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ArticleMolecular brain2015

The metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 role on motor behavior involves specific neural substrates.

Isabella M Guimaraes, Toniana G Carvalho, Stephen Sg Ferguson, Grace S Pereira, Fabiola M Ribeiro

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Article in Molecular brain, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Isabella M GuimaraesDepartamento de Bioquimica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil. pandoraufmg@gmail.com.
Toniana G CarvalhoDepartamento de Bioquimica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil. toniana_gc@hotmail.com.
Stephen Sg FergusonJ. Allyn Taylor Centre for Cell Biology, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5 K8, Canada. ferguson@robarts.ca.
Grace S PereiraNucleo de Neurociencias, Departamento de Fisiologia e Biofisica, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil. graceschenatto@gmail.com.
Fabiola M RibeiroDepartamento de Bioquimica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil. fmribeiro@icb.ufmg.br.
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais · BRRobarts Clinical Trials · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-119437
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) is involved in various brain functions, including memory, cognition and motor behavior. Regarding locomotor activity, we and others have demonstrated that pharmacological antagonism of mGluR5 promotes hyperkinesia in mice. Moreover, increased locomotor activity can also be observed in mice following the genetic deletion of mGluR5. However, it is still unclear which specific brain substrates contribute to mGluR5-mediated regulation of motor function.

resultsThus, to better understand the role of mGluR5 in motor control and to determine which neural substrates are involved in this regulation we performed stereotactic microinfusions of the mGluR5 antagonist, MPEP, into specific brain regions and submitted mice to the open field and rotarod apparatus. Our findings indicate that mGluR5 blockage elicits distinct outcomes in terms of locomotor activity and motor coordination depending on the brain region injected with mGluR5 antagonist. MPEP injection into either the dorsal striatum or dorsal hippocampus resulted in increased locomotor activity, whereas MPEP injection into either the ventral striatum or motor cortex resulted in hypokinesia. Moreover, MPEP injected into the olfactory bulb increased the distance mice traveled in the center of the open field arena. With respect to motor coordination on the rotarod, injection of MPEP into the motor cortex and olfactory bulb elicited decreased latency to fall.

conclusionsTaken together, our data suggest that not only primarily motor neural substrates, but also limbic and sensory structures are involved in mGluR5-mediated motor behavior.

Indexed as

Motor ActivityAnimalsBehavior, AnimalBrainHippocampusMiceModels, BiologicalMotor CortexNeural PathwaysOlfactory BulbParietal LobePyridinesReceptor, Metabotropic Glutamate 5Rotarod Performance Test6-methyl-2-(phenylethynyl)pyridinePyridinesReceptor, Metabotropic Glutamate 5

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PMID25885370
PMCPMC4397819
OpenAlexW2127656322

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