Hippocampal PPARα is involved in the antidepressant-like effects of venlafaxine in mice.
Brain Res Bull
; 153: 171-180, 2019 11.
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ABSTRACT
Although thought as a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor (SNRI), the antidepressant mechanisms of venlafaxine remain unknown. Previous reports have shown the role of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor α (PPARα) in depression. In this study, we investigated whether the antidepressant-like effects of venlafaxine require PPARα. We first examined whether repeated venlafaxine administration reversed the effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) and chronic restraint stress (CRS) on PPARα in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Then, the pharmacologcial inhibitors of PPARα, GW6471 and MK886, were used to assay if the protecting effects of venlafaxine against chronic stress were prevented by PPARα blockade. Furthermore, gene knockdown of PPARα by AAV-PPARα-shRNA was also used. It was found that venlafaxine treatment fully restored the decreasing effects of CUMS and CRS on the hippocampal PPARα expression. Pharmacological inhibition of PPARα significantly attenuated the antidepressant-like effects of venlafaxine in mice. Moreover, gene knockdown of hippocampal PPARα also fully abolished the antidepressant-like actions of venlafaxine in mice. Collectively, hippocampal PPARα is an antidepressant target of venlafaxine.
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MEDLINE
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PPAR alpha
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Depression
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Venlafaxine Hydrochloride
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Animals
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En
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Brain Res Bull
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2019
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