title: Chronic, long-term social stress can cause decreased microtubule protein network activity and dynamics in cerebral cortex of male Wistar rats.
abstract: Social stress is viewed as a factor in the etiology of a variety of psychopathologies such as depression and anxiety. Animal models of social stress are well developed and widely used in studying clinical and physiological effects of stress. Stress is known to significantly affect learning and memory, and this effect strongly depends on the type of stress, its intensity, and duration. It has been demonstrated that chronic and acute stress conditions can change neuronal plasticity, characterized by retraction of apical dendrites, reduction in axonogenesis, and decreased neurogenesis. Various behavioral studies have also confirmed a decrease in learning and memory upon exposure of animals to long-term chronic stress. On the other hand, the close relationship between microtubule (MT) protein network and neuroplasticity controlling system suggests the possibility of MT protein alterations in high stressful conditions. In this work, we have studied the kinetics, activity, and dynamicity changes of MT proteins in the cerebral cortex of male Wistar rats that were subjected to social instability for 35 and 100 days. Our results indicate that MT protein network dynamicity and polymerization ability is decreased under long-term (100 days) social stress conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Ghazaleh
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Eskandari Sedighi
authors.forename: Gholam Hossein
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Riazi
authors.forename: Mohammad Reza
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Vaez Mahdavi
authors.forename: Tayebe
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cheraghi
authors.forename: Deyhim
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Atarod
authors.forename: Shahrbanoo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rafiei
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008868:Microtubule Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D008868:Microtubule Proteins
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