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Offensive Behavior, Striatal Glutamate Metabolites, and Limbic-Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Responses to Stress in Chronic Anxiety


Ullmann, Enrico; Chrousos, George; Perry, Seth W; Wong, Ma-Li; Licinio, Julio; Bornstein, Stefan R; Tseilikman, Olga; Komelkova, Maria; Lapshin, Maxim S; Vasilyeva, Maryia; Zavjalov, Evgenii; Shevelev, Oleg; Khotskin, Nikita; Koncevaya, Galina; Khotskina, Anna S; Moshkin, Mikhail; Cherkasova, Olga; Sarapultsev, Alexey; Ibragimov, Roman; Kritsky, Igor; Fegert, Jörg M; Tseilikman, Vadim; Yehuda, Rachel (2020). Offensive Behavior, Striatal Glutamate Metabolites, and Limbic-Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Responses to Stress in Chronic Anxiety. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 21(20):7440.

Abstract

Variations in anxiety-related behavior are associated with individual allostatic set-points in chronically stressed rats. Actively offensive rats with the externalizing indicators of sniffling and climbing the stimulus and material tearing during 10 days of predator scent stress had reduced plasma corticosterone, increased striatal glutamate metabolites, and increased adrenal 11-dehydrocorticosterone content compared to passively defensive rats with the internalizing indicators of freezing and grooming, as well as to controls without any behavioral changes. These findings suggest that rats that display active offensive activity in response to stress develop anxiety associated with decreased allostatic set-points and increased resistance to stress.

Abstract

Variations in anxiety-related behavior are associated with individual allostatic set-points in chronically stressed rats. Actively offensive rats with the externalizing indicators of sniffling and climbing the stimulus and material tearing during 10 days of predator scent stress had reduced plasma corticosterone, increased striatal glutamate metabolites, and increased adrenal 11-dehydrocorticosterone content compared to passively defensive rats with the internalizing indicators of freezing and grooming, as well as to controls without any behavioral changes. These findings suggest that rats that display active offensive activity in response to stress develop anxiety associated with decreased allostatic set-points and increased resistance to stress.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:04 Faculty of Medicine > University Hospital Zurich > Clinic for Endocrinology and Diabetology
Dewey Decimal Classification:610 Medicine & health
Scopus Subject Areas:Physical Sciences > Catalysis
Life Sciences > Molecular Biology
Physical Sciences > Spectroscopy
Physical Sciences > Computer Science Applications
Physical Sciences > Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Physical Sciences > Organic Chemistry
Physical Sciences > Inorganic Chemistry
Language:English
Date:9 October 2020
Deposited On:16 Feb 2021 10:30
Last Modified:26 Sep 2023 01:38
Publisher:MDPI Publishing
ISSN:1422-0067
OA Status:Gold
Free access at:PubMed ID. An embargo period may apply.
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21207440
PubMed ID:33050201
  • Content: Published Version
  • Licence: Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)