Loss of CREBRF Reduces Anxiety-like Behaviors and Circulating Glucocorticoids in Male and Female Mice

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Glucocorticoid signaling controls many key biological functions ranging from stress responses to affective states. The putative transcriptional coregulator CREB3 regulatory factor (CREBRF) reduces glucocorticoid receptor levels in vitro, suggesting that CREBRF may impact behavioral and physiological outputs. In the present study, we examined adult male and female mice with global loss of CREBRF (CrebrfKO) for anxiety-like behaviors and circulating glucocorticoids in response to various acute stress conditions. Results demonstrate that both male and female CrebrfKO mice have preserved locomotor activity but reduced anxiety-like behaviors during the light-dark box and elevated plus maze. These behavioral phenotypes were associated with lower plasma corticosterone after restraint stress. Further studies using unhandled female mice also demonstrated a loss of the diurnal circulating corticosterone rhythm in CrebrfKO mice. These results suggest that CREBRF impacts anxiety-like behavior and circulating glucocorticoids in response to acute stressors and serves as a basis for future mechanistic studies to define the impact of CREBRF in glucocorticoid-associated behavioral and physiological responses.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:161

Enthalten in:

Endocrinology - 161(2020), 11 vom: 01. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Frahm, Krystle A [VerfasserIn]
Williams, Akeem A [VerfasserIn]
Wood, Ashlee N [VerfasserIn]
Ewing, Michael C [VerfasserIn]
Mattila, Polly E [VerfasserIn]
Chuan, Byron W [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Lanping [VerfasserIn]
Shah, Faraaz A [VerfasserIn]
O'Donnell, Christopher P [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Ray [VerfasserIn]
DeFranco, Donald B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anxiety-like behavior
CREBRF
Corticosterone
DNA-Binding Proteins
Glucocorticoid receptor
Glucocorticoids
HPA axis
Journal Article
LRF CREB3 recruitment factor, mouse
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Restraint stress
W980KJ009P

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Date Completed 29.01.2021

Date Revised 27.08.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1210/endocr/bqaa163

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NLM314744452