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Azechi H, Hakamada K, Yamamoto T. A new inbred strain of Fawn-Hooded rats demonstrates mania-like behavioural and monoaminergic abnormalities. IBRO Rep 2019; 7:98-106. [PMID: 31763490 PMCID: PMC6861655 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibror.2019.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat carries a gene mutation that results in a dysfunctional serotoninergic system. However, previous studies have reported differing features between the FH/Wjd and FH/Har strains. We aimed to compare the behavioural and neurobiological features of FH/HamSlc rats with those of Fischer 344 rats. We performed the open field, elevated minus-maze, Y-maze spontaneous alternation, and forced swim tests to investigate behavioural alterations. We also assessed neurobiological characteristics by quantifying monoamines and their related compounds in the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and striatum using high-performance liquid chromatography with an electrochemical detection system. FH/HamSlc rats showed hyperactivity and a high impulsivity tendency in the open field and the elevated minus maze test, but no cognitive dysfunction. In addition, the hyperactivity was suppressed immediately after the forced swim test. FH/HamSlc rats showed low dopamine levels, but high dopamine turnover in the striatum. Serotonin and noradrenaline levels were low in the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus of FH/HamSlc rats, but high serotonin turnover was observed in the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and striatum. FH/HamSlc rats show (1) mania-like behavioural characteristics that are different from those of other strains of FH rats; (2) stimulus dependent suppression of hyperactivity similar to the clinical findings that exercise alleviates the symptoms of bipolar disorder; and (3) monoaminergic dysregulation such as monoamine imbalance and hyperturnover that may be associated with mania-related behavioural characteristics. Thus, the FH/HamSlc rat is a new animal model for mania including bipolar disorder.
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Key Words
- 5-HIAA, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid
- 5-HT, serotonin
- ADHD, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Bipolar mania model
- DA, dopamine
- DOPAC, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid
- FH, Fawn-Hooded
- Fawn-Hooded rat
- HPLC, high-performance liquid chromatography
- HVA, homovanillic acid
- Hyperactivity
- Impulsivity
- MAO-A, monoamine oxidase A
- MHPG, 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol
- Monoaminergic dysregulation
- NA, noradrenaline
- PCA, perchloric acid
- SEM, standard error of the mean
- Stimulus responsivity
- TPH2, tryptophan hydroxylase 2
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- Hirotsugu Azechi
- Department of Psychology, Tezukayama University, Nara 631-8585, Japan
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- Department of Neurophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Psychological Sciences, Tezukayama University, Nara 631-8585, Japan
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- Department of Psychology, Tezukayama University, Nara 631-8585, Japan.,Department of Neurophysiology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Graduate School of Psychological Sciences, Tezukayama University, Nara 631-8585, Japan
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Osanai K. Rab38 Mutation and the Lung Phenotype. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:E2203. [PMID: 30060521 PMCID: PMC6122074 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19082203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2018] [Revised: 07/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Rab38 is highly expressed in alveolar type II cells, melanocytes, and platelets. These cells are specifically-differentiated cells and contain characteristic intracellular organelles called lysosome-related organelles, i.e., lamellar bodies in alveolar type II cells, melanosomes in melanocytes, and dense granules in platelets. There are Rab38-mutant rodents, i.e., chocolate mice and Ruby rats. While chocolate mice only show oculocutaneous albinism, Ruby rats show oculocutaneous albinism and prolonged bleeding time and, hence, are a rat model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS). Most patients with HPS suffer from fatal interstitial pneumonia by middle age. The lungs of both chocolate mice and Ruby rats show remarkably increased amounts of lung surfactant and conspicuously enlarged lysosome-related organelles, i.e., lamellar bodies, which are also characteristic of the lungs in human HPS. There are 16 mutant HPS-mouse strains, of which ten mutant genes have been identified to be causative in patients with HPS thus far. The gene products of eight of the ten genes constitute one of the three protein complexes, i.e., biogenesis of lysosome-related organelle complex-1, -2, -3 (BLOC-1, -2, -3). Patients with HPS of the mutant BLOC-3 genotype develop interstitial pneumonia. Recently, BLOC-3 has been elucidated to be a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rab38. Growing evidence suggests that Rab38 is an additional candidate gene of human HPS that displays the lung phenotype.
