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Changes in c-Fos Expression in the Forced Swimming Test: Common and Distinct Modulation in Rat Brain by Desipramine and Citalopram

  • Choi, Sun Hye (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Chung, Sung (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Cho, Jin Hee (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Cho, Yun Ha (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Jin Wook (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Jeong Min (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Hee Jeong (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Hyun Ju (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine) ;
  • Shin, Kyung Ho (Department of Pharmacology, Korea University College of Medicine)
  • Received : 2013.04.22
  • Accepted : 2013.06.05
  • Published : 2013.08.30
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Abstract

Rodents exposed to a 15-min pretest swim in the forced swimming test (FST) exhibit prolonged immobility in a subsequent 5-min test swim, and antidepressant treatment before the test swim reduces immobility. At present, neuronal circuits recruited by antidepressant before the test swim remain unclear, and also less is known about whether antidepressants with different mechanisms of action could influence neural circuits differentially. To reveal the neural circuits associated with antidepressant effect in the FST, we injected desipramine or citalopram 0.5 h, 19 h, and 23 h after the pretest swim and observed changes in c-Fos expression in rats before the test swim, namely 24 h after the pretest swim. Desipramine treatment alone in the absence of pretest swim was without effect, whereas citalopram treatment alone significantly increased the number of c-Fos-like immunoreactive cells in the central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, where this pattern of increase appears to be maintained after the pretest swim. Both desipramine and citalopram treatment after the pretest swim significantly increased the number of c-Fos-like immunoreactive cells in the ventral lateral septum and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray before the test swim. These results suggest that citalopram may affect c-Fos expression in the central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis distinctively and raise the possibility that upregulation of c-Fos in the ventral lateral septum and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray before the test swim may be one of the probable common mechanisms underlying antidepressant effect in the FST.

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