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Detecting fine and elaborate movements with piezo sensors provides non-invasive access to overlooked behavioral components. Neuropsychopharmacology 2022; 47:933-943. [PMID: 34764433 PMCID: PMC8882191 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-021-01217-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Behavioral phenotyping devices have been successfully used to build ethograms, but many aspects of behavior remain out of reach of available phenotyping systems. We now report on a novel device, which consists in an open-field platform resting on highly sensitive piezoelectric (electromechanical) pressure-sensors, with which we could detect the slightest movements (up to individual heart beats during rest) from freely moving rats and mice. The combination with video recordings and signal analysis based on time-frequency decomposition, clustering, and machine learning algorithms provided non-invasive access to previously overlooked behavioral components. The detection of shaking/shivering provided an original readout of fear, distinct from but complementary to behavioral freezing. Analyzing the dynamics of momentum in locomotion and grooming allowed to identify the signature of gait and neurodevelopmental pathological phenotypes. We believe that this device represents a significant progress and offers new opportunities for the awaited advance of behavioral phenotyping.
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Daniels S, Horman T, Lapointe T, Melanson B, Storace A, Kennedy SH, Frey BN, Rizvi SJ, Hassel S, Mueller DJ, Parikh SV, Lam RW, Blier P, Farzan F, Giacobbe P, Milev R, Placenza F, Soares CN, Turecki G, Uher R, Leri F. Reverse translation of major depressive disorder symptoms: A framework for the behavioural phenotyping of putative biomarkers. J Affect Disord 2020; 263:353-366. [PMID: 31969265 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2019.11.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2019] [Revised: 11/13/2019] [Accepted: 11/22/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reverse translating putative biomarkers of depression from patients to animals is complex because Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a highly heterogenous condition. This review proposes an approach to reverse translation based on relating relevant bio-behavioural functions in laboratory rodents to MDD symptoms. METHODS This systematic review outlines symptom clusters assessed by psychometric tests of MDD and antidepressant treatment response including the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, and the Beck Depression Inventory. Symptoms were related to relevant behavioural assays in laboratory rodents. RESULTS The resulting battery of tests includes passive coping, anxiety-like behaviours, sleep, caloric intake, cognition, psychomotor functions, hedonic reactivity and aversive learning. These assays are discussed alongside relevant clinical symptoms of MDD, providing a framework through which reverse translation of a biomarker can be interpreted. LIMITATIONS Certain aspects of MDD may not be quantified by tests in laboratory rodents, and their biological significance may not always be of clinical relevance. CONCLUSIONS Using this reverse translation approach, it is possible to clarify the functional significance of a putative biomarker in rodents and hence translate its contribution to specific clinical symptoms, or clusters of symptoms.
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- Stephen Daniels
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada
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- University of Toronto Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University of Toronto Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- The Royal Institute of Mental Health Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- University of Toronto Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University of Toronto Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph N1G 2W1, Ontario, Canada.
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Gururajan A, Reif A, Cryan JF, Slattery DA. The future of rodent models in depression research. Nat Rev Neurosci 2019; 20:686-701. [DOI: 10.1038/s41583-019-0221-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Gururajan A, van de Wouw M, Boehme M, Becker T, O'Connor R, Bastiaanssen TFS, Moloney GM, Lyte JM, Ventura Silva AP, Merckx B, Dinan TG, Cryan JF. Resilience to chronic stress is associated with specific neurobiological, neuroendocrine and immune responses. Brain Behav Immun 2019; 80:583-594. [PMID: 31059807 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2019.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Revised: 04/23/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Research into the molecular basis of stress resilience is a novel strategy to identify potential therapeutic strategies to treat stress-induced psychopathologies such as anxiety and depression. Stress resilience is a phenomenon which is not solely driven by effects within the central nervous system (CNS) but involves multiple systems, central and peripheral, which interact with and influence each other. Accordingly, we used the chronic social defeat stress paradigm and investigated specific CNS, endocrine and immune responses to identify signatures of stress-resilience and stress susceptibility in mice. Our results showed that mice behaviourally susceptible to stress (indexed by a reduction in social interaction behaviour) had higher plasma corticosterone levels and adrenal hypertrophy. An increase in inflammatory circulating monocytes was another hallmark of stress susceptibility. Furthermore, prefrontal cortex mRNA expression of corticotrophin-releasing factor (Crf) was increased in susceptible mice relative to resilient mice. We also report differences in hippocampal synaptic plasticity between resilient and susceptible mice. Ongoing studies will interpret the functional relevance of these signatures which could potentially inform the development of novel psychotherapeutic strategies.
