Modeling psychiatric comorbid symptoms of epileptic seizures in zebrafish

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Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. Anxiety, cognitive deficits, depressive-like symptoms, and social dysfunction are psychiatric comorbidities with high prevalence in epileptic patients. Due to the genetic and behavioral tractability, the zebrafish is a promising model organism to understand the neural bases involved in epilepsy-related comorbidities. Here, we aimed to characterize some behavioral phenotypes paralleling those observed in epilepsy-related comorbidities after a single pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) exposure in zebrafish. We also analyzed the influence of whole-body cortisol levels in the behavioral responses measured. Fish were exposed to 10 mM PTZ for 20 min to induce epileptic seizures. After 24 h recovery period, locomotion and anxiety-like responses (novel tank and light-dark tests), social interaction (shoaling behavior task), and memory retention (inhibitory avoidance protocol) were assessed. Basically, PTZ impaired habituation to novelty stress, evoked anxiogenic-like behaviors, disrupted shoaling, and caused memory consolidation deficits in zebrafish without changing whole-body cortisol levels. In conclusion, our novel findings further validate the use of zebrafish as a suitable tool for modeling epilepsy-related comorbidities in translational neuropsychiatric research.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:119

Enthalten in:

Journal of psychiatric research - 119(2019) vom: 27. Dez., Seite 14-22

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Canzian, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Müller, Talise E [VerfasserIn]
Franscescon, Francini [VerfasserIn]
Michelotti, Paula [VerfasserIn]
Fontana, Barbara D [VerfasserIn]
Costa, Fabiano V [VerfasserIn]
Rosemberg, Denis B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anxiety
Epilepsy-related comorbidities
Exploratory activity
GABA Antagonists
Journal Article
Memory deficits
Pentylenetetrazole
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Social behavior
WM5Z385K7T
Zebrafish

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Date Completed 14.09.2020

Date Revised 14.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.09.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301506825