Visualization of functionally activated circuitry in the brain

Wilson, Yvette; Nag, Nupur; Davern, Pamela J.; Oldfield, Brian J.; Greferath, Ursula; Murphy, Mark

doi:10.1073/pnas.042701199

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“…In our Venus rat, we have placed reporter protein under the control of a shortened c-fos sequence that encodes only the first four amino acids of cFos and therefore lacks the nuclear localization signal. Such an approach preserves promoter inducibility, allowing at the same time visualization of neuronal morphology (14).As a proof of concept for our strategy, we cultured neurons from transgenic rats and analyzed the expression, inducibility, and cellular distribution of PSD95:Venus. As shown in Fig.…”

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Functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction

Knapska¹,

Macias

Mikosz³

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The memory of fear extinction is context dependent: fear that is suppressed in one context readily renews in another. Understanding of the underlying neuronal circuits is, therefore, of considerable clinical relevance for anxiety disorders. Prefrontal cortical and hippocampal inputs to the amygdala have recently been shown to regulate the retrieval of fear memories, but the cellular organization of these projections remains unclear. By using anterograde tracing in a transgenic rat in which neurons express a dendriticallytargeted PSD-95:Venus fusion protein under the control of a c-fos promoter, we found that, during the retrieval of extinction memory, the dominant input to active neurons in the lateral amygdala was from the infralimbic cortex, whereas the retrieval of fear memory was associated with greater hippocampal and prelimbic inputs. This pattern of retrieval-related afferent input was absent in the central nucleus of the amygdala. Our data show functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction, providing a framework for therapeutic manipulations of these circuits.gene expression | hippocampus | prefrontal cortex | learning and memory T here is an increasing interest in the neural mechanisms underlying extinction of learned fear, in part because fear extinction is a useful model for exposure-based therapies for the treatment of human anxiety disorders, such as phobias and posttraumatic stress disorder (1). During fear extinction, a previously conditioned stimulus (CS) is repeatedly presented in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus (US), a procedure that induces a progressive decrease in the magnitude and probability of learned fear responses, including freezing behavior. However, extinction does not erase the original fear memory; rather, it promotes the formation of a new inhibitory memory that reduces fear to the CS (2). Extinguished fear is highly context dependent, insofar as CS presentation outside the extinction context results in the recovery of the previously conditioned fear response, a phenomenon known as fear renewal (3). The return of fear after extinction is a considerable challenge for the efficacy of exposure-based therapies (4). Therefore, identification of brain structures and neuronal circuits selectively implicated in extinction vs. renewal of fear is of great importance.Owing to substantial progress toward understanding the neural mechanisms underlying the context specificity of fear extinction, there is now a general consensus that, for auditory fear conditioning, extinction involves three main structures: the amygdala, hippocampus (HIPP), and prefrontal cortex (PFC) (2, 5-8). However, the neuronal interactions between these structures that underlie contextual retrieval of fear memory after extinction remain to be elucidated. This problem is further complicated by the fact that neither the amygdala nor the PFC is a homogeneous structure. Among the substructures of the amygdala, the central, basal, and lateral nuclei (Ce, Ba, and La, respectively) have been impl...

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Functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction

Knapska¹,

Macias

Mikosz³

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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132

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“…Furthermore, visualization of ␤-galactosidase activity by X-Gal staining provides an opportunity to observe protein expression patterns on intact brains without the disruption of cortical morphology. Additionally, ␤-galactosidase activity has been shown to be a sensitive measure of protein expression levels, making it also a quantifiable reporter (Wilson et al, 2002). In the present study, we used a genetic targeting approach to replace amino acids 360 -890 of Wfs1 protein with bacterial ␤-galactosidase.…”

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Distribution of Wfs1 protein in the central nervous system of the mouse and its relation to clinical symptoms of the Wolfram syndrome

