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Pharmacologic responses of the mouse urinary bladder

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Canda A., Chapple C., Chess-Williams R.

Open Medicine

2009

vol. 4

issue 2

192-197

The aim of the study was to determine pathways involved in contraction and relaxation of the mouse urinary bladder. Mouse bladder strips were set up in gassed Krebs-bicarbonate solution and responses to various drugs and electrical field stimulation were obtained. Isoprenaline (b-receptor agonist) caused a 63% inhibition of carbachol precontracted detrusor (EC50=2nM). Carbachol caused contraction (EC50=0.3µM), responses were antagonised more potently by 4-DAMP (M3-antagonist) than methoctramine (M2-antagonist). Electrical field stimulation caused contraction, which was inhibited by atropine (60%) and less by guanethidine and α,β-methylene-ATP. The neurogenic responses were not potentiated by inhibition of nitric oxide synthase. Presence of an intact urothelium significantly depressed responses to carbachol (p=0.02) and addition of indomethacin and L-NNA to remove prostaglandin and nitric oxide production respectively did not prevent the inhibitory effect of the urothelium. In conclusion, b-receptor agonists cause relaxation and muscarinic agonists cause contraction via the M3-receptor. Acetylcholine is the main neurotransmitter causing contraction while nitric oxide has a minor role. The mouse and human urothelium are similar in releasing a factor that inhibits contraction of the detrusor muscle which is unidentified but is not nitric oxide or a prostaglandin. Therefore, the mouse may be used as a model to study the lower urinary tract.

Ethanol Withdrawal-Associated Drinking and Drinking in the Dark: Common and Discrete Genetic Contributions

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Crabbe J. C., Metten P., Huang L. C., Schlumbohm J. P., Spence S. E., Barkley-Levenson A. M., Finn D. A., Rhodes J. S., Cameron A. J.

Addiction Genetics

2012

vol. 1

3-11

Individual mice differ in the dose of ethanol they will ingest voluntarily when it is offered during limited access periods in the circadian dark, a phenotype called drinking in the dark (DID). Substantial genetic variation in DID has been reported across a few standard inbred mouse strains, and a line of High Drinking in the Dark (HDID) mice has been established through selective breeding on the blood ethanol concentration (BEC) they attain at the end of a drinking session. Here, we report ethanol DID data for 23 inbred mouse strains, including 11 not previously reported, corroborating the genetic contributions to this trait. We also report data on a different ethanol drinking trait, the increased intake seen after multiple cycles of chronic intermittent exposure to ethanol vapor (CIE). Drinking escalated significantly during ethanol withdrawal. However, HDID mice and their HS controls showed equivalent escalation during withdrawal, demonstrating that withdrawal-associated drinking escalation is not a clear genetic correlate of selection on DID. Across inbred strains, DID is substantially genetically correlated with previously-published twobottle ethanol preference drinking data assessed under conditions of continuous ethanol access. Although inbred strain data for withdrawalassociated drinking are not available, the current pattern of results suggests that withdrawal-associated drinking is genetically distinct from DID, while genetic contributions to DID and two-bottle preference drinking are substantially similar.

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Pharmacologic responses of the mouse urinary bladder

Ethanol Withdrawal-Associated Drinking and Drinking in the Dark: Common and Discrete Genetic Contributions