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NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 183, Issue -, Pages 108-120Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.03.039
Keywords
stress; electrophysiology; limbic structures; synaptic plasticity; prefrontal cortex
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- Canadian Institute of Health Research
- McGill University Health Centre
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Human Frontier Science Program short-tem fellowship
- French Minister of Research
- Fonds de la Recherche en Sante
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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Chronic stress causes neuronal adaptation and maladaptation in the widespread brain regions including the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and limbic structures, resulting in cognitive and affective dysfunctions. In this study, we examined the impacts of chronic stress on functional interaction between the medial PFC and limbic structures in rats. In vivo electrophysiological recordings in rats exposed to chronic stress unveiled disturbance of correlated local field potential activity between the PFC and limbic structures as well as impairment of synaptic plasticity induction in the limbic-PFC pathways. However, these stress-induced alterations in limbic PFC interaction were distinct along with the dorsal-ventral axis within the PFC, with greater stress vulnerability in the dorsal than the ventral PFC, such that alterations in the dorsal PFC became evident with much shorter duration of repeated stress exposure than those occurring in the ventral PFC. In agreement with the stress-induced alterations in limbic PFC interaction, spike firing patterns of neurons in the dorsal and ventral PFC were also differently modulated by chronic stress. These results suggest that chronic stress produces heterogeneous cellular and neural network adaptation and maladaptation within the PFC that affect limbic information integration mechanisms. (C) 2011 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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