Mild and Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury and Repeated Stress Affect Corticosterone in the Rat

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作者
Rowe, Rachel K. [1 ,3 ]
Ortiz, J. Bryce [1 ,2 ]
Thomas, Theresa Currier [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Phoenix Childrens Hosp, Barrow Neurol Inst, Phoenix, AZ USA
[2] Univ Arizona, Dept Child Hlth, Coll Med Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ USA
[3] Phoenix Vet Affairs Hlth Care Syst, Phoenix, AZ USA
来源
NEUROTRAUMA REPORTS | 2020年 / 1卷 / 01期
关键词
chronic; concussion; corticosterone; mild; moderate; stress; traumatic brain injury;
D O I
10.1089/neur.2020.0019
中图分类号
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors suffer from a range of morbidities, including post-traumatic endocrinopathies that can cause physical and mental changes in patients, greatly compromising quality of life. This study tested the hypothesis that mild and moderate diffuse TBI leads to chronic deficiencies in corticosterone (CORT) regulation following repeated exposure to restraint stress over time. Young adult male rats (n = 9-11/ group) were subjected to mild or moderate TBI induced by midline fluid percussion injury (mFPI) or control sham surgery. At 6 and 24 h post-injury, both mild and moderate TBI resulted in elevated resting plasma CORT levels compared with uninjured shams. Independent of TBI severity, all rats had lower resting plasma CORT levels at 7, 14, 28, and 54 days post-injury compared with pre-surgery baseline CORT. Circulating levels of CORT were also evaluated under restraint stress and in response to dexamethasone (DEX), a synthetic glucocorticoid. Independent of TBI severity, restraint stress elevated CORT at 30, 60, and 90 min post-stressor initiation at all post-injury time-points. A blunted CORT response to restraint stress was observed with lower CORT levels after restraint at 28 and 54 days compared with 7 days post-injury (DPI), indicative of habituation to the stressor. A high dose of DEX lowered CORT levels at 90 min post-restraint stress initiation compared with low-dose DEX, independent of TBI severity. These results support TBI-induced CORT dysregulation at acute time-points, but additional studies that investigate the onset and progression of endocrinopathies, controlling for habituation to repeated restraint stress, are needed to inform the diagnosis and treatment of such morbidities in TBI survivors.
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