Febrile Seizures Cause Depression and Anxiogenic Behaviors in Rats

Autor: Yeon Hee Yu, Seong-Wook Kim, Hyuna Im, Yejin Song, Seo Jeong Kim, Yu Ran Lee, Gun Woo Kim, Changmin Hwang, Dae-Kyoon Park, Duk-Soo Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Cells, Vol 11, Iss 20, p 3228 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2073-4409
DOI: 10.3390/cells11203228
Popis: Febrile seizure (FS) is a common type of seizure occurring in human during infancy and childhood. Although an epileptic seizure is associated with psychiatric disorders and comorbid diseases such as depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, sleep disorders, attention deficits, cognitive impairment, and migraine, the causal relationship between FS and psychiatric disorders is poorly understood. The objective of the current study was to investigate the relationship of FS occurrence in childhood with the pathogenesis of anxiety disorder and depression using an FS rat model. We induced febrile seizures in infantile rats (11 days postnatal) using a mercury vapor lamp. At 3 weeks and 12 weeks after FS induction, we examined behaviors and recorded local field potentials (LFPs) to assess anxiety and depression disorder. Interestingly, after FS induction in infantile rats, anxiogenic behaviors and depression-like phenotypes were found in both adult and juvenile FS rats. The analysis of LFPs revealed that 4–7 Hz hippocampal theta rhythm, a neural oscillatory marker for anxiety disorder, was significantly increased in FS rats compared with their wild-type littermates. Taken together, our findings suggest that FS occurrence in infants is causally related to increased levels of anxiety-related behaviors and depression-like symptoms in juvenile and adult rodents.
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