Psychosocial stress and chronic ethanol ingestion in male rats: effects on elevated plus maze behavior and ultrasonic vocalizations

Physiology & Behavior
L A Pohorecky

Abstract

Psychosocial stress is known to enhance anxiety levels in rodents. The present study evaluated the effect of long-term ingestion of ethanol (EtOH) on anxiety levels of male Long Evans rats housed either singly or in triads (three/cage). Based on measures of offensive and defensive behaviors, triad-housed rats were designated as being dominant, subdominant or subordinate. The effect of chronic ingestion of a 6% EtOH solution was assessed on behaviors in the elevated plus maze (EPM) test, and on air-puffs elicited 22 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USV). EtOH naïve dominant rats showed less anxiogenic-like (open arms time) and displacement behavior (grooming), but more risk assessment behavior (stretch-attend postures) than their cage-mates or the single-housed rats. Intake of EtOH prior to the EPM test was lower in dominant and single-housed rats compared to subdominant and subordinate rats. Triad-housed rats, but not the single-housed rats, decreased their intake of EtOH after the EPM test. Overall, EtOH intake had an anxiolytic effect in all rats, but the effect was most prominent in single-housed rats. Furthermore, EtOH intake decreased air-puff induced USVs of triad-housed rats, but increased USVs of single-housed rats. These ...Continue Reading

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