 |
Previous Article | Next Article 
The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 2002, 22(24):10883-10890
Inhibition of cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein or Dynorphin
in the Nucleus Accumbens Produces an Antidepressant-Like
Effect
Samuel S.
Newton1,
Johannes
Thome1,
Tanya L.
Wallace1,
Yukihikko
Shirayama1,
Lee
Schlesinger1,
Norio
Sakai1,
Jingshan
Chen1,
Rachael
Neve2,
Eric J.
Nestler3, and
Ronald S.
Duman1
1 Division of Molecular Psychiatry, Abraham Ribicoff
Research Facilities, Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale University
School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06508, 2 McLean
Hospital, Harvard University, Belmont, Massachusetts 02478, and
3 Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390
The cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) is a critical
integrator of neural plasticity that is responsive in a brain region-specific manner to a variety of environmental and
pharmacological stimuli, including widely prescribed antidepressant
medications. We developed inducible transgenic lines of mice that
express either CREB or a dominant-negative mutant of CREB (mCREB) in
forebrain regions and used these mice to determine the functional
significance of this transcription factor in the learned helplessness
paradigm, a behavioral model of depression. We also use a complementary viral-mediated gene transfer approach to directly test the effect of
mCREB in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region important for motivation
and reward. The results demonstrate that blockade of CREB by
overexpression of mCREB in transgenic mice or by viral expression of
mCREB in the nucleus accumbens produces an antidepressant-like effect,
whereas overexpression of CREB in transgenic mice results in the
opposite phenotype. In addition, mCREB expression was colocalized with
and decreased the expression of prodynorphin in nucleus accumbens medium spiny neurons, and antagonism of dynorphin in the nucleus accumbens was sufficient to produce an antidepressant-like effect similar to that observed after blockade of CREB. Together, the results
demonstrate that nucleus accumbens CREB-dynorphin influence behavior
in the learned helplessness model and suggest that this signaling
cascade may contribute to symptoms of depression.
Key words:
learned helplessness; dysphoria; depression; prodynorphin; -opiate receptors; behavior
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/222410883-08$05.00/0
This article has been cited by other articles:

