Chronic fluoxetine differentially modulates the hippocampal microtubular and serotonergic system in grouped and isolation reared rats

Bianchi, Massimiliano, Fone, Kevin C. F., Shah, Ajit J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2350-6384, Atkins, Alan R., Dawson, Lee A., Heidbreder, Christian A., Hagan, Jim J. and Marsden, Charles A. (2009) Chronic fluoxetine differentially modulates the hippocampal microtubular and serotonergic system in grouped and isolation reared rats. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 19 (11) . pp. 778-790. ISSN 0924-977X [Article] (doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2009.06.005)

Abstract

Social isolation from weaning in rats produces behavioural and hippocampal structural changes at adulthood. Here, rats were group or isolation reared for eight-weeks. Following the initial four-week period of rearing, fluoxetine (10 mg/kg i.p.) was administered for 28 days. Changes in recognition memory, hippocampal monoamines, and cytoskeletal microtubules were investigated. Isolation-rearing for four- or eight-weeks produced recognition memory deficits that were not reversed by fluoxetine. Eight-weeks of isolation decreased α-tubulin acetylation (Acet-Tub) and the tyrosinated/detyrosinated α-tubulin ratio (Tyr/Glu-Tub), suggesting major alterations in microtubule dynamics and neuronal plasticity. In grouped rats, fluoxetine decreased Acet-Tub without changes in Tyr/Glu-Tub. In isolates, fluoxetine did not affect Acet-Tub but increased Tyr/Glu-Tub. Finally, fluoxetine altered serotonin metabolism in grouped, but not in isolated animals. Therefore, isolation-rearing changes the hippocampal responses of the serotonergic and microtubular system to fluoxetine. These findings show that early-life experience induces behavioural changes paralleled by alterations in cytoskeletal and neurochemical functions.

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