PMID- 35507233 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220711 LR - 20220711 IS - 1476-3524 (Electronic) IS - 1029-8428 (Linking) VI - 40 IP - 4 DP - 2022 Aug TI - The Combined Effects of Perinatal Ethanol and Early-Life Stress on Cognition and Risk-Taking Behavior through Oxidative Stress in Rats. PG - 925-940 LID - 10.1007/s12640-022-00506-6 [doi] AB - Both prenatal ethanol and early-life stress have been shown to induce reduced risk-taking and explorative behavior as well as cognitive dysfunction in the offspring. In this study, we examined the effect of combined exposure to ethanol and early stress on maternal care, exploratory behavior, memory performances, and oxidative stress in male offspring. Pregnant rats were exposed to ethanol (4 g/kg) from gestational day (GD) 6-to postnatal day (PND) 14 and limited nesting material (LNS) from PND0-PND14 individually or in combination. Maternal behavior was evaluated during diurnal cycle. The level of corticosterone hormone and markers of oxidative stress were evaluated in the pups. Risk-taking and explorative behavior were assessed with the elevated-plus maze (EPM) test and cognitive behavior with the Morris water maze (MWM), novel object recognition (NORT), and object location memory (OLM) tests. In the mothers, perinatal alcohol or LNS either alone or in combination decreased maternal behavior. In the offspring, the combination of the two factors significantly increased the pup's plasma corticosterone concentration in comparison with ethanol and LNS alone. Reduced risk-taking behavior was observed in the ethanol, LNS and ethanol + LNS groups compared with the control group, and this was amplified in the co-exposure of ethanol and LNS groups. The MWM, NORT, and OLM tests revealed spatial and recognition memory impairment in the ethanol and LNS groups. This impairment was more profound in the co-exposure of ethanol and LNS. Also, we observed a significant decrease in superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activities and an increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) level in the hippocampus of ethanol and LNS co-exposed animals as compared with individual exposure of ethanol and LNS. While each factor independently produced similar outcomes, the results indicate that the dual exposure paradigm could significantly strengthen the outcomes. CI - (c) 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Bagheri, Farzaneh AU - Bagheri F AD - School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran. FAU - Goudarzi, Iran AU - Goudarzi I AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6665-3202 AD - School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran. irangoudarzi@du.ac.ir. FAU - Lashkarbolouki, Taghi AU - Lashkarbolouki T AD - School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran. FAU - Elahdadi Salmani, Mahmoud AU - Elahdadi Salmani M AD - School of Biology, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran. FAU - Goudarzi, Afsaneh AU - Goudarzi A AD - Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. FAU - Morley-Fletcher, Sara AU - Morley-Fletcher S AD - UMR 8576, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UGSF - Unite de Glycobiologie Structurale Et Fonctionnelle, 59000, Lille, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220504 PL - United States TA - Neurotox Res JT - Neurotoxicity research JID - 100929017 RN - 0 (Antioxidants) RN - 3K9958V90M (Ethanol) RN - W980KJ009P (Corticosterone) SB - IM MH - *Adverse Childhood Experiences MH - Animals MH - Antioxidants/pharmacology MH - Cognition MH - Corticosterone MH - Ethanol/toxicity MH - Female MH - Hippocampus MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Maze Learning MH - Oxidative Stress MH - Pregnancy MH - *Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects/chemically induced MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Risk-Taking OTO - NOTNLM OT - Anxiety OT - Early-life stress OT - Ethanol OT - Learning and memory OT - Oxidative stress OT - Rat offspring EDAT- 2022/05/05 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/12 06:00 CRDT- 2022/05/04 11:21 PHST- 2021/08/19 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/04/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/05/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/05/04 11:21 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s12640-022-00506-6 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s12640-022-00506-6 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurotox Res. 2022 Aug;40(4):925-940. doi: 10.1007/s12640-022-00506-6. Epub 2022 May 4.