ReviewNeurobiology of learning and memory2023
The functional heterogeneity of PACAP: Stress, learning, and pathology.
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- Lateral septal PACAP signaling regulates stress and anxiety reactions.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Beyond the 'second brain': the gut microbiota as a constitutive co-constructor of embodied cognitive network.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Protective Effects of PACAP in Diabetic Complications: Retinopathy, Nephropathy and Neuropathy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide modulates circadian feeding and emotional behavior in mice independent of stress-induced hyperphagia.Veterinary world · 2025Article
- PACAP a mediator of inflammation following trauma exposure and mild traumatic brain injury: Differential effects in males and females.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2025Article
- Mechanistic intersections between migraine and major depressive disorder.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Adenylyl Cyclases as Therapeutic Targets in Neuroregeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- mGluR5 in Pyramidal Neurons in the Hippocampus Mediates Chronic Stress-Induced Memory Deficits.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- PACAP associated with precise PTSD and fear extinction response in women.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- PACAP regulates neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses via CRF-containing neurons of the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide plays a role in neuropsychiatric and substance use disorders: sex-specific perspective.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Cellular mechanisms underlying pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide-stimulated secretion in the adrenal medulla.Biochemical Society transactions · 2024Review
- A PACAP-activated network for secretion requires coordination of CaMolecular biology of the cell · 2024Article
- Psychodermatology of Chronic Pruritus: An Overview of the Link Between Itch and Distress.Dermatology and therapy · 2024Review
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Abstract
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide (PACAP) is a highly conserved and widely expressed neuropeptide that has emerged as a key regulator of multiple neural and behavioral processes. PACAP systems, including the various PACAP receptor subtypes, have been implicated in neural circuits of learning and memory, stress, emotion, feeding, and pain. Dysregulation within these PACAP systems may play key roles in the etiology of pathological states associated with these circuits, and PACAP function has been implicated in stress-related psychopathology, feeding and metabolic disorders, and migraine. Accordingly, central PACAP systems may represent important therapeutic targets; however, substantial heterogeneity in PACAP systems related to the distribution of multiple PACAP isoforms across multiple brain regions, as well as multiple receptor subtypes with several isoforms, signaling pathways, and brain distributions, provides both challenges and opportunities for the development of new clinically-relevant strategies to target the PACAP system in health and disease. Here we review the heterogeneity of central PACAP systems, as well as the data implicating PACAP systems in clinically-relevant behavioral processes, with a particular focus on the considerable evidence implicating a role of PACAP in stress responding and learning and memory. We also review data suggesting that there are sex differences in PACAP function and its interactions with sex hormones. Finally, we discuss both the challenges and promise of harnessing the PACAP system in the development of new therapeutic avenues and highlight PACAP systems for their critical role in health and disease.
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