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ArticleNeurotoxicology and teratology

Impact of preweaning stress on long-term neurobehavioral outcomes in Sprague-Dawley rats: Differential effects of barren cage rearing, pup isolation, and the combination.

Jenna L N Sprowles, Charles V Vorhees, Michael T Williams

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Article in Neurotoxicology and teratology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jenna L N SprowlesBeckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: sprowles@illinois.edu.
Charles V VorheesDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Electronic address: charles.vorhees@cchmc.org.
Michael T WilliamsDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA; Division of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Electronic address: Michael.williams@cchmc.org.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

TRAINING PROGRAM IN TERATOLOGYT32ES007051 · NIEHS · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI VORHEES, CHARLES V · 1985 to 2018
$4.1M
Effect of Lead, Manganese and Stress During DevelopmentR01ES015689 · NIEHS · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI WILLIAMS, MICHAEL T · 2006 to 2010
$1.8M
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES015689NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two developmental stressors were compared in preweaning rats exposed to either one stressor or both. Stressors were barren cage rearing or maternal separation (pup isolation). 40 gravid Sprague-Dawley CD/IGS rats were randomly assigned to two cage conditions: standard (Std) cage or barren cage (Bar), 20 litters/condition throughout gestation and lactation. After delivery, litters were randomly culled to 4 males and 4 females. The second stressor was maternal separation: Two male/female pairs per litter were isolated from their dam 4 h/day (Iso) and two pairs were not (Norm). Hence, there were 4 conditions: Std-Norm, Std-Iso, Bar-Norm, and Bar-Iso. One pair/litter/stress condition received the following: elevated zero-maze (EZM), open-field, swim channel, Cincinnati water maze, conditioned fear, and open-field with methamphetamine challenge. The second pair/litter/condition received the light-dark test, swim channel, Morris water maze, forced swim, and EZM with diazepam challenge. Barren rearing reduced EZM time-in-open, whereas isolation rearing reduced open-field activity in males and increased it in females. Effects on straight channel swimming were minor. In the Cincinnati water maze test of egocentric learning, isolation rearing increased errors whereas barren cage housing reduced errors in combination with normal rearing. Barren cage with maternal separation (pup isolation) increased Cincinnati water maze escape latency but not errors. Barren cage housing reduced hyperactivity in response to methamphetamine. Isolation rearing increased time in open in the EZM after diazepam challenge. Trends were seen in the Morris water maze. These suggested that barren cage and isolation rearing in combination reduced latency on acquisition on days 1 and 2 in males, whereas females had increased latency on days 2 and 3. Combined exposure to two developmental stressors did not induce additive or synergistic effects, however the data show that these stressors had long-term effects with some evidence that the combination of both caused effects when either stressor alone did not, but synergism was not observed.

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EnvironmentSocial IsolationAnimalsAnimals, NewbornAnxiety, SeparationBehavior, AnimalCentral Nervous System StimulantsFearFemaleGrowthMaleMaternal DeprivationMaze LearningMethamphetamineMotor ActivityRatsCentral Nervous System StimulantsMethamphetamineBarren cage stressDevelopmental stressMaternal separation stressNeurodevelopmental stressPreweaning stress in rats on learning and memoryStress and behavior

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PMID33524508
PMCPMC7965361
OpenAlexW3128208124

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