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Antelman SM. Time-Dependent Sensitization in Animals: A Possible Model of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity in Humans. Toxicol Ind Health 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/074823379401000508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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It of ten happens in science that clues to the nature of a problem under study come from a completely different, seemingly unrelated, line of investigation. This may be the case with MCS and Time-Dependent Sensitization (TDS), a phenomenon we discovered in rats in the late 1970s and later named. TDS refers to the ability of mild stressors whether pharmacological or environmental to induce physiological and behavioral effects which then progress, i.e., get stronger, entirely as a function of the passage of time since stressor presentation. This strengthening is revealed when the organism is later exposed to either the original or another stressor. The characteristics of TDS bear a remarkable resemblance to the features of MCS and that similarity is the subject of this manuscript.
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- Seymour M. Antelman
- Department of Psychiatry Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Schöner J, Heinz A, Endres M, Gertz K, Kronenberg G. Post-traumatic stress disorder and beyond: an overview of rodent stress models. J Cell Mol Med 2017; 21:2248-2256. [PMID: 28374949 PMCID: PMC5618668 DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.13161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder of high prevalence and major socioeconomic impact. Patients suffering from PTSD typically present intrusion and avoidance symptoms and alterations in arousal, mood and cognition that last for more than 1 month. Animal models are an indispensable tool to investigate underlying pathophysiological pathways and, in particular, the complex interplay of neuroendocrine, genetic and environmental factors that may be responsible for PTSD induction. Since the 1960s, numerous stress paradigms in rodents have been developed, based largely on Seligman's seminal formulation of 'learned helplessness' in canines. Rodent stress models make use of physiological or psychological stressors such as foot shock, underwater trauma, social defeat, early life stress or predator-based stress. Apart from the brief exposure to an acute stressor, chronic stress models combining a succession of different stressors for a period of several weeks have also been developed. Chronic stress models in rats and mice may elicit characteristic PTSD-like symptoms alongside, more broadly, depressive-like behaviours. In this review, the major existing rodent models of PTSD are reviewed in terms of validity, advantages and limitations; moreover, significant results and implications for future research-such as the role of FKBP5, a mediator of the glucocorticoid stress response and promising target for therapeutic interventions-are discussed.
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- Johanna Schöner
- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Neurologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Neurologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Neurologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany.,Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Neurologie, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde, Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Stam R. PTSD and stress sensitisation: a tale of brain and body Part 2: animal models. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2007; 31:558-84. [PMID: 17350095 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2006] [Revised: 11/28/2006] [Accepted: 11/30/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Animal models that are characterised by long-lasting conditioned fear responses as well as generalised behavioural sensitisation to novel stimuli following short-lasting but intense stress have a phenomenology that resembles that of PTSD in humans. These models include brief sessions of shocks, social confrontations, and a short sequence of different stressors. Subgroups of animals with different behavioural traits or coping styles during stress exposure show a different degree or pattern of long-term sensitisation. Weeks to months after the trauma, treated animals on average also show a sensitisation to novel stressful stimuli of neuroendocrine, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal motility responses as well as altered pain sensitivity and immune function. Functional neuroanatomical and pharmacological studies in these animal models have provided evidence for involvement of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex, and of brain stem areas regulating neuroendocrine and autonomic function and pain processing. They have also generated a number of neurotransmitter and neuropeptide targets that could provide novel avenues for treatment in PTSD.
