Escitalopram reduces circulating pro-inflammatory cytokines and improves depressive behavior without affecting sleep in a rat model of post-cardiac infarct depression
| Autor: | Guy Rousseau, Roger Godbout, Thierno Madjou Bah, Ramy Karam, Sévan Kaloustian, Mohamed Benderdour |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Sucrose medicine.medical_specialty medicine.medical_treatment Serotonin reuptake inhibitor Myocardial Infarction Radioimmunoassay Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Citalopram Proinflammatory cytokine Rats Sprague-Dawley Food Preferences Behavioral Neuroscience chemistry.chemical_compound Corticosterone Internal medicine mental disorders medicine Animals Escitalopram Myocardial infarction Saline Swimming Analysis of Variance Depression Anhedonia medicine.disease Rats Disease Models Animal Endocrinology chemistry Sweetening Agents Antidepressive Agents Second-Generation Cytokines Antidepressant Sleep Stages medicine.symptom Psychology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Brain Research. 225:243-251 |
| ISSN: | 0166-4328 |
| Popis: | Myocardial infarction (MI) in rats is followed by a behavioral syndrome similar to human post-MI depression. We tested the effects of escitalopram, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, on this syndrome. MI was induced in 19 Sprague-Dawley rats by occluding the left anterior descending coronary artery for 40min, followed by reperfusion. A sham-operated group of 20 rats was submitted to the same protocol without coronary artery occlusion. Fifteen minutes after the onset of reperfusion, escitalopram (10mg/kg/day, i.p.) or saline was infused continuously through osmotic minipumps. After 2weeks of treatment, the rats were tested for behavioral despair and anhedonia by the forced swimming and sucrose preference tests, respectively. They were then sacrificed, and blood levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α), PGE(2) and corticosterone were measured. In a separate cohort of 24 rats, sleep was recorded after 2weeks of post-MI treatment with escitalopram or saline. In MI rats, behavioral despair and anhedonia were blocked by escitalopram but prolonged sleep latency, low total sleep time and short latency to paradoxical sleep (PS) were not; escitalopram decreased PS in sham controls. Plasma TNF-α, PGE(2), and corticosterone levels were higher in MI rats than in the controls. Escitalopram lowered TNF-α, IL-1β, and PGE(2) levels in both groups of rats while IL-6 showed no differences whatsoever. Escitalopram reverses post-MI behavioral syndrome in rats through a mechanism that could involve a reduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and PGE(2). It has limited effects on sleep disorders in MI rats but reduces PS in control rats. |
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