Recovery of Chronic Stress-Triggered Changes of Hippocampal Glutamatergic Transmission.
Min LinGonglin HouYing ZhaoTi-Fei YuanPublished in: Neural plasticity (2018)
Chronic stress results in neurochemical, physiological, immune, molecular, cellular, and structural changes in the brain and often dampens the cognition. The hippocampus has been one major focus in studying the stress responsivity and neural mechanisms underlying depression. Both acute and chronic stress stimuli lead to dynamic changes in excitatory transmission in the hippocampus. The present study examined the potential effects of spontaneous recovery after chronic stress on spatial memory function and glutamatergic transmission in the hippocampus. The results showed that chronic unpredicted mild stress transiently increased AMPA receptor GluA2/3 subunit expression, together with elevated PICK-1 protein expression. Spontaneous recovery restored the behavioral deficits in Barnes maze test, as well as the glutamate receptor expression changes. In conclusion, spontaneous recovery acts as an important mechanism in system homeostasis.
Keyphrases
- stress induced
- cerebral ischemia
- drug induced
- white matter
- cognitive impairment
- depressive symptoms
- risk assessment
- multiple sclerosis
- binding protein
- brain injury
- hepatitis b virus
- long non coding rna
- prefrontal cortex
- human health
- single molecule
- mild cognitive impairment
- sleep quality
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation