Effects of the music therapy on the serotonin and tubulin in brain tissue of chronic unpredictable mild stress rats / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To study the effect of the music therapy on the serotonin and tubulin in frontal cortex,hippocampus and hypothalamus of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) rats,and to explore the neurobiology of the music therapy on stress disorders.Methods Twenty-four male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided equally to music therapy stress group(n=8),stress group(n=8) and normal control group(n=8).Mild chronic unpredictable stress was used for 21 days in a continuous stimulation pattern to establish the CUMS model.The 5-HT,5-HIAA and tubulin levels in the the frontal cortex,hippocampus and hypothalamus were detected.Results The time staying in the centre square in the open field test,the stress group spent less time than that in the control group (P＜0.01),and no significant difference was observed (P＞0.05).Compared with the stress group,the level of 5-HT and 5-HIAA in the hippocampus and the frontal cortex of the music therapy stress and the control group were significantly higher (P＜0.01),however,no significant difference was observed in the hypothalamus among the three groups.Compared with the stress group,the expression of Tyr-tubulin in the hippocampus of the music therapy stress and the control group significantly decreased (P＜0.O1),in contrary,the expression of Acet-tubulin in the hippocampus of the music therapy stress and the control group significantly increased (P＜0.01).However,no significant difference was observed in the frontal cortex and the hypothalamus among the three groups for either Tyr-tubulin or Acet-tubulin (P＞0.05).Conclusions This study indicates that music therapy can increase the release of the 5-HT in the hippocampus and the frontal cortex,and improve the expression of tubulin dynamics of the hippocampus for rats stressed.