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ArticleMolecular brain2020

Sex difference in synaptic plasticity in the anterior cingulate cortex of adult mice.

Ren-Hao Liu, Man Xue, Xu-Hui Li, Min Zhuo

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Article in Molecular brain, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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  2. Dmrt2 regulates sex-biased neuronal development in the cingulate cortex.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  3. Cortical Tagged Synaptic Long-Term Depression in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex of Adult Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  4. Pathology of pain and its implications for therapeutic interventions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2024
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4 authors.

Ren-Hao LiuCenter for Neuron and Disease, Frontier Institutes of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Man XueCenter for Neuron and Disease, Frontier Institutes of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xu-Hui LiCenter for Neuron and Disease, Frontier Institutes of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. lixuhui0207@163.com.
Min ZhuoCenter for Neuron and Disease, Frontier Institutes of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. min.zhuo@utoronto.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sex differences in certain types of pain sensitivity and emotional responses have been previously reported. Synaptic plasticity is a key cellular mechanism for pain perception and emotional regulation, including long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD). However, it is unclear whether there is a sex difference at synaptic level. Recent studies indicate that excitatory transmission and plasticity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) are critical in chronic pain and pain related emotional responses. In the present study, we used 64-channel multielectrode (MED64) system to record synaptic plasticity in the ACC of male and female adult mice. We found that there was no significant difference in theta-burst stimulation (TBS)-induced LTP between female and male mice. Furthermore, the recruitment of inactive channels was also not different. For LTD, we found that LTD was greater in slices of ACC in male mice than female mice. Our results demonstrate that LTP in the ACC does not show any sex-related difference.

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Sex CharacteristicsAgingAnimalsElectric StimulationFemaleGyrus CinguliLong-Term PotentiationMaleMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronal PlasticityTheta RhythmAnterior cingulate cortexFemaleLong-term depressionLong-term potentiationMaleSex difference

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PMCPMC7076932

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