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Nature ; 559(7712): 98-102, 2018 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29950730

RESUMO

Adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is highly regulated by environmental influences, and functionally implicated in behavioural responses to stress and antidepressants1-4. However, how adult-born neurons regulate dentate gyrus information processing to protect from stress-induced anxiety-like behaviour is unknown. Here we show in mice that neurogenesis confers resilience to chronic stress by inhibiting the activity of mature granule cells in the ventral dentate gyrus (vDG), a subregion that is implicated in mood regulation. We found that chemogenetic inhibition of adult-born neurons in the vDG promotes susceptibility to social defeat stress, whereas increasing neurogenesis confers resilience to chronic stress. By using in vivo calcium imaging to record neuronal activity from large cell populations in the vDG, we show that increased neurogenesis results in a decrease in the activity of stress-responsive cells that are active preferentially during attacks or while mice explore anxiogenic environments. These effects on dentate gyrus activity are necessary and sufficient for stress resilience, as direct silencing of the vDG confers resilience whereas excitation promotes susceptibility. Our results suggest that the activity of the vDG may be a key factor in determining individual levels of vulnerability to stress and related psychiatric disorders.


Assuntos
Giro Denteado/citologia , Giro Denteado/fisiologia , Neurogênese/fisiologia , Resiliência Psicológica , Afeto , Animais , Cálcio/análise , Doença Crônica , Masculino , Camundongos , Estresse Psicológico
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Mol Psychiatry ; 27(5): 2602-2618, 2022 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35246635

RESUMO

A hallmark of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is its functional heterogeneity. Functional and imaging studies revealed its importance in the encoding of anxiety-related and social stimuli, but it is unknown how microcircuits within the ACC encode these distinct stimuli. One type of inhibitory interneuron, which is positive for vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), is known to modulate the activity of pyramidal cells in local microcircuits, but it is unknown whether VIP cells in the ACC (VIPACC) are engaged by particular contexts or stimuli. Additionally, recent studies demonstrated that neuronal representations in other cortical areas can change over time at the level of the individual neuron. However, it is not known whether stimulus representations in the ACC remain stable over time. Using in vivo Ca2+ imaging and miniscopes in freely behaving mice to monitor neuronal activity with cellular resolution, we identified individual VIPACC that preferentially activated to distinct stimuli across diverse tasks. Importantly, although the population-level activity of the VIPACC remained stable across trials, the stimulus-selectivity of individual interneurons changed rapidly. These findings demonstrate marked functional heterogeneity and instability within interneuron populations in the ACC. This work contributes to our understanding of how the cortex encodes information across diverse contexts and provides insight into the complexity of neural processes involved in anxiety and social behavior.


Assuntos
Giro do Cíngulo , Peptídeo Intestinal Vasoativo , Animais , Giro do Cíngulo/metabolismo , Interneurônios/metabolismo , Camundongos , Neurônios/metabolismo , Células Piramidais/metabolismo , Peptídeo Intestinal Vasoativo/metabolismo
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 117(20): 11076-11084, 2020 05 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32381740

RESUMO

Pair-bond formation depends vitally on neuromodulatory signaling within the nucleus accumbens, but the neuronal dynamics underlying this behavior remain unclear. Using 1-photon in vivo Ca2+ imaging in monogamous prairie voles, we found that pair bonding does not elicit differences in overall nucleus accumbens Ca2+ activity. Instead, we identified distinct ensembles of neurons in this region that are recruited during approach to either a partner or a novel vole. The partner-approach neuronal ensemble increased in size following bond formation, and differences in the size of approach ensembles for partner and novel voles predict bond strength. In contrast, neurons comprising departure ensembles do not change over time and are not correlated with bond strength, indicating that ensemble plasticity is specific to partner approach. Furthermore, the neurons comprising partner and novel-approach ensembles are nonoverlapping while departure ensembles are more overlapping than chance, which may reflect another key feature of approach ensembles. We posit that the features of the partner-approach ensemble and its expansion upon bond formation potentially make it a key neuronal substrate associated with bond formation and maturation.


Assuntos
Neurônios/fisiologia , Núcleo Accumbens/fisiologia , Ligação do Par , Comportamento Sexual Animal/fisiologia , Animais , Arvicolinae/fisiologia , Feminino , Masculino , Preferência de Acasalamento Animal/fisiologia , Núcleo Accumbens/diagnóstico por imagem , Comportamento Social
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BMJ Case Rep ; 15(6)2022 Jun 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35667693

RESUMO

Giant cell myositis (GCM) is a rare inflammatory myopathy associated with myasthenia gravis and thymoma. Here, we report on a woman in her late 50s with a history of myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematosus and stage IV thymoma with pleural metastases, who presented with proximal weakness, neuromuscular respiratory failure and hypercalcaemia. She was diagnosed with GCM via muscle biopsy and screened for myocarditis but showed no evidence of myocardial involvement. Her hypercalcaemia was consistent with a granulomatous process, likely driven by her GCM. Her strength gradually improved, and her hypercalcaemia did not recur after treatment with high dose steroids, intravenous immune globulin and plasma exchange. Her course was complicated by several opportunistic infections in the setting of her immunosuppression. Despite the high morbidity associated with GCM, she demonstrated clinical improvement after initiating immunosuppressive therapy and continues to be managed in the outpatient setting.


