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Altering glutamate transmission in combination with an early post-natal stress to mimic schizophrenia in male
and female mice
F Menager, Solenn Percelay, T. Freret, M. Boulouard, Jean-Marie Billard, V.
Bouet
To cite this version:
F Menager, Solenn Percelay, T. Freret, M. Boulouard, Jean-Marie Billard, et al.. Altering glutamate transmission in combination with an early post-natal stress to mimic schizophrenia in male and female mice. Journée Normande de Recherche Biomédicale, Nov 2019, Caen, France. �hal-02363095�
Altering glutamate transmission in combination with an early post-natal stress to mimic schizophrenia in male and female mice
F. Menager, S. Percelay, T. Freret, M. Boulouard, JM. Billard, V. Bouet
Normandie Univ, UNICAEN, INSERM, COMETE, GIP CYCERON, 14000 Caen, France
Treatments: not efficient on negative and cognitive symptoms, multiple side-effects
Crucial need to refine treatments
Improving validity of animal models of schizophrenia
Combining genetic x environmental factors
Maternal separation PND9-24h
Ellenbroek et al., 1998; Bouet et al., 2011
Total Serine
racemase deletion
Coyle et al., 2018
x
Schizophrenia
1% population, onset 15-25 years
Multifactorial: genetic x environmental factors Symptoms: positive, negative, cognitive
Debilitating disease heavy costs
Behavioural testing
Anxiety-like behavior
Short and long-term memory
Social behavior
Sensory-motor gating C57Bl6 male and female mice
Altered glutamate transmission:
Serine racemase KO mice SRKO Early stress:
Maternal separation MS
SR KO
Locomotor activity in all experiments
Place recognition
Social recognition
Place recognition
Prepulse Inhibition
Maternal separation SR KO
Activity
Social recognition in male mice
Working memory in female mice
PPI in female mice
Anxiety-related behavior
Place recognition performances
Object recognition performances in female mice
Neophobia in males
Maternal separation
1-hit SR
1-hit MS
2-hit
5 min
Short-term memory Spontaneous alternation
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# univariate t-test >50% n=10-16
MSxSR combination induced working memory deficit in female but not in male mice
2h
20s / 10min 20s / 10min
Object recognition memory
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Place recognition memory
Object recognition: MSxSR combination altered performances in female mice
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Control MS SR MSxSR Control MS SR MSxSR
Male Female
# Alternation percentage
Time on novel object Discrimination index [(New-Fam)/(New+Fam)]
# univariate t-test >10 n=10-16
Social behavior
Sociability: 10min Social recognition: 10min
Index (mouse vs empty) Index (novel vs familiar mouse)
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# univariate t-test >0 n=10-16
Sensorimotor gating
pulse prepulse + pulse
Weight (g)
Inhibition 0%
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Control MS SR MSxSR Control MS SR MSxSR
Male Female
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MS decreased PPI in female mice
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Summary of the results
2-hit animal models gathers several deficits considered as hallmarks of schizophrenia.
Serine racemase deletion induces an increase in activity, promotes social memory troubles, and contributes to a higher sensitivity to maternal separation.
Maternal separation mostly contributes to sensorimotor gating deficits.
2-hit model differentially affect males and females.
Because some deficits (working memory, object recognition, social recognition) appears only in 2-hit mice, combining factors may help in improving validity of animal models of schizophrenia.
Moreover, combining factors reveals differences between males and females, probably accounting for gender vulnerability/resilience differences.
Place recognition: MSxSR combination altered performances in male mice
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Control MS SR MSxSR Control MS SR MSxSR
Male Female
-1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Control MS SR MSxSR Control MS SR MSxSR
Male Female
SR and MSxSR alter social recognition in male mice
5 min 2 min
Inhibition of startle reflex
1h
* p<0,05 : Test U de Mann-Whitney n=10-16
# univariate t-test ≠ 0 n=10-16
