期刊
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
卷 787, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2022.136818
关键词
Adolescence; Chronic variable stress; CTA; Hypophagia; Long-term; SSRI
资金
- National Institutes of Health [DK019302, SC2GM109811]
- California State University Long Beach, Department of Psychology and College of Liberal Arts
- Psi Chi Faculty Advisor Research Grant
- Project HOGAR (Hispanic Opportunities for Graduate Access and Retention) summer faculty grant
Early-life exposure to stress or antidepressant medication has long-term effects on memory and depression in adulthood. This study investigated the influence of juvenile exposure to stress or fluoxetine on conditioned taste aversion (CTA) learning in adulthood. The results showed that neither early-life stress nor fluoxetine exposure had an impact on CTA learning in adulthood.
In rodents, early-life exposure to environmental stress or antidepressant medication treatment has been shown to induce similar long-term consequences on memory-and depression-related behavior in adulthood. To expand on this line of work, we evaluated how juvenile exposure to chronic variable stress (CVS) or the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine (FLX) influences conditioned taste aversion (CTA) learning in adulthood. To do this, in Experiment 1, we examined how adolescent CVS alone (postnatal day [PND] 35-48), or with prenatal stress (PNS) history (PNS + CVS), influenced the acquisition and extinction of CTA in adult male Sprague Dawley rats. Specifically, at PND70+ (adulthood), rats were presented with 0.15 % saccharin followed by an intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of lithium chloride (LiCl) to induce visceral malaise. A total of four saccharin (conditioned stimulus) and LiCl (unconditioned stimulus) pairings occurred across the CTA acquisition phase. Next, saccharin was presented without aversive consequences, and intake was measured across consecutive days of the extinction phase. No differences in body weight gain across the experimental days, rate of CTA acquisition, or extinction of CTA, were observed among the experimental groups (control, n = 7; CVS, n = 12; PNS + CVS, n = 9). In Experiment 2, we evaluated if early-life FLX exposure alters CTA learning in adulthood. Specifically, adolescent stress naive male and female rats received FLX (0 or 20 mg/kg/i.p) once daily for 15 consecutive days (PND35-49). During antidepressant exposure, FLX decreased body weight gain in both male (n = 7) and female rats (n = 7), when compared to respective controls (male control, n = 8; female control, n = 8). However, juvenile FLX exposure decreased body weight-gain in adult male, but not female, rats. Lastly, adolescent FLX history had no effect on CTA acquisition or extinction in adulthood (PND70), in neither male nor female rats. Together, the data indicate that juvenile FLX exposure results in a long-term decrease of body weight-gain in a male-specific manner. Yet, independent of sex, neither early-life stress nor FLX exposure alters CTA learning in adulthood.
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