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An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice
Central amygdala neurons expressing protein kinase C-delta (CeA-PKCδ) are sensitized following nerve injury and promote pain-related responses in mice. The neural circuits underlying modulation of pain-related behaviors by CeA-PKCδ neurons, however, remain unknown. In this study, we identified a neu...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36269044 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68760 |
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author | Singh, Sudhuman Wilson, Torri D Valdivia, Spring Benowitz, Barbara Chaudhry, Sarah Ma, Jun Adke, Anisha P Soler-Cedeño, Omar Velasquez, Daniela Penzo, Mario A Carrasquillo, Yarimar |
author_facet | Singh, Sudhuman Wilson, Torri D Valdivia, Spring Benowitz, Barbara Chaudhry, Sarah Ma, Jun Adke, Anisha P Soler-Cedeño, Omar Velasquez, Daniela Penzo, Mario A Carrasquillo, Yarimar |
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description | Central amygdala neurons expressing protein kinase C-delta (CeA-PKCδ) are sensitized following nerve injury and promote pain-related responses in mice. The neural circuits underlying modulation of pain-related behaviors by CeA-PKCδ neurons, however, remain unknown. In this study, we identified a neural circuit that originates in CeA-PKCδ neurons and terminates in the ventral region of the zona incerta (ZI), a subthalamic structure previously linked to pain processing. Behavioral experiments show that chemogenetic inhibition of GABAergic ZI neurons induced bilateral hypersensitivity in uninjured mice and contralateral hypersensitivity after nerve injury. In contrast, chemogenetic activation of GABAergic ZI neurons reversed nerve injury-induced hypersensitivity. Optogenetic manipulations of CeA-PKCδ axonal terminals in the ZI further showed that inhibition of this pathway reduces nerve injury-induced hypersensitivity whereas activation of the pathway produces hypersensitivity in the uninjured paws. Altogether, our results identify a novel nociceptive inhibitory efferent pathway from CeA-PKCδ neurons to the ZI that bidirectionally modulates pain-related behaviors in mice. |
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spelling | pubmed-96358742022-11-05 An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice Singh, Sudhuman Wilson, Torri D Valdivia, Spring Benowitz, Barbara Chaudhry, Sarah Ma, Jun Adke, Anisha P Soler-Cedeño, Omar Velasquez, Daniela Penzo, Mario A Carrasquillo, Yarimar eLife Neuroscience Central amygdala neurons expressing protein kinase C-delta (CeA-PKCδ) are sensitized following nerve injury and promote pain-related responses in mice. The neural circuits underlying modulation of pain-related behaviors by CeA-PKCδ neurons, however, remain unknown. In this study, we identified a neural circuit that originates in CeA-PKCδ neurons and terminates in the ventral region of the zona incerta (ZI), a subthalamic structure previously linked to pain processing. Behavioral experiments show that chemogenetic inhibition of GABAergic ZI neurons induced bilateral hypersensitivity in uninjured mice and contralateral hypersensitivity after nerve injury. In contrast, chemogenetic activation of GABAergic ZI neurons reversed nerve injury-induced hypersensitivity. Optogenetic manipulations of CeA-PKCδ axonal terminals in the ZI further showed that inhibition of this pathway reduces nerve injury-induced hypersensitivity whereas activation of the pathway produces hypersensitivity in the uninjured paws. Altogether, our results identify a novel nociceptive inhibitory efferent pathway from CeA-PKCδ neurons to the ZI that bidirectionally modulates pain-related behaviors in mice. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9635874/ /pubmed/36269044 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68760 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/This is an open-access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Singh, Sudhuman Wilson, Torri D Valdivia, Spring Benowitz, Barbara Chaudhry, Sarah Ma, Jun Adke, Anisha P Soler-Cedeño, Omar Velasquez, Daniela Penzo, Mario A Carrasquillo, Yarimar An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
title | An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
title_full | An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
title_fullStr | An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
title_full_unstemmed | An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
title_short | An inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
title_sort | inhibitory circuit from central amygdala to zona incerta drives pain-related behaviors in mice |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36269044 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.68760 |
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