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Int J Mol Sci ; 24(5)2023 Feb 24.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36901924

RESUMO

Stressful events trigger a set of complex biological responses which follow a bell-shaped pattern. Low-stress conditions have been shown to elicit beneficial effects, notably on synaptic plasticity together with an increase in cognitive processes. In contrast, overly intense stress can have deleterious behavioral effects leading to several stress-related pathologies such as anxiety, depression, substance use, obsessive-compulsive and stressor- and trauma-related disorders (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD in the case of traumatic events). Over a number of years, we have demonstrated that in response to stress, glucocorticoid hormones (GCs) in the hippocampus mediate a molecular shift in the balance between the expression of the tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and its own inhibitor plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) proteins. Interestingly, a shift in favor of PAI-1 was responsible for PTSD-like memory induction. In this review, after describing the biological system involving GCs, we highlight the key role of tPA/PAI-1 imbalance observed in preclinical and clinical studies associated with the emergence of stress-related pathological conditions. Thus, tPA/PAI-1 protein levels could be predictive biomarkers of the subsequent onset of stress-related disorders, and pharmacological modulation of their activity could be a potential new therapeutic approach for these debilitating conditions.


Assuntos
Transtornos Mentais , Ativador de Plasminogênio Tecidual , Humanos , Ativador de Plasminogênio Tecidual/metabolismo , Inibidor 1 de Ativador de Plasminogênio/metabolismo , Glucocorticoides
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Genes Brain Behav ; 20(4): e12708, 2021 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33070440

RESUMO

Cryptochrome 2 (Cry2) is a core clock gene important for circadian regulation. It has also been associated with anxiety and depressive-like behaviors in mice, but the previous findings have been conflicting in terms of the direction of the effect. To begin to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of this association, we carried out behavioral testing, PET imaging, and gene expression analysis of Cry2-/- and Cry2+/+ mice. Compared to Cry2+/+ mice, we found that Cry2-/- mice spent less time immobile in the forced swim test, suggesting reduced despair-like behavior. Moreover, Cry2-/- mice had lower saccharin preference, indicative of increased anhedonia. In contrast, we observed no group differences in anxiety-like behavior. The behavioral changes were accompanied by lower metabolic activity of the ventro-medial hypothalamus, suprachiasmatic nuclei, ventral tegmental area, anterior and medial striatum, substantia nigra, and habenula after cold stress as measured by PET imaging with a glucose analog. Although the expression of many depression-associated and metabolic genes was upregulated or downregulated by cold stress, we observed no differences between Cry2-/- and Cry2+/+ mice. These findings are consistent with other studies showing that Cry2 is required for normal emotional behavior. Our findings confirm previous roles of Cry2 in behavior and extend them by showing that the effects on behavior may be mediated by changes in brain metabolism.


Assuntos
Ansiedade/genética , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Ritmo Circadiano/genética , Criptocromos/genética , Animais , Criptocromos/metabolismo , Camundongos Transgênicos , Núcleo Supraquiasmático/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo
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eNeuro ; 7(4)2020.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32788298

RESUMO

NETO2 is an auxiliary subunit for kainate-type glutamate receptors that mediate normal cued fear expression and extinction. Since the amygdala is critical for these functions, we asked whether Neto2-/- mice have compromised amygdala function. We measured the abundance of molecular markers of neuronal maturation and plasticity, parvalbumin-positive (PV+), perineuronal net-positive (PNN+), and double positive (PV+PNN+) cells in the Neto2-/- amygdala. We found that Neto2-/- adult, but not postnatal day (P)23, mice had 7.5% reduction in the fraction of PV+PNN+ cells within the total PNN+ population, and 23.1% reduction in PV staining intensity compared with Neto2+/+ mice, suggesting that PV interneurons in the adult Neto2-/- amygdala remain in an immature state. An immature PV inhibitory network would be predicted to lead to stronger amygdalar excitation. In the amygdala of adult Neto2-/- mice, we identified increased glutamatergic and reduced GABAergic transmission using whole-cell patch-clamp recordings. This was accompanied by increased spine density of thin dendrites in the basal amygdala (BA) compared with Neto2+/+ mice, indicating stronger glutamatergic synapses. Moreover, after fear acquisition Neto2-/- mice had a higher number of c-Fos-positive cells than Neto2+/+ mice in the lateral amygdala (LA), BA, and central amygdala (CE). Altogether, our findings indicate that Neto2 is involved in the maturation of the amygdala PV interneuron network. Our data suggest that this defect, together with other processes influencing amygdala principal neurons, contribute to increased amygdalar excitability, higher fear expression, and delayed extinction in cued fear conditioning, phenotypes that are common in fear-related disorders, including the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).


