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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2016

NPY+-, but not PV+- GABAergic neurons mediated long-range inhibition from infra- to prelimbic cortex.

R Saffari, Z Teng, M Zhang, M Kravchenko, C Hohoff, O Ambrée, W Zhang

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

R SaffariLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Z TengLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
M ZhangLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
M KravchenkoLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
C HohoffLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
O AmbréeLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
W ZhangLaboratory of Molecular Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
University of Münster · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anxiety disorders are thought to reflect deficits in the regulation of fear memories. While the amygdala has long been considered a site of storage of fear memories, newer findings suggest that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is essential in the regulation of amygdala-dependent memories and fear expression. Here, activation of the prelimbic cortex (PrL) enhances the expression of fear, while an elevated activity in the infralimbic cortex (IL) enhances fear extinction. Despite the presence of these facts, we still know very little about the synaptic interconnectivity within the PFC. The aim of the present study was to investigate the inhibitory circuits between prelimbic and IL using morphological and electrophysiological methods. Our immunohistochemical analysis revealed that the distribution of PV(+)- and NPY(+)-GABAergic neurons was strikingly different within the PFC. In addition, we provided the first experimental evidence that the pyramidal neurons in the PrL received a direct inhibitory input mediated by bipolar NPY(+)-GABAergic projection neurons in the IL. Deletion of the anxiety-related neuroligin 2 gene caused a decrease of this direct synaptic inhibition that originated from the IL. Thus, our data suggested that activation of the IL might not only directly activate the corresponding downstream anxiolytic pathway, but also suppress the PrL-related anxiogenic pathway and thus could differentially bias the regulation of fear expression and extinction.

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AnimalsExtinction, PsychologicalGABAergic NeuronsLimbic SystemMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeural PathwaysNeuropeptide YParvalbuminsPrefrontal CortexPyramidal CellsNeuropeptide YParvalbumins

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PMID26882036
PMCPMC4872436
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