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Blockade of the cholecystokinin CCK-2 receptor prevents the normalization of anxiety levels in the rat. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2020; 96:109761. [PMID: 31526831 PMCID: PMC6935156 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2019.109761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2019] [Revised: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 09/13/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Cholecystokinin (CCK), through the CCK-2 receptor, exerts complex effects on anxiety. While CCK agonists are panicogenic, CCK-2 antagonists fail to alleviate human anxiety. Preclinical studies with CCK-2 antagonists are also inconsistent because their anxiolytic effects largely depend on the behavioral paradigm and antecedent stress. The controversy might be accounted by the neuromodulatory role for CCK in anxiety which is ill-defined. If this is its actual role, blocking CCK-2 will have carry-over effects on the anxiety baseline over time. To test this hypothesis, the consequences of acute administration of the CCK-2 antagonist Ly225.910 (0.1 mg Kg-1) was evaluated in the temporal expression of aversion toward exploration-conflicting tasks. Ly225.910 effects were evaluated in rats exposed to the elevated plus-maze (EPM) twice, an approach-avoidance anxiety-like test. While LY225.910-treated rats had less anxiety than vehicle-treated rats, the difference was reversed during the EPM retest 24 h later without drug. Moreover, Ly225.910 effects in stress-induced cognitive impairment was measured giving the novel-object discrimination (NOD) test to rats not habituated to the exploration apparatus to elicit neophobia. After a first encounter with objects ("old"), Ly225.910-treated rats did not recognize the "novel" object introduced 6 h later. Ly225.910-exposed rats did not discriminate the new location of the "novel object" when it was repositioned in the arena 24 h later. Ly225.910-treated rats also failed to explore objects. In line with its neuromodulatory role, aversive carry-over effects of Ly225.910 suggest that CCK-2 activation by endogenous CCK, rather than triggering anxiety, may return the anxiety state to its normal level.
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Bourin M. The test retest model of anxiety: An appraisal of findings to explain benzodiazepine tolerance. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2019; 178:39-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2017.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2017] [Revised: 12/06/2017] [Accepted: 12/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydroethanolic extract of Tropaeolum majus promotes anxiolytic effects on rats. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE FARMACOGNOSIA 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bjp.2018.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Stolf AM, Lugarini D, de Oliveira A, Sereniki AP, Santos Capitelli C, Tanaka DH, Ferreira FM, Aparecida Barbato Frazão Vital M, Acco A. Pharmacological study of a cannabinoid-containing eyedrop formulation in dogs and mice. J Appl Biomed 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jab.2015.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Zhou H, Yu CL, Wang LP, Yang YX, Mao RR, Zhou QX, Xu L. NMDA and D1 receptors are involved in one-trial tolerance to the anxiolytic-like effects of diazepam in the elevated plus maze test in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2015; 135:40-5. [PMID: 26004015 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2015.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2014] [Revised: 05/14/2015] [Accepted: 05/15/2015] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The elevated plus maze (EPM) test is used to examine anxiety-like behaviors in rodents. One interesting phenomenon in the EPM test is one-trial tolerance (OTT), which refers to the reduction in the anxiolytic-like effects of benzodiazepines when rodents are re-exposed to the EPM. However, the underlying mechanism of OTT is still unclear. In this study, we reported that OTT occurred when re-exposure to the EPM (trial 2) only depended on the prior experience of the EPM (trial 1) rather than diazepam treatment. This process was memory-dependent, as it was prevented by the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors antagonist MK-801 1.5h before trial 2. In addition, OTT was maintained for at least one week but was partially abolished after an interval of 28 days. Furthermore, the administration of the D1-like receptors agonist SKF38393 to the bilateral dorsal hippocampus largely prevented OTT, as demonstrated by the ability of the diazepam treatment to produce significant anxiolytic-like effects in trial 2 after a one-day interval. These findings suggest that OTT to the EPM test may occur via the activation of NMDA receptors and the inactivation of D1-like receptors in certain brain regions, including the hippocampus.
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- Heng Zhou
- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China; Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China; Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China
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- Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China
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- Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China
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- Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China
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- Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China.
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China; Laboratory of Learning and Memory, Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, Kunming 650223, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science, 320 Yue Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China.
