Psychiatry Investig.
2018 Feb;15(2):193-199. 10.30773/pi.2017.05.14.2.
Effects of 5HT1A Activation on Gating Profile Following 5HT Depletion in Rats Lacking Social Attachment Since Weanling
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Psychiatry, Beitou Branch, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
- 2Respiratory Medicine Center of Fujian Province, Quanzhou, China.
- 3Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Quanzhou, China.
- 4Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan. yiaping@ms75.hinet.net
- 5Department of Psychiatry, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
- KMID: 2409429
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.30773/pi.2017.05.14.2
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
Central 5-HT1A receptor is involved in the modulation of sensorimotor gating function. However, its precise role is not clearly defined in developmentally social deprived (isolation rearing, IR) rats featured with impaired sensorimotor gating ability. We therefore aimed to examine the effects of 5HT1A activation on acoustic startle response (ASR) and prepulse inhibition (PPI) in IR rats in a condition of compromised presynaptic 5-HT functions.
METHODS
Social control (SOC) and IR rats received an intracerebraoventricular (ICV) injection of 5-HT depletor, 5,7-DHT. Seven days later rats entered a protocol of 8-OH-DPAT, a 5-HT1A agonist, in which locomotor activity, ASR and PPI and their tissue levels of 5-HT were measured.
RESULTS
Our results found that both IR and 5,7-DHT decreased the tissue concentration of 5-HT. IR-induced hyperactivity and gating impairment were unaffected by 5-HT depletion. 8-OH-DPAT strengthened the ASR in IR but not SOC rats and the drug-reduced PPI could be adjusted by 5,7-DHT pretreatment. 8-OH-DPAT at 100 μg/kg enhanced PPI in 5-HT-depleted SOC rats. However for IR rats, 8-OH-DPAT strengthened PPI in sham rats but downgraded it in depletion condition.
CONCLUSION
The integrity of central 5-HT system is important to 5-HT1A-modulated sensorimotor gating in isolation-reared rats.
MeSH Terms
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8-Hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin
Acoustics
Animals
Motor Activity
Prepulse Inhibition
Rats*
Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1A
Reflex, Startle
Sensory Gating
Serotonin
Serotonin 5-HT1 Receptor Agonists
Social Control, Formal
8-Hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin
Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1A
Serotonin
Serotonin 5-HT1 Receptor Agonists
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