Central serotonin depletion modulates the behavioural, endocrine and physiological responses to repeated social stress and subsequent C-fos expression in the brains of male rats

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作者
Chung, KKK
Martinez, M
Herbert, J
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Anat, MRC Cambridge Ctr Brain Res, Cambridge CB2 3DY, England
[2] Univ Valencia, Fac Psychol, Area Psychobiol, Valencia, Spain
关键词
serotonin (5-HT); social defeat; c-fos; corticosterone; heart rate; stress;
D O I
10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00028-7
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Intraspecific confrontation has been used to study effect of depleting central serotonin on the adaptation of male rats to repeated social stress (social defeat). Four groups of adult male rats were used (serotonin depletion/sham: stressed; serotonin depletion/sham: non-stressed). Central serotonin was reduced (by 59-97%) by a single infusion of the neurotoxin 5,7-dihydroxtryptamine (150 mu g) into the cerebral ventricles; levels of dopamine and noradrenaline were unaltered (rats received appropriate uptake blockers prior to neurotoxic infusions). Sham-operated animals received solute only. Rats were then either exposed daily for 10 days to a second larger aggressive male in the latter's home cage, or simply transferred to an empty cage (control procedure). Rats with reduced serotonin failed to show the increased freezing behaviour during the pre-defeat phase of the social interaction test characteristic of sham animals. There was no change in the residents' behaviour. Core temperature increased during aggressive interaction in sham rats, and this did not adapt with repeated stress. By contrast, stress-induced hyperthermia was accentuated in serotonin-reduced rats as the number of defeat sessions increased. Basal core temperature was unaffected by serotonin depletion. Heart rate increased during social defeat, but this did not adapt with repeated stress; serotonin depletion had no effect on this cardiovascular response. Basal corticosterone was increased in serotonin-depleted rats, but the progressive reduction in stress response over days was not altered. C-fos expression in the brain was not altered in control (non-stressed) rats by serotonin reduction in the areas examined, but there was increased expression after repeated social stress in the medial amygdala of 5-HT depleted rats. These experiments show that reduction of serotonin alters responses to repeated social stress in male rats, and suggests a role for serotonin in the adaptive process. (C) 1999 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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