SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
Low testosterone promotes anxiety through astrocytic mitochondrial remodelling at the nucleus accumbens blood-brain barrier
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- An animal experiment tested whether testosterone changes anxiety-like behaviour through brain-support cells and the blood–brain barrier.
- Who / model studied
- Male rats were grouped by naturally occurring anxiety-like behaviour, with additional work in older rats with low testosterone. Sample sizes and experiment durations are not stated.
- Studied dose & schedule
- Dose and schedule have not yet been extracted for this summary.
- What the study found
- Suppressing testosterone increased anxiety-like behaviour; restoring physiological levels reduced it and improved brain-barrier measures. Reducing local androgen-receptor activity weakened these responses. Increasing mitofusin 2 in brain-support cells also reduced anxiety-like behaviour. These findings concern rats.
- Limitations & context
- Study limitations were not stated in the abstract. Methodological quality has not been appraised.
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.64898/2026.09.03.749088