Stress hormones enhance retrieval of fear conditioning acquired either one day or many months before
| Autor: | Ivan Antonio Izquierdo, Luciana A. Izquierdo, Jorge H. Medina, Daniela M. Barros |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Vasopressin medicine.medical_specialty Epinephrine Lypressin Anxiety Motor Activity Open field Extinction Psychological Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Memory Internal medicine Conditioning Psychological Avoidance Learning medicine Animals Fear conditioning Rats Wistar Pharmacology Electroshock beta-Endorphin Fear Extinction (psychology) Hormones Rats Psychiatry and Mental health Endocrinology Ageing Conditioning medicine.symptom Psychology Stress Psychological Hormone |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Pharmacology. 13:203-213 |
| ISSN: | 0955-8810 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00008877-200205000-00003 |
| Popis: | It has been known for years that systemic administration of the stress hormones, adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH), lysine-vasopressin, adrenaline, or beta-endorphin, enhances retrieval of aversive behaviours acquired one or a few days before. Here we show that the pre-test i.p. injection of the hormones in rats can also enhance retrieval when given months after the original training. The effectiveness of the treatments changed with time. When animals were tested 3 months after training the hormones enhanced retrieval only at doses five times higher than those needed 1 day after training. Between 6 and 9 months from training the hormones either lost their effect (vasopressin, beta-endorphin) or actually inhibited retrieval (ACTH, adrenaline). The effects of the hormones cannot be explained by a decrease in locomotor activity: none of the treatments had such an effect, as measured in an open field. However, when the animals were tested between 12 and 19 months after training, the hormones once again became as effective as they had been 1 day after training. This was so in spite of the fact that control retention levels became very low with age, probably as a result of extinction. The oscillation of the sensitivity of retrieval to the hormones does not appear to depend on changes in anxiety levels with ageing or to effects of the hormones on locomotor activity. |
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