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Chronic social instability increases anxiety-like behavior and ethanol preference in male Long Evans rats.

Abstract：

:Chronic stress during adolescence is related to increased prevalence of anxiety disorders and alcohol use disorders in humans. This phenotype has been consistently recapitulated in animal models with male subjects, but models using female subjects are fewer. The aim of these studies was to test the hypothesis that chronic social instability (CSI) during adolescence engenders increased anxiety-like behavior, increased corticosterone, and greater ethanol intake and/or preference than control groups in male and female rats. A chronic social instability (CSI) procedure was conducted in separate cohorts of female and male adolescent Long Evans rats. CSI included daily social isolation for 1h, and then pair housing with a novel cage mate for 23h until the next 1h isolation period from PND 30-46. Control groups included social stability (SS), chronic isolation (ISO), and acute social instability (aSI). At PND 49-50, anxiety-like behavior was assessed on the elevated plus maze, and on PND 51 tails bloods were obtained for determination of corticosterone (CORT) levels. This was followed by 4weeks of ethanol drinking in a home cage intermittent access ethanol drinking paradigm (PND 55-81 for males, PND 57-83 for females). Planned contrast testing showed that the male CSI group had greater anxiety-like behavior compared controls, but group differences were not apparent for CORT. CSI males had significantly higher levels of ethanol preference during drinking weeks 2-3 compared to all other groups and compared to SS and ISO groups in week 4. For the female cohort, we did not observe consistent group differences in anxiety-like behavior, CORT levels were unexpectedly lower in the ISO group only compared to the other groups, and group differences were not apparent for ethanol intake/preference. In conclusion, chronic stress during adolescence in the form of social instability increases anxiety-like behavior and ethanol preference in male rats, consistent with other models of chronic stress during adolescence. Conversely, and contrary to our hypothesis, female rats' anxiety-like behavior, CORT level, and ethanol intake/preference were not altered by CSI. New paradigms must continue to be explored for study of clinically relevant relationships in female preclinical models.

journal_name

Physiol Behav

journal_title

Physiology & behavior

authors

Roeckner AR,Bowling A,Butler TR

doi

10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.02.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-05-01 00:00:00

pages

179-187

eissn

0031-9384

issn

1873-507X

pii

S0031-9384(16)31047-2

journal_volume

173

pub_type

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Chronic social instability increases anxiety-like behavior and ethanol preference in male Long Evans rats.