Wei Zhai, Yuanyuan Fu, Lei Liu, Xinlian Huang, Sixiang Wang
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Abstract
Background: Anxiety refers to the pathological persistence and intensification of emotional responses to danger, affecting health from psychological and physical aspects. Serotonin is an important neurotransmitter involved in the onset of anxiety.
Methods and results: To explore the biological changes in the formation of anxiety in crustaceans under the regulation of serotonin, we applied the open field-like test method for assessing anxiety states of larval Portunus trituberculatus, a highly aggressive crustacean species with a more simple neural structure compared with rodents and mammals. Compared with the control group, serotonin treatment resulted in a significant decrease in the time spent by the larvae in the central zone, suggesting anxiety-like behavior. Clonazepam treatment reversed this result and provided further evidence that the behavior of larval P. trituberculatus displayed anxiety. Moreover, a non-targeted metabolomic analysis found a significant alteration in the metabolites involved in tryptophan metabolism pathways associated with anxiety, including L-kynurenine, N-acetyl serotonin, and serotonin. These metabolites are involved in the serotonin pathway, the kynurenine pathway, and other pathways that affect anxiety through tryptophan metabolism. There were no significant differences in tryptophan metabolism levels between the control and clonazepam treatment groups.
Conclusions: Our results demonstrate the possible existence of anxiety-like behavior in the larvae of P. trituberculatus from two perspectives. Being a species with a simpler neural structure than that of mammals, the larvae of P. trituberculatus offer a convenient model for studying the mechanisms of anxiety in crustaceans.
MetabolitesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Molecular Biology
CiteScore
5.70
自引率
7.30%
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1070
审稿时长
17.17 days
期刊介绍:
Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal of metabolism and metabolomics. Metabolites publishes original research articles and review articles in all molecular aspects of metabolism relevant to the fields of metabolomics, metabolic biochemistry, computational and systems biology, biotechnology and medicine, with a particular focus on the biological roles of metabolites and small molecule biomarkers. Metabolites encourages scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on article length. Sufficient experimental details must be provided to enable the results to be accurately reproduced. Electronic material representing additional figures, materials and methods explanation, or supporting results and evidence can be submitted with the main manuscript as supplementary material.