Assuntos
Medo , Receptores de Ácido Caínico , Tonsila do Cerebelo/metabolismo , Animais , Interneurônios/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana , Camundongos , Parvalbuminas/metabolismo , Receptores de Ácido Caínico/genética , Receptores de Ácido Caínico/metabolismo
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Sci Rep ; 9(1): 19437, 2019 12 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31857655

RESUMO

Pharmacological research in mice and human genetic analyses suggest that the kallikrein-kinin system (KKS) may regulate anxiety. We examined the role of the KKS in anxiety and stress in both species. In human genetic association analysis, variants in genes for the bradykinin precursor (KNG1) and the bradykinin receptors (BDKRB1 and BDKRB2) were associated with anxiety disorders (p < 0.05). In mice, however, neither acute nor chronic stress affected B1 receptor gene or protein expression, and B1 receptor antagonists had no effect on anxiety tests measuring approach-avoidance conflict. We thus focused on the B2 receptor and found that mice injected with the B2 antagonist WIN 64338 had lowered levels of a physiological anxiety measure, the stress-induced hyperthermia (SIH), vs controls. In the brown adipose tissue, a major thermoregulator, WIN 64338 increased expression of the mitochondrial regulator Pgc1a and the bradykinin precursor gene Kng2 was upregulated after cold stress. Our data suggests that the bradykinin system modulates a variety of stress responses through B2 receptor-mediated effects, but systemic antagonists of the B2 receptor were not anxiolytic in mice. Genetic variants in the bradykinin receptor genes may predispose to anxiety disorders in humans by affecting their function.


Assuntos
Transtornos de Ansiedade/metabolismo , Bradicinina/metabolismo , Sistema Calicreína-Cinina/fisiologia , Estresse Psicológico/metabolismo , Adulto , Animais , Transtornos de Ansiedade/tratamento farmacológico , Transtornos de Ansiedade/genética , Transtornos de Ansiedade/patologia , Antagonistas de Receptor B1 da Bradicinina/administração & dosagem , Antagonistas de Receptor B2 da Bradicinina/administração & dosagem , Encéfalo/patologia , Modelos Animais de Doenças , Feminino , Humanos , Sistema Calicreína-Cinina/efeitos dos fármacos , Cininogênios/genética , Cininogênios/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos , Naftalenos/administração & dosagem , Compostos Organofosforados/administração & dosagem , Coativador 1-alfa do Receptor gama Ativado por Proliferador de Peroxissomo/metabolismo , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Receptor B1 da Bradicinina/genética , Receptor B1 da Bradicinina/metabolismo , Receptor B2 da Bradicinina/genética , Receptor B2 da Bradicinina/metabolismo , Especificidade da Espécie , Estresse Psicológico/tratamento farmacológico , Estresse Psicológico/patologia , Regulação para Cima
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Neuropsychopharmacology ; 44(11): 1855-1866, 2019 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30770891

RESUMO

NETO1 and NETO2 are auxiliary subunits of kainate receptors (KARs). They interact with native KAR subunits to modulate multiple aspects of receptor function. Variation in KAR genes has been associated with psychiatric disorders in humans, and in mice, knockouts of the Grik1 gene have increased, while Grik2 and Grik4 knockouts have reduced anxiety-like behavior. To determine whether the NETO proteins regulate anxiety and fear through modulation of KARs, we undertook a comprehensive behavioral analysis of adult Neto1-/- and Neto2-/- mice. We observed no differences in anxiety-like behavior. However, in cued fear conditioning, Neto2-/-, but not Neto1-/- mice, showed higher fear expression and delayed extinction compared to wild type mice. We established, by in situ hybridization, that Neto2 was expressed in both excitatory and inhibitory neurons throughout the fear circuit including the medial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus. Finally, we demonstrated that the relative amount of synaptosomal KAR GLUK2/3 subunit was 20.8% lower in the ventral hippocampus and 36.5% lower in the medial prefrontal cortex in Neto2-/- compared to the Neto2+/+ mice. The GLUK5 subunit abundance was reduced 23.8% in the ventral hippocampus and 16.9% in the amygdala. We conclude that Neto2 regulates fear expression and extinction in mice, and that its absence increases conditionability, a phenotype related to post-traumatic stress disorder and propose that this phenotype is mediated by reduced KAR subunit abundance at synapses of fear-associated brain regions.


Assuntos
Tonsila do Cerebelo/metabolismo , Extinção Psicológica/fisiologia , Medo/fisiologia , Hipocampo/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Córtex Pré-Frontal/metabolismo , Animais , Condicionamento Clássico/fisiologia , Aprendizagem em Labirinto/fisiologia , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Knockout , Neurônios/metabolismo , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/genética , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/metabolismo , Sinapses/metabolismo , Sinaptossomos/metabolismo
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