Experience of Adversity during a First Lactation Modifies Prefrontal Cortex Morphology in Primiparous Female Rats: Lack of Long Term Effects on a Subsequent Lactation
| Autor: | Denisa Rusu, Silvanna Verlezza, Hong Long, Claire-Dominique Walker, Barbara Woodside, Emily A. Opala |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine Litter (animal) Conditioning Classical Prefrontal Cortex Physiology Weaning Biology Rats Sprague-Dawley 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Pregnancy Stress Physiological Lactation medicine Animals Attention Prefrontal cortex Reproduction General Neuroscience Postpartum Period Cognitive flexibility Cognition Rats 030104 developmental biology medicine.anatomical_structure Female Corticosterone 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Postpartum period Glucocorticoid medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience. 417:95-106 |
| ISSN: | 0306-4522 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.08.022 |
| Popis: | Reproductive experience is associated with morphological and functional plasticity in brain areas important for cognitive and emotional responses, including the infralimbic (IL) medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Here we examined whether suboptimal conditions during a first lactation could modify lactation-induced morphological IL mPFC changes, leading to alterations in stress responses and attention and whether any observed effects would persist into a second lactation. Reduced availability of bedding and nesting material (LB) was used to induce unfavorable conditions in primiparous (P) mothers. In normal bedding (NB) conditions, P mothers exhibited high spine number and density on postpartum day (PPD)10, which greatly decreased 2 weeks after weaning of their pups. In contrast, P-LB mothers had a lower spine number and density on PPD10, which markedly increased after weaning. LB exposure did not modify stress responsiveness to a ferret odor on PPD5 in primiparous or in multiparous (M) females. Number of errors and trials to criterion in the attention set shifting task were not modified by a history of adversity in multiparous females, although this group tended to exhibit higher attentional abilities than M-NB females. These results suggest that adversity acutely reduces morphological plasticity in the maternal mPFC during lactation, an effect that is not associated with significant changes in stress responses and/or glucocorticoid production. Medial PFC morphological changes induced by LB subside during a subsequent lactation as does the effect of maternity itself. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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