Effect of electrolytic lesion of the median raphe nucleus on behavioral and physiological measures of stress.
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1999-12-01
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Andrade, T. G.
Silva, A. M.
Silva, C. L.
Graeff, F. G.
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The effect of electrolytic lesion of the median raphe nucleus was measured on behavioral and physiological parameters related to stress 24 h after the lesion. In of the elevated plus-maze the lesion decreased the percentage of open arm entries and tended to shorten the time spent on the open arms indicating an increase in anxiety. In contrast, the lesion markedly increased the time spent in the bright (aversive) compartment of the light-dark box and decrease in attempts to cross from the dark toward the bright compartment, an anxiolyic effect. With the exception of plasma prolactin level, which was lowered by the lesion, the physiological measures used in the present study indicate that the lesioned animals are under stress. Thus, death rate and weight loss after the surgery were higher in lesioned than in control animals. In addition, lesioned animals showed higher plasma corticosterone levels, a high incidence of gastric ulcers in the fundus and a depressed immune response to the mitogen concavaline A. These results highlight the importance of the median raphe nucleus in the regulation of stress and anxiety. They also show that behavioral and physiological measures of stress may be dissociated.
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concanavalin A, corticosteroid, prolactin, animal, animal behavior, anxiety, blood, injury, male, pathophysiology, physiology, raphe nucleus, rat, stomach ulcer, stress, weight reduction, Wistar rat, Adrenal Cortex Hormones, Animals, Anxiety, Behavior, Animal, Concanavalin A, Male, Prolactin, Raphe Nuclei, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Stomach Ulcer, Stress, Weight Loss
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Acta Physiologica Pharmacologica et Therapeutica Latinoamericana, v. 49, n. 4, p. 279-289, 1999.