Differential effects of controllable and uncontrollable footshock stress on sleep in mice.
OBJECTIVE
Inescapable shock (IS), an uncontrollable stressor, and presentation of fearful contexts associated with IS produce prominent reductions in REM sleep. We compared sleep in animals trained with IS to that in animals trained with escapable shock (ES), a controllable stressor, in a paradigm in which animals always received shock but could terminate it by their actions.


METHODS
Male BALB/cJ mice were implanted with telemetry transmitters for recording EEG and activity. After recovery from surgery, baseline sleep recordings were obtained for 2 days. The mice were then randomly assigned to receive ES (n=9) or IS (n=9). ES mice could escape a footshock (20 trials; 0.5 mA; 5.0 sec maximum duration; 1.0 min intervals) by moving to the unoccupied chamber in a shuttlebox. Yoked-control IS mice in a separate shuttlebox received identical footshock. The mice received 2 days of shock training (ST1; ST2) and were re-exposed to the shuttlebox without footshock (context alone).


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RESULTS
On each training and test day, the mice were returned to their home cages, and EEG and activity were recorded for 20 h. Freezing was scored in the context alone. Compared to baseline, ES mice showed significantly increased REM, and IS mice showed significantly decreased REM after ST1, ST2, and context alone. Total NREM was decreased after shock training only in IS mice. Contextual freezing was enhanced in both ES and IS mice.


CONCLUSIONS
The directionally opposite changes in REM suggest that stressor controllability is an important factor in the effects of stress and stressful memories on sleep.
Sanford
Larry D
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Sleep Research Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, P.O. Box 1980, Norfolk, VA 23501, USA. sanforld@evms.edu
Yang
Linghui
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Wellman
Laurie L
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Liu
Xianling
X
Tang
Xiangdong
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D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D004597:Electroshock / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D004924:Escape Reaction; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology*; D005528:Foot; D046352:Freezing Reaction, Cataleptic; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011930:Reaction Time; D012890:Sleep; D012895:Sleep, REM; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014851:Wakefulness
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