Assuntos
Hipercalcemia , Miastenia Gravis , Miosite , Timoma , Neoplasias do Timo , Feminino , Células Gigantes/patologia , Humanos , Hipercalcemia/complicações , Miastenia Gravis/complicações , Miosite/diagnóstico , Recidiva Local de Neoplasia/patologia , Timoma/complicações , Timoma/patologia , Neoplasias do Timo/complicações , Neoplasias do Timo/patologia
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Nat Commun ; 11(1): 3492, 2020 07 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32661319

RESUMO

Ventral hippocampal CA1 (vCA1) projections to the amygdala are necessary for contextual fear memory. Here we used in vivo Ca2+ imaging in mice to assess the temporal dynamics by which ensembles of vCA1 neurons mediate encoding and retrieval of contextual fear memories. We found that a subset of vCA1 neurons were responsive to the aversive shock during context conditioning, their activity was necessary for memory encoding, and these shock-responsive neurons were enriched in the vCA1 projection to the amygdala. During memory retrieval, a population of vCA1 neurons became correlated with shock-encoding neurons, and the magnitude of synchronized activity within this population was proportional to memory strength. The emergence of these correlated networks was disrupted by inhibiting vCA1 shock responses during memory encoding. Thus, our findings suggest that networks of cells that become correlated with shock-responsive neurons in vCA1 are essential components of contextual fear memory ensembles.


Assuntos
Região CA1 Hipocampal/metabolismo , Medo/fisiologia , Memória/fisiologia , Algoritmos , Tonsila do Cerebelo/metabolismo , Animais , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL
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Neuron ; 107(4): 703-716.e4, 2020 08 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32521223

RESUMO

Neurons are often considered specialized functional units that encode a single variable. However, many neurons are observed to respond to a mix of disparate sensory, cognitive, and behavioral variables. For such representations, information is distributed across multiple neurons. Here we find this distributed code in the dentate gyrus and CA1 subregions of the hippocampus. Using calcium imaging in freely moving mice, we decoded an animal's position, direction of motion, and speed from the activity of hundreds of cells. The response properties of individual neurons were only partially predictive of their importance for encoding position. Non-place cells encoded position and contributed to position encoding when combined with other cells. Indeed, disrupting the correlations between neural activities decreased decoding performance, mostly in CA1. Our analysis indicates that population methods rather than classical analyses based on single-cell response properties may more accurately characterize the neural code in the hippocampus.


Assuntos
Potenciais de Ação/fisiologia , Região CA1 Hipocampal/fisiologia , Cálcio/metabolismo , Giro Denteado/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Comportamento Espacial/fisiologia , Animais , Camundongos
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Science ; 364(6440): 578-583, 2019 05 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31073064

RESUMO

Young adult-born granule cells (abGCs) in the dentate gyrus (DG) have a profound impact on cognition and mood. However, it remains unclear how abGCs distinctively contribute to local DG information processing. We found that the actions of abGCs in the DG depend on the origin of incoming afferents. In response to lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) inputs, abGCs exert monosynaptic inhibition of mature granule cells (mGCs) through group II metabotropic glutamate receptors. By contrast, in response to medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) inputs, abGCs directly excite mGCs through N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors. Thus, a critical function of abGCs may be to regulate the relative synaptic strengths of LEC-driven contextual information versus MEC-driven spatial information to shape distinct neural representations in the DG.


Assuntos
Giro Denteado/fisiologia , Córtex Entorrinal/fisiologia , Hipocampo/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Animais , Células Cultivadas , Potenciais Evocados , Humanos , Camundongos , Camundongos Transgênicos , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/fisiologia , Sinapses/fisiologia
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Elife ; 72018 02 22.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29469809

RESUMO

In vivo calcium imaging through microendoscopic lenses enables imaging of previously inaccessible neuronal populations deep within the brains of freely moving animals. However, it is computationally challenging to extract single-neuronal activity from microendoscopic data, because of the very large background fluctuations and high spatial overlaps intrinsic to this recording modality. Here, we describe a new constrained matrix factorization approach to accurately separate the background and then demix and denoise the neuronal signals of interest. We compared the proposed method against previous independent components analysis and constrained nonnegative matrix factorization approaches. On both simulated and experimental data recorded from mice, our method substantially improved the quality of extracted cellular signals and detected more well-isolated neural signals, especially in noisy data regimes. These advances can in turn significantly enhance the statistical power of downstream analyses, and ultimately improve scientific conclusions derived from microendoscopic data.


