SynthesisThe Journal of international medical research2022
Validity of chronic restraint stress for modeling anhedonic-like behavior in rodents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Reliability of sucrose preference testing following short or no food and water deprivation-a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of rat models of chronic unpredictable stress.Translational psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Investigation of Potential Therapeutic Effects of New Rapid-Acting Antidepressant Drugs (RAADs) Using Stress-Based Models of Depression.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Comparative Evaluation of Corticosterone Administration, Chronic Restraint Stress, and Their Combination for Depression-like Behavioral and Molecular Alterations in Mice: A Multi-Domain Assessment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- NADPH oxidase-1 suppression prolongs the antidepressant-like effect of ketamine.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- Physical restraint induces conditioned place aversion and region-specific c-Fos activation in mice.Neuroscience letters · 2026Article
- Physical restraint induces conditioned place aversion and region-specific c-Fos activation in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Immunity in Rodent Models of Stress.Biological psychiatry · 2026Review
- TM5441, a PAI-1 inhibitor, attenuates chronic stress-induced anxio-depressive-like behaviors by restoring the hippocampal PAI-1/tPA/BDNF axis.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Estrous cycle stage gates the effect of stress on reward learning.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Lévy statistics define anxiety and depression in mice subjected to chronic stress.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Electroacupuncture mitigates Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-induced depression-like behavior and neuroinflammation via BDNF and NF-κB pathway in mice.Animal cells and systems · 2026Article
- Computational modeling reveals cognitive processes in simple rodent depression tests.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
- Stress-Associated Changes in MiR-20b-3p as a Potential Predictor of Underlying Psychopathology in the Depressed Brain: Mechanistic Insights from a Rat Model of Chronic Restraint Stress.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Chronic Unpredictable Stress Impairs Social Behaviour in Adult Male Rats: Correlations with Dopamine and Serotonin Levels.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
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- Chronic Stress Disrupts Immune and Endocrine Axis, Inducing Persistent Behavioral Impairments in Male Rats: In Silico and In Vivo Insights.Neurochemical research · 2025Article
- Rodent chronic variable stress procedures: A disjunction between stress entity and impact on behaviour.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Pemafibrate treatment produces antidepressant-like effects in CUMS and CRS models through activation of hippocampal PPARα and BDNF signaling.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Ketamine Reverses Chronic Stress-Induced Behavioral Changes via the Expression of CaFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025Article
- Quercetin and Tranylcypromine Improve Memory, Behavioral Performance, and Cholinergic Function in Male Rats Subjected to Chronic Restraint Stress.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundChronic restraint stress (CRS) is widely used to recapitulate depression phenotypes in rodents but is frequently criticized for a perceived lack of efficacy. The aim of this study was to evaluate anhedonic-like behavior in the CRS model in rodents by performing a meta-analysis of studies that included sucrose preference tests.
methodsThis meta-analysis was conducted following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) recommendations. We comprehensively searched for eligible studies published before June 2021 in the PubMed, Embase, Medline, and Web of Science databases. We chose sucrose preference ratio as the indicative measure of anhedonia because it is a core symptom of depression in humans.
resultsOur pooled analysis included 34 articles with 57 studies and seven rodent species/strains and demonstrated decreased sucrose preference in the stress group compared with controls. The duration of CRS differentially affected the validity of anhedonic-like behavior in the models. Rats exhibited greater susceptibility to restraint stress than mice, demonstrating inter-species variability.
conclusionsOur meta-analysis of studies that used the CRS paradigm to evaluate anhedonic-like behavior in rodents was focused on a core symptom of depression (anhedonia) as the main endpoint of the model and identified species-dependent susceptibility to restraint stress.
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