Abstract:
:Depression is a highly incapacitating disorder known to have a multifactorial etiology, including a hereditary genetic background. The neurosteroid allopregnanolone (ALLO) is a positive allosteric modulator of the GABAA receptor and has been shown to have an antidepressant-like effect in animals. This study aimed to assess the behavioral effect of ALLO in animals with different backgrounds of depressive-like activity. An initial population (F0) of male and female Wistar rats was screened for immobility behavior utilizing the Forced Swim Test (FST). Rats with extreme immobility scores were selected for either the High Immobility (HI) group or the Low Immobility (LI) group for breeding, giving origin to the subsequent generations F1 and F2. Guide cannulas were implanted in the lateral ventricle of F2 males for intracerebroventricular infusions of 5 μg/rat of ALLO, 5 μg/rat of imipramine (IMI) or vehicle (CTR), which occurred 24, 5 and 1 h prior to the test session of the drug FST. In the pre-drug FST, a statistically significant difference was observed between the immobility scores from the HI and LI groups of F2 rats. HI rats from F2 also showed significantly higher immobility time when compared to F0. In these HI animals, both IMI and ALLO significantly reduced immobility when compared to the CTR group. IMI-treated rats also showed lower immobility than the ALLO group. In the LI rats, no difference in immobility was found between treatments. In conclusion, two strains of rats with significantly different immobility profiles in the FST were obtained in a relatively short time, after only two generations. Infusions of both ALLO and IMI showed a strain-dependent antidepressant-like effect, being detected in the HI animals but not in the LI animals, which is in line with the clinical understanding that antidepressants have higher efficacy in more severe forms of depression.
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Physiol Behavjournal_title
Physiology & behaviorauthors
Almeida FB,Fonseca AR,Heidrich N,Nin MS,Barros HMTdoi
10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.06.014subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-10-01 00:00:00pages
246-251eissn
0031-9384issn
1873-507Xpii
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