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Conditional reduction of adult born doublecortin-positive neurons reversibly impairs selective behaviors.
Front. Behav. Neurosci. 9:302 (2015)
Adult neurogenesis occurs in the adult mammalian subventricular zone (SVZ) along the walls of the lateral ventricles and the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampal dentate gyrus. While a burgeoning body of research implicates adult neurogenesis in olfactory bulb (OB)- and hippocampal-related behaviors, the precise function continues to elude. To further assess the behavioral importance of adult neurogenesis, we herein generated a novel inducible transgenic mouse model of adult neurogenesis reduction where mice with CreERT2 under doublecortin (DCX) promoter control were crossed with mice where diphtheria toxin A (DTA) was driven by the Rosa26 promoter. Activation of DTA, through the administration of tamoxifen (TAM), results in a specific reduction of DCX+ immature neurons in both the hippocampal dentate gyrus and OB. We show that the decrease of DCX+ cells causes impaired social discrimination ability in both young adult (from 3 months) and middle aged (from 10 months) mice. Furthermore, these animals showed an age-independent altered coping behavior in the Forced Swim Test without clear changes in anxiety-related behavior. Notably, these behavior changes were reversible on repopulating the neurogenic zones with DCX+ cells on cessation of the TAM treatment, demonstrating the specificity of this effect. Overall, these results support the notion that adult neurogenesis plays a role in social memory and in stress coping but not necessarily in anxiety-related behavior.
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Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter
Doublecortin ; Emotionality ; Mice ; Neurogenesis ; Social Discrimination; Hippocampal Neurogenesis; Dentate Gyrus; Subventricular Zone; Synaptic Plasticity; Pattern Separation; Brain Neurogenesis; Chronic Fluoxetine; Granule Cells; Mice; Receptor
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1662-5153
e-ISSN
1662-5153
Zeitschrift
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Quellenangaben
Band: 9,
Artikelnummer: 302
Verlag
Frontiers
Verlagsort
Lausanne
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Peer reviewed