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The HPA axis and ethanol: a synthesis of mathematical modelling and experimental observations

Overview of attention for article published in Addiction Biology, May 2016
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Title
The HPA axis and ethanol: a synthesis of mathematical modelling and experimental observations
Published in
Addiction Biology, May 2016
DOI 10.1111/adb.12409
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Željko Čupić, Ana Stanojević, Vladimir M. Marković, Ljiljana Kolar‐Anić, Lars Terenius, Vladana Vukojević

Abstract

Stress and alcohol use are interrelated-stress contributes to the initiation and upholding of alcohol use and alcohol use alters the way we perceive and respond to stress. Intricate mechanisms through which ethanol alters the organism's response to stress remain elusive. We have developed a stoichiometric network model to succinctly describe neurochemical transformations underlying the stress response axis and use numerical simulations to model ethanol effects on complex daily changes of blood levels of cholesterol, 6 peptide and 8 steroid hormones. Modelling suggests that ethanol alters the dynamical regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity by affecting the amplitude of ultradian oscillations of HPA axis hormones, which defines the threshold with respect to which the response to stress is being set. These effects are complex-low/moderate acute ethanol challenge (<8 mM) may reduce, leave unaltered or increase the amplitude of ultradian cortisol (CORT) oscillations, giving rise to an intricate response at the organism level, offering also a potential explanation as to why apparently discordant results were observed in experimental studies. In contrast, high-dose acute ethanol challenge (>8 mM) increases instantaneous CORT levels and the amplitude of ultradian CORT oscillations in a dose-dependent manner, affecting the HPA axis activity also during the following day(s). Chronic exposure to ethanol qualitatively changes the HPA axis dynamics, whereas ethanol at intoxicating levels shuts down this dynamic regulation mechanism. Mathematical modelling gives a quantitative biology-based framework that can be used for predicting how the integral HPA axis response is perturbed by alcohol.

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Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 15%
Student > Master 3 11%
Researcher 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Other 5 19%
Unknown 8 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 5 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 6 22%
Unknown 10 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 July 2017.
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