Deep brain stimulation of medial forebrain bundle modulates noradrenergic activity and feedforward inhibition in rodent model of depression
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Abstract
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) of the superolateral medial forebrain bundle has shown promising long-term anti-depressant effects in treatment-resistant depression patients, although the mechanisms are not clear. The study explored medial forebrain bundle DBS mediated modulation of central noradrenaline transmission in a rodent depression model, the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL), and in controls, Sprague Dawley (SD) rats. In vivo noradrenergic signaling in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) and ultrasonic vocalization were monitored during unilateral mfb-DBS across diverse stimulation parameters. The fiber amount, myelination status, and the activation of ascending projected noradrenergic cell groups (A1, A2, A6) were quantified. Moreover, stimulation induced changes in the parvalbumin-mediated feedforward microcircuitry and neuron activation at PFC and NAc were assessed. FSL rats showed decrease in NA fibers in mfb. Stimulation increased PFC noradrenergic signaling similarly across both groups compared to baseline, but in the NAc, the FSLs had notably higher signaling compared with SDs. FSLs demonstrated more positive affective ultrasonic vocalizations post-DBS than SDs. Brainstem nuclei A1 and A2 had similar noradrenergic neuron density across the experimental groups, and mfb DBS increased neuronal activation in both groups. FSLs had fewer noradrenergic neurons in the A6 nuclei, fewer unmyelinated noradrenergic fibers traversing the mfb, and decreased parvalbumin interneuron activity in both PFC and NAc. DBS normalized parvalbumin interneuron activity in the FSL rats. The study proposes that mfb DBS, via the modulation of the central NA system and the GABAergic inhibitory control of neural excitability, likely contributes to the anti-depressant therapeutic mechanisms reported in both clinical and experimental studies.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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