Sensitization of stress-induced feeding in rats repeatedly exposed to brief restraint: the role of corticosterone

Brain Research
A BadianiJ Stewart

Abstract

Groups of male Wistar rats lived in cages capable of monitoring feeding and drinking continuously at 0.1-s intervals, 24 h per day. Intact animals were subjected to 20 min of restraint stress or to brief handling (Brief Pick-Up), daily or every third day, 6 h after the beginning of the 12-h light period. In both studies, food-intake increased in the first hour after restraint, peaking between 15 and 45 min. Smaller increases were seen following Brief Pick-Up. More interestingly, the amount of food eaten increased across test sessions, indicating sensitization of the response to stress. Drinking also increased following stress, occurring before feeding and diminishing after the first 15 min. In adrenalectomized animals implanted with slow-release pellets to replace basal diurnal levels of corticosterone (ADX animals), sensitization of the feeding response to restraint stress developed across test sessions, although in these animals, the acute increase in food-intake following restraint stress was attenuated. ADX animals subjected only to Brief Pick-Up showed no increases in food-intake. Daily injections of 3.0 mg/kg corticosterone given to such ADX animals were unable to mimic the effects of restraint on either food-intake or dr...Continue Reading

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