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Cognitive impairment effects of early life stress in adolescents can be predicted with early biomarkers: Impacts of sex, experience, and cytokines

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Grassi-Oliveira, Rodrigo, Honeycutt, Jennifer A., Holland, Freedom H., Ganguly, Prabarna, Brenhouse, Heather C.·2016·Psychoneuroendocrinology

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Childhood adversity increases vulnerability to psychiatric disorders that emerge in adolescence, in a sex-dependent manner. Early adversity modeled in rodents with maternal separation (MS) affects cognition and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) circuitry. Humans and animals exposed to early life adversity also display heightened circulating inflammatory cytokines, however the predictive relationship of these early measures with later behavioral deficits is unknown. Here, male and female rats were exposed to MS or control rearing during the postnatal period (P2-21). Blood samples were taken at distinct developmental time points for analysis of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1β and the anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-4, and IL-10, followed by win-shift cognitive testing and analysis of mPFC parvalbumin (PVB) immunofluorescent interneurons in adolescence. Regression analyses were conducted to explore the relationship between early cytokines and adolescent behavioral measures. We observed sex- and age-dependent effects of MS on circulating cytokines. MS also yielded adolescent decreases in mPFC PVB and cognitive deficits, which were predicted by early cytokine expression in a sex- and experience-dependent manner. Taken together, the present data reveals that circulating cytokines and PVB levels are predictive of adolescent cognitive deficits, and therefore provide compelling evidence for a putative role of early biomarkers in mediating MS-induced behavioral dysfunction. Importantly, predictive relationships often depended on sex and on MS history, suggesting that early life experiences may yield individualistic mechanisms of vulnerability compared to the general population.

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Authors
Grassi-Oliveira, R., Honeycutt, J. A., Holland, F. H., Ganguly, P., & Brenhouse, H. C.
Affiliations
Northeastern University (US)
Corresponding author
Brenhouse, Heather C.
Venue
Psychoneuroendocrinology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-09
Volume
71
Pages
19-30
ISSN
0306-4530 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2343099858
Cited by
112
References
64
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FWCI
9.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Psychoneuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
NIMH (5R21MH097182-01)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Biological Psychiatry › Tryptophan and brain disorders
Keywords
early life stress, maternal separation, childhood adversity, serum cytokines, IL-1β, IL-10, IL-4, sex differences, parvalbumin interneurons, medial prefrontal cortex, biomarkers, rodent models
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Anxiety, Separation, Cognition Disorders, Female, Forecasting, Male, Maternal Deprivation, Sex Factors, Stress, Psychological, Biomarkers, Interleukin-4, Cytokines, Interleukin-10, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Prefrontal Cortex, Rats, Interleukin-1beta, Cognitive Dysfunction

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