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Changes in proinflammatory cytokines and white matter in chronically stressed rats

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Changes in proinflammatory cytokines and white matter in chronically stressed rats
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, March 2015
DOI 10.2147/ndt.s78131
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Ping Yang, Zhenyong Gao, Handi Zhang, Zeman Fang, Cairu Wu, Haiyun Xu, Qing-Jun Huang

Abstract

Although the pathogenesis of depression, an incapacitating psychiatric ailment, remains largely unknown, previous human and animal studies have suggested that both proinflammatory cytokines and altered oligodendrocytes play important roles in the condition. This study examined these two factors in the brains of rats following unpredictable chronic mild stress for 4 weeks, with the hypothesis that chronic stress may affect oligodendrocytes and elevate proinflammatory cytokines in the brain. After suffering unpredictable stressors for 4 weeks, the rats showed depression-like behaviors, including decreased locomotion in the open field, increased immobility time in the forced swim test, and decreased sucrose consumption and less sucrose preference when compared with controls. Immunohistochemical staining of brain sections showed higher immunoreactivity of proinflammatory cytokines in certain brain regions of stressed rats compared with controls; lower immunoreactivity of myelin basic protein and fewer mature oligodendrocytes were seen in the prefrontal cortex, but no demyelination was detected. These results are interpreted and discussed in the context of recent findings from human and animal studies.

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United States 1 2%
Unknown 59 98%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 25%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Other 14 23%
Unknown 11 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 16 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 15%
Psychology 6 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 5%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 14 23%
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