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Effects of multiple brief exposures to trauma-associated cues on traumatized resilient and vulnerable rats.

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Intrusive re-experiencing of a trauma is a core symptom in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and is often triggered by contextual cues associated with the event. It is not yet established if intrusive re-experiencing is the consequence of PTSD, or if it could contribute to the development of PTSD following a traumatic event. The present study (1) examined the impact of repeated brief re-exposures to trauma reminders on the strength of PTSD-like symptoms, as well as on their time-development and (2) investigated the reactivity over time to these cues in trauma resilient and vulnerable rats, defined on the basis of the PTSD-like symptoms they demonstrated. Rats were exposed to a Single Prolonged Stress, combining three different stresses (2-h restraint, 20-min forced swim and CO2 unconsciousness) delivered together with tone and odor cues and preceded by an inhibitory avoidance conditioning or a control procedure. During the following two weeks, reminded rats were briefly re-exposed to trauma-associated cues either 4 or 8 times. The results indicated that 4 re-exposures to the same cue strengthened PTSD-like symptoms (anxiety, arousal, fear to trauma-cue). However 8 re-exposures to similar or different trauma-cues did not alter PTSD-like symptoms and led to a rapid extinction of the fear reactivity to these cues. The present results further indicated that shortly after trauma, both resilient and vulnerable rats strongly reacted to trauma-associated cues, while only vulnerable rats reacted long after the trauma, suggesting a slower loss of fear responses to trauma cues in these rats. We concluded that re-experiencing may participate in, but cannot be solely responsible for, the development of long-term PTSD effects.
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hal-01468491 , version 1 (15-02-2017)

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Claire Le Dorze, Pascale Gisquet-Verrier. Effects of multiple brief exposures to trauma-associated cues on traumatized resilient and vulnerable rats.. Brain Research, 2016, 1652, pp.71-80. ⟨10.1016/j.brainres.2016.10.002⟩. ⟨hal-01468491⟩
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