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- Rianne Stam
- Department of Pharmacology and Anatomy, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Carvalho MC, Albrechet-Souza L, Masson S, Brandão ML. Changes in the biogenic amine content of the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, dorsal hippocampus, and nucleus accumbens of rats submitted to single and repeated sessions of the elevated plus-maze test. Braz J Med Biol Res 2005; 38:1857-66. [PMID: 16302100 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2005001200014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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It has been demonstrated that exposure to a variety of stressful experiences enhances fearful reactions when behavior is tested in current animal models of anxiety. Until now, no study has examined the neurochemical changes during the test and retest sessions of rats submitted to the elevated plus maze (EPM). The present study uses a new approach (HPLC) by looking at the changes in dopamine and serotonin levels in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, dorsal hippocampus, and nucleus accumbens in animals upon single or double exposure to the EPM (one-trial tolerance). The study involved two experiments: i) saline or midazolam (0.5 mg/kg) before the first trial, and ii) saline or midazolam before the second trial. For the biochemical analysis a control group injected with saline and not tested in the EPM was included. Stressful stimuli in the EPM were able to elicit one-trial tolerance to midazolam on re-exposure (61.01%). Significant decreases in serotonin contents occurred in the prefrontal cortex (38.74%), amygdala (78.96%), dorsal hippocampus (70.33%), and nucleus accumbens (73.58%) of the animals tested in the EPM (P < 0.05 in all cases in relation to controls not exposed to the EPM). A significant decrease in dopamine content was also observed in the amygdala (54.74%, P < 0.05). These changes were maintained across trials. There was no change in the turnover rates of these monoamines. We suggest that exposure to the EPM causes reduced monoaminergic neurotransmission activity in limbic structures, which appears to underlie the "one-trial tolerance" phenomenon.
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- M C Carvalho
- Laboratório de Psicobiologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, 14049-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Albrechet-Souza L, Oliveira AR, De Luca MCZ, Tomazini FM, Santos NR, Brandão ML. A comparative study with two types of elevated plus-maze (transparent vs. opaque walls) on the anxiolytic effects of midazolam, one-trial tolerance and fear-induced analgesia. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2005; 29:571-9. [PMID: 15866360 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2005.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The phenomenon known as one-trial tolerance (OTT) to the anxiolytic effects of benzodiazepines observed in rats submitted to the elevated plus-maze test (EPM) is considered to be due to the emergence of phobic states across the test/retest sessions. Antinociception is a usual component of the defense reaction. Until now, no study has examined antinociception and OTT together in freely behaving rats in the EPM. This work is a new approach looking at the sensorimotor gatings underlying OTT through the examination of the changes in reactivity to noxious stimuli during OTT development. We used the tail-flick test to assess the reactivity of rats to noxious stimulus during the effects of midazolam in test/retest sessions using two types of EPM, one with opaque (standard EPM) and another one with transparent walls (modified EPM). The authors had previously shown that this modified test caused an overall stressful situation more related to anxiety while the standard test coursed with a mixture of anxiety and high fear levels. In both plus mazes, the study was conducted in two experiments: (i) midazolam before the first trial, and (ii) midazolam before the second trial. In each experimental condition the effects of midazolam were tested under two doses (0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg) against a control group that received injections of saline. The anxiolytic effects of midazolam were more pronounced in animals tested in the modified EPM than in the standard EPM. Stressful stimuli present in both types of maze were able to elicit one-trial tolerance to midazolam on re-exposure. However, anxiolytic-insensitive behaviors in the first and the reduction in exploratory activity in the second trial are more pronounced in the standard EPM indicating that this test is more prone to transfer fear-related states across trials than the modified maze test. Antinociception is not present upon the re-exposure of rats to the EPM. These findings show that animals tested in the modified EPM showed higher sensitivity to the anxiolytic effects of midazolam than the standard EPM. Antinociception was not a concomitant of the shift in the emotional state present in the retest sessions of the EPM. These results are in agreement with the premises that repeated stressful experience leads to anxiolytic-insensitive fear state different from anxiety.
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- Lucas Albrechet-Souza
- Laboratório de Psicobiologia, FFCLRP, Campus USP, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, 14049-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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Balogh SA, Radcliffe RA, Logue SF, Wehner JM. Contextual and cued fear conditioning in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice: context discrimination and the effects of retention interval. Behav Neurosci 2002; 116:947-57. [PMID: 12492293 DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.116.6.947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Context discrimination and time course studies of contextual fear conditioning revealed strain differences between C57BL/6J (B6) and DBA/2J (D2) mice. Both strains discriminated contexts, but D2 mice exhibited less freezing in a shock-paired context. The strains did not differ immediately, or at 1 and 3 hr after contextual fear conditioning training. D2 mice showed less freezing at 15 min, 30 min, and 24 hr after training. B6 mice exhibited exaggerated generalized freezing and poor discrimination between the context and altered context 7-30 days after training. The acoustic startle response in B6 mice was also enhanced at 14 days after training. D2 mice did not show this pattern of generalized freezing. B6, but not D2, mice retained contextual memories for at least 60 days.