Luuk

Kõks

Plaas

et al. 2008

J of Comparative Neurology

111

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Mutations in the coding region of the WFS1 gene cause Wolfram syndrome, a rare multisystem neurodegenerative disorder of autosomal recessive inheritance. Patients with Wolfram syndrome display considerable clinical pleiomorphism, and symptoms such as neurological complications and psychiatric disorders are common. In the present study we have characterized Wfs1 expression pattern in the mouse central nervous system by using a combination of immunohistochemistry on wild-type mice and X-Gal staining of Wfs1 knockout mice with targeted insertion of the lacZ reporter. We identified a robust enrichment of Wfs1 protein in the central extended amygdala and ventral striatum. Prominent Wfs1 expression was seen in the hippocampal CA1 region, parasubiculum, superficial part of the second and third layers of the prefrontal cortex and proisocortical areas, hypothalamic magnocellular neurosecretory system, and central auditory pathway. Wfs1 expression was also detected in numerous brainstem nuclei and in laminae VIII and IX of the spinal cord. Wfs1-positive nerve fibers were found in the medial forebrain bundle, reticular part of the substantia nigra, globus pallidus, posterior caudate putamen, lateral lemniscus, alveus, fimbria, dorsal hippocampal commissure, subiculum, and to a lesser extent in the central sublenticular extended amygdala, compact part of substantia nigra, and ventral tegmental area. The neuroanatomical findings suggest that the lack of Wfs1 protein function can be related to several neurological and psychiatric symptoms found in Wolfram syndrome. Enrichment of Wfs1 protein in the central extended amygdala suggests a role in the modulation of anxiety and fear.

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“…The regulation of the release of AVP from the posterior pituitary is primarily dependent, under normal circumstances, on tonicity information relayed by osmoreceptor cells in the anterior hypothalamus (6). AVP and its corresponding carrier, neurophysin II, are synthesized as a composite precursor by the magnocellular neurons of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus (for review, see 7).…”

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Molecular Biology of Hereditary Diabetes Insipidus

Fujiwara

Bichet

2005

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

223

150

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A nyone who passes large volumes of urine might be said to be experiencing diabetes insipidus. Years ago, the initial distinction made by physicians in evaluating patients with polyuria was whether their urine was sweet (diabetes mellitus) or not (diabetes insipidus) (1). Diabetes insipidus is a disorder characterized by the excretion of abnormally large volumes (Ͼ30 ml/kg body wt/d for adults) of dilute urine (Ͻ250 mmol/kg). This definition excludes osmotic diuresis, which occurs when excess solute is being excreted, for example, glucose in the polyuria of diabetes mellitus. Four basic defects can be involved: (1) deficient secretion of the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP), which is the most common defect and is referred to as neurohypophyseal (also known to as neurogenic, central, or hypothalamic) diabetes insipidus; (2) renal insensitivity to the antidiuretic effect of AVP, which is known as nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI); (3) excessive water intake that can result in polyuria, which is referred to as primary polydipsia; and (4) increased metabolism of vasopressin during pregnancy, which is referred to as gestational diabetes insipidus. The hereditary forms of diabetes insipidus account for Ͻ10% of the cases of diabetes insipidus seen in clinical practice. The purpose of this review is to examine recent developments in the understanding and molecular biology of the hereditary forms of diabetes insipidus. Here we use the gene symbols approved by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature) and provide OMIM entry numbers (2). Not included in this review are acquired forms of NDI; for further information, see references 3-5. Genes Involved in "Pure" Diabetes Insipidus AVPThe regulation of the release of AVP from the posterior pituitary is primarily dependent, under normal circumstances, on tonicity information relayed by osmoreceptor cells in the anterior hypothalamus (6). AVP and its corresponding carrier, neurophysin II, are synthesized as a composite precursor by the magnocellular neurons of the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus (for review, see 7). The precursor is packaged into neurosecretory granules and transported axonally in the stalk of the posterior pituitary. En route to the neurohypophysis, the precursor is processed into the active hormone. Prepro-vasopressin has 164 amino acids and is encoded by the 2.5-kb AVP gene located in chromosome region 20p13 (8,9). The AVP gene (coding for AVP and neurophysin II) and the OXT gene (coding for oxytocin and neurophysin I) are located in the same chromosome region, at a very short distance from each other (12 kb in humans) in head-to-head orientation. Data from transgenic mouse studies indicate that the intergenic region between the OXT and the AVP genes contains the critical enhancer sites for cell-specific expression in the magnocellular neurons (7). It is phylogenetically interesting to note that cis and trans components of this specific cellular expression have been conserved bet...

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Visualization of functionally activated circuitry in the brain

Cited by 69 publications

References 33 publications

Functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction

Functional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinction

Distribution of Wfs1 protein in the central nervous system of the mouse and its relation to clinical symptoms of the Wolfram syndrome

Molecular Biology of Hereditary Diabetes Insipidus

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