Behavioral and neurochemical effects of ethanol were assessed in rats after acute administration. Ethanol, 1-5g/㎏, inhibited the memory and rotarod performance, but significantly increased the spontaneous locomotor activity. Ethanol, 1-5g/㎏, did n...
Behavioral and neurochemical effects of ethanol were assessed in rats after acute administration. Ethanol, 1-5g/㎏, inhibited the memory and rotarod performance, but significantly increased the spontaneous locomotor activity. Ethanol, 1-5g/㎏, did not affect the striatal dopaminergic neuronal activity and cortical noradrenergic neuronal activity. Ethanol, 1g/㎏, decreased the contents of DA(46.7%), DOPAC(66.7%) and HVA(79.2%) in frontal cortex, but increased the contents of DA(125%), DOPAC(116.7%) and HVA(l40%) in hippocampus. Ethanol, 2-5g/㎏, significantly increased the dopaminergic neuronal activity in frontal cortex, while it remarkably decreased the monoaminergic neuronal activity in hippocampus. These results suggest that the activity of cotical dopaminergic neuron play an important role in modulation of the motot activity induced by low does of ethanol, and that the activity of cotical and hippocampal catecholaminergic neurons could be responsible for the control of memory induced by higher does of ethanol.