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Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats

BACKGROUND: There are no data on the effect of exogenous corticosterone on depressive-like behavior in juvenile rats. Furthermore, it has not been tested whether the effects of corticosterone in female rats is different before or after puberty. OBJECTIVE: We tested the effect of corticosterone treat...

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Autores principales: Nickle, Tyler R., Stanley, Erica M., Middlemas, David S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2470547020923711
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description BACKGROUND: There are no data on the effect of exogenous corticosterone on depressive-like behavior in juvenile rats. Furthermore, it has not been tested whether the effects of corticosterone in female rats is different before or after puberty. OBJECTIVE: We tested the effect of corticosterone treatment on female pre- and peri-pubescent juvenile rats on depressive-like behavior. METHODS: Female juvenile rats were divided into pre-pubescent (post-natal day 7–27) or peri-pubescent (post-natal day 28–48) groups and administered daily corticosterone (40 mg kg(−1 )day(−1)) for 21 days. Depressive-like behavior was assessed using a modified forced swim test and the sucrose preference test. After behavioral assessment, brains were analyzed to determine if there were changes in cell proliferation and newborn neuron survival in the dentate gyrus of the dorsal hippocampus. RESULTS: Chronic corticosterone treatment did not affect behavior or neurogenesis in female pre-pubescent juvenile rats. However, female peri-pubescent rats injected with corticosterone showed increased depressive-like behavior as well as a decrease in cell proliferation in the subgranular zone. Furthermore, there was an inverse correlation between time spent immobile in the forced swim test and cell proliferation in the granule cell layer in peri-pubescent rats. CONCLUSIONS: Corticosterone induces depressive-like behavior in peri-pubescent, but not in pre-pubescent female rats. Finally, our results suggest that depressive-like behavior may be associated with a decrease in hippocampal cell proliferation in female peri-pubescent rats.
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spelling pubmed-72545962020-06-08 Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats Nickle, Tyler R. Stanley, Erica M. Middlemas, David S. Chronic Stress (Thousand Oaks) Original Article BACKGROUND: There are no data on the effect of exogenous corticosterone on depressive-like behavior in juvenile rats. Furthermore, it has not been tested whether the effects of corticosterone in female rats is different before or after puberty. OBJECTIVE: We tested the effect of corticosterone treatment on female pre- and peri-pubescent juvenile rats on depressive-like behavior. METHODS: Female juvenile rats were divided into pre-pubescent (post-natal day 7–27) or peri-pubescent (post-natal day 28–48) groups and administered daily corticosterone (40 mg kg(−1 )day(−1)) for 21 days. Depressive-like behavior was assessed using a modified forced swim test and the sucrose preference test. After behavioral assessment, brains were analyzed to determine if there were changes in cell proliferation and newborn neuron survival in the dentate gyrus of the dorsal hippocampus. RESULTS: Chronic corticosterone treatment did not affect behavior or neurogenesis in female pre-pubescent juvenile rats. However, female peri-pubescent rats injected with corticosterone showed increased depressive-like behavior as well as a decrease in cell proliferation in the subgranular zone. Furthermore, there was an inverse correlation between time spent immobile in the forced swim test and cell proliferation in the granule cell layer in peri-pubescent rats. CONCLUSIONS: Corticosterone induces depressive-like behavior in peri-pubescent, but not in pre-pubescent female rats. Finally, our results suggest that depressive-like behavior may be associated with a decrease in hippocampal cell proliferation in female peri-pubescent rats. SAGE Publications 2020-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7254596/ /pubmed/32518888 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2470547020923711 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats
title Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats
title_full Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats
title_fullStr Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats
title_full_unstemmed Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats
title_short Corticosterone Induces Depressive-Like Behavior in Female Peri-Pubescent Rats, but Not in Pre-Pubescent Rats
title_sort corticosterone induces depressive-like behavior in female peri-pubescent rats, but not in pre-pubescent rats
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7254596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2470547020923711
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