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A Central Amygdala-Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray Matter Pathway for Pain in a Mouse Model of Depression-like Behavior.

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BACKGROUND:The mechanisms underlying depression-associated pain remain poorly understood. Using a mouse model of depression, the authors hypothesized that the central amygdala-periaqueductal gray circuitry is involved in pathologic nociception associated with depressive states. METHODS:The authors used chronic restraint stress to create a mouse model of nociception with depressive-like behaviors. They then used retrograde tracing strategies to dissect the pathway from the central nucleus of the amygdala to the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray. The authors performed optogenetic and chemogenetic experiments to manipulate the activity of this pathway to explore its roles for nociception. RESULTS:The authors found that γ-aminobutyric acid-mediated (GABAergic) neurons from the central amygdala project onto GABAergic neurons of the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray, which, in turn, locally innervate their adjacent glutamatergic neurons. After chronic restraint stress, male mice displayed reliable nociception (control, mean ± SD: 0.34 ± 0.11 g, n = 7 mice; chronic restraint stress, 0.18 ± 0.11 g, n = 9 mice, P = 0.011). Comparable nociception phenotypes were observed in female mice. After chronic restraint stress, increased circuit activity was generated by disinhibition of glutamatergic neurons of the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray by local GABAergic interneurons via receiving enhanced central amygdala GABAergic inputs. Inhibition of this circuit increased nociception in chronic restraint stress mice (median [25th, 75th percentiles]: 0.16 [0.16, 0.16] g to 0.07 [0.04, 0.16] g, n = 7 mice per group, P < 0.001). In contrast, activation of this pathway reduced nociception (mean ± SD: 0.16 ± 0.08 g to 0.34 ± 0.13 g, n = 7 mice per group, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS:These findings indicate that the central amygdala-ventrolateral periaqueductal gray pathway may mediate some aspects of pain symptoms under depression conditions.

journal_name

Anesthesiology

journal_title

Anesthesiology

authors

Yin W,Mei L,Sun T,Wang Y,Li J,Chen C,Farzinpour Z,Mao Y,Tao W,Li J,Xie W,Zhang Z

doi

10.1097/ALN.0000000000003133

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1175-1196

issue

eissn

0003-3022

issn

1528-1175

journal_volume

132

pub_type

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A Central Amygdala-Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray Matter Pathway for Pain in a Mouse Model of Depression-like Behavior.