Article ; Online: Panicolytic-like effects of environment enrichment on male mice threatened by Bothrops jararaca lancehead pit vipers.
Journal of neuroscience research
2024 Volume 102, Issue 2, Page(s) e25300
Abstract: Environment enrichment (EE) is a well-known eustress model showing beneficial effects in different psychiatric diseases, but its positive properties in panic disorders are not yet established. The confrontation between prey and predator in complex arenas ...
Abstract | Environment enrichment (EE) is a well-known eustress model showing beneficial effects in different psychiatric diseases, but its positive properties in panic disorders are not yet established. The confrontation between prey and predator in complex arenas has been validated as a putative panic attack model. The principal aim of this work was to investigate the role of the EE on panic-like defensive responses elicited by mice threatened by venomous snakes. After 6 weeks of exposure either to an enriched or standard environments, 36 male mice were habituated in a complex polygonal arena for snakes containing an artificial burrow and elevated platforms for escape. The animals were confronted by Bothrops jararaca for 5 min, and the following antipredatory responses were recorded: defensive attention, stretched attend posture, flat back approach, prey versus predator interaction, oriented escape behavior, time spent in a safe place, and number of crossings. Mice threatened by snakes displayed several antipredatory reactions as compared to the exploratory behavior of those animals submitted to a nonthreatening situation (toy snake) in the same environment. Notably, EE causes anxiolytic- and panicolytic-like effects significantly decreasing the defensive attention and time spent in safe places and significantly increasing both prey versus predator interaction and exploratory behavior. In conclusion, our data demonstrate that EE can alter the processing of fear modulation regarding both anxiety- and panic-like responses in a dangerous condition, significantly modifying the decision-making defensive strategy. |
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MeSH term(s) | Mice ; Male ; Animals ; Bothrops jararaca ; Crotalinae ; Panic Disorder ; Fear ; Panic/physiology |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-02-15 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 195324-2 |
ISSN | 1097-4547 ; 0360-4012 |
ISSN (online) | 1097-4547 |
ISSN | 0360-4012 |
DOI | 10.1002/jnr.25300 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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