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Possible role of transcriptional regulation of 5-HT1A receptor in the midbrain on unadaptation to stress in mice

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BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 1783, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2022.147859

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Stress unadaptation; 5-HT1A receptor; NUDR; Frued-1; Midbrain

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  1. JSPS KAKENHI [17K15759, 21K06620]
  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21K06620, 17K15759] Funding Source: KAKEN

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The expression levels of 5-HT1A receptor were found to increase in the midbrain and hippocampus of stress-adaptive mice, while in the midbrain of stress-unadaptive mice, the expression levels of 5-HT1A receptor were increased, along with a decrease in the expression of Freud-1 and NUDR. These findings suggest that the increased expression of 5-HT1A receptor due to a decrease in the expression of Freud-1 and NUDR in the midbrain may play a critical role in the emotional abnormality of stress-unadaptive mice.
The ability to adapt to stress is an essential defensive function of a living body, and disturbance of this ability in the brain may contribute to the development of affective illness. Previously, we reported that mice exposed to unadaptable restraint stress show emotional abnormality. Moreover, this emotional abnormality was alleviated by chronic treatment with flesinoxan, a serotonin (5-HT)(1A) receptor agonist. 5-HT1A receptor expression is regulated by several transcription factors such as nuclear deformed epidermal autoregulatory factor (NUDR/Deaf-1) and five prime repressors under dual repression binding protein 1 (Freud-1). The present study was designed to investigate the expression levels of 5-HT1A receptor and its transcription factors in the midbrain and hippocampus of stress-adaptive and-unadaptive mice. Mice were exposed to 14 days of repeated adaptable (1 h/day) or repeated unadaptable (4 h/day) restraint stress, or were left in their home cage (non-stressed groups). In a western blot analysis, a significant increase in the expression levels of 5HT(1A) receptor protein were observed in the hippocampal membrane fraction in stress-adaptive mice. In contrast, the expression levels of 5-HT1A receptor protein in stress-unadaptive mice were significantly increased in both cytoplasmic and membrane fraction of the midbrain. Furthermore, real-time PCR analysis revealed that, in the midbrain of stress-unadaptive mice, the expression levels of 5-HT1A receptor mRNA and Freud-1 or NUDR mRNA were significantly increased and decreased, respectively. These results suggest that increased expression of 5-HT1A receptor due to decrease in the expression of Freud-1 and NUDR in the midbrain may play a pivotal role in the emotional abnormality of stress-unadaptive mice.

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