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Fox odour affects corticosterone release but not hippocampal serotonin reuptake and open field behaviour in rats.

INSERM U471-INRA, Institut F. Magendie, Rue Camille Saint Saëns, 33077 Bordeaux, France.
Brain Research (impact factor: 2.73). 02/2003; 961(1):166-70. pp.166-70
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ABSTRACT Group-housed Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats exposed for 1 h to 2,5-dihydro-2,4,5-trimethylthiazoline (TMT, a component of fox feces) did not display changes in hippocampal serotonin (5-HT) metabolism and [3H]5-HT reuptake, compared to water or butyric acid. Such an observation extended to isolated SD and Fischer 344 rats. When group-housed SD rats were tested 1 week after a 1-h exposure to TMT, hippocampal 5-HT metabolism, [3H]5-HT reuptake, and [3H]paroxetine binding at the 5-HT transporter remained unchanged. This study questions TMT as a specific predatory stimulus as both butyric acid and TMT increased plasma corticosterone levels whilst leaving intact open field behaviour (at least in group-housed SD rats).

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    Article: Genetic influences on behavioral and neuroendocrine responses to predator-odor stress in rats.
    Leandro Franco Vendruscolo, Janaína Carrinho Muniz Vendruscolo, Elena Terenina-Rigaldie, Frantz Raba, André Ramos, Reinaldo Naoto Takahashi, Pierre Mormède
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    ABSTRACT: The exposure of animals to a variety of stressful events can induce behavioral and physiological responses, which can be modulated by anxiety levels. It is well recognized that genetic factors play a substantial role in both anxiety and stress reactivity. The present study examined the effect of exposure to 2,4,5-trimethylthiazoline (TMT), a component of fox feces, on nociception and corticosterone levels in Lewis (LEW) and Spontaneously Hypertensive (SHR) inbred rat strains (which display genetic differences in anxiety models such as the elevated plus-maze and open-field). The influence of two quantitative trait loci (QTL), named Ofil1 and Ofil2, which are known to affect emotionality in LEW versus SHR intercrosses on the responses to TMT was also investigated. LEW and SHR rats of both sexes displayed similar levels of behavioral and neuroendocrine responses after TMT exposure. As expected, TMT odor stress produced analgesia and enhanced corticosterone levels. Ofil1 on chromosome 4 affected stress-induced analgesia in males only. Ofil2 on chromosome 7 had no effect. The results suggest that behaviors measured in classical models of generalized anxiety and reactivity to stress produced by predator odors can be genetically dissociated. Finding a locus with an effect on the behavioral responses to stress represents the starting point in the search for genes responsible for stress-related traits.
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Keywords

1 week
 
1-h exposure
 
5-HT transporter
 
[3H]5-HT reuptake
 
[3H]paroxetine binding
 
butyric acid
 
Fischer 344 rats
 
hippocampal 5-HT metabolism
 
hippocampal serotonin
 
intact open field behaviour
 
specific predatory stimulus
 
study questions TMT
 
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