Behavioural Processes, Elsevier

ADAPTATION CONDITIONAL LARRY

12 (1986) 57-66

57

TO COLD SWIM STRESS-INDUCED TOLERANCE

HYPOTHERMIA:

ABSENCE

OF PAVLOVIAN

KOKKINIDIS’

1 Department of Psychology, S7N OWO (Canada)

(Accepted

29 April

University

of

Saskatchewan,

Saskatoon,

Saskatchewan,

1985)

ABSTRACT Adaptation to Cold Swim Stress-Induced Kokkinidis, L., 1986. Hypothermia: Absence of Pavlovian Conditional Tolerance. Behav. Processes 12: 57-66. Mice subjected to cold swim stress developed pronounced hypothermia. Exposure to warm water swim, however, had little or no effect on body temperature. After repeated exposure to cold swim, the stress-induced hypothermia was The finding that cold swim resulted in hypothermia, whereas warm attenuated. swim had no effect in this respect, provided a useful experimental design by which to assess the role of conditioning factors in the adaptation to the thermic effects of cold swim. In two subsequent experiments, mice received Adaptacold swim either in a familiar environment or in a novel environment. tion to the thermic effects of cold swim was observed when mice were tested in regardless of the environmental cues previously the distinctive environment, paired with repeated exposure to the cold swim stress. These findings suggest that contextual cues were not of primary importance in the development of tolerance to the thermic effects of cold swim stress. INTRODUCTION Tolerance effects

has

of

the

Presumably, adapt

to

processes

in

effects

with

the

repeated

repeated

is

(i.e.,

since

the

case

exposure effects to

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although

an

stimulus

to

observed

the

the

of

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associative

1979).

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is

an

of to

of

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the

drug The

drug.

systemic is

is

anticipatory to

the

the

reaction

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drug

association

exposed

effects

effect

between the

eventually

direction

and

well

develops

organism

primary

not

surrounding

compensatory the

pairings,

Siegel,

and

to

physiological are

association

systemic in

ability

importance

array

opposite

conditioned

the

the

drug,

exposure.

organism’s

process

see

physiological

drug

Conditioning). the

when of

is

the

and

review

Pavlovian

absence

stimulus/drug

the

the

exposure be

the

that

and

chronic

emphasizing (for

and

behavioral

adaptation

thought

typically

(Siegel,

deliterious resistant

in

response

attenuated

drug

can

procedure

and

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the after

reflects

assault,

is

repeated

response

drug,

As

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procedure

conditioned

tolerance

evidence

it

to

agents

development

of

with

conditioned

develop

governing

speaking,

strengthened

of

of

accumulating

tolerance

administration

to

pharmacological

pharmacological

is

Generally

injection

observed

mechanisms

there

systemic

of

development

repeated

neurochemical stood,

been

a number

effects

strengthened drug

is

1979). with to

long-term

various of

anorexic

exposure

stressors

stress

to

effects

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of

drug

attenuation example, after

B.V. (Biomedical

treatments, of

rats

the

became

repeated

Division)

exposure

58

to

the

stressor

showed producing cold

effects

of

increased

(Zigmond

and

animals shock

chronic

McCarty, The

question

control

(cf.,

available chronic

The

stimulus

stress.

exposure

to

In

cold

environmental contextual

to

cues of

chronic

At

this

role

of

of

may be

stress

associated

the

1, were

design with

time,

study

thermic

evaluated, was

the

in

et

is

swim

in

neurochemical

was

in

in

the

procedure

Platt,

adaptation the

of

repeated

Experiments to

Stone

stimulus

evaluate

of

and

information

development

order

1981;

physiological,

little

to

including

al.,

under

factors

the

or observed

(Stone

come

effects and

employed cold

several

behavioral,

conditioning

footshock

adaptation,

can

there

involved

the

are

Anisman

the

stress

present

to

rats

ulcer

ordinarily

subsensitivity

whether

of

Experiment

see

stress,

and

exposure deficits

behavioral

reviews

chronic

1570),

There

receptor

factors

swim

the

(for

purpose

specificity

development

the

Chronic

1979).

however,

1978).

respect

stress. that

chronic

remains,

Anisman,

with

al.,

noradrenergic

after

Harvey,

behavioral

parallel

consequences

and

1582).

et

that

Similarly,

the

synthesis and

1583),

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(Weiss

stress

neurochemical

bility

1982).

lethal

catecholamine

1982). and

Platt,

its

(Stone

inescapable

effects

and

to

swim protected

after

and

(Stone

a resistance

possi-

tolerance

to

daily 2 and

determine

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to

important

3 an

whether in

the

tolerance.

