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Environmental enrichment reverses the effects of maternal separation on stress reactivity.

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Postnatal maternal separation increases hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) gene expression and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and behavioral responses to stress. We report here that environmental enrichment during the peripubertal period completely reverses the effects of maternal separation on both HPA and behavioral responses to stress, with no effect on CRF mRNA expression. We conclude that environmental enrichment leads to a functional reversal of the effects of maternal separation through compensation for, rather than reversal of, the neural effects of early life adversity


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Long-term effects of a single exposure to immobilization stress on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: transcriptional evidence for a progressive desensitization process.

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Abstract In the present work we have characterized the long-term influence of a single exposure to the stress of immobilization (IMO) on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis of adult rats. Rats without prior stress (control) and rats exposed to IMO for 2 h on day 1 (IMO+4wk) or on day 21 (IMO+1wk) were killed on day 28, either without stress (basal), immediately after IMO for 1 h (IMO), or 1 h after termination of IMO (post-IMO). IMO caused a strong activation of c-fos mRNA and corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and vasopressin (AVP) heteronuclear RNA (hnRNA) in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in control rats; this activation was essentially maintained in the post-IMO period. The overall AVP hnRNA response to day 28 stress was not affected by prior stress. Post-IMO c-fos mRNA and CRF hnRNA levels were lower in previously stressed rats, as compared with controls. Whereas the effect of prior IMO on both peripheral HPA hormones and c-fos mRNA was maximal in IMO+1wk rats, the effect of prior stress on CRF hnRNA was only observed in IMO+4wk rats. The present data indicate that prior single IMO triggers a process of desensitization of the HPA responsiveness to IMO over the course of the following weeks. Although the various components of the HPA axis were modified in the same direction, a clear temporal dissociation was found among them, revealing the fine tuning of stress-induced activation of the HPA axis


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Age-specific threats induce CRF expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and hippocampus of young rats.

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Young animals respond to threatening stimuli in an age-specific way. Their endocrine and behavioral responses reflect the potential threat of the situation at a given age. The aim of the present study was to determine whether corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is involved in the endocrine and behavioral responses to threat and their developmental changes in young rats. Preweaning 14-day-old and postweaning 26-day-old rats were exposed to two age-specific threats, cat odor and an adult male rat. The acute behavioral response was determined during exposure. After exposure, the time courses of the corticosterone response and of CRF expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) and in extrahypothalamic areas were assessed. Preweaning rats became immobile when exposed to cat odor or the male rat, whereas postweaning rats became immobile to cat odor only. Male exposure increased serum corticosterone levels in 14-day-old rats, but cat odor failed to increase levels at either age. Exposure induced elevation of CRF mRNA levels in the PVN that paralleled changes in corticosterone levels. CRF may thus play a role in endocrine regulation and its developmental changes during early life. Neither cat odor nor the adult male altered CRF mRNA levels in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) or the amygdala, but both stimuli increased levels in the hippocampus. Hippocampal CRF mRNA expression levels did not parallel cat odor or male-induced immobility, indicating that CRF is not involved in this response in young rats but may be involved in aspects of learning and memory. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved


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The differential expression of corticotropin releasing factor and its binding protein in the gerbil hippocampal complex following seizure.

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Considerable attention has been focused on the role of corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) as well as CRF-binding protein (CRF-BP) in neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases including epilepsy. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the temporal and spatial alteration of CRF and CRF-BP in the gerbil hippocampal complex in order to characterize the possible changes and associations with different sequelae of spontaneous seizure in these animals. CRF immunoreactivity was shown in the interneurons of the hippocampal complex at 30 min following seizure. Additionally, alteration of CRF-BP immunoreactivity was restricted to the entorhinal cortex after seizure. These results indicate some factors for consideration. First, in the gerbil hippocampal complex, the delayed increase of CRF immunoreactivity, in spite of its excitatory function, may attenuate seizure activity, but may not do so in epileptogenesis. Second, in contrast to the hippocampl complex, the increase in CRF-BP immunoreactivity in the entorhinal cortex following seizure may participate in feedback inhibitory modulation. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved

Corticotropin-releasing factor and cytokines: role in the stress response: Hans Selye symposium on neuroendocrinology and stress
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ISBN: 0897668162 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York NYAS

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Repeated neonatal maternal separation alters intravenous cocaine self-administration in adult rats.
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Behavioural responses to psychostimulant drugs can be profoundly affected by early environmental influences. The aim of this study was to describe the effects of repeated brief separations of rat pups from their dams during the early neonatal period on cocaine self-administration behaviour as adults. Lister hooded rats exposed to a repeated maternal separation procedure (REMS) showed altered acquisition and maintenance of cocaine self-administration as adults, the effects being dose and gender-dependent. Overall, the patterns of acquisition of self-administration across three doses of cocaine (0.05, 0.08 and 0.5 mg/injection) suggested a rightward shift in the acquisition dose-effect functions for the REMS animals relative to control animals. At 0.05 mg/injection, there was a retarded acquisition of cocaine self-administration in male and female neonatally separated rats. At 0.08 mg/injection there was a facilitated acquisition in female neonatally separated subjects. After establishment of stable self-administration of the training dose, in the same cohort of subjects, rightward and downward shifts in the cocaine self-administration dose-effect functions were determined for female and male REMS subjects, respectively, relative to their controls. The dose-effect function for both female groups was shifted to the left of that of the respective male groups, although the lighter body weights of the females meant that they administered a higher unit dose per unit body weight than the males. Whereas male REMS subjects tended to self-administer less cocaine than the controls at the dose eliciting maximal responding (0.03 mg/injection) and to make fewer lever responses overall at each dose tested, female REMS subjects self-administered significantly more cocaine than their respective controls at a dose of 0.03 mg/injection. There was no differential sensitivity to the rate-altering effects of the selective dopamine D-2 receptor antagonist, eticlopride, or to the selecti

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