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ArticleTranslational psychiatry2019

Region specific knockdown of Parvalbumin or Somatostatin produces neuronal and behavioral deficits consistent with those observed in schizophrenia.

Stephanie M Perez, Angela Boley, Daniel J Lodge

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Article in Translational psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Stephanie M PerezUT Health San Antonio, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA. PerezSM@uthscsa.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3258-4456
Angela BoleyUT Health San Antonio, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.
Daniel J LodgeUT Health San Antonio, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Biomedical Neuroscience, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, MC 7764, San Antonio, TX, 78229, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6772-1748
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE---COREP30CA054174 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI Robin Jean Leach · 1991 to 2026
$59.1M
Regulation of ventral hippocampal system functionR01MH090067 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI LODGE, DANIEL · 2010 to 2019
$3.5M
Restoration of GABAergic function in a Rodent Model of SchizophreniaF31MH098564 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI PEREZ, STEPHANIE MARIE · 2013 to 2014
$32k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA054174NIMH NIH HHS F31 MH098564NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH090067
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The anterior hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are regions linked to symptoms of schizophrenia. The anterior hippocampus is believed to be a key regulator of the mesolimbic dopamine system and is thought to be the driving force contributing to positive symptoms, while the prefrontal cortex is involved in cognitive flexibility and negative symptoms. Aberrant activity in these regions is associated with decreases in GABAergic markers, indicative of an interneuron dysfunction. Specifically, selective decreases are observed in interneurons that contain parvalbumin (PV) or somatostatin (SST). Here, we used viral knockdown in rodents to recapitulate this finding and examine the region-specific roles of PV and SST on neuronal activity and behaviors associated with positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. We found that PV and SST had differential effects on neuronal activity and behavior when knocked down in the ventral hippocampus (vHipp) or medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Specifically, SST or PV knockdown in the vHipp increased pyramidal cell activity of the region and produced downstream effects on dopamine neuron activity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). In contrast, mPFC knockdown did not affect the activity of VTA dopamine neuron activity; however, it did produce deficits in negative (social interaction) and cognitive (reversal learning) domains. Taken together, decreases in PV and/or SST were sufficient to produce schizophrenia-like deficits that were dependent on the region targeted.

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AnimalsDopaminergic NeuronsFemaleGene Knockdown TechniquesHippocampusInterneuronsMaleNeural PathwaysParvalbuminsPrefrontal CortexRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySchizophreniaSomatostatinVentral Tegmental AreaParvalbuminsSomatostatin

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PMID31636253
PMCPMC6803626
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