Rats socially-reared and full fed learned an autoshaping task, showing less levels of fear-like behaviour than fasted or singly-reared rats

Laboratory Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 236-245

  Molina Hernández, Miguel ^a,b   Téllez Alcántara, N Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^b NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Fear like behaviour; Food restriction; Isolation rearing; Learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEAR; FEEDING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FASTING; FEAR; FECES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242688668     PISSN: 00236772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002367704323133619     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Badiani A, Oates MM, Day HE, Watson SJ, Akil H, Robinson TE (1998) Amphetamine-induced behavior, dopamine release, and c-fos mRNA expression: modulation by environmental novelty. Journal of Neuroscience 18, 10579-93
2. Beck KD, Luine VN (1999) Food deprivation modulates chronic stress effects on subject recognition in male rats: role of monoamines and amino acids. Brain Research 830, 56-71
3. Belanoff JK, Gross K, Yager A, Schatzberg AF (2001) Corticosteroids and cognition. Journal of Psychiatric Research 35, 127-45
4. Bell SM, Stewart RB, Thompson SC, Meisch RA (1997) Food-deprivation increases cocaine-induced conditioned place preference and locomotor activity in rats. Psychopharmacology 131, 1-8
5. Bello N, Lucas LR, Hajnal A (2002) Repeated sucrose access influences dopamine D2 receptor density in the striatum. NeuroReport 13, 1575-8
6. Bermúdez F, Mujica M, Prado RA (1986) Is cholinergic activity of the striatum involved in the acquisition of positively-motivated behaviors? Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 24, 715-19
7. Blanchard RJ, Hebert M, Sakai RR, McKittrick C, Henrie A, Yudko E, McEwen BS, Blanchard DC (1998) Chronic social stress: changes in behavioral and physiological indices of emotion. Aggressive Behavior 24, 307-21
8. Carlson JN, Herrick KF, Baird JL, Click SD (1987) Selective enhancement of dopamine utilization in the rat prefrontal cortex by food deprivation. Brain Research 400, 200-3
9. Cole JC, Rodgers RJ (1995) Ethological comparison of the effects of diazepam and acute/chronic imipramine on the behaviour of mice in the elevated plus-maze. Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 52, 473-8
10. Dallman MP, Akana SF, Strack AM, Hanson ES, Sebastian RJ (1995) The neural network that regulates energy balance is responsive to glucocorticoids and insulin and also regulates HPA axis responsivity at a site proximal to CRF neurons. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 771, 730-42
11. Feenstra MG, Botterblom MH (1996) Rapid sampling of extracellular dopamine in the rat prefrontal cortex during food consumption, handling and exposure to novelty. Brain Research 742, 17-24
12. File SE (1992) Behavioural detection of anxiolytic action. In: Experimental Approaches to Anxiety and Depression (Elliot JM, Heal DJ, Marsden CA, eds). London: Wiley, pp 25-44
13. Fernandes C, File SE (1996) The influence of open arms ledges and maze experience in the elevated plus-maze. Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 54, 31-40
14. Graeff FG, Silveira MCL, Nogueira RL, Audi EA, Oliveira RMW (1993) Role of the amygdala and periaqueductal gray in anxiety and panic. Behavioral Brain Research 58, 123-31
15. Hajnal A, Norgren R (2002) Repeated access to sucrose augments dopamine turnover in the nucleus accumbens. NeuroReport 13, 2213-16
16. Harfstrad A, Fuxe K, Cintra A, Agnati LF, Zini I, Wilkstrom AC, Okret S, Yu Z-Y, Goldstein M, Steinbush H, Verhofstad A, Gustafsson JA (1986) Glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity in monoaminergic neurons of rat brain. Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences USA 83, 9779-83
17. Hernández L, Hoebel BG (1998) Food reward and cocaine increase extracellular dopamine in the nucleus accumbens as measured by microdialysis. Life Sciences 42, 1705-12
18. Kalivas PW, Stewart J (1991) Dopamine transmission in the initiation and expression of drug- and stress-induced sensitization of motor activity. Brain Research Reviews 16, 223-44
19. Korneyev AY (1997) The role of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in memory-related effects on anxiolytics. Neurobiology Learning Memory 67, 1-13
20. Le Moal M, Simon H (1991) Mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic network: functional and regulatory roles. Physiology Reviews 71, 155-234
21. Leveille GA (1966) Glycogen metabolism in meal-fed rats and chicks and the time sequence of lipogenic and enzymatic adaptive changes. Journal of Nutrition 90, 449-60
