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Melanson B, Leri F. Effect of ketamine on the physiological responses to combined hypoglycemic and psychophysical stress. IBRO Neurosci Rep 2021; 11:81-87. [PMID: 34485972 PMCID: PMC8406162 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibneur.2021.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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There is evidence that hypoglycemic stress can interact with other stressors, and that ketamine can mitigate the impact of these stressors on behavior and physiology. The current study in male Sprague-Dawley rats investigated whether pre-treatment with 0, 10, or 20 mg/kg ketamine could modulate the interaction between hypoglycemia induced by 0 or 300 mg/kg 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) and the psychophysical stress of forced swimming (FSS; 6 sessions, 10 min/session) on serum concentrations of corticosterone (CORT) and the pro-inflammatory cytokine, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α. It was found that 2-DG enhanced the CORT response to an initial session of FSS, and this effect dissipated after multiple sessions. More importantly, animals displayed significantly higher levels of CORT and lower levels of TNF-α in response to a drug-free test swim conducted 1 week after exposure to the combined stressors, and these responses were not observed in rats that were pre-treated with ketamine. Overall, these findings indicate that ketamine has the potential to reduce the negative impact of interacting stressors on the biological reactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the immune system.
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- Brett Melanson
- Department of Psychology and Collaborative Neuroscience, Program University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Collaborative Neuroscience, Program University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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Generalization of contextual fear depends on associative rather than non-associative memory components. Behav Brain Res 2012; 233:483-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Revised: 05/05/2012] [Accepted: 05/10/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hayashi H, Kunugita N, Arashidani K, Fujimaki H, Ichikawa M. Long-term exposure to low levels of formaldehyde increases the number of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunopositive periglomerular cells in mouse main olfactory bulb. Brain Res 2004; 1007:192-7. [PMID: 15064152 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.12.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/28/2003] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) in response to a long-term low-level chemical exposure is as yet an unclarified disorder. To determine the role of olfactory function in the induction of MCS, immunocytochemical analysis of the main olfactory bulb (MOB) was performed after exposure of mice to low levels of formaldehyde. A long-term exposure resulted in an increase in the number of tyrosine hydroxylase-immunopositive periglomerular cells and may affect the neuronal function of the MOB.
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- Hiroshi Hayashi
- Laboratory of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Department of Basic Techniques and Facilities, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo Metropolitan Organization for Medical Research, 2-6, Musashidai, Fuchu City, Tokyo 183-8526, Japan
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Lamelle M, Abi-Dargham A. Dopamine in the history of the schizophrenic brain: recent contributions of brain-imaging studies. DIALOGUES IN CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE 2001. [PMID: 22033842 PMCID: PMC3181621 DOI: 10.31887/dcns.2000.2.4/mlamelle] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Recent developments in positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging have enabled functional measurements of dopamine (DA) transmission at dopamine D2 receptors in the living human brain. Studies using these techniques have demonstrated that, in schizophrenia, increased DA stimulation of striatal D2 receptors is associated with the first episode of illness and subsequent episodes of illness exacerbation. While this dysregulation of DA function is not associated with the severity of positive symptoms per se, increased synaptic DA activity is predictive of good therapeutic response to antipsychotic treatment. Abnormalities of DA function were not detected during periods of illness remission. These findings are integrated into a clinical model proposing that, in schizophrenia, neurodevelopmental abnormalities of cortico-subcortical connectivity result in a vulnerability of the mesolimbic DA system to the development of a process of endogenous sensitization, and that the resulting sustained hyperstimulation of D2 receptors induces neuroplastic changes within corticostriatal-thalamocortical loops, perturbing information processing and underlying the psychotic experience.
