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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 151-160Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.04.010
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learned helplessness; forced swim; fear conditioning; open field; elevated plus maze; rat
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH65820, MH45481, 2 PO1 MH25642] Funding Source: Medline
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Background Chronic antidepressant administration increases the cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element binding protein (CREB) in the amygdala, a critical neural substrate involved in the physiologic responses to stress, fear, and anxiety. Methods. To determine the role of CREB in the amygdala in animal models of depression and anxiety, a viral gene transfer approach was used to selectively express CREB in this region of the rat brain. Results: In the learned helplessness model of depression, induction of CREB in the basolateral amygdala after training decreased the number of escape failures, an antidepressant response. However, expression of CREB before training increased escape failures, and increased immobility in the forced swim test, depressive of effects. Expression of CREB in the basolateral amygdala also increased behavioral measures of anxiety in both the open field test and the elevated plus maze, and enhanced cued fear conditioning. Conclusions: Taken together, these data demonstrate that CREB expression in the basolateral amygdala influences behavior in models of depression, anxiety, and fear. Moreover, in the basolateral amygdala, the temporal expression of CREB in relation to learned helplessness training, determines the qualitative outcome in this animal model of depression.
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