期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
卷 14, 期 10, 页码 1411-1415出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145711000939
关键词
Asymmetric synapse; electron microscopy; phencyclidine; prefrontal cortex; schizophrenia
资金
- NIH [MH57483, NS064129]
Schizophrenia patients, long-term abusers of phencyclidine (PCP), and monkeys treated with PCP all exhibit enduring cognitive deficits. Evidence indicates that loss of prefrontal cortex spine synapses results in cognitive dysfunction, suggesting the presence of synaptic pathology in the monkey PCP model; however, there is no direct evidence of such changes. In this study we use the monkey PCP model of schizophrenia to investigate at the ultrastructural level whether remodelling of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) asymmetric spine synapses occurs following PCP. Subchronic PCP treatment resulted in a decrease in the number of asymmetric spine synapses, which was greater in layer II/III than layer V of DLPFC, compared to vehicle-treated controls. This decrease may contribute to PCP-induced cognitive dysfunction in the non-human primate model and perhaps in schizophrenia. Thus, the synapse loss in the PCP model provides a novel target for the development of potential treatments of cognitive dysfunction in this model and in schizophrenia.
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