ArticlePsychoneuroendocrinology2014
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) increases corticosterone in male and female rats.
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- The interaction of diet-induced obesity and chronic stress in a mouse model of menopause.Hormones and behavior · 2026Article
- The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide receptor and its splice variants: Unique roles in affective and motivated behavior.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Review
- Chemogenetic modulation of PAC1-expressing neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) alters anxiety-related behaviors in male mice.Behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- PACAP regulates neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses via CRF-containing neurons of the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide plays a role in neuropsychiatric and substance use disorders: sex-specific perspective.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Association between social dominance hierarchy and PACAP expression in the extended amygdala, corticosterone, and behavior in C57BL/6 male mice.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Pituitary adenylyl cyclase-activating polypeptide modulates the stress response: the involvement of different brain areas and microglia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
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- Impact of social dominance hierarchy on PACAP expression in the extended amygdala, corticosterone, and behavior in C57BL/6 male mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Stress-induced symptom exacerbation: Stress increases voiding frequency, somatic sensitivity, and urinary bladder NGF and BDNF expression in mice with subthreshold cyclophosphamide (CYP).Frontiers in urology · 2023Article
- The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide system as a sex-specific modulator of hippocampal response to threat stimuli.Neurobiology of stress · 2022Article
- Relationships between constitutive and acute gene regulation, and physiological and behavioral responses, mediated by the neuropeptide PACAP.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Article
- The PACAP/PAC1 Receptor System and Feeding.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Intrabladder PAC1 Receptor Antagonist, PACAP(6-38), Reduces Urinary Bladder Frequency and Pelvic Sensitivity in Mice Exposed to Repeated Variate Stress (RVS).Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2021Article
- Prefrontal cortex PACAP signaling: organization and role in stress regulation.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Article
- Adolescent anxiety disorders and the developing brain: comparing neuroimaging findings in adolescents and adults.General psychiatry · 2021Review
- Circulating PACAP peptide and PAC1R genotype as possible transdiagnostic biomarkers for anxiety disorders in women: a preliminary study.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Chronic Stress Induces Maladaptive Behaviors by Activating Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Signaling in the Mouse Oval Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Parallel signaling pathways of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) regulate several intrinsic ion channels.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in the genes for pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and the PAC1 receptor have been associated with several psychiatric disorders whose etiology has been associated with stressor exposure and/or dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In rats, exposure to repeated variate stress has been shown to increase PACAP and its cognate PAC1 receptor expression in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), a brain region implicated in anxiety and depression-related behaviors as well as the regulation of HPA axis activity. We have argued that changes in BNST PACAP signaling may mediate the changes in emotional behavior and dysregulation of the HPA axis associated with anxiety and mood disorders. The current set of studies was designed to determine whether BNST PACAP infusion leads to activation of the HPA axis as determined by increases in plasma corticosterone. We observed an increase in plasma corticosterone levels 30min following BNST PACAP38 infusion in male and female rats, which was independent of estradiol (E2) treatment in females, and we found that plasma corticosterone levels were increased at both 30min and 60min, but returned to baseline levels 4h following the highest dose. PACAP38 infusion into the lateral ventricles immediately above the BNST did not alter plasma corticosterone level, and the increased plasma corticosterone following BNST PACAP was not blocked by BNST corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) receptor antagonism. These results support others suggesting that BNST PACAP plays a key role in regulating stress responses.
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