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- Kazuhiro Osanai
- Department of Life Science, Medical Research Institute, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
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Osanai K, Nakase K, Sakuma T, Nishiki K, Nojiri M, Kato R, Saito M, Fujimoto Y, Mizuno S, Toga H. Exogenous gene transfer of Rab 38 small GTPase ameliorates aberrant lung surfactant homeostasis in Ruby rats. Respir Res 2017; 18:70. [PMID: 28438206 PMCID: PMC5402648 DOI: 10.1186/s12931-017-0549-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Rab38 small GTPase regulates intracellular transport in melanocytes and alveolar type II epithelial cells. Ruby rats carrying Rab38 and other gene mutations exhibit oculocutaneous albinism, bleeding diathesis, and hence, are a rat model of human Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS). We previously showed that Long Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats, one strain of the Ruby rats, developed aberrant lung surfactant homeostasis with remarkably enlarged lamellar bodies in alveolar type II cells. Methods A replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus expressing rat Rab38 (Ad-Rab38) was constructed. Alveolar type II cells were isolated from the LEC rats and tested for lung surfactant phosphatidylcholine secretion. The rats were also examined whether exogenous expression of Ad- Rab38 could rescue the altered lung surfactant homeostasis in the lungs. Results Isolated type II cells infected with Ad-Rab38 exhibited improved secretion patterns of [3H]phosphatidylcholine, i.e. increased basal hyposecretion and decreased agonist-induced hypersecretion. Endobronchial administration of Ad-Rab38 improved the morphology of type II cells and lamellar bodies, reducing their sizes close to those of wild-type rats. The increased amounts of phosphatidylcholine and surfactant protein B in the lamellar body fractions were decreased in the Ad-Rab38 infected lungs. Conclusions These results provide strong evidence that the aberrant lung surfactant homeostasis in the LEC rats is caused by Rab38 deficit, and suggest that endobronchial delivery of the responsive transgene could be an effective method to ameliorate the abnormal lung phenotype in the animal model of HPS.
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- Kazuhiro Osanai
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan.
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Uchinada-Daigaku, Kahokugun, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan
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Schulz A, Kreutz R. Mapping genetic determinants of kidney damage in rat models. Hypertens Res 2012; 35:675-94. [DOI: 10.1038/hr.2012.77] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In cardiovascular research, the rat has been the main model of choice for decades. Experimental procedures were developed to generate cardiovascular disease states in this species, such as systemic and pulmonary hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and failure, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Furthermore, rats have been bred, which spontaneously develop such diseases. They became extremely valuable models to understand the genetics of these diseases, since powerful genomic tools are now available for the rat. One of these tools is transgenic technology, which has allowed the creation of even more disease models in the rat. This review summarizes the experimental, genetic, and transgenic rat models for cardiovascular diseases.
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- Michael Bader
- Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin, Germany
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Osanai K, Higuchi J, Oikawa R, Kobayashi M, Tsuchihara K, Iguchi M, Huang J, Voelker DR, Toga H. Altered lung surfactant system in a Rab38-deficient rat model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2010; 298:L243-51. [DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00242.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Several Long-Evans rat substrains carrying the phenotype of oculocutaneous albinism and bleeding diathesis are a rat model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS). The mutation responsible for the phenotype ( Ruby) was identified as a point mutation in the initiation codon of Rab38 small GTPase that regulates intracellular vesicle transport. As patients with HPS often develop life-limiting interstitial pneumonia accompanied by abnormal morphology of alveolar type II cells, we investigated lung surfactant system in Long-Evans Cinnamon rats, one strain of the Ruby rats. The lungs showed conspicuous morphology of type II cells containing markedly enlarged lamellar bodies. Surfactant phosphatidylcholine and surfactant protein B were increased in lung tissues and lamellar bodies but not in alveolar lumen. Expression levels of mRNA for surfactant proteins A, B, C, and D were not altered. Isolated type II cells showed aberrant secretory pattern of newly synthesized [3H]phosphatidylcholine, i.e., decreased basal secretion and remarkably amplified agonist-induced secretion. [3H]phosphatidylcholine synthesis and uptake by type II cells were not altered. Thus Rab38-deficient type II cells appear to carry abnormality in lung surfactant secretion but not in synthesis or uptake. These results suggest that aberrant lung surfactant secretion may be involved in the pathogenesis of interstitial pneumonia in HPS.
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- Kazuhiro Osanai
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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- Department of Human Pathology, Yamagata University Graduate School of Medicine, Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan; and
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa; and
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Osanai K, Oikawa R, Higuchi J, Kobayashi M, Tsuchihara K, Iguchi M, Jongsu H, Toga H, Voelker DR. A mutation in Rab38 small GTPase causes abnormal lung surfactant homeostasis and aberrant alveolar structure in mice. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2008; 173:1265-74. [PMID: 18832574 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2008.080056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The chocolate mutation, which is associated with oculocutaneous albinism in mice, has been attributed to a G146T transversion in the conserved GTP/GDP-interacting domain of Rab38, a small GTPase that regulates intracellular vesicular trafficking. Rab38 displays a unique tissue-specific expression pattern with highest levels present in the lung. The purpose of this study was to characterize the effects of Rab38-G146T on lung phenotype and to investigate the molecular basis of the mutant gene product (Rab38(cht) protein). Chocolate lungs exhibited a uniform enlargement of the distal airspaces with mild alveolar destruction as well as a slight increase in lung compliance. Alveolar type II cells were engorged with lamellar bodies of increased size and number. Hydrophobic surfactant constituents (ie, phosphatidylcholine and surfactant protein B) were increased in lung tissues but decreased in alveolar spaces, consistent with a malfunction in lamellar body secretion and the subsequent cellular accumulation of these organelles. In contrast to wild-type Rab38, native Rab38(cht) proteins were found to be hydrophilic and not bound to intracellular membranes. Unexpectedly, recombinant Rab38(cht) proteins retained GTP-binding activity but failed to undergo prenyl modification that is required for membrane-binding activity. These results suggest that the genetic abnormality of Rab38 affects multiple lysosome-related organelles, resulting in lung disease in addition to oculocutaneous albinism.
