Divergent action of fluoxetine in zebrafish according to responsivity to novelty

• Autor(a) principal: Fior, Débora
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Dametto, Fernanda da Silveira, Fagundes, Michele, Rosa, João Gabriel Santos, Abreu, Murilo Sander de, Koakoski, Gessi, Idalencio, Renan, Barcellos, Heloisa Helena de Alcantara, Piato, Angelo Luis Stapassoli, Barcellos, Leonardo Jose Gil
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/197550
• topic: Peixe-zebra; Comportamento; Fluoxetina; Fluoxetine (FLU); Objective zone; Novel Object Recognition (NOR); Zebrafish populations; Behavioral phenotypes

Here we show that the novel object recognition test can discriminate between high (HRN, neophobic) and low (LRN, neophilic) novelty responders in zebrafish populations. Especially when we observe the latency to the first entry in the novel object zone, zebrafish did not maintain these behavioral phenotypes in sequential tests and only the HRN group returned to their initial responsive behavior when exposed to fluoxetine. Our results have important implications for behavioral data analysis since such behavioral differences can potentially increase individual response variability and interfere with the outcomes obtained from various behavioral tasks. Our data reinforce the validity of personality determination in zebrafish since we show clear differences in behavior in response to fluoxetine.