Abstract
The hypothermic action of ethanol was investigated in genetically distinct lines of mice selected for sleep-time response to pentobarbital for six generations. Ethanol (3 g/kg, intraperitoneally) was administered to alcohol-naive males and females from each of the unselected control, long-, and short-sleep mouse lines. Rectal temperatures were measured immediately before, and at 15, 30, 60, 90, 120, and 240 min after ethanol injection. Eight female and eight male mice from each line were sacrificed at each time point, and trunk blood was collected for plasma ethanol analysis. The results show that short-sleep mice were less hypothermic ( p < 0.05) compared to long-sleep mice at 15 and 30 min after ethanol administration. However, plasma ethanol concentrations were not significantly different between the mouse lines at any time point. Therefore, the line-dependent differential ethanol-induced hypothermia observed may be a result of differences in “brain sensitivity” rather than in the rates of ethanol metabolism among the mouse lines.
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