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Acute Restraint Stress Evokes Anxiety-Like Behavior Mediated by Telencephalic Inactivation and GabAergic Dysfunction in Zebrafish Brains

2020; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/s41598-020-62077-w

2045-2322

Nadyme Assad, Waldo Lucas Luz, Nadyme Assad Holanda da Silva, Tayana Silva de Carvalho, Suellen Alessandra Soares de Moraes, D.L.W. Picanço-Diniz, Carlomagno Pacheco Bahia, Evander de Jesus Oliveira Batista, Adelaide da Conceição Fonseca Passos, Karen Renata Herculano Matos Oliveira, Anderson Manoel Herculano,

Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms

Abstract Acute stress is an important factor in the development of anxiety disorders. Zebrafish are an organism model widely used by studies that aim to describe the events in the brain that control stress-elicited anxiety. The goal of the current study was to evaluate the pattern of cell activation in the telencephalon of adult zebrafish and the role of the GABAergic system on the modulation of anxiety-like behavior evoked by acute restraint stress. Zebrafish that underwent acute restraint stress presented decreased expression of the c-fos protein in their telencephalon as well as a significant decrease in GABA release. The data also supports that decreased GABA levels in zebrafish brains have diminished the activation of GABAA receptors eliciting anxiety-like behavior. Taken together these findings have helped clarify a neurochemical pathway controlling anxiety-like behavior evoked by acute stress in zebrafish while also opening the possibility of new perspective opportunities to use zebrafish as an animal model to test anxyolitic drugs that target the GABAergic system.