|
 |

|
 |
 
M. B. Wilkinson, G. Xiao, A. Kumar, Q. LaPlant, W. Renthal, D. Sikder, T. J. Kodadek, and E. J. Nestler
Imipramine Treatment and Resiliency Exhibit Similar Chromatin Regulation in the Mouse Nucleus Accumbens in Depression Models
J. Neurosci.,
June 17, 2009;
29(24):
7820 - 7832.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
E. H. Chartoff, M. Papadopoulou, M. L. MacDonald, A. Parsegian, D. Potter, C. Konradi, and W. A. Carlezon Jr.
Desipramine Reduces Stress-Activated Dynorphin Expression and CREB Phosphorylation in NAc Tissue
Mol. Pharmacol.,
March 1, 2009;
75(3):
704 - 712.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
J. A. DiNieri, C. L. Nemeth, A. Parsegian, T. Carle, V. V. Gurevich, E. Gurevich, R. L. Neve, E. J. Nestler, and W. A. Carlezon Jr
Altered Sensitivity to Rewarding and Aversive Drugs in Mice with Inducible Disruption of cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein Function within the Nucleus Accumbens
J. Neurosci.,
February 11, 2009;
29(6):
1855 - 1859.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
Y. Lin, C. Westenbroek, P. Bakker, J. Termeer, A. Liu, X. Li, and G. J. Ter Horst
Effects of Long-Term Stress and Recovery on the Prefrontal Cortex and Dentate Gyrus in Male and Female Rats
Cereb Cortex,
December 1, 2008;
18(12):
2762 - 2774.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
S. Chourbaji, M. A. Vogt, F. Fumagalli, R. Sohr, A. Frasca, C. Brandwein, H. Hortnagl, M. A. Riva, R. Sprengel, and P. Gass
AMPA receptor subunit 1 (GluR-A) knockout mice model the glutamate hypothesis of depression
FASEB J,
September 1, 2008;
22(9):
3129 - 3134.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
G. V. Carr and S. D. Mague
p38: The Link between the {kappa}-Opioid Receptor and Dysphoria
J. Neurosci.,
March 5, 2008;
28(10):
2299 - 2300.
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
T. A. Green, I. N. Alibhai, S. Unterberg, R. L. Neve, S. Ghose, C. A. Tamminga, and E. J. Nestler
Induction of Activating Transcription Factors (ATFs) ATF2, ATF3, and ATF4 in the Nucleus Accumbens and Their Regulation of Emotional Behavior
J. Neurosci.,
February 27, 2008;
28(9):
2025 - 2032.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
J. A. Trafton and E. V. Gifford
Behavioral Reactivity and Addiction: The Adaptation of Behavioral Response to Reward Opportunities
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci,
February 1, 2008;
20(1):
23 - 35.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
M. R. Bruchas, B. B. Land, M. Aita, M. Xu, S. K. Barot, S. Li, and C. Chavkin
Stress-Induced p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activation Mediates {kappa}-Opioid-Dependent Dysphoria
J. Neurosci.,
October 24, 2007;
27(43):
11614 - 11623.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
T. L. Gur, A. C. Conti, J. Holden, A. J. Bechtholt, T. E. Hill, I. Lucki, J. E. Malberg, and J. A. Blendy
cAMP Response Element-Binding Protein Deficiency Allows for Increased Neurogenesis and a Rapid Onset of Antidepressant Response
J. Neurosci.,
July 18, 2007;
27(29):
7860 - 7868.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
M. J. Will, W. M. Vanderheyden, and A. E. Kelley
Striatal opioid peptide gene expression differentially tracks short-term satiety but does not vary with negative energy balance in a manner opposite to hypothalamic NPY
Am J Physiol Regulatory Integrative Comp Physiol,
January 1, 2007;
292(1):
R217 - R226.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
T. A. Green, I. N. Alibhai, J. D. Hommel, R. J. DiLeone, A. Kumar, D. E. Theobald, R. L. Neve, and E. J. Nestler
Induction of inducible cAMP early repressor expression in nucleus accumbens by stress or amphetamine increases behavioral responses to emotional stimuli.
J. Neurosci.,
August 9, 2006;
26(32):
8235 - 8242.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
D. Tardito, J. Perez, E. Tiraboschi, L. Musazzi, G. Racagni, and M. Popoli
Signaling pathways regulating gene expression, neuroplasticity, and neurotrophic mechanisms in the action of antidepressants: a critical overview.
Pharmacol. Rev.,
March 1, 2006;
58(1):
115 - 134.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
W. A. Carlezon Jr., C. Beguin, J. A. DiNieri, M. H. Baumann, M. R. Richards, M. S. Todtenkopf, R. B. Rothman, Z. Ma, D. Y.-W. Lee, and B. M. Cohen
Depressive-Like Effects of the {kappa}-Opioid Receptor Agonist Salvinorin A on Behavior and Neurochemistry in Rats
J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther.,
January 1, 2006;
316(1):
440 - 447.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
M. Barrot, D. L. Wallace, C. A. Bolanos, D. L. Graham, L. I. Perrotti, R. L. Neve, H. Chambliss, J. C. Yin, and E. J. Nestler
Regulation of anxiety and initiation of sexual behavior by CREB in the nucleus accumbens
PNAS,
June 7, 2005;
102(23):
8357 - 8362.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
S. Chaki, T. Funakoshi, S. Hirota-Okuno, M. Nishiguchi, T. Shimazaki, M. Iijima, A. J. Grottick, K. Kanuma, K. Omodera, Y. Sekiguchi, et al.
Anxiolytic- and Antidepressant-Like Profile of ATC0065 and ATC0175: Nonpeptidic and Orally Active Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Receptor 1 Antagonists
J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther.,
May 1, 2005;
313(2):
831 - 839.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
H. Einat, P. Yuan, T. D. Gould, J. Li, J. Du, L. Zhang, H. K. Manji, and G. Chen
The Role of the Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Signaling Pathway in Mood Modulation
J. Neurosci.,
August 13, 2003;
23(19):
7311 - 7316.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
[PDF]
|
 |
|

|
 |

|
 |
 
S. D. Mague, A. M. Pliakas, M. S. Todtenkopf, H. C. Tomasiewicz, Y. Zhang, W. C. Stevens Jr., R. M. Jones, P. S. Portoghese, and W. A. Carlezon Jr.
Antidepressant-Like Effects of kappa -Opioid Receptor Antagonists in the Forced Swim Test in Rats
J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther.,
April 1, 2003;
305(1):
323 - 330.
[Abstract]
[Full Text]
|
 |
|
|