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Behavioral and neurochemical changes induced by post-weaning female rats isolation

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Pharmacology and toxicology

Abstract

Rodents post-weaning isolation could be considered a significant early-life model of chronic stress. The aim of our study was to investigate the effects of female rats post-weaning isolation on different behavioral tests and neurochemical parameters. On postnatal day 21, female pups were housed either isolated or socially in groups (4/cage) for 6 weeks. After the 6th week adult female rats were behaviorally examined using open field test, three chamber social interaction test, hole board test and condition avoidance test. In addition, hippocampal content of neurotransmitters, oxidative stress and inflammatory markers were measured. Isolated female rats exhibited behavioral changes, female rats shows a significant increase in anxiety and a significant decrease in locomotor activity in comparison to the control group using open field test . Moreover, female rats isolation promoted a significant decrease in sociality index as compared to control groups. Finally, female rats post-weaning isolation of invoked a significant impairment in long-term and short-term memory evaluated by both conditioned avoidance and hole board tests, in comparison to the control group. Furthermore, female rats post- weaning isolation induced oxidative stress, inflammation, and neurotransmitter alterations. Collectively female rats post weaning isolation had significantly prompted both behavioral and neurochemical changes which could represent the essential important symptoms of schizophrenia.

DOI

10.21608/aijpms.2021.63448.1049

Keywords

isolation, Dopamine, Hippocampus, Oxidative stress markers, inflammatory markers

Authors

First Name

Aya

Last Name

Galal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Cardiac Surgery Hospital, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ayagalal2010@gmail.com

City

cairo

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First Name

wessam

Last Name

El-bakly

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Affiliation

Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

w_bakly@yahoo.com

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-

First Name

Azza

Last Name

Ali

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-

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Al-Azhar university, Cairo, Egypt

Email

azzamoro@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ebtehal

Last Name

El-demerdash

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-

Affiliation

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ebtehal_dm@yahoo.co

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-

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Volume

1

Article Issue

2

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25720

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-02-16

Publish Date

2021-06-01

Page Start

49

Page End

57

Print ISSN

2735-4598

Online ISSN

2735-4601

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https://aijpms.journals.ekb.eg/article_175295.html

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1,562

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Azhar International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences

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https://aijpms.journals.ekb.eg/

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Behavioral and neurochemical changes induced by post-weaning female rats isolation

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Created At

23 Jan 2023