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- Anand Gururajan
- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland.
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland
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- APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland
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- APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland; Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioural Science, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork, Ireland; APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Ireland.
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Carreno-Munoz MI, Martins F, Medrano MC, Aloisi E, Pietropaolo S, Dechaud C, Subashi E, Bony G, Ginger M, Moujahid A, Frick A, Leinekugel X. Potential Involvement of Impaired BK Ca Channel Function in Sensory Defensiveness and Some Behavioral Disturbances Induced by Unfamiliar Environment in a Mouse Model of Fragile X Syndrome. Neuropsychopharmacology 2018; 43:492-502. [PMID: 28722023 PMCID: PMC5770751 DOI: 10.1038/npp.2017.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Revised: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 07/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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In fragile X syndrome (FXS), sensory hypersensitivity and impaired habituation is thought to result in attention overload and various behavioral abnormalities in reaction to the excessive and remanent salience of environment features that would normally be ignored. This phenomenon, termed sensory defensiveness, has been proposed as the potential cause of hyperactivity, hyperarousal, and negative reactions to changes in routine that are often deleterious for FXS patients. However, the lack of tools for manipulating sensory hypersensitivity has not allowed the experimental testing required to evaluate the relevance of this hypothesis. Recent work has shown that BMS-204352, a BKCa channel agonist, was efficient to reverse cortical hyperexcitability and related sensory hypersensitivity in the Fmr1-KO mouse model of FXS. In the present study, we report that exposing Fmr1-KO mice to novel or unfamiliar environments resulted in multiple behavioral perturbations, such as hyperactivity, impaired nest building and excessive grooming of the back. Reversing sensory hypersensitivity with the BKCa channel agonist BMS-204352 prevented these behavioral abnormalities in Fmr1-KO mice. These results are in support of the sensory defensiveness hypothesis, and confirm BKCa as a potentially relevant molecular target for the development of drug medication against FXS/ASD.
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- Maria Isabel Carreno-Munoz
- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia, Spain
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- University of Bordeaux, INCIA, Pessac, France,CNRS, INCIA, UMR 5287, Pessac, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France
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- INSERM, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,University of Bordeaux, Neurocentre Magendie, U1215, Bordeaux, France,Neurocentre Magendie, INSERM U1215, Université de Bordeaux, 146 rue Leo Saignat, 33077 Bordeaux, France, Tel: +33 6 09 55 53 39, Fax: +33 5 57 57 36 69, E-mail:
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Venable E, Discepolo D, Powell E, Liang SY. An evaluation of current working canine decontamination procedures and methods for improvement. J Vet Behav 2017; 21:53-58. [PMID: 29104518 PMCID: PMC5665018 DOI: 10.1016/j.jveb.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Erin Venable
- Southern Illinois University, Department of Animal Science, Food & Nutrition, 1205 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901
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- Southern Illinois University, Department of Animal Science, Food & Nutrition, 1205 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901
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- Southern Illinois University, Department of Animal Science, Food & Nutrition, 1205 Lincoln Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901
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- Washington University School of Medicine, Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases, 4523 Clayton Avenue, Campus Box 8051, St. Louis, Missouri 63110
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