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Leptin treatment during lactation programmes for leptin resistance at adulthood, evidenced by hyperleptinaemia, hyperphagia and overweight. Since leptin is known to affect stress response, emotional behaviour and memory/learning performance, the objective of the present study was to evaluate whether neonatal hyperleptinaemia programmes anxiety-like and novelty-seeking behaviours as well as memory/learning in adult male rats. During the first 10 days of lactation (from PN1 to PN10), pups were s.c. injected once per day with either 50 microL of saline (SAL) or murine leptin (LEP - 8 microg/100 g of body mass, saline diluted). Serum leptin was assessed at PN10 and at PN150. Two separate experiments were carried out: 1) experiment one: at PN137, 29 SAL and 30 LEP rats were tested in the elevated plus-maze (EPM) and, at PN142, their behaviour was assessed in the hole board (HB) arena; 2) experiment two: at PN140, a different group of rats consisting of 53 SAL and 56 LEP animals were tested in the radial arm water maze (RAWM). Serum leptin concentration was higher in the LEP group at PN10 and at PN150. LEP animals spent significantly less time in the open arms of the EPM. Furthermore, the number of nose-pokes in the HB arena was higher in LEP rats. There were no differences between groups regarding latency to find the hidden platform in the RAWM. Our results suggests that a central mechanism of leptin resistance at adulthood, caused by neonatal hyperleptinaemia, is associated with an increased level of anxiety and also that it intensifies novelty seeking-behaviour.
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PMID:Neonatal hyperleptinaemia programmes anxiety-like and novelty seeking behaviours but not memory/learning in adult rats. 1911 58

The most frequently used animal models of early weaning (EW) in rodents, maternal deprivation and pharmacological inhibition of lactation, present confounding factors, such as high stress or drug side effects, that can mask or interact with the effects of milk deprivation per se. Given these limitations, the development of new models of EW may provide useful information regarding the impact of a shortened period of breastfeeding on the endocrine and nervous systems, both during development and at adulthood. Using a model of EW in which lactating Wistar rat dams are wrapped with a bandage to block access to milk during the last three days of lactation, we have recently shown that the adult offspring presented higher body mass, hyperphagia, hyperleptinemia, leptin as well as insulin resistance, and higher adrenal catecholamine content at adulthood. Here, we used this EW model, which involves no pharmacological treatment or maternal separation, to analyze anxiety-like, novelty-seeking and memory/learning behavioral traits in the adult male offspring. To that end, animals were tested in the elevated plus maze, in the hole board arena and in the radial arm water maze. Except for an increased number of rearing events (a measure of vertical activity), no other behavioral differences were observed between EW and control animals. The contrasting behavioral results between the three EW models may be associated with differences in HPA axis function in the offspring at weaning, since it has been observed that bandaging does not affect corticosteronemia while maternal separation and pharmacological EW increase it.
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PMID:Anxiety-like, novelty-seeking and memory/learning behavioral traits in male Wistar rats submitted to early weaning. 2424 23