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FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 15, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.644921
Keywords
deep brain stimualtion; nucleus accumbens; GSK3-glycogen synthase kinase 3; rodent; mTOR - mammalian target of rapamycin; mood; mania; depression
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- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [1160472]
- National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) [R01NS100874]
- Deakin University
- Asia Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation
- NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship [1156072]
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1160472] Funding Source: NHMRC
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The study found that in rats resistant to antidepressants, early response to NAc DBS or sham electrode placement has antidepressant effects, which are associated with increased levels of phospho-GSK3 beta and phospho-mTOR in the IL and vHIP regions.
The antidepressant actions of deep brain stimulation (DBS) are associated with progressive neuroadaptations within the mood network, modulated in part, by neurotrophic mechanisms. We investigated the antidepressant-like effects of chronic nucleus accumbens (NAc) DBS and its association with change in glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) and mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) expression in the infralimbic cortex (IL), and the dorsal (dHIP) and ventral (vHIP) subregions of the hippocampus of antidepressant resistant rats. Antidepressant resistance was induced via daily injection of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH; 100 mu g/day; 15 days) and confirmed by non-response to tricyclic antidepressant treatment (imipramine, 10 mg/kg). Portable microdevices provided continuous bilateral NAc DBS (130 Hz, 200 mu A, 90 mu s) for 7 days. A control sham electrode group was included, together with ACTH- and saline-treated control groups. Home cage monitoring, open field, sucrose preference, and, forced swim behavioral tests were performed. Post-mortem levels of GSK3 and mTOR, total and phosphorylated, were determined with Western blot. As previously reported, ACTH treatment blocked the immobility-reducing effects of imipramine in the forced swim test. In contrast, treatment with either active DBS or sham electrode placement in the NAc significantly reduced forced swim immobility time in ACTH-treated animals. This was associated with increased homecage activity in the DBS and sham groups relative to ACTH and saline groups, however, no differences in locomotor activity were observed in the open field test, nor were any group differences seen for sucrose consumption across groups. The antidepressant-like actions of NAc DBS and sham electrode placements were associated with an increase in levels of IL and vHIP phospho-GSK3 beta and phospho-mTOR, however, no differences in these protein levels were observed in the dHIP region. These data suggest that early response to electrode placement in the NAc, irrespective of whether active DBS or sham, has antidepressant-like effects in the ACTH-model of antidepressant resistance associated with distal upregulation of phospho-GSK3 beta and phospho-mTOR in the IL and vHIP regions of the mood network.
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