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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Rome HP, Rome JD. Limbically Augmented Pain Syndrome (LAPS): Kindling, Corticolimbic Sensitization, and the Convergence of Affective and Sensory Symptoms in Chronic Pain Disorders. PAIN MEDICINE 2000; 1:7-23. [PMID: 15101960 DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-4637.2000.99105.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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There is abundant clinical evidence that depression occurs with high frequency among chronic pain patients. When compared with other serious medical disorders, the prevalence of depression in chronic pain appears high. The fundamental reason for this association is unknown. Theories have attempted to explain the link between pain and depression in terms of psychologic mechanisms. Other theories highlight shared neurobiologic substrates. However, a comprehensive theory integrating biologic and psychologic viewpoints remains elusive. In this article, we draw on research on neuroplastic processes in corticolimbic structures to model the linkage between the sensory and affective domains of pain. Our hypothesis is based on kindling experiments in animals that elucidate the complex neurobiologic mechanisms that transduce exteroceptive and interoceptive stimuli into "memory" at the cellular/synaptic level. This experimental model has found application in the affective disorders to explain how a person's history of exposure to psychologic trauma configures the neurobiologic substrate for later-amplified pathologic response. In applying kindling research to pain, we begin by reviewing the literature on nociception-induced neuroplasticity at the corticolimbic level. We suggest that kindling and related models of neuroplasticity can be used to describe ways in which exposure to a noxious stimulus may, under certain conditions, lead to a sensitized corticolimbic state. This sensitized state can be described in terms of the kindling properties of amplification, spontaneity, neuroanatomic spreading, and cross-sensitization. A case example illustrates how these properties offer a neurobiologic framework for understanding the sensory/affective/behavioral symptom complex seen in a subset of chronic pain patients. These patients are characterized by atypical and treatment-refractory pain complaints, in association with disturbances of mood, sleep, energy, libido, memory/concentration, behavior, and stress intolerance. We introduce the term "limbically augmented pain syndrome" to describe this symptom complex.
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- H P Rome
- Pacific Pain Treatment Centers, Oakland, CA 94618, USA
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Laruelle M. The role of endogenous sensitization in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia: implications from recent brain imaging studies. BRAIN RESEARCH. BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS 2000; 31:371-84. [PMID: 10719165 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0173(99)00054-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Long-term sensitization is a process whereby exposure to a given stimulus such as a drug or a stressor results in an enhanced response at subsequent exposures. Sensitization of mesolimbic dopamine systems has been postulated by several authors to underlie the development of dopaminergic abnormalities associated with schizophrenia. In this review, core features of stimulant-induced sensitization of dopamine systems in rodents are briefly reviewed, as well as the behavioral and clinical evidence suggesting the relevance of this process to drug-induced psychosis and schizophrenia. Results of recent brain imaging studies relevant to the question of sensitization in schizophrenia are then discussed. These studies indicate that schizophrenia is associated with increased amphetamine-induced dopamine release. This exaggerated response was detected in patients experiencing an episode of clinical deterioration but not in clinically stable patients. Since increased stimulant-induced dopamine release is a hallmark of sensitization, these results support the view that schizophrenia is associated with a process of endogenous sensitization. Based on the preclinical evidence that dopamine projection to the prefrontal cortex acts as a buffer that oppose the development of sensitization in subcortical dopamine projections, we propose that, in schizophrenia, neurodevelopmental abnormalities of prefrontal dopaminergic systems might result in a state of enhanced vulnerability to sensitization during late adolescence and early adulthood. It is also proposed that D(2) receptor blockade, if sustained, might allow for an extinction of this sensitization process, with possible re-emergence upon treatment discontinuation. A better understanding of the neurocircuitry associated with endogenous sensitization and its consequence in schizophrenia might be important for the development of better treatment and relapse prevention strategies.
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- M Laruelle
- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 42, New York, NY, USA.
