Corticosterone oscillations during mania induction in the lateral hypothalamic kindled rat—Experimental observations and mathematical modeling

Osama A Abulseoud, Man Choi Ho, Doo-Sup Choi, Ana Stanojević, Željko Čupić, Ljiljana Kolar-Anić and Vladana Vukojević

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-21

Abstract: Changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity constitute a key component of bipolar mania, but the extent and nature of these alterations are not fully understood. We use here the lateral hypothalamic-kindled (LHK) rat model to deliberately induce an acute manic-like episode and measure serum corticosterone concentrations to assess changes in HPA axis activity. A mathematical model is developed to succinctly describe the entwined biochemical transformations that underlay the HPA axis and emulate by numerical simulations the considerable increase in serum corticosterone concentration induced by LHK. Synergistic combination of the LHK rat model and dynamical systems theory allows us to quantitatively characterize changes in HPA axis activity under controlled induction of acute manic-like states and provides a framework to study in silico how the dynamic integration of neurochemical transformations underlying the HPA axis is disrupted in these states.

Date: 2017
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