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- Kazuhiro Osanai
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahokugun, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan.
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Rezvani AH, Overstreet DH, Cleves M, Parsian A. Further genetic characterization of the fawn-hooded (FH/Wjd) rat, an animal model of comorbid depression and alcoholism. Psychiatr Genet 2007; 17:77-83. [PMID: 17413446 DOI: 10.1097/ypg.0b013e328012d7c3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was a more detailed genetic characterization of the alcohol preferring fawn-hooded rat and its intercrosses. Fawn-hooded rats drink substantially more alcohol voluntarily than the ACI rats. The fawn-hooded rats were shown to be more immobile in the forced-swimming test and to drink more saccharin. Recent comparisons of the parental strains with F1 and F2 intercrosses revealed that the alcohol and saccharin intakes were positively correlated with each other but not with immobility. METHODS The F1 and F2 progeny were generated by intercrossing the fawn-hooded and ACI/N rats. Data from the F2 progeny, their F1 parents and progenitors were used to estimate heritability. RESULTS Heritability was estimated for alcohol intake (75.6% in males and 67.1% in females), alcohol preference (64.7% in males and 39.2% in females), saccharin intake (50.8% in males and 37.5% in females), and immobility (50.2% in males and 72.1% in females). This same data provided estimates of the number of genes involved in these phenotypes between three and six. We also took advantage of the fact that both progenitor strains are pigmented, so a tremendous variety of coat colors were present in the F2 progeny (i.e. black, black-hooded, agouti, agouti-hooded, fawn, fawn-hooded, orange, and orange-hooded). Coat color analyses indicated that none of the variables significantly varied with coat color. A high correlation however, was observed between alcohol intake and preference in each group. Significant correlations between alcohol and saccharin intakes were seen only in some groups. CONCLUSION These findings suggest that these phenotypes might be regulated by multiple genes, which could be detected in quantitative trait loci. These analyses are currently underway and will provide a novel approach in understanding the genetics of voluntary alcohol drinking.
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- Amir H Rezvani
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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Overstreet DH, Rezvani AH, Djouma E, Parsian A, Lawrence AJ. Depressive-like behavior and high alcohol drinking co-occur in the FH/WJD rat but appear to be under independent genetic control. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2006; 31:103-14. [PMID: 16982094 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2006.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2006] [Accepted: 07/06/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This review will consider the evidence supporting the view that a specific substrain of Fawn-Hooded rat (FH/Wjd) exhibits co-occurring depressive-like behavior and high alcohol intake independently. First, the FH/Wjd rat is compared with other Fawn-Hooded substrains (FH/Har, FHH/Eur, FHL/Eur) and it is concluded that only the FH/Wjd rat is both highly immobile in the forced swim test and drinks substantial amounts of 5-10% alcohol voluntarily. Next it is demonstrated that the FH/Wjd rat fulfils many of the criteria proposed for an animal model of alcoholism (becomes tolerant, becomes dependent and expresses withdrawal symptoms, bar-presses for alcohol). Other literature in addition to the high swim test immobility suggests that the FH/Wjd rat may also be an animal model of depression (high basal corticosterone levels, blunted hormonal responses to serotonergic agonists). To study the phenotypes more closely an inbred strain (ACI/N) of rat that drank little alcohol voluntarily and exhibited considerable swimming in the forced swim test (i.e., low immobility) was obtained. A systematic intercrossing of the parental strains and the resulting F1 progeny was carried out to generate more than 800 F2s. Swim test immobility, alcohol intake and preference and saccharin intake are four of the 7 variables assessed in each of these rats. Using classical quantitative genetics methods, it was determined that these four phenotypes exhibited modest heritability and were influenced by multiple genes. Correlation coefficients between immobility and the other measures were near zero, whereas alcohol intake and preference were highly correlated (r=0.9) and alcohol and saccharin intakes were modestly correlated (r=0.3). A final study showed that chronic fluoxetine treatment counteracted the high immobility but did not affect alcohol intake, similar to human studies. These findings suggest that although depressive-like behavior and high alcohol intake co-occur in the FH/Wjd rat, they are independently regulated.
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- David H Overstreet
- Department of Psychiatry and Center for Alcohol Studies, University of North Carolina, CB #7178, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7178, USA.
