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A Mouse Model of Subchronic and Mild Social Defeat Stress for Understanding Stress-induced Behavioral and Physiological Deficits
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2015
Here, methods for developing a mouse model of subchronic and mild social defeat stress are described and used to investigate the pathogenic features of depression including hyperphagia- and polydipsia-like symptoms following increased body weight.
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Modeling Social Stress
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2023
Stress negatively affects our quality of life. In particular, some individuals experience social stress when placed in a social environment that they are unfamiliar with or have difficulty adjusting to. Since it is hard to examine mechanisms of social stress in humans, modeling this condition in animals may help scientist in developing new therapies for treating this commonly encountered problem. This science education video begins by discussing the known anatomy and physiology behind stress...
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A Mouse Tumor Model of Surgical Stress to Explore the Mechanisms of Postoperative Immunosuppression and Evaluate Novel Perioperative Immunotherapies
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2014
A mouse tumor model of surgical stress is used to explore how postoperative immune suppression promotes metastatic disease and to evaluate immunostimulatory perioperative therapies.
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An Introduction to Modeling Behavioral Disorders and Stress
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2023
Recently, it has been discovered that behavioral conditions such as, depression, anxiety and stress-response have a neurological basis. Understanding the biological underpinnings of these conditions may help scientists in developing more effective therapies to treat these disorders. Typically, rodent models are used in this field and behavioral scientists create these models using interventions like drug administration or surgery. It is important to understand how to create and evaluate rodent...
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Inducing Depression-like Behavior in a Mouse via Immobilization Stress
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2025
This video demonstrates the method of inducing chronic stress in a mouse through repeated immobilization, leading to corticosterone release and reduced glutamate receptor activity in neurons, which results in depression-like behavior.
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A stressor initiates a sequential endocrine pathway: hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulates the pituitary to release adrenocorticotropic hormone, which then promotes corticosterone production by the adrenal glands. This sequence connects the experimental exposure with measurable neuroendocrine changes. Researchers can then relate those changes to behavioral, inflammatory, molecular, or neural-plasticity outcomes in the brain.
Acute and chronic paradigms represent different exposure patterns and allow researchers to examine whether stress-related changes depend on the duration or recurrence of the challenge. This distinction is important when studying outcomes such as anxiety-like behavior, learning, neuroendocrine regulation, inflammation, and neural plasticity, because the model design determines which stress response pattern is being investigated.
These stressor categories provide distinct experimental contexts for examining how stress affects mice. Using defined physical, psychological, or social challenges allows researchers to compare stress-related effects across behavioral and biological measures while maintaining experimental control. The choice of stressor can therefore help align the model with questions about behavior, endocrine regulation, inflammation, or brain function.
Mouse stress models can connect endocrine activation with changes in anxiety-like behavior, learning, inflammation, and neural plasticity. Neural plasticity refers to changes in the nervous system associated with adaptation or altered function. Examining these outcomes together helps researchers determine how stress-related physiological responses correspond to behavioral performance and molecular or brain-level changes.
A study begins by selecting a defined stressor and an acute or chronic exposure paradigm. Researchers then evaluate relevant behavioral and physiological responses, including HPA-axis activity and corticosterone production, and may examine inflammation, molecular changes, or neural plasticity. Comparing these measures links the experimental stress exposure to specific outcomes in brain and behavior.
Researchers may choose this approach when they need to examine how stress-related biological and behavioral changes relate to stress-related disorders or to evaluate potential therapeutic strategies. Because the models connect physiological responses with outcomes such as anxiety-like behavior, learning, inflammation, and neural plasticity, they provide multiple ways to assess whether an intervention affects stress-associated changes.
Its neuroscience value comes from integrating several levels of analysis within the same experimental framework. HPA-axis activity and corticosterone production describe neuroendocrine regulation, while behavior, inflammation, molecular changes, and neural plasticity provide complementary evidence about brain function. This integrated view supports investigation of how stress may contribute to stress-related disorders and altered behavior.