PMID- 26555398 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161017 LR - 20220318 IS - 1573-7365 (Electronic) IS - 0885-7490 (Linking) VI - 31 IP - 1 DP - 2016 Feb TI - Behavioural and biochemical changes in maternally separated Sprague-Dawley rats exposed to restraint stress. PG - 121-33 LID - 10.1007/s11011-015-9757-y [doi] AB - Early life adversity has been associated with the development of various neuropsychiatric disorders in adulthood such as depression and anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine if stress during adulthood can exaggerate the depression-/anxiety-like behaviour observed in the widely accepted maternally separated (MS) Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat model of depression. A further aim was to determine whether the behavioural changes were accompanied by changes in hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and the protein profile of the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Depression-/anxiety-like behaviour was measured in the elevated plus maze, open field and forced swim test (FST) in the MS SD rats exposed to chronic restraint stress in adulthood. As expected, MS increased immobility of SD rats in the FST but restraint stress did not enhance this effect of MS on SD rats. A proteomic analysis of the PFC revealed a decrease in actin-related proteins in MS and non-separated rats subjected to restraint stress as well as a decrease in mitochondrial energy-related proteins in the stressed rat groups. Since MS during early development causes a disruption in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and long-term changes in the response to subsequent stress, it may have prevented restraint stress from exerting its effects on behaviour. Moreover, the decrease in proteins related to mitochondrial energy metabolism in MS rats with or without subsequent restraint stress may be related to stress per se and not depression-like behaviour, because rats subjected to restraint stress displayed similar decreases in energy-related proteins and spent less time immobile in the FST than control rats. FAU - van Zyl, P J AU - van Zyl PJ AD - Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, 7925, South Africa. vanzyl.jurgens@gmail.com. FAU - Dimatelis, J J AU - Dimatelis JJ AD - Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, 7925, South Africa. FAU - Russell, V A AU - Russell VA AD - Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, 7925, South Africa. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20151111 PL - United States TA - Metab Brain Dis JT - Metabolic brain disease JID - 8610370 RN - 0 (Actins) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) SB - IM MH - Actins/metabolism MH - Animals MH - Anxiety, Separation/*metabolism/*psychology MH - *Behavior, Animal MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/metabolism MH - Energy Metabolism MH - Female MH - Male MH - *Maternal Deprivation MH - Mitochondria/metabolism MH - Prefrontal Cortex/metabolism MH - Proteomics MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - *Restraint, Physical MH - Stress, Psychological/*metabolism/*psychology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Behaviour OT - Depression OT - Maternal separation OT - Proteomics OT - Restraint stress EDAT- 2015/11/12 06:00 MHDA- 2016/10/19 06:00 CRDT- 2015/11/12 06:00 PHST- 2015/06/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/10/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/11/12 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/11/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/10/19 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/s11011-015-9757-y [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11011-015-9757-y [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Metab Brain Dis. 2016 Feb;31(1):121-33. doi: 10.1007/s11011-015-9757-y. Epub 2015 Nov 11.