scholarly journals Effects of chronic stress on reinstatement of palatable food seeking: Sex differences and relationship to trait anxiety

2020 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 112900
Author(s):  
Kevin T. Ball ◽  
Olivia Best ◽  
Erin Hagan ◽  
Claire Pressimone ◽  
Lindsay Tosh
2008 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
M. Marinov ◽  
Z. Stoyanov ◽  
I. Boncheva ◽  
I. Vartanyan ◽  
T. Chernigovskaya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carley Dearing ◽  
Rachel Morano ◽  
Elaine Ptaskiewicz ◽  
Parinaz Mahbod ◽  
Jessie R Scheimann ◽  
...  

AbstractExposure to prolonged stress during adolescence taxes adaptive and homeostatic processes leading to deleterious behavioral and metabolic outcomes. Although previous pre-clinical studies found effects of early life stress on cognition and stress hormone reactivity, these studies largely focused on males. The purpose of the current study was to determine how biological sex shapes behavioral coping and metabolic health across the lifespan after chronic stress. We hypothesized that examining chronic stress-induced behavioral and endocrine outcomes would reveal sex differences in the biological basis of susceptibility. During the late adolescent period, male and female Sprague-Dawley rats experienced chronic variable stress (CVS). Following completion of CVS, all rats experienced a forced swim test (FST) followed 3 days later by a fasted glucose tolerance test (GTT). The FST was used to determine coping in response to a stressor. Endocrine metabolic function was evaluated in the GTT by measuring glucose and corticosterone, the primary rodent glucocorticoid. Animals then aged to 15 months when the FST and GTT were repeated. In young animals, chronically stressed females exhibited more passive coping and corticosterone release in the FST. Additionally, chronically stressed females had elevated corticosterone and impaired glucose clearance in the GTT. Aging affected all measurements as behavioral and endocrine outcomes were sex specific. Furthermore, regression analysis between hormonal and behavioral responses identified associations depending on sex and stress. Collectively, these data indicate female susceptibility to the effects of chronic stress during adolescence. Further, translational investigation of coping style and glucose homeostasis may identify biomarkers for stress-related disorders.


Neuroscience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 391 ◽  
pp. 104-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Shimamoto ◽  
Virginie Rappeneau ◽  
Havisha Munjal ◽  
Tonie Farris ◽  
Christopher Davis ◽  
...  

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (3-1) ◽  
pp. 935-943
Author(s):  
Attila Olah ◽  
Bertil TÖrestad ◽  
David Magnusson

The relationships between coping strategies (constructive, passive, and escape), on the one hand, and anxiety reactions and individuals’ frequency of experiences of anxiety, and situations’ rate of recurrence, and general anxiety-inducing effect on the other, were explored. The investigated factors and their associations were studied both as individual characteristics and situational properties. Data for boys and girls were treated separately. The results for individuals showed that both trait-anxiety and frequency of stressful experience were related positively to escape strategies and negatively to constructive solutions. For situations, general situational effect correlated positively with escape solutions and negatively with constructivity. Rate of recurrence was correlated positively with constructive strategies and negatively with escape solutions. No significant sex differences were found.


Author(s):  
Linnea R Freeman ◽  
Brandon S Bentzley ◽  
Morgan H James ◽  
Gary Aston-Jones

Abstract Background The prevalence of eating disorders, including binge eating disorder, is significantly higher in women. These findings are mirrored by preclinical studies, which indicate that female rats have a higher preference for palatable food and show greater binge-like eating compared with male rats. Methods Here, we describe a novel within-session behavioral-economic paradigm that allows for the simultaneous measurement of the intake at null cost (Q0) and normalized demand elasticity (α) of 3 types of palatable food (low fat, high fat, and chocolate sucrose pellets) via demand curve analysis. In light of evidence that the orexin (hypocretin) system is critically involved in reward and feeding behaviors, we also examined the role of orexin function in sex differences of economic demand for palatable foods. Results The novel within-session behavioral-economic approach revealed that female rats have higher intake (demand) than males for all palatable foods at low cost (normalized to body weight) but no difference in intake at higher prices, indicating sex-dependent differences in the hedonic, but not motivational, aspects of palatable food. Immediately following behavioral-economic testing, we observed more orexin-expressing neurons and Fos expression (measure of recent neural activation) in these neurons in female rats compared with male rats. Moreover, the orexin-1 receptor antagonist SB334867 reduced both low- and high-cost intake for palatable food in both male and female rats. Conclusions These findings provide evidence of higher demand at low prices for palatable food in females and indicate that these behavioral differences may be associated with sexual dimorphism in orexin system function.


2020 ◽  
Vol 213 ◽  
pp. 112730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Bodnar ◽  
Brianna Denyko ◽  
Paige Waenke ◽  
Kevin T. Ball

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 619-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
O Ghiglieri ◽  
C Gambarana ◽  
S Scheggi ◽  
A Tagliamonte ◽  
P Willner ◽  
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