Oxidative Metabolism Alterations in the Emotional Brain of Anxiety-prone Rats

Overview

Journal Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2019 Jul 23

PMID 31330216

Citations 7

Authors

Chelsea R McCoy

Mohammad N Sabbagh

Jonathan P Huaman

Alicia M Pickrell

Sarah M Clinton

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Abstract

Mood disorders such as anxiety and depression are heterogeneous disorders with many sufferers unresponsive to current pharmacological treatments. Individual differences in temperament represent one factor that may underlie symptom heterogeneity, so understanding its biological underpinnings can help pave the way to personalized therapies and improved patient outcomes. The present study uses a rodent model of temperamental differences to examine whether individual differences in emotional behavior phenotypes correspond to altered limbic brain cellular metabolism, an indicator of neuronal activity. The model uses two selectively bred rat lines - high novelty responder rats (HRs) that show highly exploratory behavior in a novel environment, active coping style and resilience to chronic mild stress compared to low novelty responder rats (LRs), which are inhibited in novel environments, display passive coping style, and are susceptible to chronic stress. Utilizing transcriptome data from a prior study in adult HR/LR rats, we first show that a preponderance of genes differing in the HR vs. LR hippocampus and amygdala are involved in cellular metabolism. This led us to then ask if oxygen consumption was altered in isolated mitochondria of the hippocampus and amygdala of HR/LR rats; here we found increased oxygen consumption reserve capacity in LR amygdala. Our last experiment examined activity of cytochrome c oxidase (COX), an enzyme responsible for ATP production and correlate of metabolic activity, in several brain regions of HR/LR rats. We found that LRs displayed higher COX activity in the dentate gyrus, prefrontal cortex, and dorsal raphe compared to HRs, with no significant HR/LR difference in nuclei of the amygdala. Correlational analyses of COX activity across brain regions suggested divergent connectivity between the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, and dorsal raphe of HR vs. LR rats. Together these studies point to altered cellular metabolism in the limbic brain of LR/HR animals, which may reflect altered neural circuitry that drives their divergent behavioral profiles.

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