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- Seth A Balogh
- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309-0447, USA
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Antelman SM, Levine J, Gershon S. Time-dependent sensitization: the odyssey of a scientific heresy from the laboratory to the door of the clinic. Mol Psychiatry 2000; 5:350-6. [PMID: 10889544 DOI: 10.1038/sj.mp.4000721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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This review provides both a biological and clinical perspective on Time-Dependent Sensitization (TDS), an ancient amplified memory response to threat manifest in the ability of both drugs and nondrug stressors to induce neuronal and behavioral effects which strengthen entirely as a function of the passage of time following even a single or acute exposure. Evidence is presented to show that TDS may be involved in the development of a spectrum of diseases and how drug regimens based on the principles of TDS could provide a novel and revolutionary means of treating psychiatric and other illnesses.
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- S M Antelman
- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
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Zurita A, Molina V. Prior morphine facilitates the occurrence of immobility and anhedonia following stress. Physiol Behav 1999; 65:833-7. [PMID: 10073489 DOI: 10.1016/s0031-9384(98)00247-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The role of the activation of the opiate system either induced by a 120-min restraint session or by a single morphine administration (10 mg/kg, i.p.) on the behaviors performed in a subsequent forced-swim test has been evaluated. In addition, animals were pretreated with naloxone (2 mg/kg, i.p.) prior to restraint or to morphine. Furthermore, in order to evaluate if this opioid mechanism could participate in the effect of stress on the response to a rewarding stimulus, rats were administered with morphine (10 mg/kg, i.p.)--whether associated or not with prior naloxone (2 mg/kg, i.p.) administration--and subsequently exposed to a 90-min restraint period. Following stress, all rats were submitted to a sucrose (1%) preference test. Both morphine and restraint enhanced the time spent in immobility in the forced-swim test. Both behavioral effects were attenuated by naloxone pretreatment thus suggesting that the increased immobility is probably modulated by the previous activation of an opiate mechanism. Furthermore, only animals with the associated treatment with morphine and restraint showed a clear reduction in sucrose preference. The fact that this effect was blocked by naloxone suggests the involvement of an opiate process in this decreased response to reward. These behavioral data suggest that the activation of an endogenous opiate mechanism facilitates the occurrence of enhanced immobility and anhedonia in response to a subsequent stress experience.
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- A Zurita
- Departamento de Farmacología Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
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Rossi J. Sensitization induced by kindling and kindling-related phenomena as a model for multiple chemical sensitivity. Toxicology 1996; 111:87-100. [PMID: 8711751 DOI: 10.1016/0300-483x(96)03394-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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It has been suggested that the neurobehavioral dysfunction observed in persons presenting with symptoms of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) syndrome involves sensitization of neural circuits. Two hypotheses for the route of exposure in induction of neural sensitization in MCS are: (a) direct chemical stimulation of olfactory processes, or (b) general systemic response to inhaled chemicals. In either case, the mechanism of action may involve chemical kindling or kindling-related phenomena. A neural sensitization mechanism based on kindling or kindling-related phenomena is attractive and has been previously demonstrated in both in vitro and in vivo animal models. Without a testable animal model for chemically mediated induction of MCS, however, any argument that MCS is mediated by kindling or kindling-related phenomena is reduced to the circular argument "the mechanism of sensitization is sensitization." The present survey provides an overview of the experimental paradigms that result in sensitization, differentiated on the basis of probable neurophysiological and neurochemical mechanisms. Neurophysiological potentiation, electrical kindling, chemical kindling and behavioral sensitization are evaluated and discussed in relationship to MCS.
