Frontiers in Neuroscience (Apr 2021)

Behaviors Related to Psychiatric Disorders and Pain Perception in C57BL/6J Mice During Different Phases of Estrous Cycle

  • Weinan Zhao,
  • Weinan Zhao,
  • Weinan Zhao,
  • Qing Li,
  • Qing Li,
  • Qing Li,
  • Qing Li,
  • Qing Li,
  • Qing Li,
  • Yu Ma,
  • Yu Ma,
  • Yu Ma,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Zhiyong Wang,
  • Bingqian Fan,
  • Bingqian Fan,
  • Bingqian Fan,
  • Xiaojing Zhai,
  • Xiaojing Zhai,
  • Xiaojing Zhai,
  • Mengfan Hu,
  • Mengfan Hu,
  • Mengfan Hu,
  • Mengfan Hu,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Qing Wang,
  • Moruo Zhang,
  • Moruo Zhang,
  • Moruo Zhang,
  • Moruo Zhang,
  • Chunyan Zhang,
  • Chunyan Zhang,
  • Chunyan Zhang,
  • Chunyan Zhang,
  • Yixue Qin,
  • Yixue Qin,
  • Yixue Qin,
  • Yixue Qin,
  • Sha Sha,
  • Sha Sha,
  • Sha Sha,
  • Sha Sha,
  • Zhonghao Gan,
  • Zhonghao Gan,
  • Zhonghao Gan,
  • Zhonghao Gan,
  • Fan Ye,
  • Yihan Xia,
  • Guangchao Zhang,
  • Guangchao Zhang,
  • Guangchao Zhang,
  • Li Yang,
  • Li Yang,
  • Li Yang,
  • Shiya Zou,
  • Shiya Zou,
  • Shiya Zou,
  • Zheng Xu,
  • Zheng Xu,
  • Zheng Xu,
  • Sunhui Xia,
  • Sunhui Xia,
  • Sunhui Xia,
  • Yumei Yu,
  • Yumei Yu,
  • Yumei Yu,
  • Mannan Abdul,
  • Mannan Abdul,
  • Mannan Abdul,
  • Mannan Abdul,
  • Jun-Xia Yang,
  • Jun-Xia Yang,
  • Jun-Xia Yang,
  • Jun-Li Cao,
  • Jun-Li Cao,
  • Jun-Li Cao,
  • Jun-Li Cao,
  • Fang Zhou,
  • Hongxing Zhang,
  • Hongxing Zhang,
  • Hongxing Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.650793
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15

Abstract

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Robust sex difference among humans regarding psychiatry- and pain-related behaviors is being researched; however, the use of female mice in preclinical research is relatively rare due to an unchecked potential behavioral variation over the estrous cycle. In the present study, a battery of psychiatry- and pain-related behaviors are examined under physiological condition in female C57BL/6J mice over different estrous cycle phases: proestrus, estrous, metestrous, diestrous. Our behavioral results reveal that there is no significant difference over different phases of the estrous cycle in social interaction test, sucrose preference test, tail suspension test, open field test, marble burying test, novelty-suppressed feeding test, Hargreaves thermal pain test, and Von Frey mechanical pain test. These findings implicate those psychiatry- and pain-related behaviors in normal female C57BL/6J mice appear to be relatively consistent throughout the estrous cycle; the estrous cycle might not be a main contributor to female C57BL/6J mice’s variability of behaviors.

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