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Overstreet DH, Rezvani AH, Cowen M, Chen F, Lawrence AJ. Modulation of high alcohol drinking in the inbred Fawn-Hooded (FH/Wjd) rat strain: implications for treatment. Addict Biol 2006; 11:356-73. [PMID: 16961764 DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2006.00033.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Fawn-Hooded rat (FH/Wjd) is an inbred alcohol-preferring rat strain, unlike most of the other strains that were selectively bred for high alcohol intake and preference. It was chosen for study some 16 years ago because of a reported mutation that disrupted platelet serotonin function. Although the FH/Wjd rat has high alcohol intake (>5 g/kg/day) and preference (>65%), interbreeding with an alcohol-non-preferring inbred strain suggested that these measures are unrelated to the serotonin abnormality. Similarly, the exaggerated immobility of the FH/Wjd rats in the forced swim test did not correlate with the high alcohol intake. Many compounds have been tested in the FH/Wjd rats after both acute and chronic treatment and a substantial number of them have proved effective. However, as the case with opiate antagonists, tolerance to the effects of the drug can develop. An up-regulation of opioid receptors accompanied the chronic treatment and this mechanism may account for the development of tolerance. Tolerance to opiate antagonists has also been demonstrated in two of the selectively bred alcohol-preferring rat lines, but it is unknown whether this process may contribute to the relapses seen in individuals being treated with naltrexone. Other drugs that reliably decrease alcohol intake in the FH/Wjd rats include the 5-hydroxytryptamine-2A receptor antagonist, amperozide, the mGlu5 receptor antagonist 3-[(2-methyl-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)ethynyl]pyridine (MTEP) and herbal derivatives such as ibogaine, St. John's wort and kudzu extract. Thus, studies in the FH/Wjd rat have led to the discovery of a wide variety of targets for the development of novel agents to treat alcoholism. The fact that several of these drugs were shown to reduce alcohol intake in some of the selectively bred alcohol-preferring rat lines and/or alcohol-preferring vervet monkeys increases our confidence that they are good candidates for further development.
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- David H Overstreet
- Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies & Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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Broderick PA, Hope O. Monoamine and motor responses to cocaine are co-deficient in the Fawn-Hooded depressed animal model. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2006; 30:887-98. [PMID: 16626846 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2006.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/30/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The Fawn-Hooded (FH) genetic animal model of depression continues to be of interest because the FH model has limited biochemical and immune function. The FH animal has an inherited trait, platelet storage pool deficiency (PSPD), an hemorrhagic disorder that is also a component of Chediak-Higashi syndrome (CHS). CHS is a pyrogenic infectious childhood disease; few patients live past the age of 20. Our hypothesis was that FH animals may exhibit different monoamine and motor responses to cocaine versus the Sprague-Dawley (SD) "normal" animal strain, which does not have the FH trait. Therefore, selective neuromolecular imaging (NMI) of the monoamines, dopamine (DA) and 5-HT within nucleus accumbens (NAcc) of behaving male FH versus SD rats was performed in vivo with BRODERICK PROBE sensors and a semiderivative voltammetric circuit. Each animal was placed in a faraday chamber and electrochemical signals were detected via a mercury commutator and flexible cable. Baseline values for neurotransmitters and behavior were derived during the last half-hour of habituation behavior. Release of DA and 5-HT was detected selectively, at separate oxidation potentials, within seconds, before and after intraperitoneal administration of the psychostimulant, cocaine (10 mg/kg). At the same time, frequencies of ambulations and central ambulations were separately monitored with infrared photobeams, which surrounded the faraday chamber. Data were compared by ANOVA analysis followed by Tukey's post hoc test. The data showed that (1) DA release in NAcc of behaving FH animals did not respond to cocaine; neither first hour nor second hour values significantly differed from baseline (both hours, p>0.05), whereas SD animals exhibited a significant increase in cocaine-induced DA release in NAcc (both hours, p<0.001). The ability for acute cocaine to increase DA release in NAcc was significantly greater in SD than in FH animals (p<0.001). (2) 5-HT release in NAcc of behaving FH animals was not significantly increased by cocaine (both hours, p>0.05), whereas 5-HT release in NAcc of SD animals was significantly increased after cocaine (both hours, p<0.001). The ability for acute cocaine to increase 5-HT release was significantly greater in SD than in FH animals (p<0.001). (3) Ambulations in the FH strain were modestly, yet significantly, enhanced after cocaine during both hours of study (p<0.05, p<0.001, respectively) as were ambulations in the SD strain. Nonetheless, the ability for acute cocaine to increase ambulations was significantly greater in SD than in FH animals in the first hour (p<0.001). (4) Central ambulations in the FH strain was not affected by cocaine (both hours, p>0.05), whereas SD animals showed a significant increase in central ambulatory activity in both hours of the cocaine study (p<0.001). The ability for acute cocaine to increase central ambulations was significantly greater in SD than in FH animals (p<0.001). Thus, this is the first study to determine in vivo the neurochemical response to acute cocaine in the behaving FH animal. Moreover, this is the first study to determine in vivo and simultaneously the neurochemical and behavioral response to acute cocaine in the FH strain in comparison with SD animals, a "normal" strain. Remarkable deficiencies in the ability for acute cocaine to alter neurochemistry and behavior in animals with the FH trait are shown. These studies emphasize the need to look differentially at cocaine effects in biochemically and immune-compromised subjects versus "normal" subjects.