Assuntos
Encéfalo/fisiologia , Sinalização do Cálcio , Endoscopia/métodos , Processamento de Imagem Assistida por Computador/métodos , Neurônios/fisiologia , Gravação em Vídeo/métodos , Animais , Camundongos
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Neuron ; 97(3): 670-683.e6, 2018 02 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29397273

RESUMO

The hippocampus is traditionally thought to transmit contextual information to limbic structures where it acquires valence. Using freely moving calcium imaging and optogenetics, we show that while the dorsal CA1 subregion of the hippocampus is enriched in place cells, ventral CA1 (vCA1) is enriched in anxiety cells that are activated by anxiogenic environments and required for avoidance behavior. Imaging cells defined by their projection target revealed that anxiety cells were enriched in the vCA1 population projecting to the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA) but not to the basal amygdala (BA). Consistent with this selectivity, optogenetic activation of vCA1 terminals in LHA but not BA increased anxiety and avoidance, while activation of terminals in BA but not LHA impaired contextual fear memory. Thus, the hippocampus encodes not only neutral but also valence-related contextual information, and the vCA1-LHA pathway is a direct route by which the hippocampus can rapidly influence innate anxiety behavior.


Assuntos
Ansiedade/fisiopatologia , Região CA1 Hipocampal/fisiologia , Região Hipotalâmica Lateral/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Animais , Aprendizagem da Esquiva , Complexo Nuclear Basolateral da Amígdala/fisiologia , Condicionamento Clássico , Medo , Masculino , Memória , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Vias Neurais/fisiologia , Optogenética
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Front Behav Neurosci ; 8: 147, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24834033

RESUMO

While the hippocampus has been classically studied for its role in learning and memory, there is significant support for a role of the HPC in regulating emotional behavior. Emerging research suggests these functions may be segregated along the dorsoventral axis of the HPC. In addition to this regional heterogeneity, within the HPC, the dentate gyrus is one of two areas in the adult brain where stem cells continuously give rise to new neurons. This process can influence and be modulated by the emotional state of the animal, suggesting that adult neurogenesis within the DG may contribute to psychiatric disorders and cognitive abilities. Yet, the exact mechanism by which these newborn neurons influence behavior remains unknown. Here, we will examine the contribution of hippocampal neurogenesis to the output of the HPC, and suggest that the role of neurogenesis may vary along the DV axis. Next, we will review literature indicating that anatomical connectivity varies along the DV axis of the HPC, and that this underlies the functional segregation along this axis. This analysis will allow us to synthesize novel hypotheses for the differential contribution of the HPC to cognition and mood.

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Nat Neurosci ; 16(10): 1383-91, 2013 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24036913

RESUMO

Defects in DNA repair have been extensively linked to neurodegenerative diseases, but the exact mechanisms remain poorly understood. We found that FUS, an RNA/DNA-binding protein that has been linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration, is important for the DNA damage response (DDR). The function of FUS in DDR involved a direct interaction with histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1), and the recruitment of FUS to double-stranded break sites was important for proper DDR signaling. Notably, FUS proteins carrying familial ALS mutations were defective in DDR and DNA repair and showed a diminished interaction with HDAC1. Moreover, we observed increased DNA damage in human ALS patients harboring FUS mutations. Our findings suggest that an impaired DDR and DNA repair may contribute to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases linked to FUS mutations.


Assuntos
Dano ao DNA/fisiologia , Histona Desacetilase 1/metabolismo , Neurônios/metabolismo , Proteína FUS de Ligação a RNA/metabolismo , Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica/genética , Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica/metabolismo , Esclerose Lateral Amiotrófica/patologia , Animais , Células Cultivadas , Células HEK293 , Histona Desacetilase 1/genética , Humanos , Camundongos , Neurônios/patologia , Ligação Proteica/fisiologia , Proteína FUS de Ligação a RNA/genética
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Front Neuroanat ; 4: 10, 2010.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20339484

RESUMO

Cajal-Retzius (CR) neurons play a critical role in cortical neuronal migration, but their exact fate after the completion of neocortical lamination remains a mystery. Histological evidence has been unable to unequivocally determine whether these cells die or undergo a phenotypic transformation to become resident interneurons of Layer 1 in the adult neocortex. To determine their ultimate fate, we performed chronic in vivo two-photon imaging of identified CR neurons during postnatal development in mice that express the green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of the early B-cell factor 2 (Ebf2) promoter. We find that, after birth, virtually all CR neurons in mouse neocortex express Ebf2. Although postnatal CR neurons undergo dramatic morphological transformations, they do not migrate to deeper layers. Instead, their gradual disappearance from the cortex is due to apoptotic death during the second postnatal week. A small fraction of CR neurons present at birth survive into adulthood. We conclude that, in addition to orchestrating cortical layering, a subset of CR neurons must play other roles beyond the third postnatal week.

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