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- J Rossi
- Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment, Tri-Service Toxicology Consortium, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7903, USA
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Pynoos RS, Ritzmann RF, Steinberg AM, Goenjian A, Prisecaru I. A behavioral animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder featuring repeated exposure to situational reminders. Biol Psychiatry 1996; 39:129-34. [PMID: 8717611 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(95)00088-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mice. The model featured repeated exposures to situational reminders of a traumatic stress, which consisted of a brief electric shock, and included assessment of two behavioral parameters and the startle reflex. The findings indicated an initial, but unsustained, increase in locomotor activity in a neutral environment due to traumatic stress. Exposure to situational reminders was associated with a persistent bidirectional abnormal behavioral pattern in a fear-provoking environment and a progressive increase over time in the magnitude of the startle reflex. Exposure to situational reminders also produced an increase in aggressive behavior. This animal model appears to produce behavioral changes analogous to those seen in patients with PTSD.
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- R S Pynoos
- Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles 90024, USA
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Molina VA, Heyser CJ, Spear LP. Chronic variable stress or chronic morphine facilitates immobility in a forced swim test: reversal by naloxone. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 1994; 114:433-40. [PMID: 7855201 DOI: 10.1007/bf02249333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The behaviors displayed in a forced swim test were investigated in rats previously exposed to a chronic variable stress treatment or chronic administration of morphine. In addition, to further explore the participation of an endogenous opiate mechanism in these behavioral effects, naloxone was either administered during the chronic treatment (prior to each stress or morphine exposure) or immediately prior to the forced swim test. Animals were submitted daily to a different stressor for 1 week or injected with morphine (10 mg/kg, IP) for 6 days, whereas controls were unmanipulated except for the injection process. On the day following the last stressor, control and stressed animals were administered saline or naloxone (2 mg/kg, IP) 15 min prior to the forced swim test. Morphine treated animals were similarly tested on the third day following the last morphine injection. In a separate group of rats, naloxone (2 mg/kg, IP) was administered daily 10 min prior to each stressor of the chronic stress regime or each daily morphine injection. A significant increase in the time spent in immobility was observed in stressed animals as well as in rats chronically treated with morphine. In both groups, this potentiated immobility was attenuated by naloxone pretreatment prior to the forced swim test or when given before each daily stressor or morphine injection. In addition, the concurrent exposure to stress or morphine along with naloxone administration enhanced struggling in the first 5 min of the forced swim test.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- V A Molina
- Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton 13902-6000
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McAllister CG, Caggiula AR, Knopf S, Epstein LH, Miller AL, Antelman SM, Perkins KA. Immunological effects of acute and chronic nicotine administration in rats. J Neuroimmunol 1994; 50:43-9. [PMID: 8300857 DOI: 10.1016/0165-5728(94)90213-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We previously demonstrated that acute nicotine administration decreased the response of rat blood leukocytes (PBL) to concanavalin A (ConA). We now extend those findings to a comparison between the effects of acute and prolonged nicotine exposure (ten daily injections), on PBL and splenocytes (SL). A single injection suppressed the PBL response to ConA and phytohemagglutinin (PHA); tolerance developed by ten injections. In contrast, acute nicotine did not affect SL response to ConA and reduced the PHA response only at the highest concentration. Ten nicotine injections enhanced SL responsiveness to PHA. The only change in PBL subsets was an increase in CD8+ cells following ten injections.
