Abstract
Major depression is a common, serious and recurrent disorder that affects 17-20% of the population of the world. The chronic mild stress (CMS) model has been used as an animal model of depression but reflect anhedonia in animals. Present study investigated behavioral, physiological and neurochemical aspects of rats exposed to a CMS procedure. The consumption of sweet food, locomotor activity, body and adrenal gland weight, BDNF protein levels evaluated in hippocampus, cerebrospinal fluid and serum were assessed in rats. Our findings demonstrated decreased in sweet food intake, increase of adrenal gland weight and a decrease of body weight and no changes were observed in BDNF protein levels in serum, cerebrospinal fluid and hippocampus in rats subjected to CMS procedure. Indeed, locomotor activity was not significantly affected. In conclusion, these data reveal that BDNF protein levels were not significantly correlated with the decrease of sweet food consumption observed in CMS exposed animals.
Keywords: Anhedonia, depression, BDNF protein levels, chronic mild stress, mood disorder, animal model
Current Neurovascular Research
Title: Chronic Mild Stress Paradigm Reduces Sweet Food Intake in Rats without Affecting Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Protein Levels
Volume: 5 Issue: 4
Author(s): Giancarlo Lucca, Clarissa M. Comim, Samira S. Valvassori, Josimar G. Pereira, Laura Stertz, Elaine C. Gavioli, Flavio Kapczinski and Joao Quevedo
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Keywords: Anhedonia, depression, BDNF protein levels, chronic mild stress, mood disorder, animal model
Abstract: Major depression is a common, serious and recurrent disorder that affects 17-20% of the population of the world. The chronic mild stress (CMS) model has been used as an animal model of depression but reflect anhedonia in animals. Present study investigated behavioral, physiological and neurochemical aspects of rats exposed to a CMS procedure. The consumption of sweet food, locomotor activity, body and adrenal gland weight, BDNF protein levels evaluated in hippocampus, cerebrospinal fluid and serum were assessed in rats. Our findings demonstrated decreased in sweet food intake, increase of adrenal gland weight and a decrease of body weight and no changes were observed in BDNF protein levels in serum, cerebrospinal fluid and hippocampus in rats subjected to CMS procedure. Indeed, locomotor activity was not significantly affected. In conclusion, these data reveal that BDNF protein levels were not significantly correlated with the decrease of sweet food consumption observed in CMS exposed animals.
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Lucca Giancarlo, Comim M. Clarissa, Valvassori S. Samira, Pereira G. Josimar, Stertz Laura, Gavioli C. Elaine, Kapczinski Flavio and Quevedo Joao, Chronic Mild Stress Paradigm Reduces Sweet Food Intake in Rats without Affecting Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Protein Levels, Current Neurovascular Research 2008; 5 (4) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/156720208786413406
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/156720208786413406 |
Print ISSN 1567-2026 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1875-5739 |
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