Title :

Does physical activity associated with chronic food restriction alleviate anxiety like behaviour, in female mice?

Author(s) :

Duriez, Philibert [Auteur]
Institut de psychiatrie et neurosciences de Paris [IPNP - U1266 Inserm]
Eddarkaoui, Sabiha [Auteur]
Lille Neurosciences & Cognition (LilNCog) - U 1172
Blum, David [Auteur]
Lille Neurosciences & Cognition (LilNCog) - U 1172
Dickson, Suzanne L [Auteur]

Gorwood, Philip [Auteur]
Institut de psychiatrie et neurosciences de Paris [IPNP - U1266 Inserm]
Tolle, Virginie [Auteur]
Institut de psychiatrie et neurosciences de Paris [IPNP - U1266 Inserm]
Viltart, Odile [Auteur]
Institut de psychiatrie et neurosciences de Paris [IPNP - U1266 Inserm - Paris Descartes]

Journal title :

Hormones and Behavior

Abbreviated title :

Horm Behav

Volume number :

124

Pages :

104807

Publication date :

2020-08

ISSN :

1095-6867

English keyword(s) :

Animals
Anorexia Nervosa
Anxiety
Behavior, Animal
Caloric Restriction
Corticosterone
Female
Food Deprivation
Humans
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Physical Conditioning, Animal
Restraint, Physical
Stress, Psychological
Time Factors
Acute stress
Anorexia nervosa
Anxiety
Corticosterone
Food restriction
Physical activity

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by excessive weight loss, persistent food restriction and inappropriate physical activity relative to declining energy balance. The comorbidity with depression ...
Show more >Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by excessive weight loss, persistent food restriction and inappropriate physical activity relative to declining energy balance. The comorbidity with depression and/or anxiety disorders might contribute to the "chronicization" of the disease. We aimed here to question first the link between physical activity and anxiety from a clinical investigation of AN patients (n = 206). Then, using a rodent model mimicking numerous physiological and metabolic alterations commonly seen in AN patients, we examined whether 1) chronic food restriction increased anxiety-like behaviour and 2) physical activity plays a role in regulating anxiety levels. To this end, we exposed young female mice to a chronic food restriction (FR, n = 8) paradigm combined or not with access to a running wheel (FRW, n = 8) for two weeks. The mice were compared to a group of mice fed ad libitum without (AL, n = 6) or with running wheel access (ALW, n = 8). We explored anxiety-like behaviour of all mice in the following tests: hyponeophagia, marble burying, elevated plus maze, open field, and the light and dark box. On the last day, we used a restraint test of 30 min duration and measured their stress reactivity by assaying plasma corticosterone. In the open field and the elevated plus-maze, we found that FRW mice behaved similarly to AL and ALW mice whereas FR mice did not express anxiety-like behaviour. The FRW mice displayed the lowest latency to reach the food in the hyponeophagia test. Regarding stress reactivity, FRW mice exhibited corticosterone reactivity after acute stress that was similar to the control mice, while FR mice did not fully return to basal corticosterone at one hour after the restraint stress. Taken together, these data demonstrate a differential reactivity to acute stress in FR conditions and a beneficial effect of running wheel activity in ALW and FRW conditions. Moreover, we report the absence of a typical anxiety-like behaviour associated with the food restriction (FR and FRW groups). We conclude that this model (FR and FRW mice) did not express typical anxiety-like behaviour, but that physical activity linked to food restriction improved coping strategies in an anxiogenic context.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
CHU Lille

Collections :

• Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193

Submission date :

2022-05-04T12:29:32Z
2022-05-16T14:33:30Z