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ArticleCells2023

Development of Comorbid Depression after Social Fear Conditioning in Mice and Its Effects on Brain Sphingolipid Metabolism.

Iulia Zoicas, Christiane Mühle, Fabian Schumacher, Burkhard Kleuser, Johannes Kornhuber

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Article in Cells, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Iulia ZoicasDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91054 Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7187-3181
Christiane MühleDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91054 Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7517-9154
Fabian SchumacherInstitute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8703-3275
Burkhard KleuserInstitute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1888-9595
Johannes KornhuberDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 91054 Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8096-3987
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEFreie Universität Berlin · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, there are no animal models for studying both specific social fear and social fear with comorbidities. Here, we investigated whether social fear conditioning (SFC), an animal model with face, predictive and construct validity for social anxiety disorder (SAD), leads to the development of comorbidities at a later stage over the course of the disease and how this affects the brain sphingolipid metabolism. SFC altered both the emotional behavior and the brain sphingolipid metabolism in a time-point-dependent manner. While social fear was not accompanied by changes in non-social anxiety-like and depressive-like behavior for at least two to three weeks, a comorbid depressive-like behavior developed five weeks after SFC. These different pathologies were accompanied by different alterations in the brain sphingolipid metabolism. Specific social fear was accompanied by increased activity of ceramidases in the ventral hippocampus and ventral mesencephalon and by small changes in sphingolipid levels in the dorsal hippocampus. Social fear with comorbid depression, however, altered the activity of sphingomyelinases and ceramidases as well as the sphingolipid levels and sphingolipid ratios in most of the investigated brain regions. This suggests that changes in the brain sphingolipid metabolism might be related to the short- and long-term pathophysiology of SAD.

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DepressionSphingolipidsAnimalsBrainCeramidasesMiceCeramidasesSphingolipidsacid ceramidaseacid sphingomyelinaseanxiety-like behaviorceramidedepressive-like behaviorneutral ceramidaseneutral sphingomyelinasesocial anxietysphingolipidssphingomyelin

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PMID37408189
PMCPMC10216690
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