Effects of two types of restraint stress on spontaneous behavior of Sprague-Dawley and Lewis rats.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the action of two types of stressors in Sprague-Dawley (S-D) and Lewis (LEW) rats differing in their hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity on locomotion and rearing in an open space. Exposure to restraint immobilization alone (IMO) or this immobilization combined with cold water (22 degrees C) immersion (IMO+C) lasted for 1 h and started 2 or 5 h before the test. To evaluate the acute and persisting effects of both stressors, four trials were performed in one-week intervals; rats were exposed to the stressors in trial 1 and 3. While in LEW rats both acute stressors produced reduction of locomotion and rearing in all stressed groups, S-D rats responded with a decrease of both parameters only after IMO+C presented 2 h before testing. Neither strain displayed a changed performance one week after the first stress exposure. One week after the second stress exposure rats of both strains exhibited a tendency to an increase of both parameters reaching the significance in several experimental groups. The findings indicate: a) the IMO+C produced stronger behavioral alteration than IMO alone; b) the behavioral responses to stressors were more pronounced in LEW compared to S-D strain; c) change from the reduction of activity to its increase may be interpreted as bi-directional manifestation of long-term effects of immobilization stress.
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Laboratory of Biochemical Neuropharmacology, Institute of Medical Biochemistry, 1st Medical Faculty, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. vera.klenerova@LF1.cuni.cz
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D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003080:Cold Temperature / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012149:Restraint, Physical / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D013997:Time Factors