EXPER I MENT 1

Methods Subjects Twenty-four naive male Swiss mice procurred from the Animal Resources Centre at the University of Saskatchewan served as subjects. Mice weighed 25-30 g at the beginning of the experiment, and were housed individually in standard polypropylene mouse cages with free access to food and water. Apparatus and Procedure Mice were randomly assigned to one of three groups: cold swim, warm swim or -Mice in the cold swim condition were placed in a no-swim (n = 8 per group). glass cylinder (18.5 cm in diameter and 25.0 cm high) filled to within 7.0 cm from the top with cold water (lO’C), and allowed to swim for 3 min. Body temperatures were taken prior to the swim session by inserting a lubricated small animal probe into the rectum (1.5 cm) for 30 set before a reading was taken on a Yellow Springs Instruments Tele-thermometer (model 43TD). Following the swim session mice were returned to their home cage, and 15 min later body Mice in the warm swim group were temperatures were recorded once again. treated in an identical manner as those in the cold swim condition, with the exception that water temperature was maintained at 3O’C. In the no-swim mice were placed into an empty polypropylene mouse cage for 3 min, condition, Body temperatures were taken immediately and then returned to their home cage. and 15 min after they were prior to animals being placed in the holding cage, Mice in the three conditions were tested daily returned to their home cage. for

15 consecutive

days.

59

Results

and

Figure the

Discussion 1 shows

lst,

8th

and

temperatures yielded

of

15th mice

their

of

respective

mice in

in the

the

the

the

pre-swim warm

warm

and

to

and

post-swim

either

X Day

multiple in

and

no swim

Group

mice

pre-

exposure in

Newman-Keuls

temperatures

mice

mean

a significant

p < .ot.

of

the

cold

group.

X Temperature

swim

no swim

(a

and Pre-

groups.

groups

were

warm

not

@S.E.M.)

swim,

of

and

variance

interaction, =

condition

temperatures,

no swim

or

Analysis

comparisons

cold

temperatures

.05) were

lower and

body of

revealed

the

post-swim

post-swim

significantly

these

F(4,42)

significantly

than

following

data

= 27.75, post-swim lower

than

temperatures

temperatures different

of from

one

another.

DAY 1

0 PRESWIM B POST SWIM

38

, DAY8

Fig. 1. Mean 8th, and 15th swim group.

and preexposure

post-swim temperatures to cold or warm swim,

(+ and

S.E.M.) following of control animals

the in

lst, the

no

60

Mice stress,

were but

still

to

temperatures pre-swim

a

of

hypothermic lesser

mice

in

temperatures,

after

eight

days

degree.

As shown

the

swim group

and

cold were

also

in

of

mice

in

the

warm

and

temperatures

of

mice

in

the

cold

swim group

days

initial

of

exposure

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warm

appeared groups

swim

stress.

As depicted

to

cold

swim

of

stress

mice

in

but

the

warm

no swim groups.

not

to

was

evident

were

and

The

to

the

days

observed

hyperthermia

after

test

not

session,

effects

of

cold

of

mice

that

different

lower This

post-swim

to

from

than

difference

in

these

was of

was

not

the

mice

in

groups

temperatures it

their

post-swim

temperatures

higher

although

after after

temperatures

were

their

post-swim higher

hypothermic

no swim groups.

than

post-swim

temperatures

significantly

a trend

body

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post-swim

of

since

than

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swim

lower

significantly

increase

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were

1,

cold

post-swim

groups.

fifteen

they

significant

and

be

Figure for

although

no swim

tolerance

in

1,

to

significantly lower

respective

session,

exposure

in

these

significant

in

case.

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the

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thermic

repeatedly the

cold test

a small

EXPERIMENT

to

their

temperatures,

of

every

than

to

evident.

temperatures result

swim,

fifteenth

exposed

pre-swim

the

cold

were

significantly

temperatures

eight

of

Figure

aspects

effects

exposed

to

same environment,

mice

tested

cold

swim

in (c.f.,

cold

cold

the

environment

swim

swim

would

a stimulus Siegel,

of

of

show

in

stress, the

were then

context

behaviourally

situation

which

it of

important would

one

not

the

environment

augmented

was

in

tolerance

previously

adaptation

be expected

that

and

mice

tested

relative

associated

in to

with

1979).