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- Patricia A Broderick
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The City University of New York Medical School, New York, NY 10031, United States.
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Oiso N, Riddle SR, Serikawa T, Kuramoto T, Spritz RA. The rat Ruby ( R) locus is Rab38: identical mutations in Fawn-hooded and Tester-Moriyama rats derived from an ancestral Long Evans rat sub-strain. Mamm Genome 2004; 15:307-14. [PMID: 15112108 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-004-2337-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2003] [Accepted: 12/02/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a group of rare, recessive disorders in which oculocutaneous albinism, progressive pulmonary fibrosis, bleeding diathesis, and other abnormalities result from defective biogenesis of multiple cytoplasmic organelles. Seven different HPS genes are known in humans; in mouse, at least 16 loci are associated with HPS-like mutant phenotypes. In the rat, only two HPS models are known, Fawn-hooded (FH) and Tester Moriyama (TM), non-complementing strains in which HPS-like hypopigmentation and platelet storage pool deficiency result from a mutation of the Ruby (red eyed dilution; R) locus on Chromosome (Chr) 1. We have identified the R locus as the Rab38 gene, establishing that rat R is homologous to mouse chocolate ( cht). Further, we show that FH and TM rats have identical Rab38 Met1Ile mutations, occurring on an identical Chr 1 marker allele haplotype, indicating that these two strains derive from a common ancestor. This ancestor appears to have been a sub-strain of the outbred Long Evans (LE) strain, and several modern LE sub-strains carry the Rab38 Met1Ile R mutation on the same Chr 1 marker haplotype. These findings have significant implications for the many past and ongoing studies that involve the FH and LE-derivative rat strains. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS; MIM 203300) is a group of autosomal recessive diseases in which oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), progressive and fatal pulmonary fibrosis, and bleeding diathesis due to platelet storage pool deficiency result from defects in the biogenesis of specific cytoplasmic organelles and granules: melanosomes, lysosomes, and platelet dense granules. In humans, seven different HPS genes are known. In the mouse, at least 16 loci associated with HPS-like mutant phenotypes are known, seven of which are homologous to the human HPS loci.
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- Naoki Oiso
- Human Medical Genetics Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Ave., B161, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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Broderick PA. Interleukin 1alpha alters hippocampal serotonin and norepinephrine release during open-field behavior in Sprague-Dawley animals: differences from the Fawn-Hooded animal model of depression. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2002; 26:1355-72. [PMID: 12502025 DOI: 10.1016/s0278-5846(02)00301-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Detection of two biogenic amine neurotransmitters, serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) within the CA1 region of the hippocampus (HPC) of behaving male laboratory animals (Rattus norvegicus), was performed with miniature carbon sensors (BRODERICK PROBES) and in vivo semidifferential microvoltammetry after acute administration of the soluble immune factor, human recombinant, interleukin (IL) 1alpha (10 and 100 ng/kg i.p.). Two animal models were compared, i.e., (a) the Sprague-Dawley (SD) model, a strain neither biochemically nor immune-challenged and (b) the Fawn-Hooded (FH) model, a biochemically (5-HT-deficient) and immune-challenged animal. Open-field behaviors, locomotion (ambulations) and stereotypy (fine movements of sniffing and grooming) were monitored with infrared photobeams while 5-HT and NE were selectively and separately detected within seconds in real time. Subchronic studies were performed in the same animals 24 h later at which time no further drug was administered. Results from acute treatment studies showed that IL-1alpha altered HPC monoamines and behavior viz-a-viz habituation values (baseline) in the SD strain differently from those in the FH strain as follows: (1) although 5-HT release was significantly increased within CA1 region of HPC in both SD and FH strains (P<.0001), the extent of the HPC 5-HT increase in the 5-HT-deficient FH strain was significantly less than that of the SD strain at both doses (P<.0001). The subchronic studies showed that 5-HT release within the HPC in the SD strain significantly increased (135%) over drug treatment values (P<.001), whereas HPC 5-HT release in the FH strain remained the same as that seen in the acute drug treatment studies; the difference between strains for the subchronic study was also statistically significant (P<.01). (2) IL-1alpha significantly decreased HPC NE release in the SD strain (P<.0004) while IL-1alpha decreased HPC NE release in the FH strain only at the 10-ng/kg dose (P<.001); at the 100-ng/kg dose in the FH strain, NE rebounded towards baseline and increased 15% above baseline reaching statistical significance (P<.05). Subchronic studies in the SD strain showed a further decreased NE signal to 38% below baseline (P<.0001), whereas subchronic studies in the FH strain showed a significant increase in NE release (P<.02). The difference between strains in the subchronic NE studies was significant (P<.001). (3) Ambulations were increased after IL-1alpha administration in acute studies in both the SD and the FH strains, but the increase did not reach statistical significance, whereas in the subchronic studies, both strains exhibited significant increases as revealed by post hoc analyses (P<.05). There was a statistically significant difference between strains in acute studies (P<.001), whereas no significant differences between models were seen in ambulation behavior in subchronic studies. (4) Fine movements increased over baseline after IL-1alpha administration in both animal models in acute studies, however, results did not reach statistical significance, likely due to the episodic effect of IL-1alpha on movement behavior in both the SD and the FH strains. However, the SD strain showed a significant increase in fine movement behavior during the subchronic studies (P<.02). Significant differences in fine movements between animal models were not observed either acutely or in subchronic studies. In summary, the data show that immune modulation by IL-1alpha affects HPC neurochemistry and behavior in SD versus FH animal models differently and/or to different degrees. The data show that while the FH animal model is subsensitive to 5-HT agonists, 5-HT function can be stimulated. Comparison of genetically diverse animal models provides a reliable means to identify and discern cytokine-induced depressive versus stressor properties. Selective sensor technology provides a powerful tool as movement behavior is monitored and interpreted as a function of monoamine neurotransmission.
