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Combined corticosterone treatment and chronic restraint stress lead to depression associated with early cognitive deficits in mice

Authors: Gwladys Temkou Ngoupaye, Francis Bray Yassi, Doriane Amanda Nguepi Bahane, Elisabeth Ngo Bum

Published in: Metabolic Brain Disease | Issue 2/2018

Abstract

Many models, such as chronic mild stress, chronic stress or chronic corticosterone injections are used to induce depression associated with cognitive deficits. However, the induction period in these different models is still long and face constraints when it is short such as in the chronic mild stress done in a minimum period of 21 days. This study aimed to characterize a model of depression with early onset cognitive deficit. 14 days combined chronic injection of corticosterone followed by 2 h restraint stress using a restrainer was used to induce depression with early cognitive deficit onset. The forced swim test, sucrose test and plasma corticosterone concentration were used to assess depression-like characteristics. The Morris water maze, novel object recognition task, as well as hippocampal acetylcholinesterase activity were used to assess cognitive deficit. The combined corticosterone injection + chronic restraint stress group presented with marked depression-like behaviour and a higher plasma corticosterone concentration compared to corticosterone injection alone and restraint stress alone. It also showed an alteration in the learning process, memory deficit as well as increased acetylcholinesterase activity compared to corticosterone injection and restraint stress alone groups. These findings suggest that the combined corticosterone administration and chronic restraint stress can be used not only as an animal model for severe depression, but also for depression with early onset cognitive deficit.

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Title: Combined corticosterone treatment and chronic restraint stress lead to depression associated with early cognitive deficits in mice
Authors: Gwladys Temkou Ngoupaye
Francis Bray Yassi
Doriane Amanda Nguepi Bahane
Elisabeth Ngo Bum
Publication date: 01-04-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Metabolic Brain Disease / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 0885-7490
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7365
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11011-017-0148-4

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