Methods Subjects and Apparatus. Twenty-one naive male Swiss mice concerning subjects were the same as

served those

as subjects. described in

All other Experiment

particulars 1.

Animal Colony Environment. Mice were housed individually in polypropylene cages that were situated on aluminium racks in a 2.6 x 3.2 x 2.9 meter room with fluorescent lighting and a 12 hr light-dark cycle. Ambient room temperature was 21°C and sound levels Sound intensity measurements were made with a Bruel Kjaer sound were 60 dB. level meter (Model 2203; A scale). Distinctive Environment. The distinctive environment consisted of four identical aluminium chambers (70 cm long x 40 cm wide x 30 cm high) with an aluminium floor and top. A General Electric 60 watt light bulb and a 10 cm speaker were situated on the White noise was presented through the speaker and back wall of each chamber. was generated by a Grason-Stadler Noise Generator (Model 9018). Sound intensity levels in each chamber were 100 dB and ambient temperature in the chambers was maintained at 21’~.

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Procedure Two groups of mice (n = 7 per group) received cold water swim (lO’C), and warm water swim (3O’C) for 24 days on an alternating schedule. One group received cold swim in the distinctive environment (DE), and on alternate days, warm swim in the colony environment (CE): Group ColdDistinctive Environment/Warm-Colony Environment (Cold-DE/Warm-CE) . The second group received cold swim in the colony environment, and on alternate days, warm swim in the distinctive environment: Group Cold-Colony Environment/Warm Distinctive Environment (Cold-GE/Warm-DE). Thus all animals were subjected to 12 days of cold and warm water swim and differed only in the environmental cues associated with the swim procedure. On days when the mice received a swim session in the colony environment, they were removed frm their home cage and placed in a glass cylinder containing either cold or warm water for 3 min, and then returned to their home cage (see Experiment 1 for details). On days when the mice were tested in the distinctive environment, their home cage was removed from the rack and placed in one of the aluminium chambers. Thirty min later the mice were removed from their cage and placed in a glass cylinder containing either cold or warm water The glass cylinder was situated in the aluminium chamber. for 3 min. Following the swim session mice were returned to their home cage, and remained in the distinctive environment for 1.5 min, at which time the cage was returned to the animal rack in the colony room. On the test day (Day 25), the mice in the Cold-DE/Warm-CE and Cold-CE/ Warm-DE groups were exposed to cold swim in the distinctive environment. Body temperatures were recorded imnediately prior to the cold swim session, and 15 min following exposure to cold swim, both on the first day of exposure to cold A third group of mice (n = 7) served as control subjects swim and on test day. and were exposed to each of the environments on alternate days for 24 days, but were not subjected to forced swim. Results

and

Pre-

Discussion

and

post-

Cold-GE/Warm-DE first of

session variance

of

F(2,18)

were

and

post-swim

as can groups.

and

That

is,

respective seen

degree

Figure

the

with

still

that

seen

mice

in

cold

upon

first

cold

on the

first

in

mice

in

the

on the

tolerance

was

comparable

the

distinctive day

to

and

session.

in

test

exposure

swim on test test

stress.

temperatures,

Cold-DE/Warm-CE

after

of

swim

observed

Experiment

swim

pre-swim

evident

Analysis

Cold-GE/Warm-DE

was

after

of

cold

no swim condition.

to

degree

and

the

2.

X Temperature

results

to

and

during

Figure

X Day the

respective

hypothermia

of

in

the

groups

temperatures 2,

Group

of

higher

Cold-DE/Warm-CE animals

exposure

their in

the

depicted

Cold-DE/Warm-CE

mice

temperatures

significantly

post-swim in

the

than of

relative

body

were

in

in

control

are

after

hypothermia

the

of

25)

Consistent

.Ol.

Cold-GE/Warm-DE

However,

groups

be

mice

(Day

evident

lower

substantially

stress.

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Adaptation to cold swim stress-induced hypothermia: Absence of Pavlovian conditional tolerance.

Mice subjected to cold swim stress developed pronounced hypothermia. Exposure to warm water swim, however, had little or no effect on body temperature...
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