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Long-term effects of pre-pubertal fluoxetine on behaviour and monoaminergic stress response in stress-sensitive rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2016

Nico Johan Badenhorst ,
Linda Brand ,
Brian Herbert Harvey ,
Susanna Maria Ellis  and
Christiaan Beyers Brink
Nico Johan Badenhorst
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Linda Brand
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Brian Herbert Harvey
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa MRC Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Susanna Maria Ellis
Affiliation:
Statistical Consultation Services, Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa
Christiaan Beyers Brink*
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
*
Christiaan B. Brink, Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, North-West University (PUK), Internal box 16, Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa. Tel: +27 0 18 299 2234; Fax: +27 18 299 2225; E-mail: Tiaan.Brink@nwu.ac.za
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Abstract

Objective

Although prescription rates of antidepressants for children and adolescents have increased, concerns have been raised regarding effects on neurodevelopment and long-term outcome. Using a genetic animal model of depression, this study investigated the long-term effects of pre-pubertal administration of fluoxetine (FLX) on depressive-like behaviour in early adulthood, as well as on central monoaminergic response to an acute stressor. We postulated that pre-pubertal FLX will have lasting effects on animal behaviour and monoaminergic stress responses in early adulthood.

Methods

Flinders sensitive line (FSL) rats received 10 mg/kg/day FLX subcutaneously from postnatal day 21 (PnD21) to PnD34 (pre-pubertal). Thereafter, following normal housing, rats were either subjected to locomotor testing and the forced swim test (FST) on PnD60 (early adulthood), or underwent surgery for microdialysis, followed on PnD60 by exposure to acute swim stress and measurement of stressor-induced changes in plasma corticosterone and pre-frontal cortical monoamine concentrations.

Results

Pre-pubertal FLX did not induce a late emergent effect on immobility in FSL rats on PnD60, whereas locomotor activity was significantly decreased. Acute swim stress on PnD60 significantly increased plasma corticosterone levels, and increased pre-frontal cortical norepinephrine (NE) and 5-hydroxyindole-3-acetic acid (5-HIAA) concentrations. Pre-pubertal FLX significantly blunted the pre-frontal cortical NE and 5-HIAA response following swim stress on PnD60. Baseline dopamine levels were significantly enhanced by pre-pubertal FLX, but no further changes were induced by swim stress.

Conclusion

Pre-pubertal FLX did not have lasting antidepressant-like behavioural effects in genetically susceptible, stress-sensitive FSL rats. However, such treatment reduced locomotor activity, abrogated noradrenergic and serotonergic stressor responses and elevated dopaminergic baseline levels in adulthood.

Keywords

animalantidepressive agentschildfluoxetinemodels

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Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 222 - 235
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