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Nat Commun ; 13(1): 4374, 2022 07 28.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35902577

ABSTRACT

Exposure to traumatic stress can lead to fear dysregulation, which has been associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Previous work showed that a polymorphism in the PACAP-PAC1R (pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide) system is associated with PTSD risk in women, and PACAP (ADCYAP1)-PAC1R (ADCYAP1R1) are highly expressed in the hypothalamus. Here, we show that female mice subjected to acute stress immobilization (IMO) have fear extinction impairments related to Adcyap1 and Adcyap1r1 mRNA upregulation in the hypothalamus, PACAP-c-Fos downregulation in the Medial Amygdala (MeA), and PACAP-FosB/ΔFosB upregulation in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus dorsomedial part (VMHdm). DREADD-mediated inhibition of MeA neurons projecting to the VMHdm during IMO rescues both PACAP upregulation in VMHdm and the fear extinction impairment. We also found that women with the risk genotype of ADCYAP1R1 rs2267735 polymorphism have impaired fear extinction.


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Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide/metabolism , Receptors, Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide , Animals , Extinction, Psychological , Fear/physiology , Female , Humans , Hypothalamus/metabolism , Mice , Receptors, Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide/genetics , Receptors, Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide/metabolism
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Neuropharmacology ; 186: 108466, 2021 03 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33482225

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Addiction is a chronic brain disease that has dramatic health and socioeconomic consequences worldwide. Multiple approaches have been used for decades to clarify the neurobiological basis of this disease and to identify novel potential treatments. This review summarizes the main brain networks involved in the vulnerability to addiction and specific innovative technological approaches to investigate these neural circuits. First, the evolution of the definition of addiction across the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is revised. We next discuss several innovative experimental techniques that, combined with behavioral approaches, have allowed recent critical advances in understanding the neural circuits involved in addiction, including DREADDs, calcium imaging, and electrophysiology. All these techniques have been used to investigate specific neural circuits involved in vulnerability to addiction and have been extremely useful to clarify the neurobiological basis of each specific component of the addictive process. These novel tools targeting specific brain regions are of great interest to further understand the different aspects of this complex disease. This article is part of the special issue on 'Vulnerabilities to Substance Abuse.'.


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Behavior, Addictive/physiopathology , Brain/physiopathology , Disease Susceptibility/physiopathology , Nerve Net/physiopathology , Animals , Behavior, Addictive/diagnosis , Behavior, Addictive/metabolism , Brain/drug effects , Brain/metabolism , Calcium Signaling/drug effects , Calcium Signaling/physiology , Disease Susceptibility/diagnosis , Disease Susceptibility/metabolism , Electroencephalography/drug effects , Electroencephalography/methods , Electrophysiological Phenomena/drug effects , Electrophysiological Phenomena/physiology , Humans , Illicit Drugs/adverse effects , Nerve Net/drug effects , Nerve Net/metabolism , Piperazines/metabolism
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