期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 85, 期 12, 页码 1021-1035出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.02.018
关键词
Anxiety; Aversive memory; Basolateral amygdala; Cognition; Locus coeruleus; Neuropathic pain
资金
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)-UE A way to build Europe from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) [SAF2015-68647-R]
- Ministerio de Salud-Instituto de Salud Carlos III [PI18/01691]
- Consejeria de Salud de la Junta de Andalucia [PI-0134-2018]
- Programa Operativo de Andalucia FEDER, Iniciativa Territorial Integrada ITI 2014-2020 Consejeria Salud, Junta de Andalucia [PI-00802017]
- Consejeria de Economia, Innovacion, Ciencia y Empleo de la Junta de Andalucia [CTS-510]
- Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental-CIBERSAM [CB/07/09/0033]
- Young Investigator Grant from the Brain Behavior Research Foundation [NARSAD23982]
BACKGROUND: Pain affects both sensory and emotional aversive responses, often provoking anxiety-related diseases when chronic. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the interactions between anxiety and chronic pain remain unclear. METHODS: We characterized the sensory, emotional, and cognitive consequences of neuropathic pain (chronic constriction injury) in a rat model. Moreover, we determined the role of the locus coeruleus (LC) neurons that project to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) using a DREADD (designer receptor exclusively activated by designer drugs). RESULTS: Chronic constriction injury led to sensorial hypersensitivity in both the short term and long term. Otherwise, long-term pain led to an anxiety-like profile (in the elevated zero maze and open field tests), as well as increased responses to learn aversive situations (in the passive avoidance and fear conditioning tests) and an impairment of nonemotional cognitive tasks (in the novel object recognition and object pattern of separation tests). Chemogenetic blockade of the LC-BLA pathway and intra-BLA or systemic antagonism of beta-adrenergic receptors abolished both long-term pain-induced anxiety and enhanced fear learning. By contrast, chemogenetic activation of this pathway induced anxiety-like behaviors and enhanced the aversive learning and memory index in sham animals, although it had little effect on short- and long-term chronic constriction injury animals. Interestingly, modulation of LC-BLA activity did not modify sensorial perception or episodic memory. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that dimensions associated with pain are processed by independent pathways and that there is an overactivation of the LC-BLA pathway when anxiety and chronic pain are comorbid, which involves the activity of beta-adrenergic receptors.
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