Systemic and intra-amygdala administrations of midazolam reverse anxiety-like behavior induced by cohabiting with a cagemate in chronic pain condition
Carmona, I. M.; Carneiro de Oliveira, P. E.; Baptista-de-Souza, D.; Canto-de-Souza, A.
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The affective component of pain may be shared among conspecifics through emotional contagion, a form of empathic expression. In this sense, reverberation of negative emotions could generate distress behavioral responses, such as pathological anxiety. Evidences reported that amygdala and its benzodiazepine receptors are involved in perception of pain in others. However, relatively little is known about the neural processes underlying emotional contagion induced by pain observation. In the present study, we investigated the effects of midazolam, an allosteric GABAergic receptor agonist, in anxiety-like behaviors induced by cohabitation with cagemate submitted to sciatic nerve constriction. For this purpose, we administrated systemic (0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mg/kg) and intra-amygdala midazolam injections (3.0 and 30.0 nmol) in observer cagemates before elevated plus-maze (EPM) evaluation. We found that mice subjected to nerve constriction and their observer cagemates increased anxiety-like behavior in the EPM. Further, systemically (1.0 and 2.0 mg/kg) and intra-amygdala administration of midazolam (3.0 and 30 nmol) reverse this anxiogenic effect. Collectively, these results suggest that social interaction with a cagemate under chronic pain produces anxiety-like responses that could be blocked through midazolam application.
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