Effects of gestational stress: 2. Evaluation of male and female adult offspring
| Autor: | Mark Chebli, Stephanie L. Rees, Roger Godbout, Nathalie LeMarec, Catherine Bielajew, Stephanie L. Baker, Veronika Huta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Restraint Physical medicine.medical_specialty Elevated plus maze Offspring Estrous Cycle Time Pregnancy Internal medicine medicine Animals Rats Long-Evans Maze Learning Molecular Biology Growth Disorders Estrous cycle Maternal deprivation Sex Characteristics Behavior Animal General Neuroscience Maternal Deprivation Body Weight medicine.disease Anxiety Disorders Rats Pregnancy Complications Disease Models Animal Endocrinology Exploratory Behavior Linear Models Gestation Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Psychology Cognition Disorders Weight gain Psychomotor Performance Stress Psychological Developmental Biology Sex characteristics |
| Zdroj: | Brain research. 1302 |
| ISSN: | 1872-6240 |
| Popis: | Physical restraint applied during gestation is a commonly employed animal model of human pregnancy stress. The consequences of such a paradigm have been extensively investigated in adult male rats using a variety of physiological and behavioral measures. The behavioral repertoire of female offspring, however, has been largely ignored. The current study examines adult offspring-male and female Long Evans rats (55-90 days of age) and is a follow-up report to the consequences of maternal restraint (gestation days 10 through 19) in mother rats and their juvenile offspring. Physiological measures included weight and estrous cycle regularity. Elevated plus maze and emergence tests were used to measure anxiety, and the T-maze test, cognition. Data were analyzed via hierarchical linear modeling to account for the nesting of offspring within litters. Compared to same-sex controls, males from stressed mothers displayed a progressive attenuated weight gain over experimental weeks while females from stressed mothers maintained a stable, lower weight throughout. Twenty-five percent of females in the stressed group and none in the control group displayed irregular cycles in the first week of testing; on subsequent weeks, this group discrepancy ranged from 1% to 11%. Subtle effects were observed in anxiety measures: an interaction between sex and stress group in the analysis of head dip behavior in the elevated plus maze and decreased emergence latencies in stress groups. Results demonstrate the importance of examining the effects of maternal stress in offspring of both sexes at various developmental stages. |
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