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ArticleNeuroscience2011

Differential effects of social defeat in rats with high and low locomotor response to novelty.

N Calvo, M Cecchi, M Kabbaj, S J Watson, H Akil

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Article in Neuroscience, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Epigenetic mechanisms underlying stress-induced depression.International review of neurobiology · 2021
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  13. Chronic non-discriminatory social defeat is an effective chronic stress paradigm for both male and female mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

N CalvoMolecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
M Cecchi
M Kabbaj
S J Watson
H Akil
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · USFlorida State University · US

Funding

FOREBRAIN OVEREXPRESSION OF A STRESS-RELATED GENEP01DA021633 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI AKIL, HUDA · 2007 to 2011
$6.2M
NIDA NIH HHS 5P01DA021633-02NIDA NIH HHS P01 DA021633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We compared the response to repeated social defeat in rats selected as high (HR) and low (LR) responders to novelty. In experiment 1, we investigated the behavioral and neuroendocrine effects of repeated social defeat in HR-LR rats. By the last defeat session, HR rats exhibited less passive-submissive behaviors than LR rats, and exhibited higher corticosterone secretion when recovering from defeat. Furthermore, in the forced swim test, while HR defeated rats spent more time immobile than their undefeated controls, LR rats' immobility was unaffected by defeat. In experiment 2, we compared the effects of repeated social defeat on body, adrenal, thymus, and spleen weights in HR-LR rats; moreover, we compared the effects of repeated social defeat on stress related molecules gene expression in these two groups of rats. Our results show that HR rats exhibited a decrease in thymus weight after repeated social defeat that was not present in LRs. Analyses of in situ hybridization results found HR-LR differences in 5-HT(2a) mRNA levels in the parietal cortex and 5-HT(1a) mRNA levels in the dorsal raphe. Moreover, LR rats had higher glucocorticoid receptor (GR) mRNA expression than HR rats in the dentate gyrus, and repeated social defeat decreased this expression in LR rats to HR levels. Finally, hippocampal mineralcorticoid receptor (MR)/GR ratio was reduced in HR rats only. Taken together, our results show a differential response to social defeat in HR-LR rats, and support the HR-LR model as a useful tool to investigate inter-individual differences in response to social stressors.

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Social DominanceAnalysis of VarianceAnimalsAnxietyCorticosteroneDisease Models, AnimalExploratory BehaviorFemaleGene Expression RegulationHippocampusImmobility Response, TonicMaleMotor ActivityRadioimmunoassayRatsRats, Long-EvansCorticosteroneReceptors, GlucocorticoidReceptors, SerotoninRNA, Messenger

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PMID21453756
PMCPMC3099219
OpenAlexW1978672583

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