Cardiorespiratory pattern and awake-sleep state in male and female rats exposed to fluoxetine during prenatal period

• Grant number: 12/15298-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): April 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): March 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Physiology - General Physiology
• Principal Investigator: Luciane Helena Gargaglioni Batalhão
• Grantee: Vivian Biancardi Rossato
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 08/57712-4 - The National Institute of Comparative Physiological Research, AP.TEM

Abstract

Serotonin (5-HT) and noradrenaline (NE) are known to play critical roles in neurodevelopment, cardiorespiratory control and sleep-awake state and these roles may be sex-specific. 5-HT is involved in nervous maturational processes even at the fetal stage, being an important modulator of respiratory rhythm. The serotoninergic receptors 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A are found in the respiratory neurons and they play a key role in this process. Additionally, this receptors are related to hypercapnic and hypoxic responses. Early antidepressant exposure that inhibit serotonin re-uptake (SSRI) in male rats results in long-lasting behavioral effects as well as a reduction in expression of the 5-HT synthetic enzyme (tryptophan hydroxylase) in the raphe nuclei and of the 5-HT transporter (SERT) within their cortical efferent fibers. Such exposure to SSRI not only upregulates the 5-HT raphe system, but also downregulates the noradrenergic locus coeruleus (NE-LC) system since 5-HT inhibits LC function. Therefore, the goal of the present study is to evaluate the possible long-lasting effects of an exposure to SSRIs during a critical period of the development, prenatal period, on cardiorespiratory control system and sleep-awake state of male and female rats. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BIANCARDI, VIVIAN; PATRONE, LUIS GUSTAVO A.; VICENTE, MARIANE C.; MARQUES, DANUZIA A.; BICEGO, KENIA C.; FUNK, GREGORY D.; GARGAGLIONI, LUCIANE H.. Prenatal fluoxetine has long-lasting, differential effects on respiratory control in male and female rats. Journal of Applied Physiology, v. 133, n. 2, p. 19-pg., 2022-08-01. (12/19966-0, 20/01702-2, 12/15298-2)

SCARPELLINI, CAROLINA DA SILVEIRA; CRISTINA-SILVA, CAROLINE; BIANCARDI, VIVIAN; GARGAGLIONI, LUCIANE H.; ALMEIDA, MARIA CAMILA; BICEGO, KENIA CARDOSO. Hypothalamic TRPV4 channels participate in the medial preoptic activation of warmth-defence responses in Wistar male rats. PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY, v. 471, n. 9, p. 1191-1203, SEP 2019. (12/15298-2, 15/04849-6, 11/19131-2, 17/17278-2, 15/02991-0)