期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 27, 期 36, 页码 9729-9735出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2529-07.2007
关键词
emotion; hormone; learning and memory; limbic; memory formation; sex difference
资金
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR00165] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R21 MH076869, MH 76869, P50 MH058922, MH 52384, MH 47840, R37 MH047840, MH 58922, P50 MH052384, R01 MH047840] Funding Source: Medline
The ambiguous role of estrogen in emotional learning may result from opposing actions of estrogen receptor alpha( ER alpha) and ER beta. Using a fear-conditioning paradigm called the AX+, BX- discrimination, in which cue A comes to elicit fear and cue B becomes a safety signal, we examined the effect of 17 beta-estradiol ( E) and selective ER beta and ER beta agonists on excitatory and inhibitory fear learning. Gonadectomized ( GDX) male and female rats implanted with E or selective ER alpha or ER beta agonists were trained on the AX+, BX- discrimination and tested periodically to A, B, and AB. GDX sham-implanted male and female rats and GDX E-implanted males, but not GDX E-implanted females, exhibited less fear to AB than to A, suggesting that estrogen interferes with generalization of safety signals in female rats. ER beta and ER beta agonists disrupted discrimination learning in both sexes. ER alpha-implanted groups had higher fear responses to all cues than did ER beta-implanted groups, suggesting that these two receptors have opposing effects in aversive discrimination learning. In contrast, neither E nor ER alpha and ER beta agonists affected single-cue fear conditioning in either sex. These data suggest that E does not enhance fear in emotional learning but acts to disrupt the inhibition of fear in females only.
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