ArticleBehavioral neuroscience2015
Anxiety is correlated with running in adolescent female mice undergoing activity-based anorexia.
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- Animal Models for Anorexia Nervosa-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Activity Based Anorexia as an Animal Model for Anorexia Nervosa-A Systematic Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2019Pooled it
- Leptin Reduces Running in a Rodent Anorexia Nervosa Model via a Distributed Neural Network.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Cognitive and biochemical responses to continuous moderate and extensive interval exercise in randomized elderly male rats.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Balancing acts: lateral hypothalamic circuits coordinating feeding, anxiety, and social interactions.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- A lateral hypothalamic neuronal population expressing leptin receptors counteracts anxiety to enable adaptive behavioral responses.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Increased Serum Neurofilament Light Chain Concentration Associated With Microglial Morphology Changes in Chronically-Starved Mice.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The cold truth: torpor as a confound in studies of caloric restriction.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2025Review
- The Effect of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation and Exercise on Locomotor Activity, Exploratory Activity, and Anxiety-Like Behavior in Adult and Aged Rats.Physiological research · 2024Article
- Anorexia-Induced Hypoleptinemia Drives Adaptations in the JAK2/STAT3 Pathway in the Ventral and Dorsal Hippocampus of Female Rats.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Ketamine ameliorates activity-based anorexia of adolescent female mice through changes in GluN2B-containing NMDA receptors at postsynaptic cytoplasmic locations of pyramidal neurons and interneurons of medial prefrontal cortex.Brain structure & function · 2024Article
- What influences food choices in anorexia nervosa? Disentangling cognitive and emotional components of decision-making by translational research.Neuroscience applied · 2024Review
- Individual differences in the positive outcome from adolescent ketamine treatment in a female mouse model of anorexia nervosa involve drebrin A at excitatory synapses of the medial prefrontal cortex.Synapse (New York, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- In pursuit of biomarkers for predicting susceptibility to activity-based anorexia in adolescent female rats.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Fear and food: Anxiety-like behavior and the susceptibility to weight loss in an activity-based anorexia rat model.Clinical and translational science · 2022Article
- Rethinking the Approach to Preclinical Models of Anorexia Nervosa.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Long-lasting BDNF signaling alterations in the amygdala of adolescent female rats exposed to the activity-based anorexia model.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Pathway-specific GABAergic inhibition contributes to the gain of resilience against anorexia-like behavior of adolescent female mice.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Role of Glial Cells in Regulating Feeding Behavior: Potential Relevance to Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Activity-based anorexia animal model: a review of the main neurobiological findings.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Review
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Abstract
Activity-based anorexia (ABA) is a widely used animal model for identifying the biological basis of excessive exercise and starvation, 2 hallmarks of anorexia nervosa (AN). Anxiety is correlated with exercise in AN. Yet the anxiety level of animals in ABA has not been reported. We asked: Does food restriction as part of ABA induction change the anxiety level of animals? If so, is the degree of anxiety correlated with degree of hyperactivity? We used the open field test before food restriction and the elevated plus maze test (EPM) during food restriction to quantify anxiety among singly housed adolescent female mice and determined whether food restriction alone or combined with exercise (i.e., ABA induction) abates or increases anxiety. We show that food restriction, with or without exercise, reduced anxiety significantly, as measured by the proportion of entries into the open arms of EPM (35.73%, p = .04). Moreover, ABA-induced individuals varied in their open arm time measure of anxiety and this value was highly and negatively correlated to the individual's food restriction-evoked wheel activity during the 24 hr following the anxiety test (R = -.75, p = .004, N = 12). This correlation was absent among the exercise-only controls. In addition, mice with higher increase in anxiety ran more following food restriction. Our data suggest that food restriction-evoked wheel running hyperactivity can be used as a reliable and continuous measure of anxiety in ABA. The parallel relationship between anxiety level and activity in AN and ABA-induced female mice strengthens the animal model.
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