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- C G McAllister
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Bell IR, Markley EJ, King DS, Asher S, Marby D, Kayne H, Greenwald M, Ogar DA, Margen S. Polysymptomatic syndromes and autonomic reactivity to nonfood stressors in individuals with self-reported adverse food reactions. J Am Coll Nutr 1993; 12:227-38. [PMID: 8409077 DOI: 10.1080/07315724.1993.10718304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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This study compared symptom reports and cardiovascular reactivity of a group of 24 individuals recruited from the community who reported a cognitive or emotional symptom caused by at least one food (food-sensitivity reporters, FSR) vs those of 15 controls (C) without a history of food, chemical, drug, or inhalant sensitivities. The main findings were: 1) FSR indicated sensitivities not only to foods, but also to environmental chemicals, drugs, and natural inhalants, as well as significantly more symptoms than C in multiple systems; 2) more FSR than C noted recent state depression and anxiety, as well as higher trait anxiety on the Bendig form of the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale; 3) however, on multiple regression analysis, not only depression, but also the number of sensitivities (foods, chemicals, drugs, inhalants), accounted for part of the variance in total number of symptoms (38 and 17%, respectively), whereas none of the affective measures accounted for any of the variance in total number of sensitivities over all subjects; 4) after controlling for depression and anxiety, FSR still showed a trend toward poorer performance on a timed mental arithmetic task (p = 0.16); and 5) FSR and C showed opposite patterns of heart rate change to two different stressful tasks (mental arithmetic and isometric exercise) (group by task interaction, p < 0.05). The data are discussed in terms of a time-dependent sensitization (TDS) process that predicts a cross-sensitizing and cross-reactive role for xenobiotic agents (e.g., foods, chemicals, drugs, and inhalants) and for salient psychological stress in the expression of psychophysiological dysfunctions of FSR. As in other chronically ill populations, negative affect in food-sensitive individuals may explain greater symptom reporting, but not necessarily account for the illness itself. For either a food or a psychological stimulus to begin to elicit sensitized responses, e.g., marked physiological differences from C, FSR may require multiple, intermittent exposures spaced over 5-28 days rather than on only 1 day.
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- I R Bell
- School of Public Health-Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley
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Anisman H, Zalcman S, Zacharko RM. The impact of stressors on immune and central neurotransmitter activity: bidirectional communication. Rev Neurosci 1993; 4:147-80. [PMID: 7952386 DOI: 10.1515/revneuro.1993.4.2.147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Antigenic challenge may have broad ranging effects which include not only immunological changes, but also endocrine and central neurotransmitter repercussions, and may thus elicit profound behavioral sequelae. Commensurate with the notion that bidirectional communication exists between the immune and central nervous systems it has been demonstrated that manipulations which influence central neurotransmitter or endocrine activity provoke alterations of immune functioning, and conversely immunological alterations will affect central neurotransmitter and endocrine activity. It seems, as well, that environmental stressors may provoke marked alterations of the activity of each of these systems. Indeed, in several respects the variables that influence vulnerability to stressor-provoked neurotransmitter changes, likewise affect the immunological alterations engendered by stressors. Moreover, immunological challenges will affect central neurotransmitter functioning in much the same way as stressors provoke such effects. It is thought that immune derived products (including cytokines as well as peptide hormones) may act directly or indirectly to moderate neurotransmitter functioning, and centrally derived neurotransmitters and hormones may affect receptors present on lymphocytes. In accordance with earlier suggestions, it is maintained that the immune system may be acting as a sensory organ informing the brain of the presence of antigenic challenges, and the brain may interpret such challenge as a stressor, hence leading to behavioral alterations.
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- H Anisman
- Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Animal models of stress have the potential to provide information about the course and etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To date, however, there have been no systematic approaches for evaluating the relevance of animal models of stress to PTSD. It has been established in the animal literature that different types of stress paradigms lead to different biobehavioral consequences and that many different factors contribute to differential responsivity to stress. It becomes important therefore to differentiate between factors that are essential to the induction of PTSD-like symptoms and those that influence their manifestations. In the present commentary, we present five criteria that must be fulfilled by animal models of stress for them to be useful to understanding the induction of PTSD. We then evaluate two potential animal models of stress--inescapable shock-learned helplessness and time-dependent sensitization--to illustrate how to more successfully pair animal models of stress with the specific clinical syndrome of PTSD.
