Lab Anim Res.  2020 Sep;36(3):239-247. 10.1186/s42826-020-00062-0.

Comparative analysis of restraint stress-induced depressive-like phenotypes in C57BL/6N mice derived from three different sources

• Hwang DJ
• Kwon KC
• Hwang DY
• Seo MS
• Kim KS
• Jung YS
• Cho JY

• KMID: 2507237
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1186/s42826-020-00062-0

Abstract

C57BL/6NKorl mice are a novel mouse stock recently developed by the National Institute of Food and Drug Safety Evaluation in Korea. Extensive research into the nature of C57BL/6NKorl mice is being conducted. However, there is no scientific evidence for the phenotypic response to restraint stress (RST), a stress paradigm for modeling depressive disorders, in rodents. In this study, we investigated the repeated RST-induced depressive-like phenotypes in C57BL/6 N mouse substrains (viz., C57BL/6NKorl mice from Korea, C57BL/6NA mice from the United States, and C57BL/6NB mice from Japan) obtained from different sources. The results showed that C57BL/6 N mice derived from various sources exposed to repeated RST resulted in depressive-like phenotypes reflected by a similar degree of behavioral modification and susceptibility to oxidative stress in a duration-dependent manner, except for the distinctive features (increased body weight (BW) and tolerance to the suppression of BW gain by exposure to repeated RST) in C57BL/6NKorl mice. Taken together, the duration-dependent alteration in depressive-like phenotypes by repeated exposure to RST observed in this study may provide valuable insights into the nature of C57BL/6NKorl mice as an alternative animal resource for better understanding of the etiology of depressive disorders and the mechanisms of antidepressant actions.

Keyword

C57BL/6NKorl mice; Depressive disorder; Restraint stress