title: Continuous exposure to a novel stressor based on water aversion induces abnormal circadian locomotor rhythms and sleep-wake cycles in mice.
abstract: Psychological stressors prominently affect diurnal rhythms, including locomotor activity, sleep, blood pressure, and body temperature, in humans. Here, we found that a novel continuous stress imposed by the perpetual avoidance of water on a wheel (PAWW) affected several physiological diurnal rhythms in mice. One week of PAWW stress decayed robust circadian locomotor rhythmicity, while locomotor activity was evident even during the light period when the mice are normally asleep. Daytime activity was significantly upregulated, whereas nighttime activity was downregulated, resulting in a low amplitude of activity. Total daily activity gradually decreased with increasing exposure to PAWW stress. The mice could be exposed to PAWW stress for over 3 weeks without adaptation. Furthermore, continuous PAWW stress enhanced food intake, but decreased body weight and plasma leptin levels, indicating that sleep loss and PAWW stress altered the energy balance in these mice. The diurnal rhythm of corticosterone levels was not severely affected. The body temperature rhythm was diurnal in the stressed mice, but significantly dysregulated during the dark period. Plasma catecholamines were elevated in the stressed mice. Continuous PAWW stress reduced the duration of daytime sleep, especially during the first half of the light period, and increased nighttime sleepiness. Continuous PAWW stress also simultaneously obscured sleep/wake and locomotor activity rhythms compared with control mice. These sleep architecture phenotypes under stress are similar to those of patients with insomnia. The stressed mice could be entrained to the light/dark cycle, and when they were transferred to constant darkness, they exhibited a free-running circadian rhythm with a timing of activity onset predicted by the phase of their entrained rhythms. Circadian gene expression in the liver and muscle was unaltered, indicating that the peripheral clocks in these tissues remained intact.
authors: Biological Clock Research Group, Biomedical Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology-AIST, Tsukuba, Japan. k-miyazaki@aist.go.jp
authors: Koyomi
authors: K
authors: Miyazaki
authors: Nanako
authors: N
authors: Itoh
authors: Sumika
authors: S
authors: Ohyama
authors: Koji
authors: K
authors: Kadota
authors: Katsutaka
authors: K
authors: Oishi
mesh_terms: D056930:ARNTL Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000097:blood; D002940:Circadian Rhythm / Q000502:physiology*; D003345:Corticosterone / Q000097:blood; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D056950:Period Circadian Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020178:Sleep Disorders, Circadian Rhythm / Q000209:etiology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D056930:ARNTL Transcription Factors; C538961:Bmal1 protein, mouse; D002395:Catecholamines; D017931:DNA Primers; C513312:Per2 protein, mouse; D056950:Period Circadian Proteins; D014867:Water; D003345:Corticosterone
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