Repeated stressors do not provoke habituation or accumulation of the stress response in the catfish Rhamdia quelen

Fish repeatedly experience stressful situations under experimental and aquaculture conditions, even in their natural habitat. Fish submitted to sequential stressors can exhibit accumulation or habituation on its cortisol response. We posed a central question about the cortisol response profiles afte...

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Main Authors: Gessi Koakoski, Luiz Carlos Kreutz, Michele Fagundes, Thiago Acosta Oliveira, Daiane Ferreira, João Gabriel Santos da Rosa, Leonardo José Gil Barcellos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia 2013-01-01
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252013005001013
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Summary:Fish repeatedly experience stressful situations under experimental and aquaculture conditions, even in their natural habitat. Fish submitted to sequential stressors can exhibit accumulation or habituation on its cortisol response. We posed a central question about the cortisol response profiles after exposure to successive acute stressors of a similar and different nature in Rhamdia quelen. We have shown that successive acute stressors delivered with 12-h, 48-h, and 1-week intervals provoked similar cortisol responses in juvenile R. quelen, without any habituation or accumulation. The cumulative stress response is more associated to short acute stressors with very short intervals of minutes to hours. In our work, we used an interval as short as 12h, and no cumulative response was found. However, if the length of time between stressors is of a day or week as used in our work the most common and an expected phenomenon is the attenuation of the response. Thus, also, the absence of both accumulation of the stress response and the expected habituation is an intriguing result. Our results show that R. quelen does not show habituation or accumulation in its stress responses to repeated stressors, as reported for other fish species<br>Os peixes, tanto em condi&#231;&#245;es de cultivo quanto em condi&#231;&#245;es experimentais ou na natureza, podem experimentar situa&#231;&#245;es de estresse. Peixes submetidos a estressores sequenciais podem apresentar acumula&#231;&#227;o de sua resposta de cortisol com aumento dos n&#237;veis desse horm&#244;nio em cada resposta sucessiva ou habitua&#231;&#227;o da resposta do cortisol, com redu&#231;&#227;o dos n&#237;veis de cortisol em cada resposta sequencial. Abordamos a quest&#227;o central de como &#233; o perfil de resposta do cortisol de R. quelen ap&#243;s a exposi&#231;&#227;o a estressores agudos sucessivos de natureza semelhante e diferente. Os dados mostraram que sucessivos estressores agudos com intervalos de 12 e 48h e de uma semana, provocaram respostas de cortisol semelhantes em juvenis de R. quelen, sem qualquer habitua&#231;&#227;o ou acumula&#231;&#227;o. No presente trabalho usamos intervalos t&#227;o curtos quanto 12h e n&#227;o verificamos qualquer tipo de acumula&#231;&#227;o da resposta. No entanto, se o intervalo entre estressores forem de um dia ou semana, o fen&#244;meno mais comum e esperado &#233; o da atenua&#231;&#227;o da resposta. Assim, tanto a aus&#234;ncia de acumula&#231;&#227;o da resposta ao estresse quanto &#224; aus&#234;ncia da habitua&#231;&#227;o esperada s&#227;o resultados interessantes. Nossos resultados mostraram que juvenis de R. quelen n&#227;o mostram habitua&#231;&#227;o ou acumula&#231;&#227;o em suas respostas de estresse a estressores repetidos, como relatado para outras esp&#233;cies de peixes
ISSN:1679-6225
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