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Abstract
Chronic pain can lead to anxiety and anxiety can enhance the sensation of pain. Unfortunately, little is known about the synaptic mechanisms that mediate these re-enforcing interactions. Here we characterized two forms of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); a presynaptic form (pre-LTP) that requires kainate receptors and a postsynaptic form (post-LTP) that requires N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors. Pre-LTP also involves adenylyl cyclase and protein kinase A and is expressed via a mechanism involving hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels. Interestingly, chronic pain and anxiety both result in selective occlusion of pre-LTP. Significantly, microinjection of the HCN blocker ZD7288 into the ACC in vivo produces both anxiolytic and analgesic effects. Our results provide a mechanism by which two forms of LTP in the ACC may converge to mediate the interaction between anxiety and chronic pain.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 377-389 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Neuron |
Volume | 85 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 31 Dec 2014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 21 Jan 2015 |
Keywords
- Analgesics
- Animals
- Anti-Anxiety Agents
- Anxiety
- Chronic Pain
- Gyrus Cinguli
- Hyperpolarization-Activated Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Channels
- Long-Term Potentiation
- Mice
- Neurons
- Pyrimidines
- Receptors, Kainic Acid
- Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate
- Synaptic Transmission
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Molecular mechanisms of long-term Depression int the hippocampus
Collingridge, G. L. (Principal Investigator)
1/05/13 → 30/04/18
Project: Research