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- Patricia A Broderick
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, The City University of New York Medical School, New York, NY 10031, USA.
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Rezvani AH, Parsian A, Overstreet DH. The Fawn-Hooded (FH/Wjd) rat: a genetic animal model of comorbid depression and alcoholism. Psychiatr Genet 2002; 12:1-16. [PMID: 11901354 DOI: 10.1097/00041444-200203000-00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The Fawn-Hooded (FH/Wjd) rat is an inbred strain of rat that has been reported to exhibit both high immobility in the forced swim test and high voluntary ethanol intake, measures that have been periodically linked with depression and alcoholism in humans. The present paper will first present a survey of the literature and previously unpublished findings that bear on the question of whether FH/Wjd rats should be considered genetic animal models of depression and alcoholism. Subsequently, behavioral studies of the FH/Wjd rats, the non-drinking ACI/N strain, and their F1 and F2 intercrosses will be described. Under free choice conditions, the FH/Wjd rat drinks up to 6 g/kg 10% ethanol per day. This intake was sufficient to render the rats tolerant to the hypothermic effects of injected ethanol (2.5 g/kg). Rats that had been voluntarily drinking for at least 6 weeks also exhibited withdrawal-induced anxiety in the social interaction, elevated plus maze, and ultrasonic vocalization tasks. The FH/Wjd rat exhibits a 25-30% increase in alcohol intake when the alcohol is returned after a 24-h period of deprivation. It responds to drugs that are effective in humans with a reduction in alcohol intake. Therefore, the FH/Wjd rat meets most of the criteria for an animal model of alcoholism. Chronic antidepressant treatments correct several of the abnormalities exhibited by the FH/Wjd rats, including the exaggerated immobility in the forced swim test. Therefore, the FH/Wjd rats also fulfill some of the criteria for an animal model of depression. On the contrary, inbred ACI/N rats do not drink much alcohol voluntarily and are quite active in the forced swim test. The FH/Wjd and ACI/N rats were intercrossed to obtain the F1 and F2 progenies, which were then tested for alcohol intake and immobility. Alcohol intake and immobility were distributed in different patterns in the F1 and F2 progenies. Alcohol intake was intermediate in the F1 progeny, while immobility was closer to the FH/Wjd parents. In the F2 progeny, chi-square analyses indicated that the distributions were significantly different. In addition, there were no significant litter effects, indicating that maternal effects did not appear to occur. There were also no significant differences among rats with different coat colors, suggesting that the Fawn-Hooded phenotype can be separated from the measures of alcohol intake and immobility. We conclude that the FH/Wjd rat is a genetic animal model of depression and alcoholism, but that the two measures reflective of these states are under separate genetic controls.
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- Amir H Rezvani
- Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Nagaoka T, Muramatsu M, Sato K, McMurtry I, Oka M, Fukuchi Y. Mild hypoxia causes severe pulmonary hypertension in fawn-hooded but not in Tester Moriyama rats. RESPIRATION PHYSIOLOGY 2001; 127:53-60. [PMID: 11445200 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5687(01)00217-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to test whether the Tester Moriyama rat (TMR), a strain that has a serotonin platelet storage-pool deficiency similar to that of the fawn-hooded rat (FHR), develops severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) upon exposure to mild hypoxia. We compared hemodynamic parameters in catheterized 10-week-old FHR, TMR, and control Wistar rats that had been raised from birth to 10 weeks of age under normoxia (PI(O(2)) approximately 150 mmHg) or mild hypobaric hypoxia (PI(O(2)) approximately 120 mmHg). Mean pulmonary artery pressure and right ventricle to left ventricle plus septum weight ratio were much higher in the mildly hypoxic FHR compared with the normoxic FHR. These parameters were only increased slightly by exposure to mild hypoxia in the TMR and Wistar rats. Mild hypoxia did not affect mean systemic artery pressure in any of the rat strains. Exposure of FHR to mild hypoxia from 4 to 10 weeks of age did not lead to development of PH. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) mRNA and peptide levels were increased in the hypertensive lungs of mildly hypoxic FHR compared with the normotensive lungs of normoxic FHR, and of normoxic and mildly hypoxic TMR and Wistar rats. These results suggest that mild hypoxia causes severe PH and upregulation of lung ET-1 expression in neonatal FHR but not in neonatal TMR, and that the period from birth to 4 weeks of age is critical for the development of the severe PH in the FHR. A serotonin PSPD does not predispose rats to hypoxia-induced PH.
