Fluoxetine and aripiprazole treatment following prenatal immune activation exert longstanding effects on rat locomotor response.
Fluoxetine and aripiprazole treatment following prenatal immune activation exert longstanding effects on rat locomotor response.
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产前免疫激活后的氟西汀和阿立哌唑治疗对大鼠运动反应产生长期影响。
DOI:
10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.02.004
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
McNamara,RobertK
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作者:
Richtand,NeilM;Ahlbrand,Rebecca;Horn,Paul;Tambyraja,Rabindra;Grainger,Molly;Bronson,StefanieL;McNamara,RobertK
AIMStudies characterizing treatment interventions in a naturalistic setting suggest that antidepressant and antipsychotic medications may be equally effective in improving clinical outcome in individuals at high risk for first-episode psychosis. Of interest, both beneficial as well as potentially adverse effects have been observed following fluoxetine treatment in a mouse prenatal immune activation model of relevance to psychosis prevention. We sought to extend those findings by examining the effects of fluoxetine, as well as the antipsychotic medication aripiprazole, in a rat prenatal immune activation model.METHODSPregnant Sprague–Dawley rats were injected with poly I:C or saline on gestational day 14. Offspring of poly I:C and saline-treated dams received fluoxetine (10.0mg/kg/d), aripiprazole (0.66mg/kg/d), or vehicle from postnatal days 35 to 70. Locomotor responses to novelty, saline injection, and amphetamine (1 and 5mg/kg) were determined at three months, i.e., 21days following drug discontinuation.RESULTSBoth fluoxetine and aripiprazole had beneficial effects on behavioral response to amphetamine (1mg/kg) at 3months, ameliorating the impact of prenatal immune activation on offspring of poly I:C-treated dams. Significantly, both drugs also exerted effects in offspring of control (saline-treated) dams on locomotor response to injection.CONCLUSIONSFluoxetine and aripiprazole pretreatment of poly I:C offspring from postnatal days 35 to 70 stabilized response to amphetamine exposure persisting through 3months of age, similar to earlier findings in mice that fluoxetine treatment following prenatal immune activation prevented altered locomotor response to amphetamine. The current data also confirm earlier findings of potential adverse behavioral effects in offspring of control dams following treatment with fluoxetine and antipsychotic medications, highlighting the potential for both therapeutic as well as safety concerns with exposure to preventive pharmacological treatments over the course of adolescent development. Further study is needed to determine clinical and epidemiological consequences of these pre-clinical findings.