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Komaki A, Khaledi Nasab Z, Shahidi S, Sarihi A, Salehi I, Ghaderi A. Anxiolytic Effects of Acute Injection of Hydro-Alcoholic Extract of Lettuce in the Elevated Plus-Maze Task in Rats. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014. [DOI: 10.17795/ajnpp-18695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ming-Yan H, Luo YL, Zhang XC, Liu H, Gao R, Wu JJ. Hypoxic-ischemic injury decreases anxiety-like behavior in rats when associated with loss of tyrosine-hydroxylase immunoreactive neurons of the substantia nigra. Braz J Med Biol Res 2012; 45:13-9. [PMID: 22147192 PMCID: PMC3854134 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2011007500161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2011] [Accepted: 11/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Neonatal Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into normal control, mild hypoxia-ischemia (HI), and severe HI groups (N = 10 in each group at each time) on postnatal day 7 (P7) to study the effect of mild and severe HI on anxiety-like behavior and the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in the substantia nigra (SN). The mild and severe HI groups were exposed to hypoxia (8% O2/92% N2) for 90 and 150 min, respectively. The elevated plus-maze (EPM) test was performed to assess anxiety-like behavior by measuring time spent in the open arms (OAT) and OAT%, and immunohistochemistry was used to determine the expression of TH in the SN at P14, P21, and P28. OAT and OAT% in the EPM were significantly increased in both the mild (1.88-, 1.99-, and 2.04-fold, and 1.94-, 1.51-, and 1.46-fold) and severe HI groups (1.69-, 1.68-, and 1.87-fold, and 1.83-, 1.43-, and 1.39-fold, respectively; P < 0.05). The percent of TH-positive cells occupying the SN area was significantly and similarly decreased in both the mild (17.7, 40.2, and 47.2%) and severe HI groups (16.3, 32.2, and 43.8%, respectively; P < 0.05). The decrease in the number of TH-positive cells in the SN and the level of protein expression were closely associated (Pearson correlation analysis: r = 0.991, P = 0.000 in the mild HI group and r = 0.974, P = 0.000 in the severe HI group) with the impaired anxiety-like behaviors. We conclude that neonatal HI results in decreased anxiety-like behavior during the juvenile period of Sprague-Dawley rats, which is associated with the decreased activity of TH in the SN. The impairment of anxiety and the expression of TH are not likely to be dependent on the severity of HI.
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- Hei Ming-Yan
- Department of Pediatrics, the Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China.
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Gazarini L, Stern CAJ, Bertoglio LJ. Protein synthesis in dorsal hippocampus supports the drug tolerance induced by prior elevated plus-maze experience. Neuroscience 2011; 179:179-87. [PMID: 21284953 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.01.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Revised: 01/07/2011] [Accepted: 01/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- L Gazarini
- Departamento de Farmacologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 88040-900, Brazil
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Jürgenson M, Aonurm-Helm A, Zharkovsky A. Behavioral profile of mice with impaired cognition in the elevated plus-maze due to a deficiency in neural cell adhesion molecule. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2010; 96:461-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2010] [Revised: 06/03/2010] [Accepted: 07/05/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Activity in prelimbic cortex is required for adjusting the anxiety response level during the elevated plus-maze retest. Neuroscience 2010; 170:214-22. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.06.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2010] [Revised: 06/23/2010] [Accepted: 06/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Antidepressant- and anxiolytic effects of the novel melatonin agonist Neu-P11 in rodent models. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2010; 31:775-83. [PMID: 20581849 DOI: 10.1038/aps.2010.80] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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AIM To investigate the potential antidepressant and anxiolytic effects of Neu-P11, a novel melatonin agonist, in two models of depression in rats and a model of anxiety in mice. METHODS In the learned helplessness test (LH), Neu-P11 or melatonin (25-100 mg/kg, ip) was administered to rats 2 h before the beginning of the dark phase once a day for 5 days and the number of escape failures and intertrial crossings during the test phase were recorded. In the forced swimming test (FST), rats received a single or repeated administration of Neu-P11 (25-100 mg/kg, ip). The total period of immobility during the test phase was assessed. In the elevated plus-maze test (EPM), mice were treated with Neu-P11 (25-100 mg/kg, ip) or melatonin in the morning or in the evening and tested 2 h later. The percentage of time spent in the open arms and the open arms entries were assessed. RESULTS In the LH test, Neu-P11 but not melatonin significantly decreased the escape deficit and had no effect on the intertrial crossings. In the FST, a single or repeated administration of Neu-P11, either in the morning or in the evening, significantly decreased the duration of immobility. In the EPM test, Neu-P11 significantly increased the percentage of time spent in the open arms and the open arms entries irrespective to the time of administration. Melatonin was effective only when administered in the afternoon. CONCLUSION The results demonstrate that Neu-P11 exerts antidepressant and anxiolytic activities in rodent models.