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- T Nagaoka
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University, School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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Gonzalez AM, Smith AP, Emery CJ, Higenbottam TW. The pulmonary hypertensive fawn-hooded rat has a normal serotonin transporter coding sequence. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1998; 19:245-9. [PMID: 9698596 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.19.2.3073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The coding sequence of the serotonin transporter gene was compared in two strains of rat-the Wistar and the fawn-hooded rat (FHR). The FHR has an inherited platelet storage-pool deficiency and a widespread impairment of serotonin storage. It is also susceptible to systemic and pulmonary hypertension. The FHR provides a model to study the genetics in human systemic and pulmonary hypertension. We measured platelet function in these two strains by measuring incorporation of radiolabeled serotonin into a platelet suspension and found significant differences in serotonin uptake and release. The coding sequence for the serotonin transporter in the FHR has yet to be reported. No differences were found in the predicted amino acid sequence between these two strains of rat, either in the platelet or the lung samples or when compared with the published sequence of the brown rat. We conclude that differences in the primary structure of the serotonin transporter gene do not account for the altered serotonin storage in the FHR strain.
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- A M Gonzalez
- Respiratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Science, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Swank RT, Novak EK, McGarry MP, Rusiniak ME, Feng L. Mouse models of Hermansky Pudlak syndrome: a review. PIGMENT CELL RESEARCH 1998; 11:60-80. [PMID: 9585243 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00713.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) is a recessively inherited disease affecting the contents and/or the secretion of several related subcellular organelles including melanosomes, lysosomes, and platelet dense granules. It presents with disorders of pigmentation, prolonged bleeding, and ceroid deposition, often accompanied by severe fibrotic lung disease and colitis. In the mouse, the disorder is clearly multigenic, caused by at least 14 distinct mutations. Studies on the mouse mutants have defined the granule abnormalities of HPS and have shown that the disease is associated with a surprising variety of phenotypes affecting many tissues. This is an exciting time in HPS research because of the recent molecular identification of the gene causing a major form of human HPS and the expected identifications of several mouse HPS genes. Identifications of mouse HPS genes are expected to increase our understanding of intracellular vesicle trafficking, lead to discovery of new human HPS genes, and suggest diagnostic and therapeutic approaches toward the more severe clinical consequences of the disease.
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- R T Swank
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263, USA.
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Hamada S, Nishikawa T, Yokoi N, Serikawa T. TM rats: a model for platelet storage pool deficiency. Exp Anim 1997; 46:235-9. [PMID: 9250486 DOI: 10.1538/expanim.46.235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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TM rats have a light brown hooded coat pattern resembling that of Fawn hooded (FH) rats which are a model of platelet storage pool deficiency (SPD). We examined whether the TM strain has the same platelet SPD as the FH strain. TM rats had a prolonged bleeding time and a low blood serotonin level, although their blood coagulation time and platelet counts were normal. The light coat color of the TM strain was judged to be associated with the red-eyed dilution gene as in the FH strain, but not pink eye dilution as in the RCS rat strain. Platelet SPD seen in TM rats may be a pleiotropic effect of the red-eyed dilution gene proposed in FH rats. Despite these similarities, the genetic background of the TM strain was obviously different from that of the FH strain. The TM strain, developed independently of the FH strain, will therefore be used as a model of platelet SPD.
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- S Hamada
- Central Research Laboratories, SS Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Chiba, Japan
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Brown DM, Provoost AP, Daly MJ, Lander ES, Jacob HJ. Renal disease susceptibility and hypertension are under independent genetic control in the fawn-hooded rat. Nat Genet 1996; 12:44-51. [PMID: 8528250 DOI: 10.1038/ng0196-44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 190] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Hypertension, diabetes and hyperlipidemia are risk factors for life-threatening complications such as end-stage renal disease, coronary artery disease and stroke. Why some patients develop complications is unclear, but only susceptibility genes may be involved. To test this notion, we studied crosses involving the fawn-hooded rat, an animal model of hypertension that develops chronic renal failure. Here, we report the localization of two genes, Rf-1 and Rf-2, responsible for about half of the genetic variation in key indices of renal impairment. In addition, we localize a gene, Bpfh-1, responsible for about 26% of the genetic variation in blood pressure. Rf-1 strongly affects the risk of renal impairment, but has no significant effect on blood pressure. Our results show that susceptibility to a complication of hypertension is under at least partially independent genetic control from susceptibility to hypertension itself.
