Publication: Sex and time-of-day impact on anxiety and passive avoidance memory strategies in mice
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Meseguer Henarejos, Ana Belén ; Bokonjic, Dubravko ; Morales-Delgado, Nicanor ; Caballero Bleda, María ; Alonso Fuentes, Antonia ; Popovic, Natalija ; Popovic Popovic, Miroljub
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Frontiers Media
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00068
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© 2020 The authors. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00068
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In humans, anxiety and cognitive processes are age, gender, and time of day dependent. The purpose of the present study was to assess whether the time of day and sex have an influence on anxiety and emotional memory in adult mice. Light-dark and passive avoidance (PA) tests were performed at the beginning and at the end of the light cycle, defined as Zeitgeber time (ZT) ZT0-2.5 and ZT9.5-12, respectively. A baseline difference in anxiety was not found, but on the 24 h retention trial of the PA test, females presented longer latencies to enter into the dark compartment at the ZT0-2.5 time point of the day. The data from the second test day (PA reversal trial) indicated that some animals associated the dark compartment with an aversive stimulus (shock), while others associated the aversive stimulus with crossing from one compartment to another. At the ZT9.5-12, female mice mainly related the aversive stimulus to transferring from one compartment to another, while male mice associated darkness with the aversive stimulus. There was a negative correlation between the frequency of light-dark transitions in the light-dark test and the PA latency on the 24 h retention trial in males tested at ZT0-2.5. The PA latency on the reversal and 24 h retention trials negatively correlated with a risk assessment behavior in male mice tested on ZT0-2.5 and ZT9.5-12, respectively. In conclusion, our data reveal that the impact of motor activity and risk assessment behavior on PA memory formation and applied behavioral strategies are time of day and sex dependent.
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 14, 2020, 68, pp. 1-10
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