22. Leveille GA (1967) In vivo fatty acid synthesis in adipose tissue and liver of meal-fed rats. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 125, 85-8
23. Lima FB, Hell NS, Timo-Laria C, Scivoletto R, Dolnikoff MS, Pupo AA (1981) Metabolic consequences of food restriction in rats. Physiology Behavior 27, 115-23
24. Merali Z, McIntosh J, Kent P, Michaud D, Anisman H (1998) Aversive and appetitive events evoke the release of corticotropin releasing hormone and bombesin-like peptides at the central nucleus of the amygdala. Journal of Neuroscience 18, 4758-66
25. McKnight KA, Rupp H, Beamish RE, Dhalla NS (1996) Modification of catecholamine-induced changes in heart function by food restriction in rats. Cardiovascular Drugs Therapy 1, 239-46
26. Mitchell JB, Gratton A (1992) Partial dopamine depletion of the prefrontal cortex leads to enhanced mesolimbic dopamine release by repeated exposure to naturally reinforcing stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience 12, 3609-18
27. Mitchell C, Flaherty C (1998) Temporal dynamics of corticosterone elevation successive negative contrast. Physiology & Behavior 64, 287-92
28. Molina M, Tellez P, Perez J (2001) Isolation rearing induced fear-like behavior without affecting learning abilities of Wistar rats. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry 25, 1111-23
29. Murphy HM, Wideman CH (1992) Vasopressin, corticosterone levels, and gastric ulcers during-food-restriction stress. Peptides 13, 373-6
30. National Institutes of Health (1986) Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. Washington, DC: National Academy Press
31. Nebendahl K (2000) Routes of administration. In: The Laboratory Rat (Krinke GJ, ed). San Diego: Academic Press, p 467
32. Oatley K, Tonge DA (1969) The effect of hunger on water intake in rats. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 21, 162-71
33. Pellow S, Chopin P, File SE, Briley M (1985) Validation of open:closed arm entries in an elevated plus-maze as a measure of anxiety in the rat. Journal of Neurosciences 14, 149-67
34. Piazza PV, Le Moal M (1996) Pathophysiological basis of vulnerability to drug use: interaction between stress, glucocorticoids, and dopaminergic neurons. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology 36, 359-78
35. Piazza PV, Le Moal M (1997) Glucocorticoids as a biological substrate of reward: physiological and pathophysiological implications. Brain Research Reviews 25, 359-72
36. Rodgers RJ, Johnson NJ (1995) Cholecystokinin and anxiety: promises and pitfalls. Critical Reviews in Neurobiology 9, 345-69
37. Sclafani A (1987) Carbohydrate taste, appetite, and obesity: an overview. Neurosciences Biobehavioral Reviews 11, 131-53
38. Stefanski V (2001) Effects of psychosocial stress or food restriction on body mass and blood cellular immunity in laboratory rats. Stress Health 17, 133-40
39. Suemaru S, Hashimoto K, Hattori T, Inoue H, Kageyama J, Ota Z (1986) Starvation-induced changes in rat brain corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and pituitary-adrenocortical response. Life Sciences 39, 1161-6
40. Talley C, Khan S, Alexander L, Gold P (2000) Epinephrine fails to enhance performance of food-deprived rats on a delayed spontaneous alternation task. Neurobiology Learning Memory 73, 79-86
41. Tomie A, Silberman Y, Williams K, Pohorecky LA (2002) Pavlovian autoshaping procedures increase plasma corticosterone levels in rats. Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 72, 507-13
42. Treit D, Menard J, Royan C (1993) Anxiogenic stimuli in the elevated plus-maze. Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 44, 463-9
43. Tropp J, Markus EJ (2001) Effects of mild food deprivation on the estrous cycle of rats. Physiology Behavior 73, 553-9
44. Van Erp A, Miczek K (2000) Aggressive behavior increased accumbal dopamine, and decreased cortical serotonin in rats. Journal of Neuroscience 20, 9320-5
45. Wallace M, Singer G, Finlay J, Gibson S (1983) The effect of 6-OHDA lesions of the nucleus accumbens septum on schedule-induced drinking, wheel-running and corticosterone levels in the rat. Pharmacology Biochemistry Behavior 18, 129-36
46. Weizman A, Bidder M, Fares F, Gavish M (1990) Food deprivation modulates γ-aminobutyric acid receptors and peripheral benzodiazepine binding sites in rats. Brain Research 535, 96-100
47. Yi I, Stephan FK (1998) The effects of food deprivation, nutritive and non-nutritive feeding and wheel running on gastric stress ulcers in rats. Physiology Behavior 63, 219-25
48. Yoshida M, Yokoo H, Mizoguchi K, Kawahara H, Tsuda A, Nichikawa T, Tanaka M (1992) Eating and drinking cause increased dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area in the rat: measurement by in vivo microdialysis. Neuroscience Letters 139, 73-6