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MDMA administration attenuates hippocampal IL-β immunoreactivity and subsequent stress-enhanced fear learning: An animal model of PTSD
| العنوان: | MDMA administration attenuates hippocampal IL-β immunoreactivity and subsequent stress-enhanced fear learning: An animal model of PTSD |
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| المؤلفون: | Shveta V. Parekh, Lydia O. Adams, Gillian A. Barkell, Donald T. Lysle |
| المصدر: | Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, Vol 26, Iss , Pp 100542- (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL), Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), Hippocampus, Cytokine, Microglia, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571 |
| الوصف: | Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a devastating disorder that involves maladaptive changes in immune status. Using the stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL) paradigm, an animal model of PTSD, our laboratory has demonstrated increased pro-inflammatory cytokine immunoreactivity in the hippocampus following severe stress. Recent clinical trials have demonstrated 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted psychotherapy as an effective novel treatment for PTSD. Interestingly, MDMA has been shown to have an immunosuppressive effect in both pre-clinical and clinical studies. Therefore, we predict MDMA administration may attenuate SEFL, in part, due to an immunosuppressive mechanism. The current studies test the hypothesis that MDMA is capable of attenuating SEFL and inducing alterations in expression of TNF-α, IL-1β, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), an astrocyte specific marker, and ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule −1 (IBA-1), a microglial specific marker, in the dorsal hippocampus (DH) following a severe stressor in male animals. To this end, experiment 1 determined the effect of MDMA administration 0, 24, and 48 h following a severe foot shock stressor on SEFL. We identified that MDMA administration significantly attenuated SEFL. Subsequently, experiment 2 determined the effect of MDMA administration following a severe stressor on the expression of TNF-α, IL-1β, GFAP, and IBA-1 in the DH. We found that MDMA administration significantly attenuated stress-induced IL-1β and stress-reduced IBA-1 but had no effect on TNF-α or GFAP. Overall, these results support the hypothesis that MDMA blocks SEFL through an immunosuppressive mechanism and supports the use of MDMA as a potential therapeutic agent for those experiencing this disorder. Together, these experiments are the first to examine the effect of MDMA in the SEFL model and these data contribute significantly towards the clinical PTSD findings. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2666-3546 34957685 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666354622001326; https://doaj.org/toc/2666-3546 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100542 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/afc34957685844608a86d8b936259dce |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.fc34957685844608a86d8b936259dce |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100542 |