Disruption of the development of cholinergic-induced translocation/activation of PKC isoforms after prenatal heroin exposure

Brain Research Bulletin
Rabab Huleihel, Joseph Yanai

Abstract

Prenatal exposure of mice to heroin resulted in behavioral deficits present at adulthood, and related to septohippocampal cholinergic innervation accompanied by both pre- and postsynaptic cholinergic hyperactivity; including an increase in membrane PKC activity, and a desensitization of PKC to cholinergic input, which correlated highly with the behavioral performance, and was reversed by cholinergic grafting. The effect was shown in the behaviorally relevant PKCgamma and beta whereas the less behaviorally relevant PKCalpha isoform was not affected. The present study was designed to establish the effect of heroin exposure on the expression of the PKC isoforms level and on the more functionally relevant cholinergic translocation/activation of the isoforms throughout postnatal development. The hippocampi of mice pups, exposed to heroin transplacentally, were assayed after incubation with carbachol for PKC isoforms on postnatal days (PN) 1, 7, 14, 21, 30 and 50. Prenatal heroin exposure increased basal PKCgamma, beta and alpha levels. PKCgamma and alpha levels returned to control levels on PN50. While in PKCbeta, this increase lasted until PN50. Translocation/activation of the PKC isoforms gamma and beta by cholinergic receptor sti...Continue Reading

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