Febrile Seizures Cause Depression and Anxiogenic Behaviors in Ratsopen access
- Authors
- Yu, Yeon Hee; Kim, Seong-Wook; Im, Hyuna; Song, Yejin; Kim, Seo Jeong; Lee, Yu Ran; Kim, Gun Woo; Hwang, Changmin; Park, Dae-Kyoon; Kim, Duk-Soo
- Issue Date
- Oct-2022
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Keywords
- febrile seizure; emotional phenotypes; hippocampus; local field potentials; theta oscillations
- Citation
- Cells, v.11, no.20
- Journal Title
- Cells
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 20
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/21775
- DOI
- 10.3390/cells11203228
- ISSN
- 2073-4409
- Abstract
- Febrile seizure (FS) is a common type of seizure occurring in human during infancy and childhood. Although an epileptic seizure is associated with psychiatric disorders and comorbid diseases such as depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, sleep disorders, attention deficits, cognitive impairment, and migraine, the causal relationship between FS and psychiatric disorders is poorly understood. The objective of the current study was to investigate the relationship of FS occurrence in childhood with the pathogenesis of anxiety disorder and depression using an FS rat model. We induced febrile seizures in infantile rats (11 days postnatal) using a mercury vapor lamp. At 3 weeks and 12 weeks after FS induction, we examined behaviors and recorded local field potentials (LFPs) to assess anxiety and depression disorder. Interestingly, after FS induction in infantile rats, anxiogenic behaviors and depression-like phenotypes were found in both adult and juvenile FS rats. The analysis of LFPs revealed that 4-7 Hz hippocampal theta rhythm, a neural oscillatory marker for anxiety disorder, was significantly increased in FS rats compared with their wild-type littermates. Taken together, our findings suggest that FS occurrence in infants is causally related to increased levels of anxiety-related behaviors and depression-like symptoms in juvenile and adult rodents.
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