PMID- 36150631 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221129 LR - 20230207 IS - 1873-5169 (Electronic) IS - 0196-9781 (Linking) VI - 158 DP - 2022 Dec TI - Effects of maternal deprivation and environmental enrichment on anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors correlate with oxytocin system and CRH level in the medial-lateral habenula. PG - 170882 LID - S0196-9781(22)00148-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.peptides.2022.170882 [doi] AB - The medial-lateral habenula (LHbM)'s role in anxiety and depression behaviors in female mice remains unclear. Here, we used neonatal maternal deprivation (MD) and post-weaning environmental enrichment (EE) to treat female BALB/c offspring and checked anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors as well as the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), oxytocin receptor (OTR), estrogen receptor-beta (ERbeta) levels in their LHbM at adulthood. We found that MD enhanced state anxiety-like behaviors in the elevated plus-maze test, and EE caused trait anxiety-like behaviors in the open field test and depression-like behaviors in the tail suspension test. The immunochemistry showed that MD reduced OT immunoreactive neuron numbers in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus but increased OTR levels in the LHbM; EE increased CRH levels in the LHbM but decreased OTR levels in the LHbM. The additive effects of EE and MD maintained the behavioral parameters, OT-ir neuronal numbers, CRH levels, and OTR levels similar to the additive of non-MD and non-EE. The correlation analysis showed that CRH levels correlated with synaptic connection levels, OTR levels correlated with nucleus densities, and ERbeta levels correlated with Nissl body levels and body weights in female mice. Neither MD nor EE affected ERbeta levels in the LHbM. Together, the study revealed the relationships between behaviors and neuroendocrine and neuronal alterations in female LHbM and the effects of experiences including MD and EE on them. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Wei, Fengmei AU - Wei F AD - Department of Physiology and Psychology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, PR China; Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. Electronic address: weifm@lzu.edu.cn. FAU - Xian, Donghua AU - Xian D AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - He, Yunqing AU - He Y AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Yan, Ziqing AU - Yan Z AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Deng, Xiao AU - Deng X AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Chen, Yajie AU - Chen Y AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Zhao, Long AU - Zhao L AD - Department of Orthopedics, Lanzhou University First Affiliated Hospital, Lanzhou, Gansu Province 730000, PR China. FAU - Zhang, Yishu AU - Zhang Y AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Li, Wenhao AU - Li W AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Ma, Bo AU - Ma B AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. FAU - Zhang, Junfeng AU - Zhang J AD - Department of Human Anatomy & Shanxi Key Laboratory of Brain Disorders, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, Shanxi, 710021, PR China. Electronic address: Zhangjf_08@126.com. FAU - Jing, Yuhong AU - Jing Y AD - Institute of Anatomy and Histology & Embryology, Neuroscience, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China; Key Laboratory of Preclinical Study for New Drugs of Gansu Province, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, PR China. Electronic address: jingyh@lzu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220921 PL - United States TA - Peptides JT - Peptides JID - 8008690 RN - 50-56-6 (Oxytocin) RN - 9015-71-8 (Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone) RN - 0 (Estrogen Receptor beta) RN - 0 (Receptors, Oxytocin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Female MH - Mice MH - *Oxytocin/pharmacology MH - Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone MH - Maternal Deprivation MH - Estrogen Receptor beta/genetics MH - *Habenula/metabolism MH - Depression MH - Receptors, Oxytocin/genetics MH - Anxiety OTO - NOTNLM OT - Corticotropin-releasing hormone OT - Depression-like behaviors OT - Environmental enrichment OT - Lateral habenula OT - Maternal deprivation OT - Oxytocin receptor COIS- Declaration of interests None. EDAT- 2022/09/24 06:00 MHDA- 2022/11/30 06:00 CRDT- 2022/09/23 19:35 PHST- 2022/06/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/25 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/09/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/09/24 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/11/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/09/23 19:35 [entrez] AID - S0196-9781(22)00148-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.peptides.2022.170882 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Peptides. 2022 Dec;158:170882. doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2022.170882. Epub 2022 Sep 21.