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Chemogenetic Inhibition of Infralimbic Prefrontal Cortex GABAergic Parvalbumin Interneurons Attenuates the Impact of Chronic Stress in Male Mice.
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- Chronic unpredictable stress produces hyperalgesia and promotes inhibitory drive in medial prefrontal cortex.The journal of pain · 2025Article
- Distinguishing neural ensembles in the infralimbic cortex that regulate stress vulnerability and coping behavior.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- Delta opioid receptor agonists activate PI3K-mTORC1 signaling in parvalbumin-positive interneurons in mouse infralimbic prefrontal cortex to exert acute antidepressant-lie effects.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Inhibition of prefrontal cortex parvalbumin interneurons mitigates behavioral and physiological sequelae of chronic stress in male mice.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Chemogenetic Attenuation of Acute Nociceptive Signaling Enhances Functional Outcomes Following Spinal Cord Injury.Journal of neurotrauma · 2024Article
- Choice impulsivity after repeated social stress is associated with increased perineuronal nets in the medial prefrontal cortex.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Parvalbumin-Positive Interneurons in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Regulate Stress-Induced Fear Extinction Impairments in Male and Female Rats.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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- β2-Adrenoceptors in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Excitatory Neurons Regulate Anxiety-like Behavior in Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Mineralocorticoid receptor and glucocorticoid receptor work alone and together in cell-type-specific manner: Implications for resilience prediction and targeted therapy.Neurobiology of stress · 2022Article
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- Non-Cell-Autonomous Factors Implicated in Parvalbumin Interneuron Maturation and Critical Periods.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
- Age- and sex-specific effects of stress on parvalbumin interneurons in preclinical models: Relevance to sex differences in clinical neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Effects of Biological Sex and Stress Exposure on Ventromedial Prefrontal Regulation of Mood-Related Behaviors.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Genetic Ablation of the Inducible Form of Nitric Oxide in Male Mice Disrupts Immature Neuron Survival in the Adult Dentate Gyrus.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Hypofunction of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) contributes to stress-related neuropsychiatric illnesses. Mechanisms leading to prefrontal hypoactivity remain to be determined. Prior evidence suggests that chronic stress leads to an increase in activity of parvalbumin (PV) expressing GABAergic interneurons (INs) in the PFC. The purpose of the study was to determine whether reducing PV IN activity in the Infralimbic (IL) PFC would prevent stress-related phenotypes. We used a chemogenetic approach to inhibit IL PFC PV INs during stress. Mice were first tested in the tail suspension test (TST) to determine the impact of PV IN inhibition on behavioral responses to acute stress. The long-term impact of PV IN inhibition during a modified chronic variable stress (CVS) was tested in the forced swim test (FST). Acute PV IN inhibition reduced active (struggling) and increased passive coping behaviors (immobility) in the TST. In contrast, inhibition of PV INs during CVS increased active and reduced passive coping behaviors in the FST. Moreover, chronic inhibition of PV INs attenuated CVS-induced changes in Fos expression in the prelimbic cortex (PrL), basolateral amygdala (BLA), and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) and also attenuated adrenal hypertrophy and body weight loss associated with chronic stress. Our results suggest differential roles of PV INs in acute versus chronic stress, indicative of distinct biological mechanisms underlying acute versus chronic stress responses. Our results also indicate a role for PV INs in driving chronic stress adaptation and support literature evidence suggesting cortical GABAergic INs as a therapeutic target in stress-related illnesses.
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