Abstract
To elucidate the pathophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the establishment of an appropriate animal model is necessary. In a series of studies, the authors validated single prolonged stress (SPS) as a model for PTSD. SPS-treated rats mimic the pathophysiological abnormalities and behavioral characteristics of PTSD, such as enhanced anxiety-like behavior, glucocorticoid negative feedback, and analgesia. In addition, the authors demonstrated enhanced freezing in response to contextual fear conditioning, and impaired extinction of fear memory, which was alleviated by D-cycloserine (DCS). In parallel, there was a decrease in extracellular glycine mediated by an increase in glycine transporter 1 in the hippocampus of SPS-treated rats after fear conditioning, which suggested that activation of N-methyl-D-asparate receptor by DCS during fear extinction training might alleviate the impaired fear extinction. This chapter summarizes PTSD-like symptoms in SPS and evaluates the validity of SPS as an animal model of PTSD.
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