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ArticlePloS one2010

Bi-directional effect of cholecystokinin receptor-2 overexpression on stress-triggered fear memory and anxiety in the mouse.

Qian Chen, Mingxi Tang, Takayoshi Mamiya, Heh-In Im, Xiaoli Xiong, Anu Joseph, Ya-Ping Tang

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Article in PloS one, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Qian ChenDepartment of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
Mingxi Tang
Takayoshi Mamiya
Heh-In Im
Xiaoli Xiong
Anu Joseph
Ya-Ping Tang
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans · USSouthwest Medical University · CN

Funding

PS1-regulated neurogenesis &its functional consequencesR01MH066243 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI TANG, YA-PING · 2003 to 2007
$1.8M
Generate and Characterize Knock-In Mice Harboring DRD2 Ser311Cys PolymorphismR21MH083530 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI TANG, YA-PING · 2008 to 2009
$291k
Generate and Characterize Knock-In Mice Harboring DRD2 Ser311Cys PolymorphismR33MH083530 · NIMH · LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER · PI TANG, YA-PING · 2010 to 2010
$203k
NIMH NIH HHS MH066243NIMH NIH HHS MH083530NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH066243NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH083530NIMH NIH HHS R33 MH083530
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fear, an emotional response of animals to environmental stress/threats, plays an important role in initiating and driving adaptive response, by which the homeostasis in the body is maintained. Overwhelming/uncontrollable fear, however, represents a core symptom of anxiety disorders, and may disturb the homeostasis. Because to recall or imagine certain cue(s) of stress/threats is a compulsory inducer for the expression of anxiety, it is generally believed that the pathogenesis of anxiety is associated with higher attention (acquisition) selectively to stress or mal-enhanced fear memory, despite that the actual relationship between fear memory and anxiety is not yet really established. In this study, inducible forebrain-specific cholecystokinin receptor-2 transgenic (IF-CCKR-2 tg) mice, different stress paradigms, batteries of behavioral tests, and biochemical assays were used to evaluate how different CCKergic activities drive fear behavior and hormonal reaction in response to stresses with different intensities. We found that in IF-CCKR-2 tg mice, contextual fear was impaired following 1 trial of footshock, while overall fear behavior was enhanced following 36 trials of footshock, compared to their littermate controls. In contrast to a standard Yerkes-Dodson (inverted-U shaped) stress-fear relationship in control mice, a linearized stress-fear curve was observed in CCKR-2 tg mice following gradient stresses. Moreover, compared to 1 trial, 36 trials of footshock in these transgenic mice enhanced anxiety-like behavior in other behavioral tests, impaired spatial and recognition memories, and prolonged the activation of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and glucocorticoids (CORT) following new acute stress. Taken together, these results indicate that stress may trigger two distinctive neurobehavioral systems, depending on both of the intensity of stress and the CCKergic tone in the brain. A "threshold theory" for this two-behavior system has been suggested.

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FearMemoryAdrenocorticotropic HormoneAmygdalaAnimalsAnxietyGlucocorticoidsHippocampusHypothalamo-Hypophyseal SystemMaze LearningMiceMice, TransgenicProsencephalonReceptor, Cholecystokinin BStress, PsychologicalAdrenocorticotropic HormoneGlucocorticoidsReceptor, Cholecystokinin B

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PMID21209861
PMCPMC3012733
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