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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 120, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205576120
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mouse model; threat-safety discrimination; extinction; fear circuit; transcriptional signatures
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This study establishes a translational mouse model that stratifies mice into three phenotypic subgroups based on their ability for threat-safety discrimination and conditioned learning. Transcriptome analysis reveals subgroup-specific differentially expressed genes and gene networks underlying the behavioral phenotypes. Overall, this research provides a valuable template for understanding the behavioral, molecular, and circuit bases of resilience in mice.
Consistent evidence from human data points to successful threat-safety discrimination and responsiveness to extinction of fear memories as key characteristics of resilient individuals. To promote valid cross-species approaches for the identification of resilience mechanisms, we establish a translationally informed mouse model enabling the stratification of mice into three phenotypic subgroups following chronic social defeat stress, based on their individual ability for threat-safety discrimination and conditioned learning: the Discriminating-avoiders, characterized by successful social threat-safety discrimination and extinction of social aversive memories; the Indiscriminate-avoiders, showing aversive response generalization and resistance to extinction, in line with findings on susceptible individuals; and the Non-avoiders displaying impaired aversive conditioned learning. To explore the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the stratification, we perform transcriptome analysis within three key target regions of the fear circuitry. We identify subgroup-specific differentially expressed genes and gene networks underlying the behavioral phenotypes, i.e., the individual ability to show threat-safety discrimination and respond to extinction training. Our approach provides a translationally informed template with which to characterize the behavioral, molecular, and circuit bases of resilience in mice.
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