title: Short-term and long-term effects of repeated social defeat during adolescence or adulthood in female rats.
abstract: Accumulating evidence suggests that adolescence represents a sensitive period during which social stressors influence adult behavior and stress reactivity. However, relatively little is known about the impact of social stress in adolescence on behaviors or stress reactivity in females. In this study, we exposed adolescent or adult female rats to the repeated social stress of defeat for seven consecutive days. Repeated defeat resulted in distinctly different behavioral repertoires during defeat in adolescent compared to adult female rats. Adolescent females exhibited more play and avoidant behaviors and adult females exhibited more active and aggressive behaviors toward the resident female. Examination of the short-term effects of social defeat using the Porsolt forced swim test (FST) indicated that adolescents, regardless of their exposure to social defeat, showed increased time immobile and decreased time swimming compared to adults. Adolescent rats exposed to defeat also exhibited increased climbing compared to their age-matched naïve counterparts. These effects dissipated with age. Interestingly, no effects of defeat were observed in adult females, however, when these females were re-assessed in the FST 30 days after the end of defeat, we observed increased swimming at the expense of climbing. Using exposure to a novel restraint to assess stress reactivity, we found that stress during adolescence and adulthood led to lower basal adrenocorticotropic hormone concentrations and that both stressed and control adolescent groups exhibited a delay in recovery in adulthood compared to stressed and control adult groups. Fos protein analysis further suggested that cortical/thalamic structures serve as potential substrates that mediate these long-term impacts of stress during adolescence. Thus, repeated social stress during adolescence produces different patterns of effects as compared with repeated social stress during adulthood.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399, USA.
authors: E S
authors: ES
authors: Ver Hoeve
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Kelly
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Luz
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Ghanshani
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Bhatnagar
mesh_terms: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000097:blood; D000367:Age Factors; D000374:Aggression / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000097:blood* / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
keywords: ACTH; ANOVA; EDTA; FST; HPA; PFC; PVN; PVT; Porsolt forced swim test; TBS; adolescent; adrenocorticotropic hormone; analysis of variance; ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid; forced swim test; hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal; paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus; prefrontal cortex; resident intruder; restraint; social stress; tris-buffered salaine
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