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ArticleJournal of diabetes and metabolic disorders2021

Investigation of the effects of maternal separation on the pancreatic oxidative and inflammatory damages along with metabolic impairment in response to chronic social defeat stress in young adult male rats.

Farzaneh Eskandari, Mina Salimi, Fariba Khodagholi, Mehdi Hedayati, Homeira Zardooz

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Article in Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  3. Understanding Role of Maternal Separation in Depression, Anxiety,and Pain Behaviour: A Mini Review of Preclinical Research With Focus on Neuroinflammatory Pathways.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2025
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Farzaneh EskandariDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mina SalimiNeurophysiology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Fariba KhodagholiNeuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mehdi HedayatiCellular and Molecular Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Homeira ZardoozNeurophysiology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-8307-1848
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IRResearch Institute for Endocrine Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeChronic glucocorticoid release during the stress response has been proposed to initiate certain damages, which in turn produce metabolic disorders. The present study is the first work to test whether maternal separation (MS) would impact the metabolic alterations associated with pancreatic oxidative and inflammatory damages under chronic exposure to social defeat stress (CSDS) in adulthood.

methodsDuring the first 2 weeks of life, male Wistar rats were exposed to MS or left undisturbed with their mothers (Std). Starting on postnatal day 50, the animals of each group were either left undisturbed in the standard group housing (Con) or underwent CSDS for 3 weeks. Thus, there were 4 groups (n = 7/group): Std-Con, Ms-Con, Std-CSDS, MS-CSDS. Each animal was weighed and then decapitated so that we could collect trunk blood for assessment of fasting plasma corticosterone, insulin, glucose, lipid profile, and insulin resistance. Plasma and pancreatic catalase activity, reduced glutathione (GSH), malondialdehyde levels and pancreatic interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) content were also measured.

resultsMS-CSDS animals showed elevated plasma corticosterone and insulin levels (

conclusionMaternal separation shapes vulnerability to develop corticosterone hypersecretion, insulin resistance, pancreatic oxidative, and inflammatory damages associated with chronic exposure to later social challenges, which could potentially trigger metabolic disorders. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40200-021-00902-3.

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InflammationMaternal separationMetabolic impairmentOxidative stressPancreasSocial defeat

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PMID34900807
PMCPMC8630113
OpenAlexW3199840564

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