PMID- 27699959 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180716 LR - 20180716 IS - 1369-1600 (Electronic) IS - 1355-6215 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 6 DP - 2017 Nov TI - Gender differences in the inflammatory cytokine and chemokine profiles induced by binge ethanol drinking in adolescence. PG - 1829-1841 LID - 10.1111/adb.12461 [doi] AB - Heavy binge drinking in adolescence can cause long-term cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions. Recent experimental evidence indicates the participation of immune system activation in the effects of ethanol in the adolescent brain and suggests gender differences. The present study aims to assess plasma cytokine and chemokine levels in male and female adolescents and young adults during acute alcohol intoxication and to correlate these results with the toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) response. The potential role of the TLR4 signaling response was also assessed in plasma and prefrontal cortex (PFC) of adolescent wild-type and TLR4-knockout male and female mice with binge ethanol treatment. The results showed that alcohol intoxication increased the plasma levels of several cytokine and chemokine [interferon-gamma, interleukin (IL)-10, IL-17A, IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, fractalkine, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) and macrophage inflammatory protein 1alpha (MIP-1alpha)] and the upregulation of TLR4 mRNA levels occurred in intoxicated females, while elevation of colony-stimulating factor was only observed in the plasma of males. In wild-type female adolescent mice, intermittent ethanol treatment increased the levels of several cytokines (IL-17A and IL-1beta) and chemokines (MCP-1, MIP-1alpha and fractalkine) in PFC and in serum (IL-17A, MCP-1 and MIP-1alpha), but significant differences in the fractalkine levels in PFC were observed only in male mice. No changes in serum or prefrontal cortex cytokine and chemokine levels were noted in ethanol-treated male or female TLR4-knockout mice. Our findings revealed that females are more vulnerable than males to inflammatory effects of binge ethanol drinking and suggested that TLR4 is an important target of ethanol-induced inflammation and neuroinflammation in adolescence. CI - (c) 2016 Society for the Study of Addiction. FAU - Pascual, Maria AU - Pascual M AD - Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology of Alcohol, Principe Felipe Research Center, Spain. FAU - Montesinos, Jorge AU - Montesinos J AD - Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology of Alcohol, Principe Felipe Research Center, Spain. FAU - Marcos, Miguel AU - Marcos M AD - Alcoholism Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Spain. FAU - Torres, Jorge-Luis AU - Torres JL AD - Alcoholism Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Spain. FAU - Costa-Alba, Pilar AU - Costa-Alba P AD - Emergency Department, University Hospital of Salamanca-IBSAL, Spain. FAU - Garcia-Garcia, Francisco AU - Garcia-Garcia F AD - Computational Genomics Department, Principe Felipe Research Center, Spain. FAU - Laso, Francisco-Javier AU - Laso FJ AD - Alcoholism Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Salamanca, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Spain. FAU - Guerri, Consuelo AU - Guerri C AD - Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology of Alcohol, Principe Felipe Research Center, Spain. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20161004 PL - United States TA - Addict Biol JT - Addiction biology JID - 9604935 RN - 0 (Central Nervous System Depressants) RN - 0 (Chemokines) RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 3K9958V90M (Ethanol) SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Animals MH - Binge Drinking/*blood/metabolism MH - Brain/drug effects/metabolism MH - Central Nervous System Depressants/blood/*pharmacology MH - Chemokines/blood/metabolism MH - Cytokines/*blood/metabolism MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Ethanol/blood/*pharmacology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - Sex Factors MH - Spain MH - *Underage Drinking MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - Adolescent humans OT - TLR4 OT - adolescent mice OT - gender difference OT - inflammation EDAT- 2016/10/05 06:00 MHDA- 2018/07/17 06:00 CRDT- 2016/10/05 06:00 PHST- 2016/03/21 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/08/03 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2016/09/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/10/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/07/17 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/10/05 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/adb.12461 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Addict Biol. 2017 Nov;22(6):1829-1841. doi: 10.1111/adb.12461. Epub 2016 Oct 4.