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‘Multiple Chemical Sensitivity’, the relevance of toxic, neurobiological and psychic effect mechanisms. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0934-8859(99)80020-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Fernandez M, Bell IR, Schwartz GE. EEG sensitization during chemical exposure in women with and without chemical sensitivity of unknown etiology. Toxicol Ind Health 1999; 15:305-12. [PMID: 10416282 DOI: 10.1177/074823379901500304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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This study tested the sensitization model proposed by Bell et al. [Bell I.R., Miller C.S. and Schwartz G.E. An olfactory-limbic model of multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome: possible relationship to kindling and affective spectrum disorders. Biol. Psychiatry 1992: 32: 218-242] to study chemical sensitivity. The sensitization model indicates that a pharmacological stimulus or a traumatic event which elicits a strong response can sensitize limbic and/or mesolimbic pathways; and subsequent less intense trauma or stimuli, in the same or different modality, can elicit an amplified response. Three groups of subjects were tested: (1) women who reported chemical sensitivity and no sexual abuse (chemically sensitive, CS); (2) sexually abused (SA) women without chemical sensitivity; and (3) healthy women without chemical sensitivity or sexual abuse history (normal, N). All subjects were exposed to odorant and nonodorous control stimuli once a week for 3 weeks. Electroencephalographic activity was recorded while subjects sniffed the odorant and control stimuli. Results of the study revealed that both the CS and the SA group showed electroencephalogram (EEG) alpha sensitization across experimental sessions, while the N group showed little change over time. Additionally, EEG findings revealed that the CS group generated significantly greater alpha activity than the other two groups. Finally, while the groups were different on measures of psychological distress, these differences did not diminish the EEG findings. In summary, these findings suggest that intermittent exposure to chemicals elicits sensitization in CS and SA women without chemical sensitivity, supporting our expectations that chemical sensitivity is, in part, a manifestation of time-dependent sensitization (TDS). Additionally, these EEG findings indicate that CS women are unlike SA and healthy women in the amount of EEG alpha activity they generate. Finally, these findings indicate that psychological factors as assessed in this study do not explain electrophysiological differences between chemically and non-chemically-sensitive women.
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- M Fernandez
- Department of Psychology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, USA
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Bell IR, Baldwin CM, Fernandez M, Schwartz GE. Neural sensitization model for multiple chemical sensitivity: overview of theory and empirical evidence. Toxicol Ind Health 1999; 15:295-304. [PMID: 10416281 DOI: 10.1177/074823379901500303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This paper summarizes theory and evidence for a neural sensitization model of hyperresponsivity to low-level chemical exposures in multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS). MCS is a chronic polysymptomatic condition in which patients report illness from low levels of many different, structurally unrelated environmental chemicals (chemical intolerance, CI). Neural sensitization is the progressive host amplification of a response over time from repeated, intermittent exposures to a stimulus. Drugs, chemicals, endogenous mediators, and exogenous stressors can all initiate sensitization and can exhibit cross-sensitization between different classes of stimuli. The properties of sensitization overlap much of the clinical phenomenology of MCS. Animal studies have demonstrated sensitization to toluene, formaldehyde, and certain pesticides, as well as cross-sensitization, e.g., formaldehyde and cocaine. Controlled human studies in persons with self-reported CI have shown heightened sensitizability in the laboratory to nonspecific experimental factors and to specific chemical exposures. Useful outcome measures include spectral electroencephalography, blood pressure, heart rate, and plasma beta-endorphin. Findings implicate, in part, dopaminergic mesolimbic pathways and limbic structures. A convergence of evidence suggests that persons with MCS or with low-level CI may share some characteristics with individuals genetically vulnerable to substance abuse: (a) elevated family histories of alcohol or drug problems; (b) heightened capacity for sensitization of autonomic variables in the laboratory; (c) increased amounts of electroencephalographic alpha activity at rest and under challenge conditions over time. Sensitization is compatible with other models for MCS as well. The neural sensitization model provides a direction for further systematic human and animal research on the physiological bases of MCS and CI.
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- I R Bell
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson 85723, USA.
