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Study M1092

Study name

Brivio P 2023b

Title

Venlafaxine's effect on resilience to stress is associated with a shift in the balance between glucose and fatty acid utilization

Overall design

The aim of this study was to explore whether venlafaxine would be able to normalize the depressive-like behaviour by modulating brain metabolism in the chronic mild stress (CMS) model of depression. Wistar rats were divided into the following 4 groups: (1) control group (non-stress with vehicle treatment), (2) CMS group (stress with vehicle treatment), (3) venlafaxine group (non-stress with venlafaxine treatment at the dose of 10 mg/kg), and (4) CMS + venlafaxine group (stress with venlafaxine treatment at the dose of 10 mg/kg). The CMS stress procedure lasted for 6 weeks, and drugs were administered via I.P. once per day during the last 3 weeks of the model building period. Metabolomic changes in the ventral hippocampus were investigated using targeted LC-MS/MS metabolomics (n = 8 in each group).

Study Type

Type1;

Type2;

Type3;

Data available

Unavailable

Organism

Rat; Wistar rat;

Categories of depression

Healthy individuals; Healthy individuals; Healthy individuals;

Animal model; Chronic mild stress model; Chronic mild stress model;

Criteria for depression

Sucrose preference test

Sample size

32

Tissue

Central; Brain; Ventral hippocampus;

Platform

MS-based; LC-MS: ExionLC AC System (AB Sciex, Framingham, MA, USA) with API-3500 triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (AB Sciex, Framingham, MA, USA);

PMID

37380799

DOI

10.1038/s41386-023-01633-0

Citation

Brivio P, Audano M, Gallo MT, et al. Venlafaxine's effect on resilience to stress is associated with a shift in the balance between glucose and fatty acid utilization. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2023 Jun 28.

Metabolite

L-Tryptophan;

L-Proline;

L-Serine;

L-Methionine;

L-Lactic acid;

L-Lysine;

Succinic acid;

L-Tyrosine;

D-Glucose;

DOPA;

Fumaric acid;

L-Histidine;

Histamine;

Cyclic AMP;

Cytidine triphosphate;

Uridine triphosphate;

NAD;

Deoxyadenosine monophosphate;

Adenosine monophosphate;

Oxidized glutathione;

Aminoadipic acid;

L-Carnitine;

Uridine 5'-monophosphate;

D-Erythrose 4-phosphate;

6-Phosphogluconic acid;

Spermidine;

Guanosine diphosphate;

Carnitine C4;

Carnitine C18:0;

Carnitine C18:1;

Uridine 5'-diphosphate;

dIMP;

Cytidine 3'-monophosphate;

dUMP;

Carnitine C16;