期刊
MOLECULAR BRAIN
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s13041-021-00850-2
关键词
Defensive behaviors; Extended amygdala; Innate fear; Nonapeptides; Paraventricular hypothalamus; Testosterone
资金
- Human Frontier Science Program [RGP0062/2018]
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) exhibits remarkable divergence in expression and role between hypothalamic and extra-hypothalamic neurons, which can regulate each other through polysynaptic pathways. In the medial amygdala, AVP expression is sexually dimorphic and responsive to testosterone, facilitating stress responsiveness by influencing the recruitment of hypothalamic AVP neurons.
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) is expressed in both hypothalamic and extra-hypothalamic neurons. The expression and role of AVP exhibit remarkable divergence between these two neuronal populations. Polysynaptic pathways enable these neuronal groups to regulate each other. AVP neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus increase the production of adrenal stress hormones by stimulating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Outside the hypothalamus, the medial amygdala also contains robust amounts of AVP. Contrary to the hypothalamic counterpart, the expression of extra-hypothalamic medial amygdala AVP is sexually dimorphic, in that it is preferentially transcribed in males in response to the continual presence of testosterone. Male gonadal hormones typically generate a negative feedback on the neuroendocrine stress axis. Here, we investigated whether testosterone-responsive medial amygdala AVP neurons provide negative feedback to hypothalamic AVP, thereby providing a feedback loop to suppress stress endocrine response during periods of high testosterone secretion. Contrary to our expectation, we found that AVP overexpression within the posterodorsal medial amygdala increased the recruitment of hypothalamic AVP neurons during stress, without affecting the total number of AVP neurons or the number of recently activated neurons following stress. These observations suggest that the effects of testosterone on extra-hypothalamic AVP facilitate stress responsiveness through permissive influence on the recruitment of hypothalamic AVP neurons.
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