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Objective To explore the expression and function of galanin and its receptor in the female mice of anxiety-and depression-like behavior.Methods In situ hybridization was used to detect the expression of galanin,GalR1,GalR2 and GalR3 in the hippocampus of C57BL/6J female mice.A total of thirty female mice was divided into two groups:experiment group (n=15) and control group (n=15).The experiment group was subjected to the chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) for four weeks,and the control group was not subjected to any treatment.Four weeks later,a series of tests were performed on those two groups,including the sucrose preference test,the novel object recognition test,the open field test and suspension tail test.After behavior tests,the hippocampus RNA was extracted from eight mice in each group to test the expression of galanin and its receptor through qPCR.The rest part of mice were used to mark C-Fos immunostaining in the dentate gyms (DG) of hippocampus.Results The result of in situ hybridization showed that galanin,GalR1 and GalR2 distributed in the Hillus of ventral hippocamous,GalR3 had no positive signal.In the sucrose preference test,the experiment group drunk less sucrose when compared with the control group (P＜0.05).In the novel object recognition test,the experiment group contacted shorter time to the novel object when compared with the control group (P＜0.05).In the open field test,the experiment group had shorter in session time when compared with the control group (P＜0.05).In the suspension tail test,the experiment group had longer immobility time when compared with the control group (P＜0.05).The qPCR result showed that the higher expression of galanin and GalR1 in the hippocampus of experiment group (P＜0.05).More C-Fos positive cells in the DG of hippocampus of experiment mice were immunostained (P＜0.05).Conclusions Galanin,GalR1 and GalR2 mainly distribute in the Hillus of the ventral hippocampus.Galanin may be involved in the anxiety-and depression-like behavior of C57BL/6J through GalR1.
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Objective To describe clinical features,polysomnographic (PSG) alterations and characteristics of motor and distribution during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in narcoleptic patients with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD).Methods We retrospectively summarized general features of 22 narcoleptic patients with RBD,96 narcoleptic patients without RBD and 21 healthy subjects as controls.We compared their PSG and the related indexes in 3 groups.Then we analyzed a full-night video-PSG recording in a continuous series in 22 narcoleptic patients with RBD to identify their motor behavior and distribution features.Results There was no significant difference in PSG parameter and correlation index between the narcoleptic patients with RBD group and without RBD group.However,compared with normal control group (20.15 ± 4.52),narcoleptic patients with or without RBD (24.07 ± 5.44,23.40 ± 4.50) showed increased the body mass index(F =4.869,P =0.009),shortened NREM sleep and REM sleep (min) latency at night (4.41 ±7.01,3.55 ±3.98 and 14.69 ±9.62,x2 =31.697,P =0.000;69.39 ±81.39,71.04 ±74.45and 115.31 ± 45.13,x2 =11.485,P =0.003),increased percentage of sleep stage 1,decreased percentage of slow wave sleep,delayed the arousal time and increased number of arousal episode longer than 5 minutes.In narcoleptic patients with RBD,RBD episodes occurred frequentlyatany stage of REM sleep through whole night and the frequency of vocalizations did not significantly differ between the two halves of the night.Pantomimes were significantly more frequent in RBD episodes of the second half of the night.Conclusions The prevalence of RBD is high in narcoleptic patients.Sleep architecture doesn' t differ between narcoleptic patients with and without RBD.There is no correlation between the occurrence of RBD and narcoleptic duration.In narcoleptic patients with RBD,vocalizations and pantomimes accounted formajor proportion of RBD episodes while aggressive-violent movements are rare.