ArticlePsychoneuroendocrinology2020
Sepsis survivor mice exhibit a behavioral endocrine syndrome with ventral hippocampal dysfunction.
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- Remimazolam attenuated lipopolysaccharide-induced behavioral deficits and neuronal injury via activation of the Nrf2 pathway.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Post-sepsis psychiatric disorder: Pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Review
- Corticosteroid Treatment During Sepsis Alters Hippocampal Function in Male and Female Survivors.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Recent advances in the study of sepsis-induced depression.Journal of intensive medicine · 2023Review
- Corticosterone enhances formation of non-fear but not fear memory during infectious illness.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Electroacupuncture alleviates perioperative hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunctionFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Silencing of amygdala circuits during sepsis prevents the development of anxiety-related behaviours.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics analysis of the hippocampus reveals altered neuroinflammation, downregulated metabolism and synapse in sepsis-associated encephalopathy.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Neuroimmune Regulation in Sepsis-Associated Encephalopathy: The Interaction Between the Brain and Peripheral Immunity.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Review
- Glucocorticoids and the Brain after Critical Illness.Endocrinology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Severe acute stressors are known to trigger mood disorders in humans. Sepsis represents one such stressor, and survivors often suffer long term from psychiatric morbidity. We hypothesized that sepsis leads to lasting changes in neural circuits involved in stress integration, altering affective behavior and the stress response. To investigate this hypothesis, sepsis was induced in male C57Bl/6 mice using cecal ligation and puncture (CLP), and control mice underwent sham surgery. Mice recovered from acute illness within 2 weeks, after which they exhibited increased avoidance behavior and behavioral despair compared with sham, with behavioral changes observed more than 5 weeks after recovery. Sepsis survivors also showed evidence of enhanced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, with increased corticosterone after a novel stressor and increased adrenal weight. In the brain, sepsis survivor mice showed decreased stress-induced cfos mRNA and increased glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity specifically in the ventral hippocampus, a brain region known to coordinate emotional behavior and HPA axis activity. We conclude that murine sepsis survivors exhibit a behavioral neuroendocrine syndrome of negative affective behavior and HPA axis hyperactivity, which could be explained by ventral hippocampal dysfunction. These findings could contribute to our understanding of the human post-intensive care syndrome.
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