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Thiamine and benfotiamine counteract stress-induced aggression, normalize AMPA receptor expression and plasticity markers, and reduce oxidative stress in mice
Gorlova, Anna; Pavlov, Dmitrii; Anthony, Daniel C et al.
2019In Neuropharmacology, 156, p. 107543
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Keywords :
Aggression; emotional stress; brain oxidative stress; plasticity; thiamine; mice
Abstract :
[en] The negative societal impacts associated with the increasing prevalence of violence and aggression is increasing, and, with this rise, is the need to understand the molecular and cellular changes that underpin ultrasound-induced aggressive behavior. In mice, stress-induced aggression is known to alter AMPA receptor subunit expression, plasticity markers, and oxidative stress within the brain. Here, we induced aggression in BALB/c mice using chronic ultrasound exposure and examined the impact of the psychoactive anti-oxidant compounds thiamine (vitamin B1), and its derivative benfotiamine, on AMPA receptor subunit expression, established plasticity markers, and oxidative stress. The administration of thiamine or benfotiamine (200 mg/kg/day) in drinking water decreased aggressive behavior following 3-weeks of ultrasound exposure and benfotiamine, reduced floating behavior in the swim test. The vehicle-treated ultrasound-exposed mice exhibited increases in protein carbonyl and total glutathione, altered AMPA receptor subunits expression, and decreased expression of plasticity markers. These ultrasound-induced effects were ameliorated by thiamine and benfotiamine treatment; in particular both antioxidants were able to reverse ultrasound-induced changes in GluA1 and GluA2 subunit expression, and, within the prefrontal cortex, significantly reversed the changes in protein carbonyl and polysialylated form of neural cell adhesion molecule (PSA-NCAM) expression levels. Benfotiamine was usually more efficacious than thiamine. Thus, the thiamine compounds were able to counteract ultrasound-induced aggression, which was accompanied by the normalization of markers that have been showed to be associated with ultrasound-induced aggression. These commonly used, orally-active compounds may have considerable potential for use in the control of aggression within the community.
Research center :
Giga-Neurosciences - ULiège
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Gorlova, Anna
Pavlov, Dmitrii
Anthony, Daniel C
Ponomarev, Evgeny
Sambon, Margaux ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biochimie et physiologie humaine et pathologique
Shafarevich, Igor
Babaevskaya, Diana
Proshin, Andrey
Lesch, Klaus-Peter
Bettendorff, Lucien  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences biomédicales et précliniques > Biochimie et physiologie humaine et pathologique
Strekalova, Tatyana
Language :
English
Title :
Thiamine and benfotiamine counteract stress-induced aggression, normalize AMPA receptor expression and plasticity markers, and reduce oxidative stress in mice
Publication date :
2019
Journal title :
Neuropharmacology
ISSN :
0028-3908
eISSN :
1873-7064
Publisher :
Elsevier, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
156
Pages :
107543
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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