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  • - The study focused on how differences in stress responses (low responders and high responders) affect sleep patterns in rats subjected to single-prolonged stress (SPS).
  • - High responder (HR) rats showed increased sleep duration and more frequent awakenings compared to low responders (LR) and control groups, suggesting distinct sleep-wake patterns based on their stress response.
  • - The findings indicate that HR rats exhibit characteristics similar to PTSD, making them better models for studying sleep disorders related to PTSD.

Article Abstract

Objective: To observe the influence of heterogeneity on sleep-wake architecture in single-prolonged stress (SPS) animal model.

Methods: SPS rats were subdivided into low responders (LR) and high responders (HR) based on their freezing responses to a novel environment. Sleeping time (ST), awakening numbers (AN), brief awakening numbers (bAN) and frequency distribution of sleep bouts were used as observing indicators, single factor variance analysis combined with Dunnett t test were used to compare the differences between control, exposure, LR and HR groups.

Results: We found sleeping time was increased only in HR group. Moreover, awakening numbers and brief awakening number increased in exposure group and HR group during the light phase, but not in LR group. The number of sleep bouts for the ranges of 40-80s increased obviously in HR group, but not in exposure and LR group. In addition, there were significant correlation between sleep-related parameters and freezing in HR group, but not in LR group.

Conclusions: Heterogeneity existed in SPS model in view of different sleep-wake architectures of SPS rats. Rats in HR group exactly mimicked the freezing response and sleep disorders of PTSD. So HR rats were more appropriate to be used as PTSD-like models, especially when studying sleep disorder in PTSD.

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