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Recording and manipulation of the maternal oxytocin neural activities in mice

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CURRENT BIOLOGY
卷 32, 期 17, 页码 3821-+

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.083

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  1. Kakenhi [17K14948, 20K15907, 18H02548, 20K20589]
  2. RIKEN diversity promotion grants
  3. AMED Brain/MINDS program [20dm0207052h0004]
  4. JST PREST program [JPMJPR1789]
  5. Takeda Science Foundation Research Grant
  6. Uehara Memorial Foundation

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This study used a mouse model and viral genetic approaches to investigate the maternal activities of oxytocin (OT) neurons. The researchers discovered that OT neurons exhibit intrinsic plasticity during lactation and identified a modulatory input to these neurons.
Pulsatile release of the hormone oxytocin (OT) mediates uterine contraction during parturition and milk ejection during lactation.1-3 These pulses are generated by the unique activity patterns of the central neuro-endocrine OT neurons located in the paraventricular and supraoptic hypothalamus. Classical studies have characterized putative OT neurons by in vivo extracellular recording techniques in rats and rabbits.1,4-10 Due to technical limitations, however, the identity of OT neurons in these previous studies was speculative based on their electrophysiological characteristics and axonal projection to the posterior pituitary, not on OT gene expression. To pinpoint OT neural activities among other hypothalamic neurons that project to the pituitary11,12 and make better use of cell-type-specific neuroscience toolkits,13 a mouse model needs to be developed for the studies of parturition and lactation. We herein introduce viral genetic approaches in mice to characterize the maternal activities of OT neurons by fiber photometry. A sharp photometric peak of OT neurons appeared at approximately 520 s following simultaneous suckling stimuli from three pups. The amplitude of the peaks increased as the mother mice experienced lactation, irrespective of the age of the pups, suggesting the intrinsic plasticity of maternal OT neurons. Based on a mono-synaptic input map to OT neurons, we pharmacogenetically activated the inhibitory neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and found the suppression of the activities of OT neurons. Collectively, our study illuminates tem-poral dynamics in the maternal neural activities of OT neurons and identifies one of its modulatory inputs.

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