The effects of chronic social defeat stress on mouse self-grooming behavior and its patterning

Ashley Denmark; David Tien; Keith Wong; Amanda Chung; Jonathan Cachat; Jason Goodspeed; Chelsea Grimes; Marco Elegante; Christopher Suciu; Salem Elkhayat; Brett Bartels; Andrew Jackson; Michael Rosenberg; Kyung Min Chung; Hussain Badani; Ferdous Kadri; Sudipta Roy; Julia Tan; Siddharth Gaikwad; Adam Stewart; Ivan Zapolsky; Thomas Gilder; Allan V. Kalueff

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2009.12.041

The effects of chronic social defeat stress on mouse self-grooming behavior and its patterning

Ashley Denmark, David Tien, Keith Wong, Amanda Chung, Jonathan Cachat, Jason Goodspeed, Chelsea Grimes, Marco Elegante, Christopher Suciu, Salem Elkhayat, Brett Bartels, Andrew Jackson, Michael Rosenberg, Kyung Min Chung, Hussain Badani, Ferdous Kadri, Sudipta Roy, Julia Tan, Siddharth Gaikwad, Adam StewartIvan Zapolsky, Thomas Gilder, Allan V. Kalueff^*

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Tulane University

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Abstract

Stress induced by social defeat is a strong modifier of animal anxiety and depression-like phenotypes. Self-grooming is a common rodent behavior, and has an ordered cephalo-caudal progression from licking of the paws to head, body, genitals and tail. Acute stress is known to alter grooming activity levels and disrupt its patterning. Following 15-17 days of chronic social defeat stress, grooming behavior was analyzed in adult male C57BL/6J mice exhibiting either dominant or subordinate behavior. Our study showed that subordinate mice experience higher levels of anxiety and display disorganized patterning of their grooming behaviors, which emerges as a behavioral marker of chronic social stress. These findings indicate that chronic social stress modulates grooming behavior in mice, thus illustrating the importance of grooming phenotypes for neurobehavioral stress research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	553-559
Number of pages	7
Journal	Behavioural Brain Research
Volume	208
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.12.041
Publication status	Published - 2 Apr 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Behavioral organization
Chronic social defeat
Grooming
Mice
Stress

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Denmark, A., Tien, D., Wong, K., Chung, A., Cachat, J., Goodspeed, J., Grimes, C., Elegante, M., Suciu, C., Elkhayat, S., Bartels, B., Jackson, A., Rosenberg, M., Chung, K. M., Badani, H., Kadri, F., Roy, S., Tan, J., Gaikwad, S., ... Kalueff, A. V. (2010). The effects of chronic social defeat stress on mouse self-grooming behavior and its patterning. Behavioural Brain Research, 208(2), 553-559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2009.12.041

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