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- R Yehuda
- Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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Bell IR, Miller CS, Schwartz GE. An olfactory-limbic model of multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome: possible relationships to kindling and affective spectrum disorders. Biol Psychiatry 1992; 32:218-42. [PMID: 1420641 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(92)90105-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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This paper reviews the clinical and experimental literature on patients with multiple adverse responses to chemicals (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome-MCS) and develops a model for MCS based on olfactory-limbic system dysfunction that overlaps in part with Post's kindling model for affective disorders. MCS encompasses a broad range of chronic polysymptomatic conditions and complaints whose triggers are reported to include low levels of common indoor and outdoor environmental chemicals, such as pesticides and solvents. Other investigators have found evidence of increased prevalence of depression, anxiety, and somatization disorders in MCS patients and have concluded that their psychiatric conditions account for the clinical picture. However, none of these studies has presented any data on the effects of chemicals on symptoms or on objective measures of nervous system function. Synthesis of the MCS literature with large bodies of research in neurotoxicology, occupational medicine, and biological psychiatry, suggests that the phenomenology of MCS patients overlaps that of affective spectrum disorders and that both involve dysfunction of the limbic pathways. Animal studies demonstrate that intermittent repeated low level environmental chemical exposures, including pesticides, cause limbic kindling. Kindling (full or partial) is one central nervous system mechanism that could amplify reactivity to low levels of inhaled and ingested chemicals and initiate persistent affective, cognitive, and somatic symptomatology in both occupational and nonoccupational settings. As in animal studies, inescapable and novel stressors could cross-sensitize with chemical exposures in some individuals to generate adverse responses on a neurochemical basis. The olfactory-limbic model raises testable neurobiological hypotheses that could increase understanding of the multifactorial etiology of MCS and of certain overlapping affective spectrum disorders.
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- I R Bell
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson 85724
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Van Dijken HH, Van der Heyden JA, Mos J, Tilders FJ. Inescapable footshocks induce progressive and long-lasting behavioural changes in male rats. Physiol Behav 1992; 51:787-94. [PMID: 1594677 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(92)90117-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Long-term behavioural consequences of exposure to a brief (15 min) session of inescapable footshocks (10 x 6 s, 1 mA) were investigated in male rats. The time course of the effects of inescapable footshocks was assessed by studying the behaviour of groups of rats at different post-stress intervals. Footshocked rats (S) did not differ from control (C) rats (exposed to the shock box for 15 min) in their behavioural response to an open field whether tested 1 h or 4 h post-stress. However, one day after shocks, S rats showed less locomotion and rearing, and more immobility and attention as compared to C rats. At 7 days or 14 days post-stress, S rats exhibited decreased locomotion, rearing, sniffing, and grooming, and increased immobility, attention, and defecation relative to C rats. In a second experiment, we investigated whether footshocks affect the behavioural response to a sudden drop in background noise during exposure to a novel environment. At 21 days post-stress, S rats showed a markedly enhanced immobility response to this stimulus as compared to C rats. In order to investigate whether rats could be exposed repeatedly to the open field without affecting the differences in behaviour between the two treatment groups, C and S rats were tested in an open field for the first time at 7 days post-stress, which yielded the typical effects of footshocks. When these rats were exposed to a second open-field test one week later, the behavioural responses of C and S rats were not different.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Affiliation(s)
- H H Van Dijken
- Department of Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- J E Cunnick
- Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania 15261
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Antelman SM, Kocan D, Knopf S, Edwards DJ, Caggiula AR. One brief exposure to a psychological stressor induces long-lasting, time-dependent sensitization of both the cataleptic and neurochemical responses to haloperidol. Life Sci 1992; 51:261-6. [PMID: 1625517 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(92)90084-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Rats were exposed for 10 minutes to one of several enclosures graded in novelty. In one experiment they were then simply sacrificed and plasma corticosterone determinations made in order to obtain an index of the relative stressfulness of these enclosures. In a second experiment the animals received haloperidol and were tested for catalepsy, 2 hours or two weeks following the novel experience. The most novel experience, exposure to a black box, resulted in the highest corticosterone levels and was the only one of our pre-treatments to induce significant enhancement of catalepsy as well as alteration of nucleus accumbens dopamine levels, 2 weeks--but not 2 hours--later. These findings indicate that brief exposure of adult animals to a psychological stressor can induce a long-term alteration in both behavioral and neurochemical responses to a drug and that this effect requires a minimum level of stress to get started and once triggered gets stronger with the passage of time.
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- S M Antelman
- Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pa
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