The inhibition of septal Cdk5 blocks enhanced anxiety induced by prior stress26.
It also decreased time in and entries into the open arms of the elevated plus maze compared to handled controls, suggesting enhanced anxiety-related behavior.
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Behavioral analyses revealed that FSM mice exhibited enhanced anxiety compared to wild-type littermates, while ACM4 mice showed reduced anxiety.
In order to confirm that GluR5−/− mice exhibit enhanced anxiety levels, we conducted a second behavioral test for anxiety, the light/dark exploration test.
Moreover, compared to 1 trial, 36 trials of footshock in these transgenic mice enhanced anxiety-like behavior in other behavioral tests, impaired spatial and recognition memories, and prolonged the activation of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and glucocorticoids (CORT) following new acute stress.
Since the enhanced anxiety-like behavior (Fig. 4), together with the impaired memory (Fig. 5), was also observed in tg mice following the extensive stress in other behavioral paradigms, it is reasonable to consider that the enhanced fear response in tg mice is not due to enhanced fear memory by a sensitization mechanism.
In a study where prenatal exposure to LPS was investigated, enhanced anxiety using open field and EPM was detected.
Conditional genetic loss of function of the forebrain serotonin type 1A (5-HT1A) receptor restricted to postnatal life evokes enhanced anxiety in adulthood (30).
Similarly, Harvey et al. used a modified SPS-re-stress paradigm to exhibit enhanced anxiety-related behavior by re-stressing rats with re-exposure to the forced swim component of SPS [ 44].
Therefore, chronically stressed rats may have had enhanced anxiety and hyperactivity of the HPA axis at the same time as they were subjected to new stressors like the EPM and swimming in a water maze.
