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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52997-7
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- CREST grant from AMED [JP18gm0910012]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan [17H06057, 17H05572, 18H05429, 18K15028]
- Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Sumitomo Foundation
- Naito Foundation
- Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Ono Medical Research Foundation
- Suzuken Memorial Foundation
- [16H05132]
- [17K19457]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17H06057, 18K15028, 17H05572] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We recently reported that dopamine D1 receptor in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is activated by subthreshold social defeat stress and suppresses the induction of depressive-like behavior in mice. However, which mPFC projection(s) mediates this antidepressant-like effect remains poorly understood. Here we show that social defeat stress specifically increased c-Fos expression, a marker for neuronal activity, in distinct brain regions involved in emotional regulation, relative to novelty-induced exploration. Among these brain areas, D1 knockdown in the mPFC decreased social defeat stress-induced c-Fos expression in the interstitial nucleus of the posterior limb of the anterior commissure (IPAC), a subregion of the extended amygdala. Using retrograde adeno-associated virus vectors and transgenic mice expressing Cre recombinase under the D1 promoter, we also found that D1-expressing deep-layer pyramidal neurons in the mPFC send direct projections to the IPAC. These findings indicate that social defeat stress specifically activates neurons in distinct brain areas, among which the IPAC is regulated by dopamine D1 receptor in the mPFC perhaps through direct projections. Thus, this study provides hints toward identifying neural circuits that underlie antidepressant-like effects of stress-induced dopamine D1 receptor signaling in the mPFC.
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