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Petit-Demoulière B, Massé F, Cogrel N, Hascoët M, Bourin M. Brain structures implicated in the four-plate test in naïve and experienced Swiss mice using injection of diazepam and the 5-HT2A agonist DOI. Behav Brain Res 2009; 204:200-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2009] [Revised: 05/28/2009] [Accepted: 06/04/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cavalli J, Bertoglio LJ, Carobrez AP. Pentylenetetrazole as an unconditioned stimulus for olfactory and contextual fear conditioning in rats. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2009; 92:512-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2009] [Revised: 05/29/2009] [Accepted: 06/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Treit D, Engin E, McEown K. Animal models of anxiety and anxiolytic drug action. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2009; 2:121-60. [PMID: 21309109 DOI: 10.1007/7854_2009_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Animal models of anxiety attempt to represent some aspect of the etiology, symptomatology, or treatment of human anxiety disorders, in order to facilitate their scientific study. Within this context, animal models of anxiolytic drug action can be viewed as treatment models relevant to the pharmacological control of human anxiety. A major purpose of these models is to identify novel anxiolytic compounds and to study the mechanisms whereby these compounds produce their anxiolytic effects. After a critical analysis of "face," "construct," and "predictive" validity, the biological context in which animal models of anxiety are to be evaluated is specified. We then review the models in terms of their general pharmacological profiles, with particular attention to their sensitivity to 5-HTIA agonists and antidepressant compounds. Although there are important exceptions, most of these models are sensitive to one or perhaps two classes of anxiolytic compounds, limiting their pharmacological generality somewhat, but allowing in depth analysis of individual mechanisms of anxiolytic drug action (e.g., GABAA agonism). We end with a discussion of possible sources of variability between models in response to 5-HTIA agonists and antidepressant drugs.
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- Dallas Treit
- Department of Psychology, Division of Neuroscience, University of Alberta, P-449 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2E9.
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Raupp IM, Sereniki A, Virtuoso S, Ghislandi C, Cavalcanti E Silva EL, Trebien HA, Miguel OG, Andreatini R. Anxiolytic-like effect of chronic treatment with Erythrina velutina extract in the elevated plus-maze test. JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY 2008; 118:295-299. [PMID: 18550307 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2008.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2007] [Revised: 04/08/2008] [Accepted: 04/15/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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INTRODUCTION In Brazil, Erythrina velutina (Fabaceae) is widely used as a tranquilizer and/or sedative, and its extract exerts an anxiolytic-like effect profile in animal models, although these results may be caused by its sedative or amnesic effects. AIMS, MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thus, this study evaluated the effect of acute and chronic (23-26 days) administrations of the hydroalcoholic extract of the stem bark of Erythrina velutina (orally) in mice submitted to the following tests: elevated plus-maze, forced swim, spontaneous locomotor activity, and habituation to active chamber. Chlordiazepoxide and imipramine were used as standard drugs. RESULTS In the elevated plus-maze test, chronic, but not acute, Erythrina velutina (100mg/kg) administration increased the percentage of open arm entries, an effect also seen in both acute and chronic treatments with chlordiazepoxide (7.5mg/kg). In the forced swim test, only imipramine (25mg/kg) decreased immobility time. Impairment of habituation was seen only with acute imipramine administration and with the lowest doses of Erythrina velutina extract tested in acute (10mg/kg) and chronic (50mg/kg) administrations. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that chronic administration of the hydroalcoholic extract of the stem bark of Erythrina velutina exerts an anxiolytic-like effect on mice, and it could serve as a new approach for the treatment anxiety, although it may have an amnesic effect at low doses.
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- I M Raupp
- Laboratório de Fisiologia e Farmacologia do Sistema Nervoso Central, Departamento de Farmacologia, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Centro Politécnico, PO Box 19031, 81531-990, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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Petit-Demoulière B, Hascoët M, Bourin M. Factors triggering abolishment of benzodiazepines effects in the Four-Plate Test--retest in mice. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2008; 18:41-7. [PMID: 17544259 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2007.04.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2007] [Revised: 03/28/2007] [Accepted: 04/24/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abolishment of anxiolytic-like effects of diazepam occurs during re-exposure to some animal tests of anxiety. We investigated the loss of anxiolytic-like effects of diazepam during Trial 2 on previously undrugged mice, namely one-trial tolerance (OTT). Swiss mice were subjected to 1) Four-Plate Test (FPT) without punishments in Trial 1 or 2) FPT without punishments in both Trials or 3) FPT with spatial modifications in Trial 1 or 4) Elevated Plus Maze (EPM), then 24 h later to FPT, with saline, diazepam (1 mg/kg) or DOI (1 mg/kg). Removing punishments in Trial 1 does not counteract the effect reduction of diazepam in Trial 2, but spatial modifications of the aversive environment. Previous exposure to EPM does not trigger a loss of efficacy of diazepam in FPT. Electric punishments do not trigger OTT to benzodiazepines; whilst knowledge of the environment seems to be responsible for this phenomenon. FPT may be useful to study OTT because punishments potentate OTT in this model of anxiety.
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- B Petit-Demoulière
- EA 3256 Neurobiologie de l'anxiété et de la dépression, Faculté de Médecine, BP 53508, 1 Rue Gaston Veil, F44035 Nantes Cedex 01 France
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