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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114002119
关键词
acute stress; whole brain; c-fos; foot shock; brain-wide analysis
资金
- Consortium of Individual Development through the Gravitation Program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science
- BRAINSCAPES through the Gravitation Program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Grants [024.001.003, 024.004.012]
Acute stress leads to sequential activation of functional brain networks, resulting in changes in cellular activity. The study found that areas such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and thalamus are most affected by acute stress. The cellular activity patterns also shift over time, and the strategy of some brain areas changes after stress.
Acute stress leads to sequential activation of functional brain networks. A biologically relevant question is exactly which (single) cells belonging to brain networks are changed in activity over time after acute stress across the entire brain. We developed a preprocessing and analytical pipeline to chart whole-brain immediate early genes' expression-as proxy for cellular activity-after a single stressful foot shock in four dimensions: that is, from functional networks up to three-dimensional (3D) single-cell resolution and over time. The pipeline is available as an R package. Most brain areas (96%) showed increased numbers of c-fos+ cells after foot shock, yet hypothalamic areas stood out as being most active and prompt in their activation, followed by amygdalar, prefrontal, hippocampal, and finally, thalamic areas. At the cellular level, c-fos+ density clearly shifted over time across subareas, as illustrated for the basolateral amygdala. Moreover, some brain areas showed increased numbers of c-fos+ cells, while others-like the dentate gyrus-dramatically increased c-fos intensity in just a subset of cells, reminiscent of engrams; importantly, this strategy changed after foot shock in half of the brain areas. One of the strengths of our approach is that single-cell data were simultaneously examined across all of the 90 brain areas and can be visualized in 3D in our interactive web portal.
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