This study evaluated the effect of exposure to either a chronic variable stress (CVS) protocol or social isolation, as well as to treadmill exercise training, in the habituation of the cardiovascular responses upon repeated exposure to restraint stress in rats. The habituation of the corticosterone response to repeated restraint stress was also evaluated. For this, animals were subjected to either acute or 10 daily sessions of 60 min of restraint stress. CVS and social isolation protocols lasted 10 consecutive days, whereas treadmill training was performed 1h/day, 5 days/week for 8 weeks. We observed that serum corticosterone increase was decreased during both the stress and the recovery period of the 10th session of restraint. Habituation of the cardiovascular responses was identified in terms of a faster return of heart rate to baseline values during the recovery period of the 10th session of restraint. The increase in blood pressure and the decrease in tail skin temperature were similar at the first and 10th session of restraint. Exposure to either CVS, social isolation or treadmill exercise training inhibited the habituation of the restraint-evoked tachycardia. Besides, CVS increased the blood pressure response at the 10th session of restraint, whereas social isolation enhanced both the tachycardia during the first session and the drop in skin temperature at the 10th session of restraint. Taken together, these findings provide new evidence that pathologies evoked by stress might be related to impairment in the habituation process to homotypic stressors.
Habituation of the cardiovascular responses to restraint stress is inhibited by exposure to other stressor stimuli and exercise training
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Ricardo Benini, Leandro A. Oliveira, Lucas Gomes-de-Souza, Bruno Rodrigues, Carlos C. Crestani; Habituation of the cardiovascular responses to restraint stress is inhibited by exposure to other stressor stimuli and exercise training. J Exp Biol 2020; jeb.219501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.219501
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