alcohol addiction. Chronic alcoholism is a significant worldwide reason for brain/synaptic damage and mild-to-moderate cognitive impairment, but the mechanisms are unresolved. In that regard, repetitive, subchronic binge ethanol exposure with adult rats and rat organotypic brain cultures triggers neuroinflammatory routes leading to oxidative stress and regional neurodegeneration. Our results indicate excessive arachidonic acid (AA) mobilization due to increased phospholipase A2 (PLA2) levels/activity, and this appears related to elevations in astroglial aquaporin-4 (AQP4) and brain edema. Furthermore, inhibiting AQP4 is neuro-protective. A promising sensor for the binge ethanol which could be triggering downstream AQP4 and PLA2 elevations is nuclear poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP1), also potentiated by ethanol. Indeed, blocking PARP1 activity with PJ34 reduces binge ethanol-induced neurotoxicity, which implies that a component of the process is necroptotic or “ parthanatotic ” in nature. Furthermore, omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA 22:6) administration significantly suppresses PARP1, AQP4 and PLA2 elevations, AA release, and neurodamage. Details regarding the PLA2 isoforms involved and insights into DHA ’ s mechanism of neuroprotection will be presented. Other laboratories have reported that chronic ethanol treatments increase toll-like receptors/ ligands, proinflammatory cytokines and NADPH oxidase; we suggest that those neuroimmune pathways interact via cross-talk with PARP1-AQP4-PLA2-AA cascades in order to augment oxidative stress as well. This paper describes a new experimental procedure of alcohol drinking pro- moting exceptionally high intakes of alcohol in Sardinian alcohol-preferring (sP) rats (one of the few rat lines selectively bred worldwide for excessive alcohol consumption). sP rats were exposed to the 4-bottle “ alcohol (10%, 20%, and 30%, v/v) vs water ” choice regimen during one of the 12 hours of the dark phase of the daily light/dark cycle; the time of alcohol exposure was changed daily under a semi-random order and was unpredictable to rats. Alcohol intake was found to be highly positively correlated (n = 24, r = 0.984, P < 0.0001) with the time of alcohol exposure and ranged from an average of 0.86 ± 0.06 g/kg (drinking session occurring during the 1st hour of the dark phase) to an average of 2.00 ± 0.07 g/kg (drinking session occurring during the 12th hour of the dark phase). Alcohol drinking during the 12th hour of the dark phase resulted in (a) blood alcohol levels averaging 101.1 ± 8.1 mg% and (b) severe signs of alcohol intoxication (e.g., markedly impaired performance at a Rota-Rod task). These results demonstrate that unpredictable, limited access to multiple alcohol concentrations may result in exceptionally high intakes of alcohol in sP rats. A progressively increasing emotional “ distress ” associated to the rats ’ expectation of alcohol might be the neurobiological basis of this behavior. PD30-42, followed by exposure to EC (PD42-72) after wheel-running. Animals were tested on learning behavior and brains were col- lected for neuroanatomy. Our data indicates that 1) exercise alone is not suffi-cient to rescue the alcohol-induced deficits; 2) a “ super ” combination of exercise followed by EC is more effective in promoting new cell survival and dendritic reorganization; and 3) behavioral (learning) deficits could be reversed by the “ super ” therapy.