Cognitive deficits in the rat chronic mild stress model for depression: relation to anhedonic-like responses
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Cognitive deficits in the rat chronic mild stress model for depression: relation to anhedonic-like responses. / Henningsen, Kim; Andreasen T., Jesper; Bouzinova, Elena V.; Jayatissa, Magdalena Niepsuj; Jensen, Morten S; Redrobe, John P; Wiborg, Ove.
I: Behavioural Brain Research, Bind 198, Nr. 1, 02.03.2009, s. 136-41.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Cognitive deficits in the rat chronic mild stress model for depression: relation to anhedonic-like responses
AU - Henningsen, Kim
AU - Andreasen T., Jesper
AU - Bouzinova, Elena V.
AU - Jayatissa, Magdalena Niepsuj
AU - Jensen, Morten S
AU - Redrobe, John P
AU - Wiborg, Ove
PY - 2009/3/2
Y1 - 2009/3/2
N2 - The chronic mild stress (CMS) protocol is widely used to evoke depressive-like behaviours in laboratory rats. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of chronic stress on cognitive performance. About 70% of rats exposed to 7 weeks of chronic mild stress showed a gradual reduction in consumption of a sucrose solution, indicating an anhedonic-like state. The remaining rats did not reduce their sucrose intake, but appeared resilient to the stress-induced effects on sucrose intake. Cognitive profiling of the CMS rats revealed that chronic stress had a negative effect on performance in the spontaneous alternation test, possibly reflecting a deficit in working memory. This effect was independent of whether the stressed rats were anhedonic-like or stress-resilient as measured by their sucrose intake. CMS did not influence performance in passive avoidance and auditory cued fear conditioning, however, in rats displaying an anhedonic-like profile, CMS increased freezing behaviour in contextual fear conditioning.
AB - The chronic mild stress (CMS) protocol is widely used to evoke depressive-like behaviours in laboratory rats. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of chronic stress on cognitive performance. About 70% of rats exposed to 7 weeks of chronic mild stress showed a gradual reduction in consumption of a sucrose solution, indicating an anhedonic-like state. The remaining rats did not reduce their sucrose intake, but appeared resilient to the stress-induced effects on sucrose intake. Cognitive profiling of the CMS rats revealed that chronic stress had a negative effect on performance in the spontaneous alternation test, possibly reflecting a deficit in working memory. This effect was independent of whether the stressed rats were anhedonic-like or stress-resilient as measured by their sucrose intake. CMS did not influence performance in passive avoidance and auditory cued fear conditioning, however, in rats displaying an anhedonic-like profile, CMS increased freezing behaviour in contextual fear conditioning.
KW - Acoustic Stimulation
KW - Analysis of Variance
KW - Animals
KW - Avoidance Learning
KW - Body Weight
KW - Cognition
KW - Conditioning, Classical
KW - Cues
KW - Depression
KW - Disease Models, Animal
KW - Exploratory Behavior
KW - Fear
KW - Feeding Behavior
KW - Freezing Reaction, Cataleptic
KW - Male
KW - Memory
KW - Movement
KW - Rats
KW - Rats, Wistar
KW - Stress, Physiological
KW - Sucrose
U2 - 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.039
DO - 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.039
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 19038290
VL - 198
SP - 136
EP - 141
JO - Behavioural Brain Research
JF - Behavioural Brain Research
SN - 0166-4328
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 34329065