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Bell IR, Baldwin CM, Russek LG, Schwartz GE, Hardin EE. Early life stress, negative paternal relationships, and chemical intolerance in middle-aged women: support for a neural sensitization model. J Womens Health (Larchmt) 1998; 7:1135-47. [PMID: 9861591 DOI: 10.1089/jwh.1998.7.1135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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This study (ntotal = 35) compared early life stress ratings, parental relationships, and health status, notably orthostatic blood pressures, of middle-aged women with low-level chemical intolerance (CI group) and depression, depressives without CI (DEP group), and normals. Environmental chemical intolerance is a symptom of several controversial conditions in which women are overrepresented, that is, sick building syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. Previous investigators have postulated that people with CI have variants of somatization disorder, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) initiated by childhood abuse or a toxic exposure event. One neurobehavioral model for CI, somatization disorder, recurrent depression, and PTSD is neural sensitization, that is, the progressive amplification of host responses (e.g., behavioral, neurochemical) to repeated intermittent stimuli (e.g., drugs, chemicals, endogenous mediators, stressors). Females are more vulnerable to sensitization than are males. Limbic and mesolimbic pathways mediate central nervous system sensitization. Although both CI and DEP groups had high levels of life stress and past abuse, the CI group had the most distant and weak paternal relationships and highest limbic somatic dysfunction subscale scores. Only the CI group showed sensitization of sitting blood pressures over sessions. Together with prior evidence, these data are consistent with a neural sensitization model for CI in certain women. The findings may have implications for poorer long-term medical as well as neuropsychiatric health outcomes of a subset of women with CI. Subsequent research should test this model in specific clinical diagnostic groups with CI.
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- I R Bell
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
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Wolf C. Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) : Idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI). ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 1996; 3:139-143. [PMID: 24235052 DOI: 10.1007/bf02985520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a systemic disorder causing central nervous, irritative and gastrointestinal symptoms, and can be included in the category of "idiopathic environmental intolerance" (IEI). This term describes phenomena with multiple, recurrent symptoms associated with various environmental factors that are tolerated by most people without problems. Those advocating these concepts attribute the symptoms to exogenous substances. Those opposing them explain the phenomena by classical conditioning or other psychopathological processes. To the extent that controlled studies are available, they have not furnished any hard evidence for toxic or immunological causes. In addition to psychopathological origins, neurobiological processes are also implicated.
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- C Wolf
- Clinical Dept. of Occupational Medicine, Clinic for Internal Medicine IV, University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090, Vienna, Austria
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Bell IR, Bootzin RR, Davis TP, Hau V, Ritenbaugh C, Johnson KA, Schwartz GE. Time-dependent sensitization of plasma beta-endorphin in community elderly with self-reported environmental chemical odor intolerance. Biol Psychiatry 1996; 40:134-43. [PMID: 8793045 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00331-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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This study examined plasma beta-endorphin as a marker of the physiological stress response in community elderly who were either high (n = 15) or low (n = 15) in self-rated frequency of illness from environmental chemical odors. Individuals who report nonatopic multiple sensitivities to or intolerances for low levels of environmental chemicals also claim high rates of comorbid food sensitivities or intolerances. Subjects gave 9 AM blood samples for plasma beta-endorphin 90 min after ingesting either 1% fat cow's milk or a soy-based nondairy drink, on six different mornings in the laboratory after all-night sleep recordings. The six sessions-were divided into three sets of two successive days each, with each set [involving baseline (ad lib milk), nondairy (soy-based), and dairy diets] separated from the next by 3 weeks. In the chemically tolerant subjects, stably lower beta-endorphin levels suggested that milk may have been a physiologically less stressful beverage than was the soy drink. In contrast, the chemical odor intolerant group exhibited a) increased levels of plasma beta-endorphin averaged over the 6 days (p = .02); and b) marked fluctuations in endorphin from one laboratory day to the next (Group x Diet x Day interaction, p = .005). The findings were consistent with time-dependent, context-dependent sensitization of beta-endorphin in the chemical odor intolerant individuals.
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- I R Bell
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, USA
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