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- D M Brown
- Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA
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Meehan SM, Schechter MD. Conditioned place preference/aversion to fenfluramine in fawn hooded and sprague-Dawley rats. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 1994; 18:575-84. [PMID: 8078991 DOI: 10.1016/0278-5846(94)90014-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The Fawn Hooded (FH) rat strain possesses a genetic platelet storage pool deficiency which leads to an impaired capacity for platelets to store and release serotonin. While the relationship between this deficit and possible alterations in brain serotonergic levels or function remains unclear, numerous behavioral studies have indicated that FH rats exhibit differential responses to serotonergic agonists and antagonist relative to other strains. The current study used the conditioned place preference paradigm to examine the ability of fenfluramine to produce a conditioned place preference (CPP) or aversion (CPA) in FH and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. Results indicated that fenfluramine failed to produce CPP or CPA in SD rats, but did produce a CPA in FH rats. Results are discussed in terms of the use of conditioned place preference to assess putative differences in serotonergic functioning in FH rats.
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- S M Meehan
- Department of Pharmacology, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown
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Jackson CW, Hutson NK, Steward SA, Saito N, Cramer EM. Platelets of the Wistar Furth rat have reduced levels of alpha-granule proteins. An animal model resembling gray platelet syndrome. J Clin Invest 1991; 87:1985-91. [PMID: 2040691 PMCID: PMC296952 DOI: 10.1172/jci115226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Rats of the Wistar Furth (WF) strain have hereditary macrothrombocytopenia (large mean platelet volume [MPV] with increased platelet size heterogeneity and reduced platelet count). Ultrastructural studies suggest that this anomaly results from erratic subdivision of megakaryocyte cytoplasm into platelets. In this study, we have examined protein profiles of platelets of WF rats for biochemical abnormalities associated with this anomaly. Marked decreases in protein bands with an Mr of 185, 57, 53, 16, 13, and 8 kd were observed in one-dimensional reduced SDS-PAGE gels in WF platelets compared with platelets of Wistar, Long Evans, and Sprague-Dawley rats. These proteins were released into the supernatant when washed platelets were treated with thrombin suggesting that they were alpha-granule proteins. These abnormalities were not present in offspring of crosses between Wistar Furth and Wistar rats; however, they were present in platelets of offspring with large MPV derived from backcrosses of (WF X Wistar) F1 males to WF females, but not in backcross offspring with normal platelet size. Immunoblotting confirmed decreased levels of thrombospondin, fibrinogen, and platelet factor 4 in WF platelets. Electron microscopic examination revealed that platelet alpha granules were usually smaller in Wistar Furth than in Wistar rats. In addition, immunogold electron microscopy demonstrated that the surface connected canalicular system of the large Wistar Furth platelets, contained dense material composed of alpha-granule proteins, not present in Wistar platelets. From these results, we conclude that the Wistar Furth rat platelet phenotype of large mean platelet volume and decreased levels of alpha-granule proteins represents an animal model resembling gray platelet syndrome. The autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance of the large MPV phenotype and platelet alpha-granule protein deficiencies suggests that a component common to both formation of platelet alpha granules, and subdivision of megakaryocyte cytoplasm into platelets, is quantitatively or qualitatively abnormal in Wistar Furth rat megakaryocytes and platelets.
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- C W Jackson
- Department of Hematology/Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38101
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Penner JD, Prieur DJ. Fibroblasts of fawn-hooded rats. Vet Pathol 1988; 25:169-71. [PMID: 3363794 DOI: 10.1177/030098588802500212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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- J D Penner
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-7040
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Dwyer SD, Meyers KM. Anesthetics and anticoagulants used in the preparation of rat platelet-rich-plasma alter rat platelet aggregation. Thromb Res 1986; 42:139-51. [PMID: 3087006 DOI: 10.1016/0049-3848(86)90290-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Aggregation of platelets in heparin- and citrate-anticoagulated platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) from rats anesthetized with methoxyflurane (M), diethyl ether (E), acepromazine/ketamine (A/K), or sodium pentobarbital (P) is described, as are platelet counts. Platelet counts were highest in heparin- or citrate-PRP from E and A/K anesthetized rats. Collagen and arachidonic acid (AA) induced aggregation in heparin-PRP only, and ADP induced greater aggregation in heparin-PRP than in citrate-PRP. Differences between citrate-PRP and heparin-PRP are probably due to citrate inhibition of platelet aggregation, since addition of citrate to heparin-PRP decreased aggregation, while addition of heparin to citrate-PRP did not alter aggregation. Aggregation of hirudin-PRP was slightly less than heparin-PRP. Anesthetics affected rat platelet aggregation: the rank order of the maximal extent of ADP-induced aggregation in citrate-PRP was M greater than E = A/K greater than P, and that for AA and collagen in heparin-PRP was E = A/K greater than M = P. The correlation between the effect of the anesthetics and activation of the sympathoadrenal system is discussed. It appeared that of the commonly used anticoagulants and anesthetics, heparin and methoxyflurane had the least influence on rat platelet aggregation.
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