Jakub Szabó, Emese Renczés, Veronika Borbélyová, Daniela Ostatníková, Peter Celec
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Abstract
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders with heterogeneous symptomatology. Arguably, the most pervasive shortfall of ASD are the deficits in sociability and the animal models of the disorder are expected to exhibit such impairments. The most widely utilized behavioral task for assessing sociability in rodents is the Three-Chamber Social Interaction Test (SIT). However, SIT has been yielding inconsistent results in social interaction behavior across different rodent models of ASD, which could be pointing to the suboptimal methodology of the task. Here, we compared social behavior assessed in SIT and in another prominent sociability behavioral assay, Reciprocal Interaction Test (RCI), in a SH3 and multiple ankyrin repeated domains 3 (SHANK3) mouse model of ASD. Head-to-head comparison showed no association (p = 0.15, 0.25, 0.43) and a fixed bias (p = 0.01, < 0.001, < 0.001) in sociability assessment between the behavioral assays in both wild-type (WT) controls and Shank3B(-/-) mice. Adult Shank3B(-/-) mice of both sexes displayed normative sociability in SIT when compared to the WT controls (p = 0.74) but exhibited less than half of social interaction (p < 0.001) and almost three times more social disinterest (p < 0.001) when compared to WT mice in RCI. At least in the Shank3B(-/-) mouse model of ASD, we presume RCI could be a preferable way of assessing social interaction compared to SIT. Considering the variability of animal models of ASD and the wide palette of tools available for the assessment of their behavior, a consensus approach would be needed for observational and interventional analyses.
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A well-established journal in the field of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, Behavioral and Brain Functions welcomes manuscripts which provide insight into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying behavior and brain function, or dysfunction. The journal gives priority to manuscripts that combine both neurobiology and behavior in a non-clinical manner.